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44 STYLE | art<br />
ART ITINERARY<br />
Weave some art appreciation into your holiday travel plans.<br />
Words Gaynor Stanley<br />
BLENHEIM<br />
Once you’ve stocked<br />
up on some quality<br />
sauv blanc, swing by the<br />
Millennium Gallery to<br />
catch the only South<br />
Island showing of New<br />
Zealand’s premier portrait<br />
prize finalists. The Adam<br />
Portraiture Award is<br />
bestowed biennially for<br />
painted portraits of New<br />
Zealanders by New<br />
Zealanders. In 2018 it<br />
was won by the youngest<br />
person in the award’s<br />
20-year history, Logan<br />
Moffat, a 21-year-old<br />
Aucklander, for his<br />
portrait of two fellow<br />
third-year students at<br />
Elam School of Fine Arts<br />
in 2017, Jayden Plank and<br />
Harry Telfer.<br />
Until 26 <strong>January</strong><br />
CHRISTCHURCH<br />
Get the kids off Fortnite and into the<br />
Christchurch Art Gallery to check<br />
out newly opened exhibition The<br />
Founder’s Paradox, in which Simon<br />
Denny uses board games to explore<br />
competing political visions for New<br />
Zealand’s future. The Berlin-based<br />
New Zealander uses sculptures,<br />
prints and paintings to collapse<br />
together fantasy imagery with<br />
expansionist ambition. Curator Dr<br />
Lara Strongman says, “The humble<br />
board game, with its playful colours<br />
and cartoonish artistry, becomes<br />
a thought-provoking platform for<br />
competing real-world philosophies<br />
and commentaries on technology,<br />
politics and social relations.”<br />
Until 28 April<br />
While you’re there check out the<br />
optically charged adaptations of<br />
the koru motif in Gordon Waters’<br />
modernist abstract paintings<br />
alongside other exemplars of his<br />
work in New Visions.<br />
Until 17 March<br />
Gordon Waters, Drawing<br />
No. 14, 1965, courtesy of<br />
the Gordon Walters Estate.<br />
QUEENSTOWN<br />
Milford Galleries is showing Staging<br />
Post: Landscape and Sculpture<br />
exploring the metaphors of the<br />
New Zealand landscape and its<br />
connections to sculpture and cultural<br />
dialogues. See new works by Chris<br />
Charteris, Karl Maughan, Stanley<br />
Palmer, John Parker, Terry Stringer,<br />
Hannah Kidd, Harry Watson, Neil<br />
Dawson, Peter Trevelyan, Emily<br />
Siddell and Stephen Bradbourne<br />
alongside recent major works by<br />
many other New Zealand luminaries.<br />
Until 15 <strong>January</strong><br />
Stanley Palmer, Towards Papanui Inlet, 2017
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