Nor'West News: September 24, 2020

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Explore murals that
glow in the night
ELEVEN striking street
murals are in the spotlight
as a new night gallery
lights up across the central
city.
The Ōtautahi Street
Art Lighting Project –
supported with funding
from the city council’s
Enliven Places Projects
Fund – sheds a night light
on many of the city’s most
popular murals while also
creating vibrant after-dark
outdoor spaces.
Street art creative Watch
This Space has joined
forces with sustainable
solutions provider Gen
Green and installation specialist
Living Space to light
up often dimly lit vacant
spaces while celebrating
inner-city wall art.
Watch This Space
creative director Reuben
Woods describes the night
gallery as an opportunity
to “celebrate urban art” in
a new solar-powered light.
“We want to encourage
more people to explore our
city at night by activating
places of creative interest
and bringing fresh vibrancy,”
Woods said.
“The people behind the
solar lights, Gen Green,
along with installers Living
Space see the night trail
as an opportunity to contribute
to city regeneration
and use technology for the
good of Christchurch,” he
says.
Woods believes the onehour
art trail – covering
sites from Armagh St to
Allen St via Cathedral
Square – will bring fresh
vibrancy as more people
engage with urban art at
night.
“We can honour and
highlight the works, bringing
a fresh sense of life to
the city as we engage with
SPOTLIGHT:
A portrait
of a late
Parihaka
elder by
Canadian
artist Kevin
Ledo on
the Crowne
Plaza.
PHOTO:
NEWSLINE
the familiar in a new light,”
he says.
A powerful portrait of
a late Parihaka elder by
Canadian artist Kevin
Ledo – painted on a wall
of the Crowne Plaza on
the corner of Colombo St
and Armagh St – will be a
focus.
City council urban design,
regeneration and heritage
head Carolyn Ingles
says that the city council
is strongly committed to
supporting nightlife in
Christchurch.
“We want to draw more
people into the central city
and help support a vibrant
environment into the
evening,” she said.
Clare Reilly
INNER LANDS
Clare Reilly’s work has
been described 26 September as Neo- – 28 October 2020
Romantic. Her paintings
are imbued with a poetic
stillness and calm.
She has a close affinity with
birds in the landscape, with
the bird motif signifying a
sense of joy in flight, and
hope and renewal. Clare
lives in Otago’s Blueskin
Bay but also spends time
Main on Rd, Banks Little Peninsula River where | 03 325 1944 | art@littlerivergallery.com
she is inspired by the
landscape, flora and fauna.
Her career spans more than
three decades of painting
and exhibiting throughout
‘The Chattering Stream’ oil painting
New Zealand, with many by Clare Reilly exhibiting at Little River
works going overseas.
Gallery 26 September – 28 October
Inner Lands
Standing at the edge of the Inner land
Looking within and out again.
All is clouded and clear with
Insight, foresight, hindsight,
and still much unknown.
There was a time when,
the land was stilled and hushed.
As if resting, from the itchy human
activity, the earth sighed with relief.
The wind played its song
over the ridge lines and
the voices of birds rang out clear
into a cleaner, quieter air.
The streams chattered down into
gullies of bush and ferns, and the
passing of days were, at last,
observed by many, from inside
their bubbles.
A time of meditative connection
to leave distractions of everyday life
and find the meaning in being.
Now take me to those Inner Lands,
on the journeys of the mind,
where coastal forests give way
to the place of dreams, and
the mind can settle and rest,
and sustain the momentary
beauty of existence.
Clare Reilly - Sept 2020
Clare Reilly
INNER LANDS
26 September – 28 October 2020
Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944 | art@littlerivergallery.com