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    Seraphine Pick, Girl with offered eyes, 2004. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Auckland. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.

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    Séraphine Pick, Burning the Furniture, 2007. Private collection. Reproduced courtesy of the artist.

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    Seraphine Pick, installation view, City Gallery Wellington 2010. Photo: Andrew Beck

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    Seraphine Pick, installation view, City Gallery Wellington 2010. Photo: Andrew Beck

Seraphine Pick

20 February - 16 May 2010 in the North & South Galleries

Seraphine Pick is one of New Zealand’s most highly regarded painters: her distinctive and imaginative practice has become increasingly familiar to many New Zealand audiences since the early 1990s. Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu presents Seraphine Pick, a large scale survey exhibition featuring works made between 1994-2009.

This exhibition traces the artist’s ongoing explorations into the imaginative realm, identity, memory, sexuality, and will unveil several new works. Seraphine Pick is both a long-overdue survey of a formidable New Zealand artist, and a chance to consider the development of her unique symbolism in the light of recent work. Curator Felicity Milburn has developed an exhibition that highlights recurrent threads in Pick’s practice, anchored by three themes: memory, identity and fantasy. The exhibition will be structured around these themes, between which there are many overlaps and points of connection.

Seraphine Pick will comprise 80-100 paintings, and a small selection of works on paper from throughout the artist’s career. It will be accompanied by a large, richly illustrated publication produced by Christchurch Art Gallery, featuring essays by the curator and Lara Strongman alongside shorter texts on individual works. This exhibition will come to City Gallery Wellington direct from Christchurch Art Galley, where its opening season runs from 24 July – 22 November 2009.

A Christchurch Art Gallery touring exhibition. Touring sponsor Ernst & Young.

Public Programmes

Artist and Curator in Conversation—Séraphine Pick and Felicity Milburn
Saturday 20 February, 1pm

Dance Performance: Footnote Dance—Watch This Space
Saturday, 6 March, 12pm

Signed Tour for the Deaf Community
Wednesday 7 April, 10.30am

Reading—Elizabeth Knox and Jo Randerson

Media release

A Feast for the Senses