ART BITES

voluntary talks at an Art Gallery
Denny
Lely
Parekowhai*
Shustak
Foliage. Home. 2026
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Fragment of a Simon Denny illustration for Founders' Paradox. 2017/2018. on a wall displaying one of several Denny assemblies, this one, The Game of Life. Christchurch Art Gallery. 2019. Photograph by Stephanie Beth . 2019.

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More information on the Steinway, the RED PIANO that Michael parekowhai carved and lacquered.A masters thesis from the elder sister of Michael Parekowhi, Cushla Parekowhai
https://viviennemorrell.wordpress.com/2016/05/21/the-piano-at-te-papa/
The piano was a gift from the Hungarian refugee Lili Kraus to New Zealand in 1959. After surviving wartime imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia, Lili Kraus arrived in New Zealand . From June 1946 to December 1947 she made a number of intensive national tours travelling all over small town New Zealand, playing any piano.

Image: Lili Kraus and Frederick Page (from Frederick Page, A musician’s journal; ed J M Thomson & Janet Paul, John McIndoe, 1986, p. 93).
Note. With great respect, I acknowledge the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu, for its Directorship and its collection. In May 2026 that an exhibition of Fiona Pardington shall exhibit in Venice Biennale. Christchurch Art Gallery was selected by Creative New Zealand to convey Art ideas from Pardington. Her theme has been 'loss'. https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/ Stephanie Beth
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