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Rangi Ruru Art Students Making Their Mark Around Christchurch

Thursday 22 May 2014, 3:59PM

By RedPR

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Rangi Ruru Arts Students
Rangi Ruru Arts Students Credit: Rangi Ruru

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Rangi Ruru Art scholars are leaving their mark around Christchurch.

Together with fellow Canterbury school students, Rangi Ruru Girls’ School is extensively involved in the Canterbury Art Teachers’ Association Big Printmaking Festival.  www.cata.nz.wikispaces.com

Part of their involvement includes the fashioning of large scale woodcuts, and Rangi Ruru’s Head of Printmaking and Painting, Kate Rivers says Rangi students have created superb woodcut designs which will become a part of a new artistic display.

“The images from the massive woodcuts made by our Year 7 students and Year 8 Extension Art scholars will be printed onto calico and exhibited at the CCC Civic buildings in July,” says Rivers.

“The fun and imagination shown by all the students has created a wonderful positive energy at a time when we need that more than ever,” she says. 

Another project running alongside the Festival is the SCAPE The Stencil Art Project which has been organised by SCAPE’s Josie Whelan, and involves a number of schools and community groups including Rangi Ruru’s Year 10 students. Both The Stencil Art Project and the Big Printmaking Festival will present events on in Cashel Street this Sunday as part of the Big Printmaking Festival this Sunday, cnr Cashel and High Streets 10-4pm).

Visitors to the CBD this week should be on the look-out for the Year 10 self- portraits on the hoarding of The Terraces (Anthony Gough’s development). The school completed their work on them this week (Monday) after school.

Kate Rivers describes The Terrace work as, “a lovely follow on from the Banksy show”, referring to the hugely popular display at the Canterbury Museum earlier this year.

This Sunday (25 May) the Road Roller Printing Street Event will take place on the corner of Cashel and High Street from 10-4pm with Canterbury artists and schools taking part.

Exhibitions on this week as part of the festival:
thINK Exhibition, CPIT, D Block, Madras Street – show casing international, NZ and student printmaking.

INSPIRED TO PRINT Exhibition, Christchurch South Library, Colombo St, presenting student printmaking from a range of Canterbury schools

The festival has been made possible by a generous grant from Creative Communities, and kicked off last Sunday with artist talks, demonstrations and an opportunity have a go at making prints.


For further information www.cata.nz.wikispaces.com 

Photos of works in progress: canterburyartteachersblog.tumblr.com

Note: Kate Rivers is also president of CATA (Canterbury Art Teachers’ Association) and has been working on the Big Printmaking Festival project over the last few months.