C.S.A. Gallery To Be Busy

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32224, 17 February 1970, Page 11

C.S.A. Gallery To Be Busy

A two-man show of prints and paintings by A. J. Bisley and his wife, Jeannette, is to open in the Canterbury Society of Arts gallery on March I—the first in a series of local exhibitions which will keep the gallery busy until May, when the first touring shows of the year are due. Mr and Mrs Bisley will continue their exhibition until March 18, and while it is up two other shows will be opened—the society’s annual autumn exhibition on March 12, and a show by the Canterbury Antique Collectors Club on March 16. Two young Christchurch artists. Michael Reed and Sally Burton, will open their show on March 20: on April 6, the day after this closes, Gavin and Vivien Bishop, who have exhibited in the society’s former gallery in Durham Street but not in the new gallery, will open a show. Another young artist, Graham Jones, who has spent some time working with Toss Woollaston, will open a one-man show on April 12, and on April 15 Cora Wilding will open her one-man show. The last week of April will be a busy time for the gallery staff, because two tour-

ing shows are scheduled to open on May 1. One of these lis a selection of paintings from this year’s Benson and Hedges art competition, which was judged in Auckland last week-end; the other is a collection of American posters, entitled “The Now Posters.” These posters are being provided by the United States Embassy in Wellington, but nothing is known of them yet: the society’s secretary-manager. Mr R. R. Laidlaw, has not received any publicity material from the embassy. Tlie show by Mr Bisley and his wife is likely to arouse a great deal of interest Mr Bisley, senior lecturer in graphic design at the School of Fine Arts at flam, came to New Zealand from Ulster College, where he was head of the departments of printing and allied studies, graphic design and photography. Previously he was head of the department of photography and graphic design at the Guildford School of Art; and earlier he worked for Granada Television and was consultant in graphic design to the United States embassy in London. Mrs Bisley worked and studied with a Bond Street art dealer, produced a building trade magazine, had her work published in several photographic magazines, and later was a print and art ‘buyer for a London company.