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Being

Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and creative thinking for our future and our wellbeing.

Seeing

Chartwell is an explorer of the visual world. We want to know more about how and what we see. When both the eye and the mind are active, the creative process opens to the artist and viewer. The Chartwell Collection provides the viewer many examples of creative visual thought in action.

Making

Chartwell supports artists as they make and think. Making is an active and connected process, involving the interaction of intention, intuition and intellect with the mediums of the world. Chartwell is making too - making a difference through philanthropy and enabling access to creative activities and research.

Thinking

Chartwell encourages everyone to think about art and the creative process with a commitment to drive an understanding about the significance of the visual arts to general creative thinking. We share a curiosity to know and learn more: an imaginative, ongoing investigation.

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John Hurrell

John Hurrell is a New Zealand art writer and artist who lives in Auckland. He is the editor of an online art debate forum called EyeContact. He studied painting at the University of Canterbury and has been the Curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth and the Waikato Museum of Art and History Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. In more recent years Hurrell has begun making sculpture. These he has exhibited at City Art Rooms, Snake Pit’s window vitrines and at Antoinette Godkin (with Paul Hartigan), Hartrell de Hurrigan, 2012. In 2014 he also participated in burster flipper wobbler dripper spinner stacker shaker maker in Christchurch Art Gallery’s Artbox.

Bars In 4 Directions II

Christchurch Particles 5

Thing 15

Bobo