Richard Killeen, The Gathering, 2008

“Springboard” is Christchurch Art Gallery’s newest exhibition space - an illuminated billboard attached to the Gallery’s façade, and renowned New Zealand artist Richard Killeen is the first artist to feature on it.

Measuring almost 5 x 7 metres, The Gathering is one of the largest single images produced by Killeen, who is well known for his “cutouts” - works made of many smaller pieces that can be arranged in any order. More recently though, Killeen has been creating computer-generated landscapes and cityscapes populated by densely patterned figures. In The Gathering, a crowd of these figures seem to look out at the passing world from within the Gallery.