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Book Launch | How to Paint a Nude by Sam Mahon

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Tue 25th November 2025 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Free

Lumière Cinemas

26 Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch Central City
Christchurch, Canterbury 8013 New Zealand

03 365 0066

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You are invited to the launch of How to Paint a Nude by Sam Mahon. Sam Mahon needs no introduction – Christchurch artist, activist, conservationist, writer, subversive who, using cow dung, sculpted Hon Nick Smith nude and squatting over a glass of water. This beautifully written book which he calls ‘a fiction’, is set within the real world of Canterbury art in the year of the earthquake, with real Canterbury people. It centres around a Belarus refugee who fled his country to find freedom. Sam and Gregor meet weekly to discuss art’s purpose, and critique Lukashenka from a distance, but there is a pervading enemy in the book which can best be described in the words of architect Peter Beaven, and by the end, Gregor departs, disillusioned.

Join us at Lumière Cinema on Tuesday 25th November from 5.30pm to hear from Sam and friends about his latest work.

Free event, all welcome.

Books for sale on the night for $40.

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