Georgie Hill Still life with Eileen Gray dressing cabinet (detail) 2010. Watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper. Collection of Brendon Wilkinson. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Robert Heald Gallery
Breathing Space
The next edition of the Rolling Maul series opened last Friday. We told you it was fast moving.
Bunker Notes
Demo Town
Demolition of Christchurch's CBD has really stepped up over the past few months with whole blocks transforming into vast wastelands...
A Better View
Last Saturday, ten helpful people from the Student Volunteer Army improved the view of Wayne ...
Halswell that ends well
This term while Susie is off in Singapore for six weeks at the Asian Civilisations Museum, I ...
Old materials - new ideas
Rugged, recycled and right here!
Multi-tasking god
The Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore is packed with interesting artifacts, but to me the most beautiful things are ...
Brooklands
The destruction of the city centre is receiving lots of attention, but there are of ...
Further North
Continuing down the recently reopened Madras Street and drawing tenuous links to works from our ...
Jekyll and Hyde
Jason's Greig's exhibition The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is currently on ...
Hapless Spirits
On this day in 1828 the artist Nicholas Chevalier was born.
It's Boy George!
Gallery Guides' Supervisor Rebecca Ogle and her son George were the stars at a morning ...
'Dropp!' into the Gallery Shop
Something new from the designers of our very popular rubber vases.
When it feels like curtains...
Well, yes, sometimes it can. In which case, you need to find ways - maybe even ...
Quake brain, van der Velden-style
As might be expected, the Gallery's collection is primarily made up of complete works; prepared, ...
Going home in the dark
On a balmy night last week Nathan Pohio and myself were making our way home ...
Angels and Aristocrats
Blair Jackson and I attended the opening of Angels & Aristocrats at Dunedin Public Art ...
One way traffic
Madras Street is open again! And we're very pleased about that, as the front door ...
Leo Bensemann's centenary
Today is the centenary of the birth of Canterbury artist Leo Bensemann and Peter Simpson, Leo's ...
Tea Mr Shifter?
Gallery staff shifted back into their offices this week. We'll be shifting again soon, but ...
Happy Birthday Frances Hodgkins
Our final birthday for April is Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947)
People in glasshouses
A few days ago, there were lots of little bits of glass and metal strewn (in ...
Singapore sling
Our colleague Susie Cox is currently working in Singapore.
Attack of the Stymphalian birds
"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks" said the American ...
Becordel AD1916
The Canterbury artist Archibald Nicoll enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in December 1914 ...
Mona
Even while on holiday in Melbourne and Tasmania recently, I couldn't help myself visiting galleries ...
Artists in Crime
That was the title the great Christchurch-born mystery writer Ngaio Marsh gave to a novel ...
My Gallery
Collect all your favourite bits of the Gallery in one place.
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The sick rose
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Angels & Aristocrats
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Material Things
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southern alps
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LEST WE FORGET
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Burnt Chicken
by Micalah McCulloch
Bulletin
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Perimeter Notes: A day around the red zone
With Christchurch Art Gallery still closed and the city rattled ...
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Meet me on the other side
From strange grey forms resting in cages to old furniture ...
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Rolling Maul
A lot of water, and Lord only knows what else, ...
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ARCHITECTS: WORKS AND HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES
Listen to renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban present ARCHITECTS: WORKS AND HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES on Sunday, 22 April 2012, at the CPIT DL Theatre. Shigeru Ban talks about his works, including natural disaster relief projects, and presents his design for the Cardboard Cathedral, the temporary home of the ChristChurch Cathedral.
ARCHITECTS: WORKS AND HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES was the second talk in the Re:actions for the city public programme which focused on the challenges and opportunities currently facing Christchurch, including temporary and portable architecture, urbanism, heritage and revitalization.
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From the collection
Untitled
Pick, Séraphine (New Zealander, b.1964)
Mouth (Ruby’s Room)
Noble, Anne (New Zealander, b.1954)
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