Bunker notes

20 May 2012, Tim Jones

Call us if it's you

We love the MyGallery sets that have been created recently.

19 May 2012, Ray Welsh

Gnome Army

Take the innocence of the kitsch garden gnome then arm it to the teeth!

18 May 2012, Felicity Milburn

Guilty pleasures come in forms other than reality TV, so here's my tribute to that rollicking narrative poem 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes and the recent perigee moon, thanks to the CAG collection and swashbuckling street artist Banksy.

17 May 2012, Peter Vangioni

Demo Town

Demolition of Christchurch's CBD has really stepped up over the past few months with whole blocks transforming into vast wastelands...

16 May 2012, Airi Hashimoto

A Better View

Last Saturday, ten helpful people from the Student Volunteer Army improved the view of Wayne Youle's mural in Sydenham.

15 May 2012, Emily Caygill

Halswell that ends well

This term while Susie is off in Singapore for six weeks at the Asian Civilisations Museum, I have the pleasure of taking the Gallery's education programme out to schools around Christchurch.

14 May 2012, Ray Welsh

Old materials - new ideas

Rugged, recycled and right here!

13 May 2012, Susie Cox

Multi-tasking god

The Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore is packed with interesting artifacts, but to me the most beautiful things are the statues that depict deities from different religions.

12 May 2012, Tim Jones

Brooklands

The destruction of the city centre is receiving lots of attention, but there are of course whole suburbs that will soon disappear as well.

11 May 2012, Chris Pole

Further North

Continuing down the recently reopened Madras Street and drawing tenuous links to works from our collection (!), I've always been a sucker for a good gargoyle.

10 May 2012, Peter Vangioni

Jekyll and Hyde

Jason's Greig's exhibition The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is currently on show at the Ashburton Art Gallery and it's well worth the drive from Christchurch.

9 May 2012, Tim Jones

Hapless Spirits

On this day in 1828 the artist Nicholas Chevalier was born.

8 May 2012

It's Boy George!

Gallery Guides' Supervisor Rebecca Ogle and her son George were the stars at a morning tea/brunch hosted by the Guides at Meshino Café in St Albans last Friday.

7 May 2012, Ray Welsh