What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
New exhibition now open!
Edwards + Johann: Mutabilities—propositions to an unknown universe
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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It's a mug's game
Spotted in the Gallery shop, these new coffee mugs are sure to appeal to a certain type of customer...
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Happy birthday Margaret
Margaret Stoddart was born on this day in 1865 at Diamond Harbour. Here she is in 1909:
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Cranes
Every work reproduced on this website that is still protected by copyright is cleared for use and we have been using our enforced closure to seek new permissions and clarify existing ones.
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What might have been
Back in 1999, over ninety architects submitted designs for the Christchurch Art Gallery building.
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The Picturesque
Leaving certain earthquake-damaged buildings as picturesque ruins has been the subject of debate in Christchurch recently.
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Death of a library
The fate of our sister organization, the Central Library, is still far from clear. It sits just within the dreaded cordon, whereas we are lucky enough to be just outside it.
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A damn close run thing...
...as the Duke of Wellington supposedly said about Waterloo. Exhibition openings are always close run things with finishing touches being applied to labels and displays and fittings and lights right up to the moment the public are admitted.