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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Worth the wait
The balcony has become the favourite spot for Gallery managers to marvel at the queue for admission to the Ron Mueck show.
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Ron Mueck comments
We've put a comments book in the Ron Mueck show where visitors have expressed their pleasure, and in a few cases their disquiet. My favourite comment is "It looked scary but wasn't" which is in fact rather a profound thought.
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Library unscathed
While some buildings in Christchurch suffered a lot of damage in Saturday's earthquake, others, often close by, escaped with none. Within the Gallery library, some shelves and filing cabinets were emptied, but this tower of books was exactly as a I left it on Friday afternoon.
I draw no grand conclusions from this other than the self-evident truth that earthquakes and their effects remain entirely unpredictable.
Tim Jones
Librarian
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Digital Resurrection
I have been busy adding digitized versions of various print publications to the website this week.
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We've been geo-tagging
We've started adding geo-tags to the works in our collection that show a real place. However, we're stuck on a few and we'd love to hear from you if you know where any of the locations are.
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Cleaning Jacksons
Gallery conservator Edward Sakowski describes several years work making Petrus van der Velden's painting Jacksons, Otira ready for exhibition. The painting was purchased at auction in London.
This procedure was also described in issue 157 of Bulletin.