What’s On
Dummies & Doppelgängers
The unforgettable art of being someone else.
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
Edwards + Johann: Mutabilities—propositions to an unknown universe
Transformation, unpredictability and magic happen when unrelated worlds meet.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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Easter Hours
To those visiting or staying in Christchurch this Easter, we'd love to see you at our two offsite exhibition spaces which are both open 10am to 4pm from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
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From First Aid to Favourite Art
For the safety of our visitors, it is a requirement that the Gallery's permanent Visitor Services staff have a current First Aid certificate, so I recently attended a day's training at Red Cross to revalidate mine.
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What You're Saying About Burster Flipper
Positive, bright, colourful, fun and stunning are words that our audiences are using to describe our current ArtBox exhibition Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker. Here are some comments from our visitors book:
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Art Bites are Back!
Art Bites were always a popular offering at the Gallery, so we've brought them back. And like most things in post-quake Christchurch, they're the same but different.
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To our Guides: Thank you!
Today is International Volunteers' Day so a big shout out and thanks to our dedicated team of 36 volunteer guides.
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We’re hosting here, there and everywhere!
While the Gallery remains closed, our Visitor Hosts need to be flexible to host indoors and outdoors (come rain or shine!) at our various 'Outer Spaces'. Here's a glance at where we've been, are, and will be...
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Victoria in residence
This portrait of H.M. The Queen by William Nicholson from our collection has recently popped up in two places on Victoria Street.
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Guide Trip to Wellington
Eleven of our volunteer guides and I visited recently Wellington to meet some people and see some art.
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Oh Baby!
A great turn out for our recent Oh Baby, It's Art tour. Guides Guntra and Fi guided a group of ten parents, caregivers and little ones around the work of Locust Jones and Barry Cleavin, at 209 Tuam Street, upstairs from C1 Espresso.