What’s On
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.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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Rehang
Back in our newly refurbished storerooms, the collections team are hard at work getting our historical paintings safely back on their racks.
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Hanging Around
Curated by Justin Paton, and in development since 2009, Shane Cotton: The Hanging Sky was scheduled to open at Christchurch Art Gallery in late 2011. However, earthquakes and the subsequent closure of the Gallery intervened, and the show was reconfigured as a very successful touring exhibition, visiting venues in Brisbane, Sydney and Wellington. So it will be a pleasure to finally open a version of the exhibition in Christchurch with Baseland in June this year. Bulletin caught up with Shane to ask a few questions about what has been a rather unusual journey.
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first printing presses in Canterbury
If you are interested in cast iron printing presses, early Canterbury history or just at a loose end at mid-day tomorrow our curator Peter Vangioni is delivering a talk titled 'A Thousand Pities: being a history of the first printing presses in Canterbury' to the Friends of the Christchurch City Libraries... Fendalton Library at 12.30pm.
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Bulletin survey
Here at the Gallery, we're very proud of what we do. We strive to present new and interesting art in Christchurch, to support local practitioners and institutions and to promote an awareness of the place of the arts in this city. While our building has been closed, we've been doing this through our Outer Spaces programme of art in the city, online and through our ambitious publishing programme.
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Seek Stillness in Movement
If you've forgotten what exactly a 'hectic city-scape' looks like, head down to our space at 209 Tuam Street from this Saturday.
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On the level
Despite the fact that we're closed, over the past few months one area of the building has enjoyed visitor numbers that would make a lot of exhibition spaces slightly jealous.
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Quimbilicum?
'The first-hand responses I've had tend to be bemusement, and a need to identify, to know what it is they're looking at. When asked, for example, what 'Quimbilicum' means, I just point to the work.'