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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The Queen's visit by Ivy Fife
This article first appeared as 'Hello and goodbye' in The Press on 5 October 2012.
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Cathedral Square, Christchurch by John Mills Thomasson
This article first appeared in The Press on 25 January 2013.
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Portrait of the poet Edmund Waller after Cornelius Johnson
This article first appeared as 'A poet in our midst' in The Press on 31 May 2013.
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Ruth Lowinsky by Eric Gill
This article first appeared as 'An oblique profile' in The Press on 12 July 2013.
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Faces from the Collection
Treasured portraits populate empty spaces in our changing city.
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Steve Carr: Majo
Steve Carr's strangely mesmerising sound and video projection is shown after dark in an upstairs window of the old house opposite the Gallery on Worcester Boulevard.
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Emily Hartley-Skudder: Showhome
Recent University of Canterbury graduate Emily Hartley-Skudder's eerily precise still lifes play on the idea of the 'artificial ordinary'.
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Holiday reading
Herman Melville's Moby Dick, first published on 14 November 1851, is a whale of a book...
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R.P. Moore rewards closer inspection
Mark Strange, an old friend, rang me in May to discuss a gift that he and his partner Lucy Alcock wished to make to the Gallery.
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Death to deco
Christchurch always had its dullness challenge, but there were just enough interesting bits to allay that nagging feeling that really you had to get out of here...