What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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The new face of horticulture
Toss Woollaston knew how to infuse landscape with nearly human life.
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Learning from New Orleans
So your city's broken, the arts community is in disarray, and – after close inspection by experts in hard hats and hi-vis vests – it turns out your long-held faith in the role of art in post-quake Christchurch is suffering from stress fractures, subsidence and some kind of spiritual dry rot. What do you do?
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Massage Available Free! (Read the fine print)
Signs. They're everywhere in the Gallery, often on top of other signs.
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A message from the ancestors
The most memorable sculptures of 2011 were made five hundred years ago.
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Easy as abc…
One of the books I remember vividly from studying NZ lit at Canterbury University in the early 1990s is the Murray Edmond and Mary Paul-edited anthology The New Poets of the 80s.
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Words to build on
Disasters mean loss and loss means remembrance and remembrance means memorials and monuments.
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Open House – our opening (and reopening) exhibitions
It's an open house. Come in. That's the simple message we'll be sending when the Gallery reopens later this year.
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De-Building
For many passers-by, Christchurch art Gallery is identified by its dramatic glass façade—the public face it presents to the world. but De-Building is an exhibition that offers a very different view. bringing together the work of fourteen artists from new Zealand and farther afield, this group exhibition draws inspiration from the working spaces gallery-goers seldom see: the workshops, loading bays and back corridors; the scruffy, half-defined zones.