What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
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.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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Master Secretary
"A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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Behold, the Great Wall of CAG
We don't have too many visitors to the Gallery building just now, but those who do turn up will be able to admire our new forecourt feature.
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Clutha
Making the trip between Queenstown and Alexandra recently I was struck, as always, by the sight of the massive Clyde Dam.
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Probably not a sign of good parenting
con·flict.ed
kənˈflikt'ed
1. Explaining to your kids that writing on other people's property is wrong while getting out of the car to take a picture for the work blog.
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50s Models Series by Vivian Lynn
This article first appeared as 'Ahead of her time' in The Press on 18 October 2013
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Stronger together
We thought those of you who kept track of Sian Torrington's Outer Spaces project in Avonside might be interested to see what she has been up to recently.
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Viva Sydenham
It seems a lifetime ago that we combined with Gap Filler to launch the Gallery's first post-quake Outer Spaces project in Sydenham.
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Sailing awaaaaaaaay
They're our tax dollars at work; might as well watch them skipping lightly away over the waves in San Francisco Bay (and give your fingernails a free trim in the process...)
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Eileen Mayo
It's 107 years since this multi-talented artist, described by art historian Kenneth Clark as 'outstandingly good', was born in Norwich, England.
