Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Heart in the high country: Austen Deans (1915 - 2011)
For Austen Deans, OBE, painting was an expression of his love of the outdoors and, in particular, the Canterbury high country.
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Here's looking at you, kid
Within the Gallery's collection, there are plenty of eyes willing to meet yours, but while some seem content to merely receive our gaze, others look back with a certain character and intensity.
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The extraordinary ordinary: Sylvia Siddell 1941 - 2011
We were saddened to hear of the recent death of artist Sylvia Siddell (ONZM).
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Rattlers
That's the name my son gives to the aftershocks that regularly shake our St Albans home.
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Hopeful green stuff
'The smallest sprout shows there really is no death' declared Walt Whitman in his 1855 lyrical rampage Song of Myself.
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Snap
They call it the 'yellow volkswagen effect': once you see one, you see them everywhere. It's been a little like that for me following Justin Paton's short-lived, terrific and – it turns out – strangely prescient exhibition De-Building, which opened to great acclaim on 5 February and closed forever on 22 February, for obvious, afore-mentioned reasons.
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Danger: Art!
The CCC/CERA workers occupying the Gallery are clearly not underestimating the powers of our femme fatale in bronze, Ex Tenebris Lux.
Exhibition
Scott Flanagan: Do You Remember Me Like I Do?
Including a wishing well and mirror painstakingly woven from reflective black VHS tape, Scott Flanagan's latest installation considers the surprisingly elusive nature of civic memory.