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.
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Margaret Elliott: Tented Spaces
A series of paintings inspired by the artist's recent sojourn to Antarctica.
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Bluebeard's Castle: Paintings by Nigel Buxton
A dramatic exhibition by Christchurch artist Nigel Buxton recalling the grim story of Bluebeard and his wives.
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Antarctic Heart
An evocative, multi-sensory installation by Auckland-based artist Virginia King, inspired by her recent artist residency in Antarctica.
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Refugees
A striking collection of new paintings by prominent Christchurch artist Margaret Hudson-Ware.
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Coming Home in the Dark
Fourteen artists with connections to the Mainland are represented in an exhibition that explores the dark underbelly of the region's genteel appearance.
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Tony Bond: Squeeze
An exhibition of new work by local artist Tony Bond, using ordinary and often disregarded objects to create large-scale sculptures that are playful and intriguing.
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Bing Dawe: Acts of Enquiry
Survey exhibition of work by the Canterbury sculptor supported by a selection of prints and drawings.
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Séraphine Pick: Scratching Skin
Although Séraphine Pick has featured in past group shows at the McDougall, and is represented in the Collection, this will be her first solo exhibition at the Gallery.
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Sculpture in the Gardens 1999-2000
A collaboration between the Botanic Gardens and the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, this event was initiated to celebrate the diversity of New Zealand sculptural practice. The three artists chosen to participate in this year's exhibition, Stuart Griffiths, Paul Cullen and Fiona Gunn, have created works which play on and reveal the environmental, spatial and historical resonances of their chosen garden sites.