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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Nor'western Sky
Yesterday descendents of an old Christchurch identity, John Bradley, presented a charcoal drawing by Petrus van der Velden to Christchurch Art Gallery.
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An Otira stream (also known as Mountain Rata) by Margaret Stoddart
This article first appeared as 'Otira colour captured in all its summer glory' in The Press on 28 February 2014.
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Earthquake Momento
The latest issue of Photoforum's MoMento journal (issue 14, January 2014) focuses on the work of three photographers with strong ties to Christchurch and their haunting images of this battered city post February 22, 2011.
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Camera Interviews Mrs Laura Knight
Brilliant film footage from British Pathe of British artist Laura Knight painting fellow artist Eileen Mayo in 1927 can be seen here.
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Leo Bensemann Collection
Christchurch Art Gallery has been very fortunate in recently receiving the bulk of Leo Bensemann's library from his family which has made one of the Gallery's curators very happy.
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old meets new
A self confessed letterpress enthusiast I really enjoy the qualities offered with handprinted books - the tactile quality of the printed metal type faces slightly embossed into the surface of the paper, it's something that digital technology would never have a part to play in or so I thought.
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Around the world in just under 3 years
The team here at the Gallery are currently preparing Mark Adams's Cook's Sites exhibition which opens at our Tuam Street gallery on 25 January.
Exhibition
Mark Adams: Cook's Sites
Haunting photographs of South Island sites visited by Captain James Cook that represent some of the first interactions between Māori and the British Empire.
