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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What's in a title page
Quite a lot if you happened to be a graphic designer working in London during the Victorian period as the three examples below highlight.
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Buller's Birds
For all the bad press Walter Buller gets for his activities as a bird stuffer you've got to hand it to him, he pulled one out of the bag with his first edition of A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
Exhibition
New Zealand Illustrated: Pictorial Books from the Victorian Age
A selection of lavishly illustrated books from the Victorian era relating to New Zealand landscape, Māori culture, colonial enterprise and our unique flora, fauna and birdlife.
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South Island kōkako by Eileen Mayo
This article first appeared as 'Elusive grey ghost continues to evade' in The Press on 4 October 2013
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DONE
Busy preparing for the installation of Philip Trusttum's exhibition of Drawing Books which opens at Peterborough Street library this Monday.
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The Office
The office is a theme explored by two artists in two separate exhibitions by two galleries under the one roof in Christchurch at the moment.
Exhibition
Done: Recent Drawing Books by Philip Trusttum
A selection of drawing books by one of Canterbury's best known artists featuring cute children's toys pulled together in bizarre and sometimes malevolent combinations through the process of drawing.
Artist Profile
The endless newscape: Barry Cleavin’s inkjet prints
Barry Cleavin is often, rightfully, referred to as a 'master printer' – a maestro of intaglio printing techniques including the complex tonal subtleties of aquatint, soft- and hard-ground etching and the creation of 'linear tension'. Mastering these complex techniques to achieve a command over the etching processes has required patience and fortitude over a career spanning some forty-seven years.
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Away past elsewhere
An exhibition of books and ephemera produced at Wellington's Fernbank Studio has just opened at the Peterborough Street library to coincide with National Poetry Day, which is today.