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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Untitled 1956 by Gordon Walters
This article first appeared as 'Balancing act' in The Press on 17 August 2012.
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Racing by Sybil Andrews
This article first appeared as 'Art at the gallop' in The Press on 13 July 2012.
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Heavy Metal #4
Being a self confessed printing press spotter I couldn't go past this wonderful Columbian printing press in the collection of the Shantytown Heritage Museum just south of Greymouth.
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CASS
This week 77 years ago Rita Angus visited Cass on a sketching holiday with Louise Henderson and Julia Scarvell that resulted in several paintings including the Christchurch Art Gallery's Cass.
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Past Talking to the Future
Mark Adams' exhibition 'Portrait of the Painter Tony Fomison' opened at the Chamber Gallery in the Rangiora Library last Sunday.
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Populate! update #20 (happy couple #2)
Another happy couple make an appearance in the gallery's Populate! programme.
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Populate! Update #18 (The Shock of the Newt)
One of the more unusual additions to the Christchurch Art Gallery Library's artists' book collection in recent years is The Shock of the Newt which is included in Face Books at the Peterborough Street Library.
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Populate! update #13 (Face Books)
Thirty books...over forty faces at the Peterborough Street Library. Face Books (opening May 11, just after our birthday) brings together an array of portraits from artist's books drawn from the Gallery's library.
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Otira: It's a state of mind
It's always a good day when new artworks arrive at the gallery to enter the permanent collection and so it was when Grace Butler's large oil painting In the Otira Gorge turned up. It has been very generously bequeathed to the Gallery by her daughter, Grace Adams who recently passed away.