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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Little River by Thomas Cane
This article first appeared as 'Wind of change' in The Press on 19 October 2012.
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Japanese Planes, Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel by Russell Clark
This article first appeared as 'Wings of war' in The Press on 21 September 2012.
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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.