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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Books, Beautiful Books
If any of our blog readers are in Melbourne over the next month or two we recommend a visit to the excellent exhibition Art and Adventure: the Fine Press Book from 1450 to 2011 which opened at the University of Melbourne's Baillieu Library last week and runs through to May.
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Sticks and stones
The historic Canterbury Provincial Chambers are slowly being pulled apart piece by piece, labelled and placed in specially made crates seen here in the foreground.
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Room with a view
The view from the windows of our new exhibition space in Madras Street is not one you can easily put into words.
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for those that stay behind
In the latest installment of the Gallery's Outer Spaces programme, keep an eye out for posters of several Elliot Collins' word paintings that are currently pasted up round town.
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A little bit of Auckland in Christchurch
The Ellerslie International Flower Show opens in the Garden City today.
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Physics Room opening
Great to attend the Physics Room opening of Sean Kerr's Song and Dance exhibition last Friday.
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Over the Reefs and Far Away
Always on the lookout for connections between New Zealand and overseas artists, one interesting visitor to our shores was the renowned Irish wood-engraver Robert Gibbings who first visited New Zealand in late 1945.
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Saved
Artworks at Christchurch's Convention Centre were finally rescued yesterday by Sean Duxfield and his team from the Gallery after being inaccessible for almost 12 months.
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Huntsbury Press
The Gallery was very fortunate to receive a collection of books from Leo Bensemann's library this week.
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Wharariki Dreaming
Located at the top of the South Island's West Coast, near Cape Farewell, Wharariki Beach is a stunning area where the land meets the sea in dramatic fashion.