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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Len Castle (1924 – 2011)
The Gallery was sad to hear of the death of Len Castle, one of New Zealand's pioneering potters. Castle began working as a potter in the 1940s and was to become the leading light of New Zealand's pottery movement for over six decades. In the 1950s he worked with Bernard Leech in England and during the 1960s he began potting professionally, travelling and studying in China, Japan and South Korea.
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Didn't get to sleep last night
The title of Jim Speers's sculpture rang true yet again the other night. But this time it wasn't aftershocks keeping me and half the neighbourhood awake – it was a roadwork crew.
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Renaissance Town
Christchurch seems abuzz with demolition and construction crews working throughout the city at the moment. Over 2000 tons of demolition material is removed from the CBD daily. Just as post-quake Napier is depicted in Roland Hipkins' excellent painting of Napier, Renaissance, Christchurch has become New Zealand's renaissance town.
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E. Raphael Gully’s Pleasure Garden
This brilliant take on the Pleasure Garden incident appeared in the Nag's Head Press's Bookie No.2 in 1950.
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Collecting Cards
That the latest set of collectable cards in boxes of Weetbix features the All Blacks isn't really surprising, given that the Rugby World Cup is about to kick off on our shores and Weetbix are the official breakfast sponsors of the All Blacks.
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Ferne Every R.I.P.
Gallery staff were saddened to hear the news that Ferne Every, one of the Gallery's favourite supporters, had passed away on Monday.
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Moving right along
Time keeps on moving right along earthquake or no earthquake, a fact that's reinforced for me by the fading Queensland Search and Rescue team's spray-painted message on the Centre of Contemporary Art's window on Gloucester street.
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Banded bricks
I used to bike down Durham street past the old Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery every morning on my way to work ...
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Dead Keas
It was tragic to see the image of five dead kea at Klondyke Corner at Arthur's Pass in yesterday's Press.