Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Along the Heaphy Highway
An invitation to stay with friends at Mapua recently was an offer too good to turn down, and provided a thankful respite from the beaten and bruised town of Christchurch.
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Hopping up North
Malt is the soul of beer and yeast gives it life but the kiss of the hop is the vitality of that life. Tom Inglis
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Heavy metal and the black arts
To a self-confessed printing-press spotter like me, this Diadem treadle platen press, which belonged to Leo Bensemann, is quite simply an awesome machine.
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Who watches the watchmen?
John Robert Godley (1814–1861) and William Rolleston (1831–1903), two key players in the history of Christchurch, both tumbled off their perches on 22 February.
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The Easy Ride
Cycling is still one of the easiest way to get round the inner suburbs of Christchurch after the run of recent earthquakes, but you have to have your wits about you.
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Flying Flywheels
Leo Bensemann's Diadem platen press being transported from the Gallery back to its home at the Ferrymead Printing Society today.
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Smith's Bookshop
Julian Dashper's drawing/collage Blue Cross at Smith's Bookshop captures something of the friendly chaos that welcomed visitors as they stepped off the footpath of Manchester street and into one of Christchurch's most well-known and best-loved bookstores.
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Space for reflection
This week saw us begin the return of Petrus van der Velden's Otira paintings and drawings to public and private collections throughout New Zealand.
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Alpheus Aldersley's anniversary
Today marks the 118th anniversary of the death of the Rangiora photographer Alpheus Aldersley, who met his maker at Otira while accompanying the painter Petrus van der Velden on a trip to the region in June 1893.