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!
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Van der Velden: Otira
This exhibition brings together a comprehensive selection of Van der Velden's paintings portraying the wild, untouched natural beauty of the Otira region's mountainous landscape.
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W.A. Sutton: Watercolours of Italy
An exhibition featuring a selection of works from Bill Sutton's 1973–4 Italian sojourn, highlighting his exquisite skill as a draughtsman and watercolourist.
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Hotere: Empty of shadows and making a shadow
An exceptional survey of lithographs by one of New Zealand's greatest artists.
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Graphica Britannica
Highlights from the Rex Nan Kivell gift of prints by some of the most highly regarded British printmakers of the early to mid twentieth century.
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Craig Potton: Floating on Ice
Craig Potton, one of New Zealand's most successful nature photographers, displays for the first time his photography of Antarctica's sublime Ross Ice Shelf.
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Quadrant: Four themes of Van der Velden
Petrus van der Velden's key themes – the Dutch funeral, the Otira Gorge, the rural worker and portraits – are explored through his dramatic and sensitive preparatory drawings, sketches, watercolours and paintings.
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The Devil Made Me Do It
This first survey of Jason Greig's foreboding, otherworldly landscapes, seascapes and figures reveals a sinister side of the human psyche.
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Picturing the Peninsula
A selection of works by some of New Zealand’s most significant historical and contemporary artists responding to the unique landscapes of Banks Peninsula Te Pataka o Rakaihautu.
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Painters as Printmakers
Painters as Printmakers is an exhibition of prints produced by leading New Zealand painters over the past 50 years. Using a selection of prints from the Gallery's Collection, Painters as Printmakers will illustrate the importance of prints in many painters' careers, focusing in particular on their collaborations with printmakers.
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Art School 125: 125 Years of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury's School of Fine Arts celebrates 125 years in 2007 and the Gallery's major summer exhibition will survey selected highlights from the history of the School's artistic and cultural achievements.