Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Tīrama Mai 2025
Tīrama Mai is back this winter to celebrate Puanga Matariki with an array of artistic lighting and cultural displays in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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.
E tuwhera ana te wharetoi i kā rā e 7 o te wiki, 10am - 5pm
Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
Clutha
Making the trip between Queenstown and Alexandra recently I was struck, as always, by the sight of the massive Clyde Dam.
Congratulations
This is to let you know that our senior curator Justin Paton has accepted a new position as Head Curator, International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Seeing Things
Driving from Whitecliffs (where?) to the Gallery each day leaves a lot of time for idle thoughts.
Justice
Roger Boyce's Painter Speaks was recently installed in Lichfield Street as part of the ongoing Stereoscope series.
Spruce Up
With public art taking centre stage in Christchurch at the moment thanks to the latest installment of the Scape Biennial, it was good to see an old stalwart getting a bit of a scrub and tickle the other morning.
Probably not a sign of good parenting
con·flict.ed
kənˈflikt'ed
1. Explaining to your kids that writing on other people's property is wrong while getting out of the car to take a picture for the work blog.
It was 100 years ago today...
There are not many works in Christchurch Art Gallery's collection that can be pin-pointed to the exact date in which they were completed but Petrus van der Velden's Self-portrait with Otira Gorge is one and it was completed exactly 100 years ago today.
Horsing around
Curator Peter Vangioni has posted a couple of blogs in the last week or so in relation to the exhibition New Zealand Illustrated: Books from the Victorian Age which is coming up soon at Peterborough Street Library.