Public 'Back the Bull' campaign launches today

Public 'Back the Bull' campaign launches today

Today sees the launch of a major initiative that the organisers believe could in time become a key landmark for Christchurch.

Repairs start on Christchurch Art Gallery

Repair work has started on Christchurch Art Gallery, with the re-levelling tender that will relieve stress in the building's foundations having been awarded.

Christchurch-born artist Ronnie van Hout part of Populate!

Christchurch-born artist Ronnie van Hout part of Populate!

Ronnie van Hout is the artist responsible for the mysterious figure pointing skywards that has appeared on the roof of a central city building.

Welcome funding boost given to Gallery's tenth birthday celebrations

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū's campaign to bring more art into the city has received a welcome boost this week through a donation from insurance company IAG.

Christchurch Art Gallery takes out Museums Aotearoa Award

Our building may be closed – but we've have still achieved national recognition of by winning a prestigious Museums Aotearoa Award.

Boosted

Boosted

We've just launched a campaign to raise money to boost our Outer Spaces programme and bring more art into the city.

Outer Space programme sees Canterbury arts graduate exhibit work in Showhome

Outer Space programme sees Canterbury arts graduate exhibit work in Showhome

The Gallery's latest exhibition in the Outer Spaces programme, Showhome, has opened in Christchurch, featuring the disconcertingly 'perfect' works of recent University of Canterbury graduate Emily Hartley-Skudder.

Chicken Dinner

Chicken Dinner

The Gallery has picked up another great award for its website, proving yet again that a closed building is not necessarily an insurmountable obstacle.

‘Reductive’ works consider mass consumption and the individual

‘Reductive’ works consider mass consumption and the individual

The pressures placed on the personal and individual by the phenomenon of mass promotion and consumption are explored through three video works and a sculpture in James Oram's new exhibition but it's worth it.

Artist fires colour into the Central City

Artist fires colour into the Central City

You are all invited to come and watch an explosive work of art take shape in the central city between 9am and 1pm this Saturday.

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