Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Made in the Pacific: A Collection of Tāoga
A selection of Pacific tāoga from the Canterbury Museum in conversation with contemporary artworks that highlight the continued strength in culture and traditional art forms.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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
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Juliet Peter Arthur's Pass Ski Hut
This cosy, jam-packed view of a high country ski hut vividly captures a sense of alpine activity – from wooden skis and spiked leather boots to socks drying between tea towels and a trusty Thermos, ready on the table. Juliet Peter remembered Shurrock fondly, describing him as a “marvellous man” and her “best ever teacher”. She was studying painting rather than sculpture, but recalled spending a lot of her time in the modelling room where “instead of attempting to teach sculpture, [Shurrock] provided for his students by talking to them and broadening their minds – blowing their minds, that was the term”.
(Dear Shurrie: Francis Shurrock and his contemporaries, 8 March – 13 July 2025)
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Sorawit Songsataya Summer Rain
This video work is part of a larger project called Nirun, the Thai word for eternal – a timespan that connects ancient histories and future possibilities. In it, Sorawit Songsataya collapses the distances between times and places, imagining layered relationships between materials and species, learning and loss, home and elsewhere.
The artist would like to thank Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Moeraki and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for their permission and support in working with Ōamaru limestone and filming in Central Otago, and acknowledges mana whenua of Kāti Māhaki ki Makaawhio, Poutini Ngāi Tahu, as kaitiaki of the takiwā where the kōtuku nest.
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Sorawit Songsataya Unnamed Islands
This video work is part of a larger project called Nirun, the Thai word for eternal – a timespan that connects ancient histories and future possibilities. In it, Sorawit Songsataya collapses the distances between times and places, imagining layered relationships between materials and species, learning and loss, home and elsewhere.
The artist would like to thank Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Moeraki and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for their permission and support in working with Ōamaru limestone and filming in Central Otago, and acknowledges mana whenua of Kāti Māhaki ki Makaawhio, Poutini Ngāi Tahu, as kaitiaki of the takiwā where the kōtuku nest.
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Sorawit Songsataya Shoulders of Giants
This video work is part of a larger project called Nirun, the Thai word for eternal – a timespan that connects ancient histories and future possibilities. In it, Sorawit Songsataya collapses the distances between times and places, imagining layered relationships between materials and species, learning and loss, home and elsewhere.
The artist would like to thank Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou, Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki, Te Rūnanga o Moeraki and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for their permission and support in working with Ōamaru limestone and filming in Central Otago, and acknowledges mana whenua of Kāti Māhaki ki Makaawhio, Poutini Ngāi Tahu, as kaitiaki of the takiwā where the kōtuku nest.
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W. G. Baker Mount Aspiring, Head of Waiatoto Valley
Approaching the top of the Waiatoto, a remote and difficult-to-access southern Te Tai Poutini West Coast valley, William Baker was rewarded with an excellent vantage point from which to paint the snowy inclines of Tititea Mount Aspiring. Tititea means ‘glistening peak’, and also refers to an important Waitaha rakatira. Following a familiar colonial pattern, the mountain was renamed in 1857 by Otago Province chief surveyor J. T. Thomson. The word ‘aspiring’ was chosen in response to the mountain’s skyward grandeur.
Waitaha ~ tribal group that occupied much of Te Waipounamu South Island before they were displaced by Kāti Māmoe
rakatira ~ person of high rank, chief, leader
