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!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Brooklands
The destruction of the city centre is receiving lots of attention, but there are of course whole suburbs that will soon disappear as well.
Further North
Continuing down the recently reopened Madras Street and drawing tenuous links to works from our collection (!), I've always been a sucker for a good gargoyle.
Jekyll and Hyde
Jason's Greig's exhibition The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is currently on show at the Ashburton Art Gallery and it's well worth the drive from Christchurch.
It's Boy George!
Gallery Guides' Supervisor Rebecca Ogle and her son George were the stars at a morning tea/brunch hosted by the Guides at Meshino Café in St Albans last Friday.
When it feels like curtains...
Well, yes, sometimes it can. In which case, you need to find ways - maybe even work harder than you've ever had to do before - of staying hopeful.
Quake brain, van der Velden-style
As might be expected, the Gallery's collection is primarily made up of complete works; prepared, resolved and sent on their way, as ready as they'll ever be for public exposure.
Going home in the dark
On a balmy night last week Nathan Pohio and myself were making our way home through the city streets only to be greeted by this great big backlit monolith being torn apart by a nibbler.