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
Subsidence
The whole of New Zealand gets that sinking feeling, in this recent addition to the collection (it's the sketchbook for this), by Tony de Lautour.
e-poetry
This term the Gallery is running Ringmaster: Stories from Christchurch Art Gallery, a writing competition for 8 to 18 year olds.
Freeville school misses...
Ron Mueck, Joanna Langford's Up from the plainlands, Andrew Drummond's Counter Rotating and Earthing Device, and Max Gimblett.
More crucial, not less
'I think in periods of crisis and directionlessness the arts are more crucial, not less.'
Sutton high-fives McCahon
Nothing made it into a W.A. Sutton painting by accident, and the white line that rises diagonally through the sky in Plantation Series II is no exception.
Hopeful green stuff
'The smallest sprout shows there really is no death' declared Walt Whitman in his 1855 lyrical rampage Song of Myself.
Seeing all my favourite artworks again...
'Seeing them is like visiting old friends' - John from Cashmere.
Touch
For obvious reasons, we in Christchurch have spent lots of time lately looking down rather than up and out. Life in the post-quake city is governed by what the earth is up to, and you've got to watch your step.