Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
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.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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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.
Freeville school misses...
Ron Mueck, Joanna Langford's Up from the plainlands, Andrew Drummond's Counter Rotating and Earthing Device, and Max Gimblett.
e-poetry
This term the Gallery is running Ringmaster: Stories from Christchurch Art Gallery, a writing competition for 8 to 18 year olds.
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.
Gordon Crook 1921 – 2011
If, when we're open, an artist represented in our collection dies, we generally arrange for a work of theirs to be hung at the top of the stairs on the side of the entrance to the Burdon Family Gallery, with a label that notes their contribution and recent passing. I like this simple convention and the respect it shows for an arts practitioner whose contribution to New Zealand art we've thought well enough of to acquire.