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What’s On
Hye Rim Lee: Swan Lake
An immersive, dreamlike digital reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet.
Fred Graham: Toi Whakaata / Reflections
The long and distinguished practice of Aotearoa New Zealand artist Fred Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui) is celebrated in this selection of significant sculptures and relief works from 1965 to 2013.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Exploring the relationship between tākata and whenua – people and land – through Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history.
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Art for arms?
As a registrar, when I open a miscellaneous box marked 'freight' I expect to find paperwork relating to, well, freight...
Love him or hate him?
That was the question posed by Emilie Sitzia and Louise Palmer to a large group of forty who had come along to listen to the ArtBite on Wild man last Wednesday.
Mark Braunias at work
Artist Mark Braunias is in the building working on a new mural commission for the Gallery.
Ron Mueck comments
We've put a comments book in the Ron Mueck show where visitors have expressed their pleasure, and in a few cases their disquiet. My favourite comment is "It looked scary but wasn't" which is in fact rather a profound thought.
Big up to the designers
We were delighted to hear that this website was awarded not only a gold medal, but the Purple Pin in the interactive category at last Friday night's BeST awards.
New bunker work installed
We've just had Wayne Youle in, creating a new work for the Gallery's carpark bunker.
You big baby
While we're looking at sculptures at the larger end of the scale bracket, here's Ron Mueck's A girl.
Under the sheets
Downstairs in the galleries the exhibitions team have been working flat out for the last couple of weeks to prepare for Ron Mueck.
Earthdance
Over 300 people came to enjoy the music and sunshine at the Gallery on Sunday.
Did you know this globally synchronised event promoting peace took place in over 150 countries, 375 cities worldwide?
Open for business
It's been a roller coaster ride for all of us in Christchurch over the last 10 days, and for staff at Christchurch Art Gallery as our workplace became an operational civil defence headquarters. Equally, it has been wonderful to see how sturdy our art gallery building is and how collections in storage and on display have withstood the main jolt on 4 September and the subsequent (but now happily diminishing) tremors as the landscape settles. And how committed and able our staff team has been!!!