Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu
The islands of Aotearoa New Zealand were once inhabited by birds. Shrieking, warbling, tinkling, booming. Forest, river, marsh, mountain, ocean, shore—everything charged with their mauri, life force.
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
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.
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Annapurna
That's the name of Jae Hoon Lee's spectacular new billboard. Commissioned by the Gallery for the Springboard series, it's the latest installation in our Outer Spaces programme.
Erratum, errata, eratic, or just not very good
As any of you who receive or read Bulletin will have noticed, we had a something of a technical hiccup in the last issue...
Petrus is back
Petrus van der Velden's The Dutch funeral – one of the Gallery's most popular paintings – is back on display today as part of the Storytellers exhibition.
New van der Velden painting on display
Visitors to the Gallery will soon have the chance to see one of Petrus van der Velden's earliest works.
Record breaker
It's official – Ron Mueck has become the most popular paid-entry exhibition ever to be shown at Christchurch Art Gallery!
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.