Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
Dynamic and progressive paintings and woodcuts from one of Aotearoa’s New Zealand foremost modernist artists.
Living Archives
Archives that tell stories about artists and history in Aotearoa
Whāia te Taniwha
Māori artists consider the enduring relevance of taniwha in Aotearoa.
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Lonnie Hutchinson: Ahu Timataka / Trace Elements
Kawakawa, a rongoā/medicinal plant indigenous to Aotearoa, is central to this exciting two-part project by leading Ngāi Tahu artist Lonnie Hutchinson, on show at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū from 19 June to 31 October 2021.
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Things That Shape Us
Things That Shape Us reflects on how we cope with trauma, and how it changes us as a community, at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū from 24 July to 7 November.
Collection
Ralph Hotere Requiem
Writer Kriselle Baker has suggested that Ralph Hotere’s Requiem paintings sit somewhere between the Catholic mass for the departed and the waiata tangi with which Māori mourn the dead. The suicide of Hotere’s friend, the composer Anthony Watson, in May 1973, followed the death of the artist’s mother, Ana Maria Hotere, the previous year. The works Hotere made soon afterwards convey an enveloping darkness, relieved only by fine bands of intense colour. Some are spaced in precise lines that suggest musical chords, or shafts of breaking dawn light. Others are swept into curving forms that rise like birds in flight, an image associated in many cultures with the departure of the soul
(Absence, May 2023)
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Connecting people with art
Christchurch Art Gallery volunteer guide Allanah James joined the team in 2020. She talks about her passion for art and how there’s always so much more to learn about an artwork.
