What’s On
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!
Cora-Allan: Encountering Aotearoa
A major body of new work that considers the whenua from the vantage point of the moana.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Return of the Hand
Passing by the desk of Gallery educator Bianca van Leeuwen last week, I was intrigued by an arrangement of plaster hands being prepared for an outreach classroom activity about composition and colour.
Pacific Flotsam
I was delighted to be asked by Judith Blackall, curator at Sydney's National Art School Gallery to speak at the opening of their new Bill Culbert exhibition earlier this month. We had lent our floor sculpture Pacific Flotsam and it features here on the poster.
The Old Bookshop by Evelyn Page
This article first appeared as 'Page didn't start out wanting to be painter' in The Press on 20 January 2015.
Zoology
I'm pretty sure the kids at my daughters pre-school haven't seen Cai Guo-Qiang's Heritage, which was commissioned for his show Falling Back To Earth at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane last year.
Painting on the wall
Between the late 1940s and 1960s there was a significant number of new murals, both painted and sculpted, created to adorn buildings in Christchurch.
How close is too close?
We've been trying out some zoomable high resolution images which allow you to see amazing details in works from our collection.
Four years ago
Four years ago today, disgruntled stallholder Mohamed Bouazizi's immolation sparked revolution in Tunisia, leading directly to revolutions in other Arab countries.
Van der Velden's Rotterdam
I've been delving into the University of Canterbury's art collection recently, as it has been made available on the University's web site, and was stoked to come across the two Petrus van der Velden drawings below.
Time Out
Currently in Sydney installing Bill Culbert's Pacific Flotsam at the National Art School Gallery in Darlinghurst, Exhibitions and Collections Team Leader Sean Duxfield noticed the show being promoted in Time Out.
To you and your kin, etc
It's that time of year; if you're not buying, writing or posting them, you're plucking them out of the mailbox.