Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Celebrate Matariki at the Gallery
Tatai Whetū Tatai Tangata.
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.
Mark Adams: A Survey | He Kohinga Whakaahua
A comprehensive survey spanning the artist's career.
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Collection
Fatu Feu’u Lapita – Green
Fatu Feu'u was born in the village of Poutasi on Upolu Island in Samoa and immigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1966. Encouraged by artists Tony Fomison and Llewellyn Summers, Feu'u became a painter and was one of the first Pasifika/Polynesian artists to establish a career here.This woodcut print relates to Feu'u’s knowledge of ancestral migrations by the Lapita people, and their decorated ceramics which date back 3000 years and are dispersed throughout the Pacific. It is one of a series of three works that reference the Koné region and Green Island in New Caledonia, as well as Mulifanua, a village on the north-west tip of Upolu.
(Te Wheke, 2020)
Notes
Greystone Wines x Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Art Wine
New Zealand art legends Gretchen Albrecht and Shane Cotton have collaborated with Greystone Wines to produce forty-eight magnums of their award-winning 2017 Pinot Noir. Each bottle comes in a handmade (and signed!) box so you can choose to save it or swill it.
Notes
Brent Harris treats Christchurch to first solo exhibition
Celebrated artist Brent Harris will exhibit at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in November.
Exhibition
Adele Jackson: Antarctic Sun Lines
To mark the opening of the 2019/20 Antarctic summer season, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū presents the first publicly exhibited Antarctic Sun Lines solargraph. A multi-day exposure image made using a pinhole camera and illuminated with solar energy, it considers Antarctica in relation to the sun and the natural forces that create and sustain life on Earth
Exhibition
Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania
Experience the Gallery’s collection from the perspective of our place in Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, the Pacific Ocean.
Director's Foreword
Director’s Foreword
Welcome to the spring edition of Bulletin. Our downstairs touring exhibition galleries are currently alive with video and moving image art, all of it produced by Māori practitioners in the last thirty years. This exhibition, which tours to us from the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, looks to capture and collate the contribution of Māori artists to time-based art practice in this country.