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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Collection
Juliet Peter Eileen Cowan
Eileen Cowan was the mother of artist Roy Cowan, and Juliet Peter’s mother-in-law. Eileen Cowan’s mother was Mary Rachel Robson, also known as Mere Kapa Ngamai II, and her father was the poet and Māori scholar Henry Hare Hongi Mathew Stowell. This deftly worked portrait reflects the deep affection that existed between the artist and her subject, who sits on a garden bench amidst a profusion of summer flowers, with knitting needles and wool on her lap and a butterfly momentarily resting on her cardigan.
(Turn, Turn, Turn: A Year in Art, 27 July 2019 – 8 March 2020)
Notes
From First Aid to Favourite Art
For the safety of our visitors, it is a requirement that the Gallery's permanent Visitor Services staff have a current First Aid certificate, so I recently attended a day's training at Red Cross to revalidate mine.
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What You're Saying About Burster Flipper
Positive, bright, colourful, fun and stunning are words that our audiences are using to describe our current ArtBox exhibition Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker. Here are some comments from our visitors book:
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Art Bites are Back!
Art Bites were always a popular offering at the Gallery, so we've brought them back. And like most things in post-quake Christchurch, they're the same but different.
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On the level
Despite the fact that we're closed, over the past few months one area of the building has enjoyed visitor numbers that would make a lot of exhibition spaces slightly jealous.
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Timekeeper
For those of you who got to see the De-Building exhibition way back in 2011, for the few weeks it was on display before the earthquakes, you may remember a wonderful piece by Pierre Huyghe, in which concentric rings revealed various layers of paint below the walls surface, a kind of archaelogical exploration of the gallery's exhibition history.
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What is Artbox?
While our main building is closed we are still exhibiting real art in real spaces. One of our new spaces is ArtBox.