Meri Kirihimete!
Warmest holiday wishes from the Gallery team. We’re closing at 5pm on Christmas Eve and will be taking Christmas Day off but we’ll see you on Boxing Day from 10am.
Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View
New exhibition now open.
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.
E tuwhera ana te wharetoi i kā rā e 7 o te wiki, 10am - 5pm
Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Uruka utukore, ahokore utukore
Free entry, free wifi
Collection
Andrew Hamilton Rumbling Burn Valley, Lake Wanaka
In 1863 Edinburgh-born Andrew Hamilton arrived in Ōtautahi Christchurch, where he soon established a studio and began advocating for the city’s artistic future, notably by hosting a public forum on the need for a school of art and design – an idea realised almost two decades later. A keen traveller as well as an accomplished watercolourist, Hamilton captured in delicate, meticulous detail a newly established smallholding on the remote western shore of Lake Wānaka, dwarfed by unfamiliar snow-capped mountains.
(He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil, 2025)
