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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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Trees On A Truck
OK, it hasn't really got the same ring to it as Snake On A Train, which you will be able to see in the flesh soon in the forthcoming Camp Blood exhibition.
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Welcome funding boost given to Gallery's tenth birthday celebrations
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū's campaign to bring more art into the city has received a welcome boost this week through a donation from insurance company IAG.
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Populate! update #6 (wanting it)
Whenever a new exhibition or project goes on show here, we work with the artist involved to choose an image that will stand for the show on this website. And because the virtual windows within websites have unusual and unbudgeable formats, we also have to crop the image and clear that crop with the artist.
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Populate! update #5 (back to the drawing board)
Today the Populate! tenth-birthday sneak-preview cam takes us to 200 Gertrude Street in Melbourne and the studio of New Zealand-born and now Melbourne-based Jess Johnson, well known as a force behind the maverick outfit Hell Gallery and now, as you can see, thoroughly busy making art of her own.
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Populate! update #4 (proofs of life)
So back at the start of last week I posted a teaser view of NDE, Peter Stichbury's work in progress for the Gallery's tenth-birthday Populate! programme, and asked the question: How is this easel painting, this thin skin of canvas with its fragile coating of acrylic, going to to muscle its way up to public art scale?
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Dried flowers from Mars
We're all getting pretty used to some odd sights in this crazy old town.
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Christchurch Art Gallery takes out Museums Aotearoa Award
Our building may be closed – but we've have still achieved national recognition of by winning a prestigious Museums Aotearoa Award.
Exhibition
Ronnie van Hout: Comin’ Down
Ronnie van Hout's mysterious sculptural figure stands on the roof of 209 Tuam Street and points skyward. Something is 'comin' down' here, but what?