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What’s On
Edith Collier: Early New Zealand Modernist
A rare opportunity to view the work of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most adventurous and experimental modernist artists.
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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Ka tuwhera ki te 9pm i kā pō Wenerei
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Collection
Christine Webster Iron Tulips 3
Christine Webster uses photography to explore ideas about gender, sexuality, representation and identity. Her carefully staged works subvert expectations about power and control. Here, a woman stands on a balcony with a bouquet of flowers. On paper, it’s a conventional romantic image that affirms traditional associations between femininity and beauty. These metal ‘tulips’, however, resemble a quiver of arrows, and the figure is deliberately androgynous, playing with our certainty about what we see. It’s a reminder that the female body – often linked, like flowers, with beauty and pleasure – is also a source of strength, and sometimes danger. (Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
Collection
Christine Webster Iron Tulips 2
Christine Webster uses photography to explore ideas about gender, sexuality, representation and identity. Her carefully staged works subvert expectations about power and control. Here, a woman stands on a balcony with a bouquet of flowers. On paper, it’s a conventional romantic image that affirms traditional associations between femininity and beauty. These metal ‘tulips’, however, resemble a quiver of arrows, and the figure is deliberately androgynous, playing with our certainty about what we see. It’s a reminder that the female body – often linked, like flowers, with beauty and pleasure – is also a source of strength, and sometimes danger.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
Collection
Christine Webster Iron Tulips 1
Christine Webster uses photography to explore ideas about gender, sexuality, representation and identity. Her carefully staged works subvert expectations about power and control. Here, a woman stands on a balcony with a bouquet of flowers. On paper, it’s a conventional romantic image that affirms traditional associations between femininity and beauty. These metal ‘tulips’, however, resemble a quiver of arrows, and the figure is deliberately androgynous, playing with our certainty about what we see. It’s a reminder that the female body – often linked, like flowers, with beauty and pleasure – is also a source of strength, and sometimes danger.
(Perilous: Unheard Stories from the Collection, 6 August 2022- 21 July 2024)
