What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Countdown
These are the exhibitions that were on at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and its predecessor the Robert McDougall Art Gallery, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago this month
I Enter the Pyramid
When I was younger, my father had always told me about this one pyramid in Egypt. It had held a beautiful vase which cost millions of dollars. And the person who had it would be famous.....
Gallery Trust Gala Fundraiser
As most of you will know, the Gallery is ten years old this year, and while we celebrated in outrageous magenta form with our Populate! programme in May for the real birthday, the Gallery's Trust thought they'd raise the celebrations to an even greater height with a gala fundraiser like no other...
The Future is Me
That deep colour of green, splayed out over the land as far as the eye can see, is dancing in the wind against a backdrop of blue and white. That beauty is mesmerizing, until you notice the ugly grey mass in the distance, its long cooling towers spewing out cloud-clad creations. It may not look all that bad to a passer-by or someone with no sense of nature's purity, but I know exactly how disgusting that sight is.
Suzette
I had arrived at the train station roughly an hour and a half early. It was a frosty morning and my hands felt like ice blocks. I had that nervous gut feeling again. I peered at my army uniform and pressed down the creases, war was certainly not wanted on my agenda today.
The Army leaves
With the removal of the final cordon around the red zone in the central city last weekend, I came in with my family to have a look around the newly reopened areas of the CBD. We stopped to watch the parade of soldiers who were being thanked by the Prime Minister, the Mayor of Christchurch and Kaiwhakahaere of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu for their work in controlling the central city red zone and with community welfare in the immediate aftermath of the February earthquake.
Central Planning
Things can get pretty out of hand if you decide that buildings need to be knocked down and replaced just because a Plan says so.
Quick, close the curtains, the milk is out!
During the course of a year I must oversee the installation of literally hundreds of artworks but it is not very often that I actually get to make one.