Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
What’s On
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.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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
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.
Meanwhile, outside...
The guys from Adgraphix are still hard at work installing our new Dick Frizzell mural.
Best in a Supporting Role
Guilty Gallery Pleasure #23: Adding to my running tally of the number of scenes effortlessly stolen by virtue of a canine companion's carefully cocked ear or discretely averted gaze.
Exclusive Snowden Flood products
The sun is back but the gallery shop has just recieved beautiful products from a UK supplier aptly named Snowden Flood!