Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
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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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Free entry, free wifi
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Boom time for Akaroa
This early view of the seaside town of Akaroa is a world away from the heaving masses of tourists that are dominating the town this summer.
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Kisses for the gallery
We always like it when a story about the gallery gets onto the front page of The Press. We'd only managed twice in the last five years before last week, but we've featured twice in the last two weeks with Outer Spaces! (In the second edition of Thursday's Press the story had slipped to page 3 – still an excellent spot.)
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Opening postponed
Okay, it's officially horrible outside. We've reluctantly decided that is would be best to postpone the opening of Wayne Youle's Sydenham mural until Monday at 4pm.
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Fabriqué en Chine
The musée du quai Branly in Paris is currently showing the exhibition Māori: leur trésors ont une âme. Spotted among the exhibition related merchandise in the museum shop was this enticing Māori boomerang.
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Nearly there...
Every shadow's in place, and the guys are now busy painting a giant screwhead onto each one. That should hold them in place nicely...
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Don Driver 1930-2011
Our thoughts go out to the family of Don Driver, one of New Zealand's most respected artists, who recently passed away.
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Michael Parekowhai Cosmo McMurtry
Some characters aren’t quite what they seem, no matter how charming. Michael Parekōwhai’s Cosmo McMurtry is a noxious pest in the guise of a Disney-worthy bunny. Even his doe-eyed, cutesy appearance can’t quite erase our awareness of the toll his endlessly multiplying relatives have taken on Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment. It’s a short hop from one introduced, invasive species to the next, which leads us to an uncomfortable question: is Cosmo a rabbit-shaped personification of colonisation?
(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)
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Jeffrey Harris Grandparents at Okains
Between 1974 and 1977 Jeffrey created twenty-four extraordinary, jewel like paintings based on photographs of his relatives, marshalled together for the obligatory snapshots to mark important family occasions. In this case it’s the artist’s grandparents who are lined up before a car and buildings at Okains Bay in their Sunday best. In this series, known as Harris’s ‘Icons’, Jeffrey drew on the fifteenth-century religious paintings of Sienese artist Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo (il Sassetta). His admiration of Sassetta’s paintings can be seen in the luminous colours and spatial clarity of Grandparents at Okains.
(Jeffrey Harris: The Gift, 1 October 2022 – 12 March 2023)