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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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Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Exhibition
Graham Bennett: Reasons for Voyaging
Graham Bennett's Reasons for Voyaging is a gateway sculpture which welcomes visitors to the Gallery.
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Letting art go
Among other things, art galleries are life support systems for fragile objects. Using acid-free paper, humidity controls, security systems and all the rest, they try to extend indefinitely the life expectancy of artworks.
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Is there a doctor in the house?
Gerrit Dou's The Physician is a favourite work in our collection:
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My (Learning) Gallery
The latest feature on this website, My Gallery, is such a fun and fabulous new tool to create sets of works from our collection. We've created a My Gallery Education section – check it out!
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Hiding in plain sight
We've all heard the stories about confusions occurring on the edge where art meets life.
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LOVING THE BULLDOG
You could be forgiven for thinking that Wayne Youle is giving the French Bulldog a big hug.
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Parekowhai in Paris
Fresh from its recent success at the Venice Biennale, two works from Michael Parekowhai's project On First Looking into Chapman's Homer have travelled to Paris.
Exhibition
Julia Morison: Meet me on the other side
Julia Morison's evocative post-quake sculptures and 'liqueurfaction' paintings return to Christchurch for a special showing in a gallery space overlooking the inner-city 'red zone'.