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.
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
Collection
Judy Darragh Rug
Judy Darragh repurposes familiar everyday materials with humour and irony, creating new objects alive with possibility. She often uses discarded items, but this gravity-defying work was made from something new and mass produced – a cheap, synthetic Persian-style rug. Poised at the point of take-off, it’s a cut-rate magic carpet that both applauds and lampoons the potential of ‘great’ art to transport us into unknown realms.
(We do this, 12 May 2018 - 26 May 2019)
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Happy birthday Margaret
Margaret Stoddart was born on this day in 1865 at Diamond Harbour. Here she is in 1909:
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Playing to the Faithful
The 2011 Christchurch Arts Festival has been full of highlights, from theatre to dance to the visual arts. However, it's been the music that has made the biggest impression on me.
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Host a brooch
A number of Gallery staff are planning to take part in the final Host a Brooch event this weekend.
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Roger's version
When Roger Boyce's one-hundred work series called The Illustrated History of Painting went on show at Christchurch Art Gallery last year (and served momentarily as a base for high-level pow-wows amongst Brownlee, Key and other members of the quakestocracy), plenty of people noted that the series could become a great book.
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Meeting Douglas MacDiarmid
When I visited Paris after the Biennale, I enjoyed a memorable evening with New Zealand painter and long-time Paris resident, Douglas MacDiarmid. The Gallery bought a small work of his from the estate of Albion Wright about a year ago for the Norman Barrett bequest collection. They all knew each other, so it was apt.
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Disclaimer
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.