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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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Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
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Free entry, free wifi
Notes
The Magic of Printmaking
In these interesting times, Gallery staff are finding themselves turning their hand to a variety of tasks, sometimes a far call from their usual responsibilities when the Gallery is open to the public.
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Some of our birds are missing!
We ordered a selection of toy singing birds for our shop. But they didn't appear...
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Inside the phantom abbatoir
If I had to recommend one book to a course in curatorial studies it would be Victoria Newhouse's amazing study Art and the Power of Placement.
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Uttër Drech at Christchurch Art Gallery
Bunker Notes Newsdesk, 25 August 2011: The biggest public art event in the country has been happening for months in Christchurch Art Gallery without anyone realising, organisers claimed today.
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A damn close run thing...
...as the Duke of Wellington supposedly said about Waterloo. Exhibition openings are always close run things with finishing touches being applied to labels and displays and fittings and lights right up to the moment the public are admitted.
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Snap
They call it the 'yellow volkswagen effect': once you see one, you see them everywhere. It's been a little like that for me following Justin Paton's short-lived, terrific and – it turns out – strangely prescient exhibition De-Building, which opened to great acclaim on 5 February and closed forever on 22 February, for obvious, afore-mentioned reasons.
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Danger: Art!
The CCC/CERA workers occupying the Gallery are clearly not underestimating the powers of our femme fatale in bronze, Ex Tenebris Lux.
Exhibition
Scott Flanagan: Do You Remember Me Like I Do?
Including a wishing well and mirror painstakingly woven from reflective black VHS tape, Scott Flanagan's latest installation considers the surprisingly elusive nature of civic memory.