What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Populate! update #19 (beyond belief)
"When people stop believing in God," said G.K. Chesterton, "they don't believe in nothing — they believe in anything."
Populate! update #20 (happy couple #2)
Another happy couple make an appearance in the gallery's Populate! programme.
Christchurch-born artist Ronnie van Hout part of Populate!
Ronnie van Hout is the artist responsible for the mysterious figure pointing skywards that has appeared on the roof of a central city building.
Populate! update #17 (How to make a narthex)
Saturday afternoon at Christchurch Art Gallery's 209 Tuam Street outpost and Jess Johnson's Wurm Whorl Narthex is on the grow. Only two days into a six-day install, the hand-painted backdrop is already a treat for the eyes, with green (not red) tape masking the walls in readiness for the next layer of colour. Views from the installation in progress (with the Gallery's Scott Jackson in the last photo)...
Populate! Update #18 (The Shock of the Newt)
One of the more unusual additions to the Christchurch Art Gallery Library's artists' book collection in recent years is The Shock of the Newt which is included in Face Books at the Peterborough Street Library.
Populate! update #15 (wrapped)
You might look a little frowny too, if you'd just been covered in bubble wrap.
Populate! update #16 (Iggy Populate!)
Ageing rock god joins Populate! programme in clever cross-branding exercise. As seen on the front and back cover of the Go section of today's Press.
Populate! update #13 (Face Books)
Thirty books...over forty faces at the Peterborough Street Library. Face Books (opening May 11, just after our birthday) brings together an array of portraits from artist's books drawn from the Gallery's library.
Populate! update #14 (Light bulb moment)
Ever get the feeling a work of art is trying to tell you something?