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
Notes
Open House – our opening (and reopening) exhibitions
It's an open house. Come in. That's the simple message we'll be sending when the Gallery reopens later this year.
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Pupils' self-portraits aid in healing
SELF-PORTRAITS created by a group of year 3 pupils who had spent the morning of February 22 at the Christchurch Art Gallery have become both a permanent record and a way to heal the emotional impact of their experiences.
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Where's my Bulletin gone?
On 22 February B.164 was drying in piles on the floor of Spectrum Print. The job had just been finished and press-passed the day before, and was due to be bound the next day. Of course, that never happened.
Collection
![The Potter [Luke Adams]](/media/cache/a1/0e/a10e772abbc07c234b7471a63f795071.jpg)
Charles Kidson The Potter [Luke Adams]
Best known as a sculptor, Charles Kidson was an assistant master at Canterbury College School of Art in 1896 when he exhibited The Potter at the Canterbury Society of Arts. A reviewer described the work as ‘a large canvas, which though not a portrait picture, bears an admirable likeness to a well-known Christchurch tradesman at work at his wheel’.The painting’s subject was Luke Adams (1838–1918), an English-born potter who established his Sydenham Pottery Works in 1881. Pictured here throwing flowerpots from prepared lumps of clay, Adams often put himself on public display, working at his wheel during local industrial exhibitions.
(Leaving for Work, 2 October 2021 – 1 May 2022)
