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
Otira: It's a state of mind
It's always a good day when new artworks arrive at the gallery to enter the permanent collection and so it was when Grace Butler's large oil painting In the Otira Gorge turned up. It has been very generously bequeathed to the Gallery by her daughter, Grace Adams who recently passed away.
Starry skies live in your pavement paintings
I am a romantic. I still believe there is beauty everywhere
Trees On A Truck
OK, it hasn't really got the same ring to it as Snake On A Train, which you will be able to see in the flesh soon in the forthcoming Camp Blood exhibition.
Gallery Shop Sale
Starts Monday 22 April 2013
Load up with massive reductions on Books, Moleskine Journals and more...
Off 121 Tuam Street, next to the Central Library Tuam.
Populate! update #6 (wanting it)
Whenever a new exhibition or project goes on show here, we work with the artist involved to choose an image that will stand for the show on this website. And because the virtual windows within websites have unusual and unbudgeable formats, we also have to crop the image and clear that crop with the artist.
Welcome funding boost given to Gallery's tenth birthday celebrations
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū's campaign to bring more art into the city has received a welcome boost this week through a donation from insurance company IAG.
Populate! update #5 (back to the drawing board)
Today the Populate! tenth-birthday sneak-preview cam takes us to 200 Gertrude Street in Melbourne and the studio of New Zealand-born and now Melbourne-based Jess Johnson, well known as a force behind the maverick outfit Hell Gallery and now, as you can see, thoroughly busy making art of her own.
Populate! update #4 (proofs of life)
So back at the start of last week I posted a teaser view of NDE, Peter Stichbury's work in progress for the Gallery's tenth-birthday Populate! programme, and asked the question: How is this easel painting, this thin skin of canvas with its fragile coating of acrylic, going to to muscle its way up to public art scale?