Kā Kaupapa o te Wā
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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.
Ana Iti: Ngahere Behind a Pile of Metal
An immersive installation considering the legacies of deforestation and significance of kauri trees.
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Fernbank Studio
While currently curating an exhibition titled Pressed Letters: Fine Printing in New Zealand since 1975, which examines not only beautifully designed hand-printed books but also the collaborative nature that often exists between poets, artists and letterpress printers, I was...
On First Installing Chapman's Homer
If you've been down Madras Street recently you might well have seen something unusual on the vacant lot outside NG
Quack doctor?
Gerrit Dou's The Physician is one of the most treasured works in the Gallery collection. An assault upon the good doctor's reputation was not expected.
Matariki
This term, as part of the Gallery's education programme, I have been teaching a lesson based on Juliet Peter's screenprint TV1 1967.
Birthday feast
Media professionals that we are, when copy dries up, we turn to Wikipedia for inspiration.
Across the bay
Henri Lebasque's (1865-1937) oil painting Across the bay was one of those landscape paintings in the collection with a title that gave nothing away as to its actual location.