Publishing
Publishing
Christchurch Art Gallery has an ambitious publishing programme, producing a range of beautiful and interesting art books on significant New Zealand artists and its collection, as well as Bulletin, an award-winning quarterly magazine.
You can buy our books in the Gallery's Design Store and at selected bookshops throughout New Zealand.
Whenua
The relationship between tākata and whenua—people and land—is a long thread that weaves through the art history of Aotearoa New Zealand. This major new book explores themes of identity and belonging, colonisation, land use and migration through more than 170 paintings, sculptures, weaving, carving, ceramics, photography and moving image artworks. Wide-ranging and engaging texts, artist interviews and perspectives provide insight into the many ways that whenua is fundamental to the visual language and identity of the arts.
$70.00
Whāia Te Taniwha
Taniwha have shaped the land and navigated the waterways of Te Waipounamu for generations. They are shapeshifters, oceanic guides, leaders, ancestors, adversaries, guardians and tricksters who have left their marks on the land around us. Let the twelve Kāi Tahu artists and writers in this new book for rakatahi take you on a journey around the motu as we follow the tales of taniwha, both ancient and new. Weaving together te reo Māori and English, they explore how we can learn from taniwha – and what they can teach us about ourselves and our ever-changing world.
$29.90