Exhibitions
Events
On display
Drop On In: Sock Puppets
Family and Kids
Past event
Education Centre
Free
We are kicking it old school and creating some fun sock puppets inspired by the art of Wayne Youle.
Bookings required. All ages welcome.
Related reading: Wayne Youle, Family and kids
Exhibition
Wayne Youle: Look Mum No Hands
14 April – 3 September 2017
Full to the brim with high energy, sharp-witted artmaking
Exhibition
I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour
November 2011 – December 2015
Stretching across a vast wall at the gateway to Sydenham, Wayne Youle's new public artwork is a shadowboard, where tools for rebuilding hang alongside many familiar but precious objects.
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Sparks that fly upwards
Curator Felicity Milburn remembers five years and 101 installations in a gallery without walls.
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A is for Abstract...
Jairus, Hault, Murtaza, Acacia, Jessica, Peteseta, Brook and Aiyanna from Bishopdale Primary School brought their A-game to the Gallery last week when they came to see our show 'Gordon Walters: New Vision'.
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Bishopdale School Rulez
These Year 6 students at Bishopdale Primary School have knocked it out of the park with their AMAZING glitter artworks from our new ART-TASTIC activity book.
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The House of Wellbeing
On Saturday, I spoke at the launch of a major new work of art in public space—Wayne Youle's installation The House of Wellbeing ALL WELCOME, at the CPIT Aoraki campus on Madras Street.
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Viva Sydenham
It seems a lifetime ago that we combined with Gap Filler to launch the Gallery's first post-quake Outer Spaces project in Sydenham.
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Wayne’s workshop
Wayne Youle ran a two-day workshop for 25 teenagers over the weekend. Students from an array of local Christchurch secondary schools were challenged to keep up with Wayne's non-stop energy... and to learn creative and design skills.
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Where in the world is this year's first outer space?
So Wayne's wall is all done (and gloriously untagged) and Ronnie's peering out nightly over the Boulevard.
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Shine on you crazy public art diamond
Just one last weather report, before this blog starts looking like a franchise of metservice.com...
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LOVING THE BULLDOG
You could be forgiven for thinking that Wayne Youle is giving the French Bulldog a big hug.
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What's going on in Sydenham?
Your father or grandfather probably had one. Maybe you've created one of your own. Possibly there's one on a wall at home, left there by a previous owner.
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New bunker work installed
We've just had Wayne Youle in, creating a new work for the Gallery's carpark bunker.