Exhibitions
Events
On display
Holiday Make and Create
Workshop
1–24 January 2021 / 10am
Bayleys Knight Frank Foyer
Free
Let your inner artist out at our drop-in art station for families.
Featuring activities that change weekly, just bring your enthusiasm and creativity. All materials supplied.
Related reading: Family and kids, Free
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Got Issues? Screenprinting Posters
Make screenprinted posters with other like-minded young people (year 9 + suggested).
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Waitangi Day: Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams – Repatriation: Also known as The Great Moa Hunt
Hear the artists discuss Repatriation, a collaborative project addressing the situation of the artefact and Ngāi Tahu taonga within museums in Aotearoa and abroad.
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Kids' Yoga with Kotte
Chill out and energise at the end of the school holidays with a special session just for young people.
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A Room in Time Screening: The Romantic Picturesque –The Postcard Trilogy
See Pōneke Wellington filmmaker Christopher Ulutupu’s amazing trilogy that wryly responds to 1900s landscape photography, postcard tourism, high fashion and R&B. (2018, 61 mins)
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Felicity Milburn on Pauline Rhodes: Blue Mind
Join Curator Felicity Milburn for a talk on the captivating practice of Pauline Rhodes and her new project for the Gallery.
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SAGA Games Day
It’s back! Join the University of Canterbury’s Social Gaming Club for an all-in day of board games.
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Tivaevae in Practice
Join Tamapua Pera, Stephanie Oberg and Nina Oberg Humphries in a discussion about Cook Islands tivaevae in Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania.
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Barbara Garrie and Allan Smith on Contemporary Painting
Explore contemporary painting and the 1960s Supports/Surfaces movement in relation to Touching Sight and the work of artists Emma Fitts and Oliver Perkins.
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Waitangi Day: Raranga Weaving
Learn raranga weaving from a group led by Paula Rigby (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Tūhoe) in a drop-in workshop.
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Art is Love
Celebrate love / aroha / alofa / amour in all its forms on this special Valentine’s Day tour of work to crush on – bring someone you love.
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The In Kahoots Symposium
Join our special discussion of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, an idea that underpins Judy Darragh and Sean Kerr’s video installation In Kahoots.
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Art Safari
A chance for pre-schoolers to paint, glue, print, stamp and colour without making a mess at home. Art Safari is designed for our youngest budding artists between 2-4 years old.
Notes
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.
