Exhibitions
Events
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Olivia Spencer Bower Feature Tour
Olivia Spencer Bower Towards the Museum c.1970. Watercolour and charcoal. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased, 1972
Guided Tour
Past event
Meet at the front desk
Free
Take a free guided tour of Olivia Spencer Bower: Views from the Mainland with one of our friendly, knowledgeable guides.
Tours last 45 minutes and there's no need to book. Meet at the front desk on the ground floor.
If you’re planning to join a tour and have a group of 12 or more people, please consider contacting us to arrange a private tour. We can organise a time that suits your group.
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Exhibition
Olivia Spencer Bower: Views from the Mainland
4 November 2016 – 2 April 2017
A selection of watercolours by one of Canterbury’s most treasured artists.
Artist Profile
Doris Lusk: An Inventive Eye
In the strange, stunned afterlife that ticked slowly by in the first few years following Christchurch’s February 2011 earthquake, a curious note of recognition sounded through the shock and loss. As a massive programme of demolitions relentlessly hollowed out the city, many buildings were incompletely removed and lingered on for months as melancholy remains – stumps abandoned in a forlorn urban forest. Hideous, sculptural, beautiful; they bore compelling resemblance to a body of paintings created in the city more than three decades earlier.
Exhibition
Aberhart Starts Here
Iconic and unseen early photographs of Christchurch by Laurence Aberhart
Exhibition
He Rau Maharataka Whenua: A Memory of Land
Canterbury modernist landscape painting from the collections of Te Puna o Waiwhetū Christchurch Art Gallery, poignantly revised from within a Kāi Tahu perspective
Exhibition
Max Hailstone: Te Ara Takahaka Tapuae / Points of Reference
An exhibition of Max Hailstone's most controversial and important series, using the signatures of the rangatira (Māori chiefs) who signed New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi in 1840