Exhibitions
Events
On display
Opening Party: Uncomfortable Silence
DOG Power
Jayden Plank Psychedelic Wasteland 2019. Aluminium, raku clay, automotive paint. Collection of the artist
Meg Porteous Self-portrait (Street) 2019. Pigment print on vinyl. Courtesy of the artist and Mossman Gallery
Shiraz Sadikeen Geist 1 (detail) 2019. Cast polyurethane resin, white appliance paint, polished hand-wrought nails. Collection of the artist
Event
Past event
Foyer
free
Celebrate the opening of our new artists exhibition Uncomfortable Silence with an afternoon of diversions that will not be uncomfortable or silent. Join us for a lazy afternoon of art, music and food.
Everybody is welcome!
Tune in and drop out with us for a few sweet hours.
2–8pm: Garden Bar and BBQ
2–5pm: Drop-in works-on-paper workshop in the foyer with artist Sharnaé Beardsley
RDU’s Ziggy Starlet (DJ sets) with Opawa 45s from 4pm
Imagination Playground
3–4pm: Massed artists' talk featuring most of the artists involved in the show
5pm: Roy Montgomery and Emma Johnston perform 'A Scene from the Pyrocene'
6pm: Dog Power
7pm: Saint Satori
Related reading: The Mix, Gigs at the Gallery
Exhibition
Uncomfortable Silence
7 March – 19 July 2020
Fresh work by early career New Zealand artists that is both enigmatic and unsettling.
Commentary
RE: UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE
In a recent essay Zadie Smith wrote of language as a “verbal container” – like all containers it allows the emergence of some ideas while limiting the possibility of others. The words and terms we choose, or those which are offered to us, “behave as containers for our ideas, necessarily shaping and determining the form of what it is we think, or think we think.” She is discussing writing fiction, defending the right to, and value of, drifting into other imagined bodies and taking a good look around, regardless of their likeness to our own biographical specifics. It is an uncomfortable position to hold in a cultural climate where, Smith argues, “the old – and never especially helpful – adage write what you know has morphed into something more like a threat: Stay in your lane.”
Notes
What’s On at the Gallery in Autumn?
Autumn is on our doorstep and it’s a perfect time to visit Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Come and experience incredible art, express your creativity through art courses and workshops, attend an artist talk, event or activity and explore your world in a new way through art.
Notes
Remix Committee: We Need You!
We are looking for a small group of passionate taste-makers to join our ReMix Committee. Come and ensure YOUR voice is represented at Christchurch Art Gallery by working with our team to plan an event (and other activities) that is all about, and for, young people. We don’t want to tell you what you might like, we want you to tell us! You pick the theme, you pick the bands, you pick the performers, you pick the film, you pick the speakers.
Notes
Countdown to Fifteen
Fifteen is our birthday party (guess how old we are…) and it’s less than two weeks away! It’s also the opening event for Tony de Lautour’s US V THEM, which is our big winter exhibition. We asked curator Peter Vangioni and visitor programmes coordinator Amy Marr what they’re most excited about in the incredible line-up for this grand birthday bash.
Notes
Been to some lame ‘youth’ events lately?
Now’s your chance to help create a cool event for you and your friends!
The Mix is Christchurch’s Art Gallery bi-monthly late-night event – an interactive mix of art, music, film and good people. We want to run a Mix designed, curated and for under 18s – ReMix.
Notes
Gallery Happenings: Grayson Gilmour
In early March we were lucky enough to have the incredibly talented Grayson Gilmour performing at the Gallery, supported by the equally talented Purple Pilgrims and New Dawn. I love these gigs, but there is a lot of work to be done behind the scenes to make sure that, by the time the public walk in the door, the foyer is gig ready. The process normally feels like a long, slow marathon with a sprint at the final corner. So here’s a guide to how you too can get the NZI Foyer gig-ready in five (or six) easy steps.
