Become a Friend
Become a Friend and let’s make Christchurch Art Gallery New Zealand’s most-loved gallery. As a Friend of the Gallery you’ll be part of great talks, events and gain a special insight into what’s happening at your gallery.
![Catalyst [red] (1994) by Mervyn Williams](/media/cache/e7/68/e76800e1bd4a2b6a138fcf96f5c23156.jpg)
Image: Mervyn Williams Catalyst [red] 1994.
Celebrating colour and exploring illusionary space through surface texture, Williams's Catalyst [red] (1994) is a classic example of the artist’s work from the 1990s. Mervyn has generously gifted all the proceeds from the sale of this work to the Friends in support of the Gallery and Christchurch.
Where your Friends support goes
Your friendship helps to support the Gallery’s collection and publications. The Friends run fundraising activities to assist the Gallery, including The Auction Event.
Friends membership perks
As part of the Gallery family, Friends enjoy exclusive benefits, including:
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Attend Friends lectures, talks, studio visits, tours and social functions
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Enjoy selected discounts from the Gallery Design Store
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Get 10% discount at Universo Brasserie & Bar
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Keep up-to-date with the Friends monthly enewsletter
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Discover more about art and get inside information on what's happening at your Gallery
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Receive the Bulletin, the Gallery's award-winning magazine for only $10 a year
| President | Committee |
| Marianne Hargreaves | Adam Coleman |
| Bojana Rimbovska | |
| Charrette van Eekelen | |
| Vice President | Julieanne Eason |
| Sarah Anderson | Kirsten MacFarlane |
| Kirsty Rueppell | |
| Administrator | Leigh Rodgers |
| Airi Hashimoto | Ruth Leslie |
Contact the Friends
The office is staffed on a part-time basis, but email and phone messages are checked regularly.
Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
PO Box 2626
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Call Airi Hashimoto on (+64 3) 941 7356
friends@christchurchartgallery.org.nz
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Friends annual membership fees
| Individual | $55 |
| Couple | $80 |
| Student | $30 |
| Family | $80 |
| (2 adults & children up to 18 living at the same address) |
For an additional $10, members have the option to subscribe to the Gallery's award-winning Bulletin.
Membership can be for you, or a gift for art lovers that keeps on giving—it lasts a whole year!
Change to Friends bank account
The Friends now have a new bank account as we join the Gallery's Foundation Partners, ANZ. When making any direct payments online please use this account, and update us on your saved payees list.
Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery
06-0821-0970127-000
Upcoming Friends Events
Click here for information on upcoming Friends events.
Featured Event:
Friends Summer Trip to Ashburton and Timaru
Saturday, 01 February 2020 / 8.45am-5.30pm
Join the Friends on a day trip to visit the Ashburton Art Gallery and the Aigantighe Art Gallery in Timaru to view their summer exhibitions.
Price includes bus transport, morning tea and afternoon teas and a packed lunch.
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Summer Trip to Ashburton and Timaru
Join the Friends on a day trip to visit the Ashburton Art Gallery and the Aigantighe Art Gallery in Timaru to view their summer exhibitions.
Price includes bus transport, morning tea and afternoon teas and a packed lunch.
On Saturday 1st of February at 8.45am, the group will meet outside the Art Gallery on Gloucester Street before leaving on the trip at 9am. We will return back to Christchurch approximately 5:30pm.
Book by Friday 24 January. This is a Friends-only event. For booking enquiries, email friends@christchurchartgallery.org.nz
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Friends Speaker of the Month: Jenny Harper
Jenny Harper’s interest in India started with an MA in Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury and culminated some fifty years later with a recent tour she led to this amazing country.
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Friends Breakfast and Private Tour of Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys
Join the Friends for breakfast in Universo followed by a tour of the new exhibition Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys with its curator Mary Kisler.
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Friends Art Tour to Auckland
Join the Friends on an art-filled weekend in Auckland, including visits to Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park and McCahon House.
Commentary
Do You See?
With the death of Julie King late in 2018, art and art history in Aotearoa New Zealand lost one of its great champions and major scholars. Julie was born in Yorkshire and grew up and was educated in Alnwick, Northumberland; she moved to Christchurch in 1975 to take up a role lecturing in the newly formed art history department at the University of Canterbury. She retired three decades later, having pioneered the teaching of New Zealand art in Canterbury.
Collection
Julia Morison Dulia
In the early 1990s, Julia Morison used gold and shit in many works, exploring the idealised and base elements of human experience. She drew on the Jewish Sefiroth as a model for thinking about the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. “Personally, I need to put some kind of order on experience for sake of sanity and negotiation,” she said. “The Sefirothic structure, or Tree of Knowledge, is really a metaphorical file and folder system for all; a conceptual paradigm for understanding everything. Putting that at the core of my practice gives me the freedom to admit everything and anything, micro and macro, metaphysical and corporeal, as legitimate content. It also gives me an interface to compose works.”
The title of this work, Dulia, is a Catholic term for worship given to saints and angels. Here Morison has pressed gold and excrement on to handmade paper balls, which are threaded together like the beads of a catholic rosary—an invitation to meditate on the relationship of the sacred and the profane, on a monumental scale.
Interview
The London Club
In September 2017, Gallery director Jenny Harper, curator Felicity Milburn and Jo Blair, of the Gallery Foundation’s contracted development services, Brown Bread, went to London, taking a group of supporters who received a very special tour of the city’s art highlights. While there, they further developed the Foundation’s new London Club. Recently they sat down together in Jenny’s office…
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Underworld 2 by Tony de Lautour
This article first appeared as 'Painting offers a multiverse of symbols' in The Press on 21 June 2017.
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President's Letter, June 2017
The new 6pm timeslot for the Friends Speaker of the Month series is proving popular, and it has been great to see so many of you coming out to hear from our fantastic speakers.
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President's Welcome
The new year started with the Friends’ fantastic summer trip, visiting exhibitions at two of Canterbury’s regional art galleries.
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President's Welcome
As we approach the first anniversary of the reopening of the Gallery, it seems like a good time to celebrate a year’s progress in the life of the city.
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President's Letter Summer 2015/2016
This quarter the Gallery will reopen. It has been a long time coming by anyone’s standard. Although we have maintained connections through the award-winning Outer Spaces programme and nomadic, trailed around temporary gallery spaces; being able to once more step into the Gallery’s own space is an exciting prospect. I am not alone in looking forward to having the Gallery back in its rightful setting and reacquainting ourselves with the fabulous art we collectively own.
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Walk the Beat
Volunteer guide Rod McKay talks about his life, being an art tourist, and guiding Gallery tours.
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The Art Whisperer
Christchurch Art Gallery volunteer guide Bella Boyd talks about her love of guiding, her favourite works in the Gallery collection and interpreting art with poetry.