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Jacqueline Fahey The Portobello Settee 1974. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2017

Jacqueline Fahey The Portobello Settee 1974. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2017.

The Art Auction

The Art Auction is an annual chance to buy affordable art works from some of New Zealand's major artists. To date $170,000 has been donated to the Gallery from The Art Event.

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.

Friends membership perks

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As part of the Gallery family, Friends enjoy exclusive benefits. 

Other Friends’ benefits:

  • Subscription to Bulletin, the Gallery’s award-winning quarterly magazine

  • Friends quarterly update

  • Monthly e-newsletter

  • Special offers from the Gallery's Design Store

  • Exclusive studio visits and art tours

  • Speaker of the month

  • Private Gallery viewings

  • Invitations to special events

Join today and make friends through art.

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President
Marianne Hargreaves

 

Vice President
Leigh Rogers

 

Secretary
Airi Hashimoto

 

Committee

Kirsty Rueppell  Adam Coleman
Julieanne Eason Simon Kong
Kirsten MacFarlane Dorle Pauli 
Sarah Anderson

Hope Wilson
 

 

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. These have included:

  • The Art Event—an annual chance to buy affordable art works from some of New Zealand's major artists. To date $170,000 has been donated to the Gallery from The Art Event.

Friends and annual membership fees
Individual $55
Double $80
   
Family $80
(2 adults & children up to 18 living at the same address)
Student $30

 

Membership can be for you, or a gift for art lovers that keeps on giving—it lasts a whole year!

 

SIGN UP NOW ONLINE TO BECOME A MEMBER >

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Download a membership form >

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Call Airi Hashimoto on (+64 3) 941 7356 or email: friends@christchurchartgallery.org.nz

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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Dulia
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

The London Club

1 December 2017

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…

Notes
Underworld 2 by Tony de Lautour

Underworld 2 by Tony de Lautour

This article first appeared as 'Painting offers a multiverse of symbols' in The Press on 21 June 2017. 

Notes
President's Letter, June 2017

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.  

Notes
President's Welcome

President's Welcome

The new year started with the Friends’ fantastic summer trip, visiting exhibitions at two of Canterbury’s regional art galleries.  

Notes
President's Welcome

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. 

Notes
President's Letter Summer 2015/2016

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.

Notes
Walk the Beat

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

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.