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Double Dribble is an exhibition of new objects and paintings by 2018 Olivia Spencer Bower awardee Tyne Gordon. This body of work features water vessels, zones, ...
Beekhuis’s practice is inter-disciplinary working across media, softening boundaries between sculpture, painting, printmaking and design. This exhibition ...
5 September - 4 October 2018 Working with a range of archival materials from the Macmillan Brown Library & Heritage Collections, Julia Holderness explores ...
The Winter Garden, Fuzzy Match, and Best Located are the three group shows in 2018's Student Series.
Top Art is an annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of the NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual Art in the previous year. Five ...
Taste Nature is a new body of work by Sam Clague. Clague’s current practice is a method in coming to terms with the end of capitalism. He ...
The frequent disconnect between curatorial intention and viewer response is too often the classic 'elephant in the room' when contemporary art exhibitions are ...
27 March - 26 April 2018 An imprecise organisation of forms is part family photo album, part formal game that takes an unreliable approach with indecisive ...
21 February - 22 March 2018 In October of 1969, a group of concerned locals gathered together at a house in Invercargill, putting in motion a plan to fight the ...
For a number of the exhibitors this is an opportunity to focus on and showcase a single body of work towards the culmination of their larger Masters ...
11 October - 8 November 2017 Select 2017 is the ninth occurrence of the annual Select exhibition, which is run by the University of Canterbury Art ...
11 October - 8 November 2017 Len Lye: Pretty good for the 21st Century brings together a suite of drawings, maquette and historic documentary footage, which ...
13 September - 5 October 2017 Jon Campbell's exhibition, Afternoon Delight, brings together a selection of recent watercolours and wall paintings that continue ...
16 August - 7 September 2017 Where the River Bends brings together a small cross section of contemporary photographic artists and presents the diverse ways in ...
19 July - 9 August 2017 Student Series 2017Curated by Phoebe Hinchliff & Luke ShawSince long ago oral lore has been the primary tool used for conversing, ...
4 July - 13 July 2017 Top Art is an annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of the NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual Art in the ...
12 June - 29 June 2017 Bored Holes and Renovations explores the construction of identity and personalised domestic spaces through the buying and buying into of ...
8 June - 1 June 2017 Senior sculpture students from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, will be presenting Whakahoki, the Sculpture Department's ...
3 May - 1 June 2017 How do artists look at places they’ve called home? What are the stories they can tell that others cannot? And how do photography and ...
29 March - 27 April 2017 The 2016 recipient of the Olivia Spencer Bower award, Christina Read presents her exhibition "1. Here’s a Plan - (things to ...
22 February - 23 March 2017 Prayers and Progress brings together paintings that have drawn their inspiration from the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010-11. The ...
12 October – 3 November 2016 Mures, et Terram is a large, seven panel drawing that explores catastrophe and movement and taps the resulting forms ...
18 July - 8 September This year's Student Series will function as something between a show and a residency; an open studio set up in the campus gallery ...
14 September - 6 October Tom Kreisler was one of this country’s finest (and funniest) painters. He died too young-- just one brush with death too ...
8 June- 30 June Provisional Arrangements was developed with curator Allan Smith around an image of the 50,000 year old meteor crater in Odessa, Texas.
5 July – 14 July 2016 Top Art is an annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of the NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual ...
At certain times, our world can feel like an event horizon; information slows down in front of us as it gathers likes, is shared, is edited; appearing again and ...
4 April - 21 April 2016 Mashing materials like possum pelts, kid skin gloves, faux gems and bespoke oversize glass bottles, Upritchard's idiosyncratic ...
Snare traps, strange found assemblages of branches, the texture and smell of stone wash secondhand smoke stained leather jackets, vegetables.
11 November – 10 December SELECT '15 is the seventh occurrence of the annual Select exhibition, which is run by the University of Canterbury Art ...
6 October – 29 October 2015 Joyce Campbell reveals to us an almost imperceptible thread in her recent photographs, bringing together a group of images ...
8 September – 3 October 2015 Bret de Thier’s posters for the Christchurch Arts Festivals of 1973 and '75 represent a significant moment in the ...
25 August – 3 September 2015
Works on paper, wall mounted objects and sculptural works by: Gareth Brighton, Josh Harris, Kaela Marshall and Aimee Shaw.
28 July – 6 August 2015 ‘Ark’ is an exploratory opportunity where sculptural and performative components will change and evolve over the ...
After The Nature: A Remix of Fragility. Janie Bruce, Olivia Chamberlain, Donna Patterson and Mandy Joass.
30 June - 10 July 2015 Top Art is an annual touring exhibition featuring a selection of the NCEA Level 3 portfolios that achieved Excellence in Visual Art ...
2 June - 25 June 2015 Black Water Colour Painting 2015 continues the ongoing interest of Wellington-based artist Simon Morris in the complex interrelations ...
28 April - 28 May 2015 Combining wall reliefs, sculptural assemblages and videos, Appococycollapsed is a new installation by Auckland based artist Dan Arps.
25 March - 23 April 2015 Chen Yin-Ju & James T. Hong, Hsu Che-Yu, Nathan Pohio, Shannon Te Ao, and Teng Chao-Ming. The significance of a ...
Fit-out for Olivia Spencer Bower transposes the layout of Olivia Spencer Bower’s home into the Ilam School of Fine Arts Gallery.
13 November - 11 December 2014 SELECT '14 is the sixth occurrence of the annual Select exhibition, which is run by the University of Canterbury Art ...
8 October - 30 October 2014 Pick's lyrical brand of surrealist painting is a realm of dream, memory and fantasy, which is not afraid to trespass into the ...
10 September - 2 October 2014 Paulo Sulu’ape was the pre-eminent Samoan tattooist of his generation. Mark Adams met him in 1978 and photographed his ...
27 August - 5 September 2014 Salvage the Bones offers a refreshing disregard for the supposedly ineffable component that renders something "artistic", opting ...
13 August - 22 August 2014 No Signal, the second show in the Student Series is an exhibition by students from the University of Canterbury’s School ...
30 July - 8 August 2014 Re-Make/ Re-Model is a show of new student work from Canterbury Fine Arts, with a focus on the process of making, re-working and ...
7 June - 27 July 2014 Christchurch Art Gallery presents a two-venue exhibition of compelling recent and new works by one of the biggest names in New ...
6 May - 29 May 2014 Two thousand and thirteen was a fruitful year for Miranda Parkes; a storm-chasing, breath-taking, punch-packer.
26 March - 17 April 2014 Ilam Campus Gallery presents new work by UK based artist Benedict Drew.
26 February - 20 March 2014 This exhibition brings together a selection of work covering the period from 2002-2014. It follows ‘Desk ...
5 November - 12 December 2013 The UC Art Acquisitions Committee seeks to support emerging Canterbury artists by showcasing the excellent work of our final ...
2 October - 23 October 2013 Sydney based artists Francesca Heinz, Eloise Kirk and Ben Terakes share an awareness of the importance of art as both fantasy ...
4 September - 27 September 2013 The exhibition is a selection of recent drawings that examine a specific aspect of Braunias’ practice.
7 August - 30 August 2013 Hayden Fowler’s work hones in on suppressed yearnings of contemporary culture, exploring feelings of loss and alienation ...
9 July- 2 August 2013 My intention for my year as the OSB recipient was to further my 2010 Masters project, The Trouble with Being a Proud Pakeha. This ...
18 June - 5 July 2013 Delegation exits as a means of bestowing authority upon a single person to act as a voice/representative for an entire group.
30 May - 14 June 2013 A collaboration between ARTH417/ARTC402, BCHM212/CHEM212, DESI201, SCUL201.
