SCAPE 2018 Season opens this weekend with 18 projects with newly commissioned works from international and New Zealand artists. For guest-curator Heather Galbraith it is her third and final SCAPE seasom (2016 – 2018)and, as it celebrates SCAPE’s 20th anniversay, it also features works from previous years.  There are 10 projects either... Keep Reading

When Ōtautahi Christchurch’s new central city library Tūranga opens Friday 12 October, it will also see the opening of a new Christchurch City Council gallery and a collaborative artwork by Michel Tuffery and local secondary school students.  Tuffery and his team will work from 16th to 18th October, drawing onto Tūranga library’s... Keep Reading

The Ashburton Art Gallery is currently making good use of its enclosed exhibition space, the Carr Family Gallery.  Following Christchurch-based artists Janna van Hasselt and Harley Peddie’s installation Snapdash!, Dunedin artist David Green’s Emergence is an encounter that is no less immersive or mystifying. Keep Reading

Frigging in the rigging is one of a series of boat paintings with vibrant figures in various states of glee, adventure, inebriation, terror. They are joyous, adrift and bereft. But they will get to a destination one way or another in the howling wind. (Ewan McDougall) Keep Reading

Since 2011, Christchurch has garnered a status as an urban art destination, a result of the largely celebrated collective impact of un-commissioned interventions and transformative murals upon the post-quake setting. However, a city’s relationship with urban art is always complicated. Will it prove a temporary fixation, or remain a visible... Keep Reading