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Usher in
A Group Exhibition 2 Apr - 3 May 2025Marking the beginning of a new chapter for The Central Art Gallery and the smooth transition from past owners to new, usher in is a rejunvenated exhibition of its predecessor,...Read more -
Finale!
Group Exhibition 13 - 27 Mar 2025The Central Art Gallery team are very pleased to be able to present a final celebratory exhibition—Finale! Bringing together a group of talented artists, many of whom would have exhibited...Read more -
Invisible Ties | Group Exhibition
7 Nov - 19 Dec 2024For an artist, connection with other creatives can play a vital role in how they define, understand, and interpret their artistic practice-within their immediate communities, culture, and the wider world....Read more -
Emma Camden Collection
with new works by Elizabeth Moyle and Veronica Herber 9 Nov - 3 Dec 2023Emma Camden is a Whanganui-based glass artist concerned about our environment and inspired by architecture. Her glass works are strong and brutal, with no intentional ‘pretty’ aesthetic, yet they captivate...Read more
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Cash 'n' Carry
An evolving exhibition 10 Nov 2022 - 29 Jan 2023Cash 'n' Carry comprises a myriad of offerings from those with whom we work – and as things sell others will come in and fill the space. This is a...Read more -
Celebrating 5 years
9 Apr - 15 May 2022Celebrating 5 Years 9th April - 15th May 2022 Celebrating 5 Years in our community, in Õtautahi, Christchurch. Celebrating with a group show of artists very important to us: Emma...Read more -
Summer Group Show
15 Jan - 13 Feb 2022Summer Group Show 15th Jan - 13th Feb 2022 Until February 13th we are delighted to present works by Emma Camden, Bing Dawe, Neil Dawson, Zara Dolan, Simon Edwards, Chris...Read more -
Hine Auaha
20 May - 20 Jun 2021Hine Auaha 20th May - 20th June, 2021 The Central Art Gallery Hine Auaha is an exhibition displaying the essence of female creativity. This exhibition includes a range of objects...Read more
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Fractured Mind by Emma Camden
10 Dec 2020 - 31 Jan 2021Fractured Mind is the first solo exhibition in Ōtautahi, Christchurch by wonderful cast glass artist Emma Camden. There will be towers and crosses - some tall, some polished, and all...Read more -
Group Show
5 Nov - 6 Dec 2020We are delighted to present a group show for the month of November. If you relish life’s rich tapestry, savour the spice that invigorates the variety of life, then this...Read more -
Sustaining the Local
18 Jun - 19 Jul 2020Due to unprecedented and unforeseen circumstances of a countrywide lockdown, Aotearoa New Zealand has turned to Sustaining the Local , our local. The Central’s annual group show welcomes an array...Read more -
NEW WORKS SHOW
20 Jun - 21 Jul 2019We welcome winter with The Central Gallery’s first group show dedicated entirely to new work. Exciting! You will see a new painting of Karamea by Stanley Palmer, and woodcuts by...Read more
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Object Show
31 Jan - 3 Mar 2019The modern gallery exhibits so much more than painting and sculpture. So through the month of February, The Central is show-casing its object-makers. Out come pounamu heads by Jon Jeet,...Read more -
Stanley Palmer & Company
13 Dec 2018 - 27 Jan 2019Stanley Palmer comes to town. He is showing 6 new paintings and prints also, at The Central through the summer of 2018. Views of Akaroa, Otago Peninsula and Hauraki are...Read more -
Glimpse Panorama - Landscape aspects in contemporary New Zealand art
7 Dec 2017 - 28 Jan 2018Read more