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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 -
In the Night Garden by Hannah Kidd
16 May - 16 Jun 2024As kaitiaki (guardian) of her tiny block of Waitaha land, artist Hannah Kidd (Ngāti Toa) has witnessed regular nightly devastation of her newly-planted natives. Preyed upon by both native and...Read more -
Encore
31 Aug - 1 Oct 2023Encore – to ask for, to look again and applaud. We’ve done the asking, rummaged in the stockroom, and are delighted to present a wonderful range of work from amongst...Read more
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Southern Comfort by Hannah Kidd
29 Jul - 28 Aug 2022Hannah Kidd Southern Comfort 29th July - 28th August 2022 There will be working dogs (well, some working and some obviously not), and fabulous painted pots. In Southern Comfort, this...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 -
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 -
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
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Inheritance by Hannah Kidd
7 May - 14 Jun 2020In this exhibition, Hannah Kidd muses upon the nature of inheritance. What do we learn about ourselves from the objects left behind by others? You will find in the 'Installation...Read more -
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 -
Absolutely! by Hannah Kidd
7 Mar - 8 Apr 2018Absolutely! the exclamation is now part of the Kiwi vernacular, affirming a national sense of self in a way not dissimilar to the All Blacks brand, hunting in the roar,...Read more
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Glimpse Panorama - Landscape aspects in contemporary New Zealand art
7 Dec 2017 - 28 Jan 2018Read more -
Show #1: The Return
4 Mar - 3 Apr 2017Opening works by: Stephen Bambury, Neil Dawson, Simon Edwards, Dick Frizzell, Chris Heaphy, Lonnie Hutchinson, Jon Jeet, Hannah Kidd, Fiona Pardington Rueben Paterson, Peter Peryer, John Pule, Heather Straka, Elizabeth...Read more