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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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 of...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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Clouds and Feathers by Neil Dawson
8 Mar - 7 Apr 2019Clouds and feathers, quite possibly in couplets, re-appear in this new exhibition of Neil Dawson’s in Christchurch. Objects will fly in sky and space. And possibilities will gently open up...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 -
Glimpse Panorama - Landscape aspects in contemporary New Zealand art
7 Dec 2017 - 28 Jan 2018Read more
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On Reflection by Neil Dawson
20 Jul - 20 Aug 2017On Reflection is a new series of sculpture that is intriguing, playful and nostalgic in equal measure. Like much of Neil's work, it responds to site - using the windows...Read 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