16 Feb 2024

Brilliant Vibrant Women 2024: 27 Feb – 23 Mar

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This exhibition showcases vibrantly colourful works by 15 local women artists. Many are inspired by brilliant women and traverse their joys and pain, quiet strengths and loud resistance. Invoking the domestic there are quilted, woven and embroidered works. There are adventures in earthly delights, playful takes on bright, shiny consumerism and dancing with fire. There are works that explore the connection between women and healing plants and others that examine the experience of synaesthesia and epilepsy. What shines through is a sense of diversity and solidarity.

Opening Event: 5.30-7pm Tuesday 27 February 2024, all welcome.

Location: Eastside Gallery, 388 Worcester St, Christchurch, free parking onsite.

14 Jan 2024

Artists of the World Unite – Eastside Multicultural Exhibition 2024: 29 Jan – 24 Feb

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20 local artists have responded to themes of uniting and the multicultural experience with a feast of works. From escaping concrete jungles or oppressive political regimes to a call for climate activism, artists have sought a more authentically inclusive path forward, one that listens to everyone’s voice. One artistic family has created a work involving the 9 and the 76 year old, as well as everyone inbetween.

Some artists have longed for the frozen peaks and the northern lights of their homeland or have mourned the destruction in war-torn homelands, but here they’ve created new bridges and have even found us unified by the stuff inside our pantries!

Artists include: The Batchelor family, Lisa Powers, Nachiko Takahashi, Jane Barry, Veronica Ek, Andrew Kendrick, Jo Seizova, Catherine Coster, Daniel Newnham, Judith Billig, Jenny Zhao, Tracey Osbourne, Suzanne McDonnell, Deborah Mullen, Jamie Louttit, Donna Allfrey, Marisa Cappetta, Annthalina Gibson, Lauren Carmichael and Sarah Brown.

Opening Event: 5.30-7pm Monday 29 January 2024, all welcome.

Location: Eastside Gallery, 388 Worcester St, Christchurch, free parking onsite.

7 Nov 2023

Tupu – Growth: The Critique Group Christchurch: 20 Nov – 16 Dec 2023

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This exhibition showcases the artistic growth in the individual practice of seven Christchurch artists as they stand back and reflect on their development.

Artists: Anne Fountain (paintings), Jill Goddard (monoprints), Max Inglis (sculptures), Jenny Lee (paintings), Gaby Reade (prints), Judy Rogers (hanging pieces) & Anne Spicer (glass works).

Location: Eastside Gallery, 388 Worcester St, Christchurch, free parking onsite.

10 Oct 2023

Fling: 24 Oct – 18 Nov 2023

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“Fling” is comprised of a small group of CPIT / Ara Creative Industries graduates who have nurtured their friendships and supported each other’s creative practice over the last 15 – 20 years. Artists Rebecca Smallridge, Lucy Dolan Kang, Louann Sidon and Greg Yee, (based in Ōtautahi and Ōhinehou), have each created a new body of work that investigates an innovative approach to their art making.

The exhibition allocated time for play and experimentation with new processes or materials, themes or concepts, with the aim to facilitate their growth and development as visual artists.

Location: Eastside Gallery, 388 Worcester St, Christchurch, free parking onsite.