Eastside Gallery

Opening event: 5.30-7pm, Tuesday 23 June. All welcome.

This group show is a celebration of the mahi of local Māori artists. The name literally refers to young spiders leaving the web and metaphorically refers to the way Eastside Gallery’s exhibition programme nurtures artists as they develop their practice.

This exhibition has been curated by Ara postgraduate student, Sierra Bright, alongside Village Arts Centre staff.

10 local artists include: Antonia de Lautour, Ben Gilden, Emma Ngawai, George French, Joe Clarke, Mateo Rose, Redgie Walker-Small, Sierra Bright and Tipene Douglas. Deanna Morgan will be in the Mini Gallery.

Location: 388 Worcester St, free parking and entry.

Opening Hours: Wed-Thu: 11am-5pm | Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm

Opening event: 5.30-7pm, Tuesday 26 May. All welcome.

Floor talks with the Curator will take place every Saturday at 11am throughout the show.

Unreal Canterbury brings together 11 artists whose works tilt the familiar, unsettle the expected, and reimagine the region. Canterbury appears as a place both real and slipping: braided rivers and devastating floods sit alongside scorched and ravaged earth; the land – and our identity – is staked and challenged. Familiar touchstones become strange and alien. Do we recognise ourselves in the messaging of a clean, green landscape and a shiny, rebuilt city, or does the lived reality tell a different story?

Across painting, sculpture, photography, moving image, textile and monoprints, the exhibition invites viewers to consider not only what this place is, but what it has been, what it might become, and the versions of it we carry within us.

Artists: Cakkie Lou, Dusty Urchin, Ross Ellen, Joe Furniss, Judy Rogers, Meg Maguire, Milly Brown, Olivia Mercer, Ros Huppert, Sarah Brown and Tom McCone.

Location: 388 Worcester St, free parking and entry.

Opening Hours: Wed-Thu: 11am-5pm | Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm