What’s On
20 Year Anniversary Gala Dinner
The legendary Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation Gala Dinner returns for a night of exquisite dining, great company (especially if you come) and Insta-worthy art experiences.
New book available now
This exquisitely illustrated book features ambitious and delightful etchings, lithographs, wood-engravings and linocuts by some of the country’s finest artists.
Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era
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Janet Abbott
My Favourite
Elizabeth Kelly's Margaret
Many of us have works of art that are favourites, and these are often works that resonate with us or speak to us in some way. Margaret is one of those works for me. The portrait spends most of its time safely in storage at the art gallery but, for the summer of 1996–7, it and twenty-two other portraits by Elizabeth Kelly were shown at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery – Margaret graced the cover of the catalogue. The show brought a small flurry of excitement around Christchurch and, about sixty years after she had sat for her portrait, Margaret turned up to the show.