City Art Depot

City Art Depot City Art Depot was established in Christchurch in 1989 as a picture framing workshop guided by the principles of professional art care.

City Art Depot is a conservation picture framing workshop & gallery located at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch, offering a range of museum-standard framing and art care services. Since then we have provided practical and elegant solutions for the framing, installation, transportation and storage of works of art and artefacts to ensure they are displayed and protected to the best advantage. City A

rt Depot makes beautiful bespoke picture frames custom-made to suit any artwork. Our hand finished frames are made in a range of different styles and materials, from stained timber to gilded, gesso and lacquer surfaces. We also represent local emerging and established New Zealand artists in our contemporary art gallery featuring paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures for sale.

These ammonite fossils are framed for our client in a City Art Depot stained oak frame. Our staff are experts in designi...
03/09/2026

These ammonite fossils are framed for our client in a City Art Depot stained oak frame. Our staff are experts in designing and fitting custom frames. In this frame the fossils are floated on specially made disguised packers.

'Swamp Songs' by Nicholas Burry & Eleanor Diaz Ritson opens in our Up Stairs gallery this coming Tuesday the 8th of Sept...
02/09/2026

'Swamp Songs' by Nicholas Burry & Eleanor Diaz Ritson opens in our Up Stairs gallery this coming Tuesday the 8th of September 5.30–7pm.

Swamp Songs is a painted investigation into the Ihutai wetlands and estuary, located on the eastern fringes of Ōtautahi. Emotive responses to the landscape are formed in conversation between the two artists, relating their artworks to each other and to the the histories, qualities and power of place.

'Swamp Songs' will be on show until the 5th of October.

City Art Depot warmly invites everyone to attend the opening of 'now that I'm listening, it's deafening' by Saskia Bunce...
01/09/2026

City Art Depot warmly invites everyone to attend the opening of 'now that I'm listening, it's deafening' by Saskia Bunce-Rath, 5.30–7pm Tuesday 8th September 2026 in our gallery at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch.

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Saskia Bunce-Rath's significant new body of artwork explores her visions and experiences of nature. A sacred, spiritual entity glimpsed, discovered, through the modern landscape. Her scenes are rendered in embroidery thread containing a vivid surreality and gravity, alive with colour and movement.

now that I'm listening, it's deafening runs 8 September – 5 October 2026 at City Art Depot.

Join us again in the gallery at 1pm on Thursday the 10th of September for an artist talk by Saskia Bunce-Rath.

Today is the final day to see 'A Wandering Perspective' by Richard Elderton and 'Firemakers' by Estefania Mondaca. It ha...
30/08/2026

Today is the final day to see 'A Wandering Perspective' by Richard Elderton and 'Firemakers' by Estefania Mondaca. It has been a pleasure having these two exhibitions of accomplished paintings on our walls over this last month.

If you haven't seen them yet, there's still time! Open until 5pm today.

For artwork and catalogue enquiries please email [email protected]

Some excerpts from Eugenia Viña's curatorial text 'FIREMAKERS: Luminous Bodies', which accompanies Estefanía Mondaca's c...
16/08/2026

Some excerpts from Eugenia Viña's curatorial text 'FIREMAKERS: Luminous Bodies', which accompanies Estefanía Mondaca's current exhibition Firemakers on show in our Up Stairs gallery now. Full copies of this essay are available in the gallery.

Estefanía Mondaca (b. Chile) is a visual artist and architectural designer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, her practice spans oil painting, charcoal drawing and collage.

Eugenia Viña is a philosophy graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, visual artist, writer, art therapist, astrologer and tarot reader.

City Art Depot welcomes purchase enquiries for this body of work, please email [email protected] for a full catalogue of artworks.

Gallery hours 8:30am–5pm weekdays & 10am–2pm Saturdays
96 Disraeli Street, Sydenham, Ōtautahi Christchurch

'Swan', Richard Elderton, oil on stretched canvas, 455x610mm, 2026On show as part of Richard Elderton's exhibition 'A Wa...
14/08/2026

'Swan', Richard Elderton, oil on stretched canvas, 455x610mm, 2026

On show as part of Richard Elderton's exhibition 'A Wandering Perspective' at City Art Depot until the 31st of August.

https://www.cityart.co.nz/exhibition/a-wandering-perspective-richard-elderton/
City Art Depot is pleased to welcome purchase enquiries for this body of work, email: [email protected]

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Richard Elderton presents a new exhibition of richly balanced oil paintings. Across his artworks Elderton navigates the edges of memory and familiarity, immersing the viewer in shifting narrative journeys. With an attuned sensibility to colour and composition, each Elderton painting engages with a beautifully refined view of the world and how we experience it.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the openings of 'A Wandering Perspective' by Richard Elderton and 'Firemakers' b...
12/08/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along to the openings of 'A Wandering Perspective' by Richard Elderton and 'Firemakers' by Estefania Mondaca last week. These two great shows of paintings continue in our City Art Depot and Up Stairs galleries at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch until the 31st of August.

This artwork by Seung Yul Oh, 'Door to the River to the Door' is framed for our client in a City Art Depot solid oak sha...
10/08/2026

This artwork by Seung Yul Oh, 'Door to the River to the Door' is framed for our client in a City Art Depot solid oak shadow frame. This beautiful artwork is neatly finished by the thin edge of natural timber for an elegant and timeless look.

City Art Depot shadow frames are designed and manufactured to perfectly fit the artwork within, with attention given to the depth and spacing of the frame.

This Grace Butler painting, 'Winter Mist, Jordan Valley, Paradise, Wakatipu', is perfectly framed here for our client in...
06/08/2026

This Grace Butler painting, 'Winter Mist, Jordan Valley, Paradise, Wakatipu', is perfectly framed here for our client in a stained oak City Art Depot. The depth of colour and shape of the frame profile deepens the tones within and adds to the impact of the artwork.

Each City Art Depot frame is designed by one of our framing experts in consultation with the client. Come into our showroom at 96 Disraeli Street to see the difference a bespoke picture frame can make to your artwork.

Join us at City Art Depot for an artist talk by Richard Elderton 1pm this Thursday the 6th of August in our gallery at 9...
05/08/2026

Join us at City Art Depot for an artist talk by Richard Elderton 1pm this Thursday the 6th of August in our gallery at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch. At this talk Richard Elderton will discuss and take questions on his current exhibition of paintings 'A Wandering Perspective.'

Pictured: 'Orange Highway', Richard Elderton, oil on canvas, 455x610mm, 2026

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96 Disraeli Street
Christchurch
8023

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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