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.

Up Stairs, our new second gallery space at City Art Depot, is excited to present 'Playground' a new exhibition of painti...
23/06/2026

Up Stairs, our new second gallery space at City Art Depot, is excited to present 'Playground' a new exhibition of paintings by Ashleigh Min.

Opening 5:30–7pm Tuesday 30th June, 96 Disraeli Street, Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Ashleigh Min is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist who explores the vivid yet elusive qualities of dreams through intuitive dreamscape paintings. Often beginning with abstract grounds, she allows forms and images to emerge through a process of painterly discovery, inspired by the natural motifs of her surroundings. Recent developments in her practice have led her to engage with playground imagery and its connections to nostalgia, play and memory.

City Art Depot warmly invites everyone to attend the opening of 'Clutter' by Lisa Patterson, 5.30–7pm Tuesday 30th June ...
23/06/2026

City Art Depot warmly invites everyone to attend the opening of 'Clutter' by Lisa Patterson, 5.30–7pm Tuesday 30th June 2026 in our gallery at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch.

The artworks in ‘Clutter’ continue Patterson’s meticulous crafting of elemental materials, here wood and lead. Patterson is able to see the potential in any ‘scrap’ of material, a new purpose, the inherent aesthetics of it. This potential is explored in her artworks as holding devices and hinged wall hangings, formed from timber cuttings and recycled materials. Polished, carved and reimagined, these artworks make a kind of visual peace with the disorder Patterson sees in their daily home and studio life.

'Clutter' runs 30 June – 27 July 2026 at City Art Depot.

Make sure not to miss out on seeing our wonderful current exhibitions in their final weekend at City Art Depot. 'Grey, ...
18/06/2026

Make sure not to miss out on seeing our wonderful current exhibitions in their final weekend at City Art Depot. 'Grey, Red (Getting Older)' by Francis van Hout and
'Sacred to the memory of Itself' by Henk Tomkins in our new gallery space Up Stairs, have their final day with us on Monday 22nd.

Final days:
Friday 19th June 8:30am–5pm
Saturday 20th June 10am–2pm
Monday 22nd June 8:30am–5pm

'Sacred to the memory of Itself' is the beginning of a new exploration in Tomkins’ practice. In this exhibition, Tomkins...
09/06/2026

'Sacred to the memory of Itself' is the beginning of a new exploration in Tomkins’ practice. In this exhibition, Tomkins is concerned with disrupting the immediacy of recognition and connotation. The works begin from photographic documentation and are investigated on the canvas. Overwhelmed by the surging saturation of imagery in our contemporary world, Tomkins approaches with a reduced palette. Rather than restricting, this method has allowed him to use light as a tool to investigate the partial and shifting nature of image.

The viscosity of industrial plastisol inks and oil paint mirrors the nature of the subject matter. This collision of materials carries forward a weight that Tomkins aims to capture in the work. His process encourages shape and surface to guide the viewing experience.

By acknowledging memory as a reproduction, Tomkins is interested in why we return to certain moments, events, places and people. Through layering, redacting and rebuilding, the paintings return us to this question.

Text provided by Henk Tomkins.

'Sacred to the memory of Itself' runs until the 22nd of June 2026 in our new gallery Up Stairs. Enquires welcome to [email protected]

City Art Reader 91: Francis van Hout – Grey, Red (Getting Older) is now available to read on our website!https://www.cit...
22/05/2026

City Art Reader 91: Francis van Hout – Grey, Red (Getting Older) is now available to read on our website!

https://www.cityart.co.nz/blog/grey-red-getting-older/

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based painter Francis van Hout crafts geometric abstractions with adept sensibilities to paint materiality, colour and surface texture. The initial structural seriousness of these works as viewed on screen or print doesn’t translate the grain, quality of line, warmth and wit within the paintings. Grey, Red (Getting Older) opens 5.30–7pm 26 May and runs through to 22 June 2026. Ahead of this Cameron Ralston joined van Hout in his studio to discuss the new body of work and living with paintings.

Up Stairs at City Art Depot is thrilled to present a new body of work by Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based painter Henk Tom...
19/05/2026

Up Stairs at City Art Depot is thrilled to present a new body of work by Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based painter Henk Tomkins. Join us for the opening of 'Sacred to the memory of Itself' 5.30–7pm Tuesday 26th May.

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based painter Henk Tomkins' work fuses gestural abstraction with screen printing to explore the complexity of human emotion. His paintings exist in a suspended space between sensation and image, inviting viewers into a dialogue with vulnerability, grief, and connection.

96 Disraeli Street, Sydenham, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Enquiries welcome to: [email protected]

City Art Depot warmly welcomes everyone to attend the upcoming opening of 'Grey, Red (Getting Older)' by Francis van Hou...
19/05/2026

City Art Depot warmly welcomes everyone to attend the upcoming opening of 'Grey, Red (Getting Older)' by Francis van Hout. 5.30–7pm Tuesday 26th May 2026 in our gallery at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch.

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based painter Francis van Hout crafts geometric abstractions with adept sensibilities to paint materiality, colour and surface texture. These paintings are imbued with the characteristics that define van Hout's practice – attention to tone, grain, quality of structural lines and indeed his signature wit.

This painting of Descartes by Keith Wilson is framed here in a City Art Depot solid oak frame and complemented by a gold...
14/05/2026

This painting of Descartes by Keith Wilson is framed here in a City Art Depot solid oak frame and complemented by a gold fillet. This frame was chosen in consultation with our client for its strong presence on the wall, classic moulding style and warm quality of the stain.

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96 Disraeli Street
Christchurch
8023

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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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