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Eastside Gallery’s 28th annual celebration of the mahi of local Māori artists is on now until 18 July.

“Te Whare Maire o nga Punawerewere” refers to young spiders leaving the web – a metaphor for the way our exhibition programme nurtures artists as they grow their practice.

Curated by Ara postgraduate student Sierra Bright, with guidance from Eastside Gallery’s curator.

Artists include: Antonia de Lautour, Ben Gilden, Emma Ngawai Hipango, George French, Dark Ballad (Joe Clarke), Mateo Rose, Redgie Walker‑Small, Sierra Bright and Tipene Douglas. Deanna Morgan is 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