Soil is vital to life on Earth. The soil’s role in recycling nutrients, and wastes, is an important part of sustaining life on Earth, providing renewal and new growth, in the dance between life and death.  

This exhibition celebrates the variety, and intrinsic beauty, of soils in our landscapes in the context of both art and science.   It is also a celebration of World Soil Day (5^th December) and reminds us about the importance of soil in our daily lives for food, fuel, and fibre production, as well as maintaining biodiversity and water quality.

The artists featured in this exhibition, Juergen Esperschuetz, Megan Balks, and Allan Hewitt, are all also soil scientists. To illustrate the importance of soil cycles the artworks include recycled metals and reclaimed timber, as well as wool, and the soil itself, as media.

Opening Event: 5.30-7pm Monday 29 November 2021

Hosted By: Eastside Gallery, 388 Worcester St, Christchurch.

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm, free onsite parking.

Seven artists from The Critique Group, Christchurch present work produced this year, partly in lockdown, that has been informed by its fortnightly critique sessions. Maxine Inglis, Anne Spicer, Judy Rogers, Jenny Lee, Jill Goddard, Anne Fountain and Ying Hua Jiang present works large and small, hard and soft, black and white, as well as colourful, in a variety of media including sculpture, glass, fabric, print, painting and drawing. 

Opening Event: 3 – 4.30pm Sunday 7 November 2021.

Hosted By: Eastside Gallery, 388 Worcester St, Christchurch.

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-5pm, free onsite parking.