Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden (TSG) is an evolving sculpture garden and native regeneration project. Our mission is to support contemporary sculpture practice in New Zealand and to enhance native biodiversity in Canterbury.
We are open by appointment throughout the year. Our major event is an Annual Autumn Exhibition, over the first three weekends in March.
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden’s 2nd sculpture competition
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden will again commission a sculpture for its Permanent Collection. The work will be unveiled at our 14th Annual Autumn Exhibition, in March 2027.
March 2024 Annual Autumn Exhibition
Dates:
Saturdays and Sundays
2/3, 9/10 and 16/17 March 2024 Or by appointment
Hours:
10am–4pm
Admission:
Adults: $20 pp (no eftpos available). Under 16: free.
Contact us to make an appointment outside of exhibition times or for general enquiries.
You can also visit by appointment throughout the year.
$20 per person. Under 16 – free.
More than 100 sculptures for sale, including indoor and outdoor pieces in both small and large scale. Visitors will also enjoy the Permanent Collection featuring works by some of the stalwarts of NZ sculpture, including Andrew Drummond and Marté Szirmay.
Artists work across media, in local stone, iron, steel, bronze, glass, ceramic, flax, wood, and sound.
Books available for purchase
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden
Published: 2023
Price: $60
Shipping: $10
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The sculpture garden Annabel Menzies-Joyce and Peter Joyce have nurtured in Tai Tapu provides a fascinating, endlessly changing alternative to the interior white cube. The changing sky, fluctuating wind, seasonal substitutions of texture and colour, and the constant, fleeting presence of birds, are an essential part of the art experience.
This image-rich and inspiring book tells the story of the development of Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden. In 2010, after horses and daughters had left home, there was an initial plan to restore part of a 1.1 hectare horse paddock into native bush. By the year's end, the plan had become to regenerate the entire paddock and create a sculpture garden within the bush. 2023 and the release of this book marks the 10 year anniversary of this development.
Filled with exquisite photographs by renowned photographer Brian High and plant tables, making it both a visual feast and a useful guide for those thinking about developing their own plot or growing a sculpture collection.
Author: Sally Blundell, Peter Joyce, Melissa Reimer
Format: Hardback
Pages: 167
Publisher: Manuka Press in cooperation with Caxton Press
Graham Bennett: Around Every Circle
Published: 2020
Price: $80
Shipping: $12
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A sumptuously illustrated portrait of an acclaimed New Zealand-based artist, who illuminates how we engage with our environment and each other. Insightful essays by accomplished writers and five elegant image sequences give insight into the nature of his thinking and process, firmly based in Aotearoa New Zealand yet spanning the globe and half a century. Bennett adds personal insights in an absorbing behind-the-scenes account of the intertwining of art and life, ever changing, turning, moving forward.
Author: Graham Bennett, Felicity Milburn, Rosa Shiels, John Freeman-Moir, Barbara Speedy
Format: Large format with photographs and French fold jacket, with marker ribbon
Pages: 300
Publisher: Ron Sang
Llew Summers Body and Soul
Published: 2020
Price: $65
Shipping: $10
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A beautiful book, both in the telling of a life, the poignancy of personal photographs and in the sumptuous, evocative images of Summers’ sculptures. Writer and friend, John Newton has produced a thoroughly engaging read. The book is full of personality, insights and fascinating anecdotes, including those around the artist's parents who were conscientious objectors, and recounts the evolution of Summers' artistic practice and interesting life.
Author: John Newton
Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
Publisher: Canterbury University Press
Location
1/199 Cossars Road
RD 2 Christchurch 7672
New Zealand