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, with around 100 new works brought in for sale.
March 2026
13th Annual Autumn Exhibition
Dates:
Saturdays and Sundays
7/8, 14/15 and 21/22 March 2026 and/or by appointment
Hours:
10am–4pm
Admission:
Adults: $20 pp (no eftpos available)
16 and under: free
Contact us to make an appointment outside of exhibition times, or for general enquiries.
You can also visit by appointment throughout the year to enjoy the Garden in all seasons.
$20 per person. 16 and under: free.
Exhibiting artists 2026
Matt Akehurst
Simon Max Bannister
Gary Baynes
Graham Bennett
Anneke Bester
Tony Bond
Gawie Bosman
Ivan Clayden
Fiona Christeller
Annabel Cropper
Moira Crossman
Bing Dawe
Neil Dawson
Siene de Vries
Edwards+Johann
Alison Erickson
Anton Forde
Fiona Garlick
Sam Harrison
Nigel Jamieson
Ina Johann
Virginia King
Anna Korver
Samantha Lissette
Pearce Malcolm
Rory McDougall
Tatyanna Meharry
Annabel Menzies-Joyce
Steve Molloy
Chris Moore
Tony O’Grady
Josh Olley
Gwen Parsons
Linda Pringle
Oriah Rapley
Rebecca Rose
Julie Ross
Tess Sheerin
Hamish Southcott
Bon Suter
Debbie Templeton-Page
Johnny Turner
Janna van Hasselt
Robyn Webster
Steuart Welch
Jane Whales
Matthew Williams
James Wright
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.
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden’s 2nd sculpture competition
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden has commissioned a new sculpture for its Permanent Collection. The work will be unveiled at our 14th Annual Autumn Exhibition, in March 2027.
Books available for purchase
Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden
Published: 2023
Price: $60 now $40
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 now $60
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 now $50
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