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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 Art 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.

14/09/2026

Thank you to Saskia Bunce-Rath for her generous and insightful artist talk last week. And thank you to our audience for coming along and generating an interesting discussion around this great new body of work!

'now that I'm listening, it's deafening' will be on show in our City Art Depot gallery until the 5th of October.

https://www.cityart.co.nz/exhibition/now-that-im-listening-its-deafening/

13/09/2026

This Japanese woodblock print based on Utagawa Hiroshige's 1830s painting of cats is framed here for our client in a City Art Depot solid ash timber frame. This piece printed on delicate paper is carefully floated on a soft white museum board backing behind UV blocking glazing.

City Art Depot staff are experts in working with colour and texture, come into our showroom to see the difference our frame designers can make for your artwork.

11/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along on Tuesday evening to the openings of our two current shows 'now that I'm listening, it's deafening' by Saskia Bunce-Rath and 'SWAMP SONGS' by Nicholas Burry & Eleanor Diaz Ritson.

These two shows continue in our galleries until the 5th of October 2026. Open hours : Weekdays 8:30am–5pm, Saturdays 10am–2pm.

08/09/2026

City Art Depot welcomes you to join us 1pm this Thursday 10th September for an artist talk by Saskia Bunce-Rath on her exhibition 'now that I'm listening, it's deafening'.

96 Disraeli Street, Sydenham, Christchurch

03/09/2026

These ammonite fossils are framed for our client in a City Art Depot stained oak frame. Our staff are experts in designing and fitting custom frames. In this frame the fossils are floated on specially made disguised packers.

02/09/2026

'Swamp Songs' by Nicholas Burry & Eleanor Diaz Ritson opens in our Up Stairs gallery this coming Tuesday the 8th of September 5.30–7pm.

Swamp Songs is a painted investigation into the Ihutai wetlands and estuary, located on the eastern fringes of Ōtautahi. Emotive responses to the landscape are formed in conversation between the two artists, relating their artworks to each other and to the the histories, qualities and power of place.

'Swamp Songs' will be on show until the 5th of October.

01/09/2026

City Art Depot warmly invites everyone to attend the opening of 'now that I'm listening, it's deafening' by Saskia Bunce-Rath, 5.30–7pm Tuesday 8th September 2026 in our gallery at 96 Disraeli Street, Christchurch.

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Saskia Bunce-Rath's significant new body of artwork explores her visions and experiences of nature. A sacred, spiritual entity glimpsed, discovered, through the modern landscape. Her scenes are rendered in embroidery thread containing a vivid surreality and gravity, alive with colour and movement.

now that I'm listening, it's deafening runs 8 September – 5 October 2026 at City Art Depot.

Join us again in the gallery at 1pm on Thursday the 10th of September for an artist talk by Saskia Bunce-Rath.

30/08/2026

Today is the final day to see 'A Wandering Perspective' by Richard Elderton and 'Firemakers' by Estefania Mondaca. It has been a pleasure having these two exhibitions of accomplished paintings on our walls over this last month.

If you haven't seen them yet, there's still time! Open until 5pm today.

For artwork and catalogue enquiries please email [email protected]

16/08/2026

Some excerpts from Eugenia Viña's curatorial text 'FIREMAKERS: Luminous Bodies', which accompanies Estefanía Mondaca's current exhibition Firemakers on show in our Up Stairs gallery now. Full copies of this essay are available in the gallery.

Estefanía Mondaca (b. Chile) is a visual artist and architectural designer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, her practice spans oil painting, charcoal drawing and collage.

Eugenia Viña is a philosophy graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, visual artist, writer, art therapist, astrologer and tarot reader.

City Art Depot welcomes purchase enquiries for this body of work, please email [email protected] for a full catalogue of artworks.

Gallery hours 8:30am–5pm weekdays & 10am–2pm Saturdays
96 Disraeli Street, Sydenham, Ōtautahi Christchurch

14/08/2026

'Swan', Richard Elderton, oil on stretched canvas, 455x610mm, 2026

On show as part of Richard Elderton's exhibition 'A Wandering Perspective' at City Art Depot until the 31st of August.

https://www.cityart.co.nz/exhibition/a-wandering-perspective-richard-elderton/
City Art Depot is pleased to welcome purchase enquiries for this body of work, email: [email protected]

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Richard Elderton presents a new exhibition of richly balanced oil paintings. Across his artworks Elderton navigates the edges of memory and familiarity, immersing the viewer in shifting narrative journeys. With an attuned sensibility to colour and composition, each Elderton painting engages with a beautifully refined view of the world and how we experience it.

Address

96 Disraeli Street
Christchurch
8023

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 2pm

Telephone

+6433653811

Website

http://www.cityart.co.nz/

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