What's on at the Forrester Gallery

  • Image: 'The Stormcloud - Bushey Beach', Amos Glass, collection of the Forrester Gallery FG1992.5.1

    The Sea

    The works in this small exhibition inside the old bank vault are all from the Forrester Gallery collection and all depict the sea near Ōamaru – by the harbour, or just south at Bushey Beach and Cape Wanbrow.

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    13 June 2020 to 23 January 2021
  • Image: Voyage Sauvage, Elizabeth Thomson

    Elizabeth Thomson Cellular Memory

    ‘We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ Marcus Chown

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    Forrester Gallery
    27 November 2020 to 14 February 2021
  • Image: It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere, Sharon Murcott, 2020

    Sharon Murcott, My Slice of Heaven

    I have always had a love of drawing but first picked up a paintbrush at the age of 16. It was then I started to have a go at oils, as I loved the old masters. I could spend hours looking through books I had got out of the library wondering how on earth they managed to paint like that.

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    Forrester Gallery
    23 January 2021 to 7 March 2021

Past exhibitions

The Forrester Gallery provides a vibrant array of exhibitions and events based from its wonderful Class I heritage building at 9 Thames Street, Oamaru.

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