A BIRD In The Hand

The Christchurch Art Gallery Foundation is honoured to have the opportunity to acquire Lyttelton-based artist Bill Hammond's 'Bone Yard Open Home' for its permanent collection. But, we need your help!

Bill Hammond is often called Aotearoa New Zealand’s most important living artist. His epic paintings are layered with meaning and mythology, and offer an Eden-like view of New Zealand not found in any other artist’s work. Bone Yard Open Home is Bill’s largest painting on a single piece of canvas, measuring more than four metres wide. It is an incredibly important work painted in 2008 at the height of his career, with strong connections to Lyttelton, Sumner, Redcliffs and Banks Peninsula. It is the first time that Bone Yard Open Home has been shown in Christchurch and only the third time it has been displayed publicly.

We'd love you to help us bring Bill Hammond, Bone Yard Open Home, Cave Painting 4, Convocation of Eagles (2008) home to Ōtautahi Christchurch.