A Garden Double Bill for the Garden City!

Objectspace is proud to present The Garden – two exhibitions and a pond-side event series that draw inspiration from the iconic Sir Miles Warren garden setting at 65 Cambridge Terrace. Following on from our highly successful exhibitions Living Room in 2023 and 2024, we’re bringing The Garden inside this summer to ask how our gardens and parks reflect how we live and what we value.

Get to know us:

Objectspace is the leading public gallery in Aotearoa dedicated to the fields of craft, design and architecture. Since 2023, we have presented exhibitions at the Sir Miles Warren Gallery at 65 Cambridge Terrace in Ōtautahi, delivering an ambitious and diverse programme of events and exhibitions bespoke to the region while creating national reach for our gallery and the makers we champion. We want to stay and keep expanding our impact with our community here – back us now and double the size of your gift with the power of match-funding and Boosted!

Sow the seeds for a flourishing garden with us! 

Your support will directly support -

• New Work! We are commissioning Ōtautahi Christchurch based artists to create new works for The Garden
• Bringing leading artists to Ōtautahi: the exhibitions will feature outstanding works by leading artists, designers and makers from across Aotearoa
• Keep Objectspace in Ōtautahi: with your support, we will continue to bring ambitious exhibitions and public programmes to the beautiful Sir Miles Warren Gallery, and grow our impact here in Ōtautahi.

A Garden Double Bill for the Garden City!

For the first time, we will present two back-to-back exhibitions in series, bridged by a festival of workshops, lectures and celebrations. All drawing on the histories of public greenspaces and the domestication of nature and imagining a future for contemporary garden with the help of leading creatives. Illustrated by works from architects, designers and makers, with a focus on new commissions and recent work by Canterbury Waitaha artists, The Garden examines our interactions with nature within the urban form.

The Garden exhibition and event series examines our personal and cultural associations with gardens, contemplating the symbolic potential of nature and the ways in which we design with it and are influenced by it.

Opening in November in 2025, the first exhibition curated by Zoe Black and Jordan Davey-Emms assembles artists who are called to the whenua for inspiration, including new commissions from Emma Wallbanks, Amelia Fagence and Fabric Architecture, alongside a lush crop of artists from across the motu. The second exhibition opening February 2026 will be curated by Kim Paton, honing in on the rich garden histories of Ōtautahi Christchurch.

The first of the two garden exhibitions, Pleasure Garden, will open on Friday 7 November and run through to Sunday 14 December.

Help us grow The Garden:

Your support will enable us to commission new works by Ōtautahi Christchurch makers and bring outstanding works by leading artists, designers and makers from across Aotearoa to the gallery.

 If you care about craft and design, and want to support Objectspace to keep running Sir Miles Warren Gallery in beautiful Ōtautahi, then we invite you to support us now. Your donations will help make it all possible – with twice the impact, thanks to Boosted match funding.

As a supporter, you’ll be the first to see the exhibitions at the opening celebrations in November and February, where you will meet the artists and raise a glass with your fellow art, design and garden lovers.