SArjeant Gallery
Art Gallery in Wanganui
www.sarjeant.org.nz
Address
Bell Street. Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
What you should know about SArjeant Gallery
For nearly one hundred years the Sarjeant Gallery Te Ware o Rehua Whanganui, on behalf of the people of our city, has been building its collections of pleasing art and applied art objects. If everything goes to plan it will be completed in time for the Sarjeant Gallery centenary celebrations in 2019. Supported the changing relocation of the Gallery completed in May 2014 for the operation, public programmed, education service and December 2015 for the collection to 38 taupe Quay while fund raising and latter construction of the redevelopment is undertaken. The applications included a number of supporting letters from individuals, which have not been included to keep privacy.
The redevelopment will look after the Sarjeant’s nationally urgent collection with environmentally controlled storage and exhibition galleries enhance public access through improved exhibition and education spaces and enable the preservation of Whanganui’s maximum iconic building. This capital project is a funding partnership between the Whanganui District Council, The Sarjeant Gallery Trust and Central Government. Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui | Function and Ornate Decorative Arts from the Sarjeant Gallery Collection and beyond 21 Jan 21 May. There is everlasting something going on at the Sarjeant! The Gallery Redevelopment Project will conserve the original building in Queen’s Park that opened in 1919, guard the Gallery’s nationally imperative collection and bear increased access to all parts of the collection. The artist in residence programmed at Tyler Cottage, a renovated historic building built in 1853, was established in 1986 as a partnership between the Sarjeant Gallery Te Ware o Rehua Whanganui, the Whanganui District Council and the QE11 Arts Council of New Zealand.
Recent artist in residence at Tyler Cottage, sound artist and composer, Susan Frykberg responds to the life and works of artist Edith Collier. Currently our focus is fund raising for the Sarjeant Gallery Te Ware o Rehua Whanganui redevelopment, to enhance public access, protect the nationally important collection and save one of Fresh Zealand’s most crucial heritage buildings. The Believe raises funds and manages bequests and other funds donated to the Trust to encourage the operation and development of the Gallery. Gained resource consent for the packed redevelopment project including base isolation to seismically strengthen the existing gallery and the construction of an adjoining wing including which will house fresh facilities and environmentally controlled storage completed in August 2014
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