Super/Dairy

Lucy Lallement | Jack Freeman | Emma Foung

8 October - 16 October

Super/Dairy explores the cultural impact of the loss of the dairy due to the introduction of the supermarket duopoly in the late eighties and early nineties. Borrowing from the Christchurch City council’s archive, the exhibition draws on a 1988 photographic survey of shop dwellings around the city at the time. Through the lens of this photographic archive the works explore how these sites have changed over time, highlighting the increase of privatisation and intensification within the city along with its wider implications. With this exhibition we aim to highlight a vernacular design history. Through a selection of archival photographs and reproductions of original dairy signage we aim to document and highlight the changing landscape of local Ōtatutahi small businesses in response to an increase in privatisation and the supermarket duopoly.

Image credit: Canterbury Stories. CCL-ShopArch1232-0035. CCC/ARC/S48

STUDENT SERIES 2026

20 August - 14 October

Exhibition schedule

 Exhibition 1: De-Sir

Artists: Savanna Hunter, Chiquita Dean, Lucia Daamen- Shanahan

  • Opening: 20th August (5 pm - 7pm)

  • Artist Talk: 21st August (12pm - 1pm)

Exhibition 2: Consumption, Media, Womanhood

Artists: Vienna Rose Nunns, Neve Vangioni, Sophie Brown, Olivia Moore, Lourie Torr

  • Opening: 10th September (5pm - 7pm)

  • Artist Talk 11th September (12pm - 1pm)

Exhibition 3: No Kurawaka Tatou

Artists: George Atai French, Mia Ata Marama Anderson, George Brunton, Ana Krakosky

  • Opening: 24th September (5pm - 7 pm)

  • Artist Talk: 25th September (12pm - 1pm)

  

Exhibition 4: Super/Dairy,

Artists: Lucy Lallemant, Jack Freeman, Emma Foung

  • Opening: 8th October (5pm - 7pm)

  • Artist Talk: 9th October (12 - 1pm)