We are committed to artist development through our exhibition programme and community development via participation in our creative spaces.

We focus on, and specialise in, exhibiting the work of new and emerging artists, working with artists until they have developed their art, their confidence and their experience and are ready to exhibit elsewhere. We do this by facilitating affordable and accessible exhibition opportunities, model a professional gallery experience with a community focus and mentor artists through the entire process.

In the last financial year we exhibited the work of 384 local artists

In 2024 there were 12,100 onsite engagements with our services

We run large art exhibitions in Eastside Gallery and small ones in the Mini Gallery, offer 11 low-cost art classes and arts activities each week, most of which you can jump into anytime, and hire our three creative spaces outside opening hours for community meetings and arts-related activities and events such as singing, dancing and intimate music performances. We are the only Community Arts Centre in Christchurch that operates both as a creative space and specialises in offering quality, accessible exhibition opportunities for local artists. We run around seven open call shows annually. All of this takes place in a beautiful heritage building, one block east of Christchurch’s CBD.

https://www.linwoodarts.org/about/