Gallery owner Nadene Milne will reveal a selection of works by artists she has represented over the past decade. Those include Fiona Pardington, Stephen Bambury, Tony Lane, Gretchen Albrecht, Russell Moses, Rohan Wealleans, Max Gimblett and Elizabeth Thomson.
The show will also include works by Shane Cotton, Grahame Sydney, John Pule and Gordon Walters.
The exhibition launch at 8.30pm will follow the screening of an episode from documentary series The Big Picture in Dorothy Brown's Cinema at 7.30pm. Bookings are essential.
Studying business and communications at Victoria University, the advent of new technologies and meeting young art dealers led to the opening of Nadene Milne Gallery in Pritchard's Store in 2001, Ms Milne said yesterday.
"I arrived in a place in my life where I had to follow a vocation that mattered to me and the visual did. I saw the demographic of Queenstown and Arrowtown change - the place had matured and maybe I had too.
"I was pretty green, but my enthusiasm carried me a long way. When I started, a well-known local said 'good luck' in a way that they didn't think it was going to work, so it's very satisfying to be here 10 years later."
Ms Milne said her work had been "nourishing - intellectually, emotionally and spiritually".
The mother of three sons and partner of Wanaka mountaineer Clinton Beavan works with gallery manager Leah Seifert and administrator Frances Connor.
Asked what the next decade held in store, Ms Milne said she had reconnected this year with her Istanbul-based cousin Christopher Hall, who left Christchurch aged 18 to seek his fortune. They realised they "speak the same language" and intend to enter the art market together in the Middle East.
"I'll still be here, the gallery will remain, but each year the goal is to exhibit at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair."
