Exhibitions

Our gallery showcases and supports local artists, presenting a wide range of work including painting, photography, installation and sculpture.

  • Instability : Julia Christey

    Instability Julia Christey Paintings, oil on paper/canvas   June 8 - July 5   The viewer will look at an abstract painting and try to decipher the marks in front of them. Often the painting they see is really an illusion or something...

  • John Mercer : Photographer

    JOHN MERCER Photographer   May 9 - June 7   These three images are the result of my continuing fascination and interest in photographing nature's ephemera and the underlying stories that the basic elements of   -   air, water, tide,...

  • Marilyn Rea Menzies : Tapestry Weaving & Digital Works

    B l a c k   o n   B l a c k Marilyn Rea Menzies Tapestry Weaving & Digital Works April 7 - May 3   When deciding to weave these 12 small tapestries I was quite fascinated by the contrast between the plain tapestry weave structures that...

  • Eva Llorens : Portraits

    Portraits Eva Llorens March  6 - 29   One of the things that I like to paint are my daughters. These portraits are the result of our intimacy. There are spaces where I find these moments of peace, rest and reflection. I want to immortalize...

  • Criminal Liminals of Pasteltown : Helen Dowling

    Criminal Liminals of Pasteltown Helen Dowling paintings   February 2 - March 1   "A recent graduate from Whitecliffe (Auckland), Dowling's striking paintings explore the performative nature of human behaviour often with an unsettling...

  • Repose : Dominique Marriott

    Repose Dominique Marriott New charcoal drawings December 1 - 23   This exhibition presents a collection of charcoal drawings showing serene nudes in repose. I’m interested in how the body can communicate on a visceral level. In this series,...

  • Places we've been : Hiria Anderson

    Places we've been New paintings by Hiria Anderson November 3 - December 1 This series of paintings continues the theme of work from the Papakāinga series that shows life as it happens in the rohe of Waipa and Maniapoto.  

  • 6 October - 2 November 2017

    New Abstractions : Ulrike Schaefer

    New Abstractions Digital Collage Works by Ulrike Schaefer October 6 - November 2   My work is as much about formal elements – shape, colour, line or space – as it is about process. I like to recycle; I deconstruct the old to reconstruct...

  • 1 September - 28 September 2017

    Interwoven : Marise Rarere

    drawings in ink

    My memories of learning to weave with muka (the fine creamy strands from within the flax) twenty years ago with my then tutor Rama Kete inspired these simple but intricate drawings. I have translated this experience into pen ink drawings. They are slow...