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Past Exhibitions

Empty Vessels: Matthew Galloway & Desert Narratives: Mohamed Sleiman Labat

Empty Vessels: Matthew Galloway & Desert Narratives: Mohamed Sleiman Labat

9 December 2023 – 10 March 2024 | Exploring the shifting political grounds of global food production, Empty Vessels and Desert Narratives is a dialogue between Aotearoa New Zealand artist Matthew Galloway and Sahrawi Western Saharan artist Mohamed Sleiman Labat. The two, who have had an ongoing correspondence since meeting in 2016, present different perspectives on Aotearoa’s reliance on phosphate rock from Western Sahara.

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Vital Machinery

Vital Machinery

25 November – 25 February 2024 | Vital Machinery explores intersections in the practices of five Aotearoa women artists - Conor Clarke, Selina Ershadi, Janet Lilo, Louise Menzies and Meg Porteous - working across photography and moving image. In this exhibition, the camera has been engaged as a technology and an extension of the body and thought process.

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Comfort Zone: Sorawit Songsataya

Comfort Zone: Sorawit Songsataya

9 September – 26 November 2023 | Focusing on the kōtuku and their only nesting grounds in Aotearoa New Zealand, Comfort Zone explores the limits of human understanding, and the distances we put between ourselves and other species. Songsataya has woven together footage of nesting kōtuku with images and animations exploring proximities between the human, non-human, and celestial.

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Mai i te kei o ngā waka ki te ihu o ngā waka: Jeremy Leatinu’u

Mai i te kei o ngā waka ki te ihu o ngā waka: Jeremy Leatinu’u

9 September – 26 November 2023 | Mai i te kei o ngā waka ki te ihu o ngā waka presents three haerenga (meaning journey, trip, parting) exploring contrasting yet interlinked stories of migration. The title of this work translates in English to “from the front of the canoes to the back of the canoes”, suggesting multiple viewpoints that comprise a collective journey.

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‘Amui ‘i Mu'a - Ancient Futures: Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi

‘Amui ‘i Mu'a - Ancient Futures: Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi

5 August – 5 November 2023 | In 'Amui ‘i Mu'a - Ancient Futures Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi explore pathways between the past, present, and future in Tongan arts. This exhibition surveys the individual work of Dyck and Tohi from the 1990s-2020s and sits within an ongoing research project exploring the legacies of late-18th and early-19th Century customary Tongan art practices.

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Design Kahungunu: Iwi Toi Kahungunu

Design Kahungunu: Iwi Toi Kahungunu

27 May - 20 August 2023 | Design Kahungunu explores designs based on traditional kōwhaiwhai and heke patterns which are intentionally linked to whakapapa. Led by Dr Sandy Adsett, Design Kahungunu is an opportunity for Iwi Toi Kahungunu artists to come together to explore traditional styles and, in doing so, develop and create new designs.

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No Straight Lines: Evan Woodruffe

No Straight Lines: Evan Woodruffe

28 April – 16 July 2023 | Evan Woodruffe creates lively painterly environments. His visual language has been likened to ‘mapping’ – creating luscious surfaces and abstract landscapes with multiple points of departure for viewers. No straight lines pursues dialogues between painting and our everyday surroundings, embracing immersive scale and texture.

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Ghosts of the Past: Jeremy Bright

Ghosts of the Past: Jeremy Bright

27 Feb – 7 May 2023 | In 2009, Taupō-based photographer Jeremy Bright was travelling through to the Wairarapa when he drove past the old Waipukurau Hospital – a group of disused buildings on Pōrangahau Road. He stopped to look closer, sparking a decade’s worth of regular visits documenting the site.

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To be at home: Salome Tanuvasa

To be at home: Salome Tanuvasa

27 Feb - 7 May 2023 | To be at home is a new site-specific installation by artist Salome Tanuvasa, comprising a series of banners made from new and recycled fabric. The artist has stitched and appliquéd shapes into playful, abstract compositions which suggest direction and movement — responding to flows of people and conversation.

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Waiora: Hemi Macgregor

Waiora: Hemi Macgregor

17 December – 16 April 2023 | Hemi Macgregor (Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tūhoe) presents a body of work which acknowledges stories of environment and the ways our lives are set within it. The exhibition acknowledges atua, whenua, and our personal journey within these interconnected foundations for daily life.

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Icebound: Jonathan Kay

Icebound: Jonathan Kay

5 November 2022 – 6 February 2023 | Icebound is a photographic exhibition by Jonathan Kay. It contemplates the fragility of our landscapes through surveying of two Te Waipounamu glaciers - Haupapa/Tasman and Te Moeka o Tūawe/Fox. Kay explored these glaciers as a way of making sense of the environments impacted by climate change in Aotearoa.

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Urns for Unwanted Limbs and Other Things: Virginia Leonard

Urns for Unwanted Limbs and Other Things: Virginia Leonard

12 November - 6 February, 2023 | Virginia Leonard works with clay, resin, and oozing glazes to create ceramic sculptures. Leonard’s layering adds a voluptuous tension to her work which is organic and revulsive but is also vital, evolving, and honest.

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Essentially Medieval - What did Rita Angus Mean? : Peter Ireland

Essentially Medieval - What did Rita Angus Mean? : Peter Ireland

3 September – 30 October 2022 | Peter Ireland’s oil paintings on paper showing in the Alcove Gallery intersect with, but are not shaped by, the usual “New Zealand” symbols. These paintings reflect Peter Ireland as a religious painter - his use of symbolism draws on Christian concepts of signification as well as Renaissance painting traditions and exemplars.

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NZQA Top Art Exhibition

NZQA Top Art Exhibition

15 August - 26 August | We are excited to announce that the NZQA Top Art exhibition is coming to Hastings City Art Gallery from Monday 15 to Friday 26 August. Top Art is an annual touring exhibition of the best and highest achieving 2021 NCEA portfolios from around the country. Five streams are covered, including design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

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Landscapes of Loss: Lisa Chandler

Landscapes of Loss: Lisa Chandler

10 September – 4 December 2022 | Main Gallery | "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." - Arthur Schopenhauer. Everyone, from all walks of life and across cultures, experiences loss and grief during their lives, whether it’s private and personal loss, within their community, or at a global level.

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Cellular Memory: Elizabeth Thomson

Cellular Memory: Elizabeth Thomson

11 June – 21 August 2022 | Main Gallery | For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist Elizabeth Thomson has been drawn to areas of scientific knowledge such as botany, micro-biology, oceanography and mathematics.

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Te Pō Uriuri: Poutu Puketapu

Te Pō Uriuri: Poutu Puketapu

18 June - 28 August 2022 | Alcove Gallery | Te Pō Uriuri is an immersive experience retelling the pūrakau/legend of Uru, the eldest child of Ranginui and Papatūānuku. This installation embodies the safe haven, Te Kahutuanui-a-Rangi, the cloak of Uru’s father, where he fled, seeking refuge as he withdrew from his whānau. Uru sits here as a contemporary koruru in an era of deep darkness – Te Pō Uriuri.

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Terminus: Jess Johnson & Simon Ward

Terminus: Jess Johnson & Simon Ward

30 April – 24 October 2022 | Holt Gallery | With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways. Terminus is open to the public Mon-Thurs from 11am till 4.30pm, and normal hours Fri-Sun, so our local schools can come experience it first thing, without interrupting your viewing pleasure.

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Star Waka

Star Waka

26 March – 15 May 2022 | Main Gallery | Star Waka acknowledges past, present and future voyaging to and from Aotearoa in all directions, with the stars reflecting navigation patterns over time and space. Together, the waka and the stars symbolise the universe and the binding together of ira atua (the realm of the gods) and iratangata (the realm of humans).

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Kōkōrangi ki Kōkōwai: Nikau Hindin

Kōkōrangi ki Kōkōwai: Nikau Hindin

March 26 – May 22 2022 | Main Gallery | A journey in understanding Maramataka and traditional celestial navigation practices through the revitalisation of aute, Kōkōrangi ki kōkōwai is a major solo exhibition by artist Nikau Hindin (Ngai Tūpoto, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi).

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Last Supper: Glen Colechin

Last Supper: Glen Colechin

February 5 – April 3 2022 | Foyer Gallery | Taradale artist Glen Colechin has created an installation piece for the Foyer Gallery entitled Last Supper. Using copper and other recycled materials he’s formed a large boil up and feeding frenzy of fish the like that is often seen while walking along the sand at local beaches.

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What’s the Matter: Inga Fillary

What’s the Matter: Inga Fillary

March 12 – June 5, 2022 | Alcove Gallery | Inga Fillary’s installation, What’s the Matter, plays with psychic discomfort and damaged and shattered imagery – it invites the viewer to experience instability, exploring the materials of a flawed humanity. Each component of the installation offers its own journey, history and vital force - deeper realities lie concealed beneath their perceived surfaces.

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Kaye McGarva: Made You Look

Kaye McGarva: Made You Look

30 October – 30 January 2022 | Foyer Gallery | Kaye McGarva plays with shadows creating trompe-l’oeil paintings of creases and folds with the intention of challenging the spectator’s perception. Her work is about the act of looking, creating uncertainty and provoking a physical sensation associated with seeing something familiar but strange. She wishes to encourage the viewer coming into the Foyer Gallery to slow down, take notice, and hopefully look at the world around them with new eyes.

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The Path

The Path

December 18 2021 – March 13 2022 | Main Gallery | This exhibition features visual artists, a writer and a documentary producer for whom surfing has been part of their life journey. Although connected by surfing, they haven’t been asked to create or exhibit ‘Surf Art’, but rather to interrogate the crossover in their passions, and contemplate through their practice and discussion the connection between these two creative and formative activities.

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Prospects Fearful: Caroline McQuarrie and Shaun Matthews

Prospects Fearful: Caroline McQuarrie and Shaun Matthews

December 4 2021 – March 27 2022 | Holt Gallery | In late 1846 surveyor Thomas Brunner employed Māori guides Kehu and Pikiwati to travel with him from Nelson to Te Tai Poutini (the West Coast) and back again, searching for land suitable to expand settlements within the fledgling Nelson province. In Prospects Fearful Wellington-based artists Caroline McQuarrie and Shaun Matthews examine Brunner’s journey via the mediums of embroidery, photography and weaving.

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Thinking Unfolding

Thinking Unfolding

22 May – 1 August 2021 | Foyer Gallery | The idea of a book as an art object evolved in the mid-20th Century when artists began experimenting with the book format as a means to express their ideas. This touring exhibition from the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) sees printmakers from throughout Aotearoa, including eight artists from Hawke’s Bay, expand on and explore the idea of the artist book by taking the concept of a book further, creating art objects inspired by the form and/or function of a book. This idea has been approached using a range of techniques and materials which extend beyond the realm of traditional printmaking.

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Dali Susanto: Today is the Day

Dali Susanto: Today is the Day

15 May – 21 July 2021 | Alcove Gallery | Dali Susanto was born in the art capital of Indonesia, Yogyakarta and was brought up surrounded by artists. His mother and father owned and still run a batik gallery and studio where they teach local and international tourists the skills in batik work. Named after Salvador Dali, his parents hoped he would follow in the renowned artist’s footsteps and become an artist.

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Ashton Lexie Jamieson and Sharleen Gamble: Young Art

Ashton Lexie Jamieson and Sharleen Gamble: Young Art

7 August – 25 October 2021 | Foyer Gallery | The contemporary concept of young art is work not defined by the age of the creator, but by the stage the artist is at in their career. This exhibition brings together the work of two Hawke’s Bay artists working in two different disciplines who have both reached a significant stage in their career development. Sharleen Gamble and Ashton Lexie Jamieson are both recent graduates of IDEAschool at EIT and they are both wanting, through their work, to create an awareness of the quality and diversity of contemporary female artists at work in Hawke’s Bay.

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Larisse Hall: Of the Essence

Larisse Hall: Of the Essence

31 July – 14 November 2021 | Alcove Gallery | Larisse Hall explores the value of time within an everyday context. Deconstructing our notions of the traditional 2-D painting to create an immersive participatory version of the self-portrait. In this new 'painting', Larisse invites the viewer to become both the co-creator and the subject matter. Encouraging the viewer to participate and engage with the work to activate the painting process.

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Ayesha Green: To the best of my Knowledge

Ayesha Green: To the best of my Knowledge

14 August – 28 November 2021 | Holt Gallery | Over the last six months Ayesha Green has been developing a body of work specifically for the Holt Gallery. This exhibition looks at the visual language and history of Native Schooling in New Zealand with a focus on Hukarere Girls’ College, founded in 1875 and located in Hawke’s Bay.

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Out of the Shadows: a print journey with Carole Shepheard and friends

Out of the Shadows: a print journey with Carole Shepheard and friends

25 September – 5 December 2021 | Main Gallery | Carole Shepheard is a well-known figure in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2002 appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the arts.

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Flirting with Form: Works by TOI AKO Artists

Flirting with Form: Works by TOI AKO Artists

13 March – 23 May 2021 | Main Gallery | Flirting with form: Works by TOI AKO artists is an exhibition that explores the role of the arts and wellbeing in communities, and its effectiveness in supporting older people to age well. Showcasing works by 13 emerging elder artists aged 56-91, developed over 2019-2020 as part of Connect the Dots pilot mentoring project, TOI AKO which is a creative collaboration between older people living in care and practising artists. This exhibition speaks to the reciprocal nature of learning, where artist mentors have shared their skills, encouraging older participants to bring their unique life experiences to shape their own visual language.

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Still Life with Moving Parts

Still Life with Moving Parts

27 February - 9 May 2021 | Foyer and Alcove Galleries | Still Life with Moving Parts is an exhibition created by outsider artists from A Supported Life. A Supported Life works with the Ministry of Social Development and the Ministry of Health to empower people with intellectual disabilities through supported accommodation, lifestyle planning and development. Their creative space - Two4nine is motivated by a belief in the authentic creativity in the works of their artists. We believe art is about revealing ourselves and creating meaningful connections – between artists, tutors and art lovers.

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NZQA Top Art Exhibition 2021

NZQA Top Art Exhibition 2021

We are excited to announce that the NZQA Top Art exhibition is coming to Hastings City Art Gallery from Monday 3 to Friday 7 May. Top Art is an annual touring exhibition of the best and highest achieving 2020 NCEA portfolios from around the country. Five streams are covered, including design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

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Jordan Barnes: The Artist and the Ego

Jordan Barnes: The Artist and the Ego

5 February - 2 May 2021 | Holt Gallery | Born in, and working out of an apartment studio in New Plymouth, Jordan Barnes is recognised as an artistic all-rounder. He’s an award winning painter and is considered to be one of New Zealand’s top emerging artists.

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EAST 2020

EAST 2020

21 November - 28 February 2021 | Main Gallery, Foyer and Alcove Galleries | Hastings City Art Gallery presents EAST 2020, a biennial exhibition celebrating and surveying the current creative practice connected to the Heretaunga Hawke’s Bay region. The works of 54 Hawke’s Bay artists have been selected for the exhibition, which includes painting, ceramics, large-scale photography, video and sculptural installations.

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Matt Arbuckle: Recto-Verso

Matt Arbuckle: Recto-Verso

24 October 2020 - 24 January | Holt Gallery | Arbuckle’s practice is a process-driven exploration of place, bridging the notions of landscape with the languages of abstraction. He manipulates the fundamentals of scale, format, composition, material, colour and mark-making to produce sculptural paintings that are large, vigorous and bold in the forms they take.

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Eve Kireka: Ahokore Ahikaaroa - Keeping the home fires burning

Eve Kireka: Ahokore Ahikaaroa - Keeping the home fires burning

15 August – 1 November 2020 | Alcove Gallery | In this installation piece, Kireka has explored the feminine elements of the natural world, creating a narrative using light and mixed media to explore the connections between cosmic influences and the future of humanity.

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Akiko Diegel: lost, lost property

Akiko Diegel: lost, lost property

15 August – 1 November 2020 | Foyer Gallery | Japanese-born artist Diegel lives and works in Auckland, her work often dealing with the realisation of existence: Things that are consumed, worn, worked, carried, forgotten or collected.

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TIKA TONU 30 Kahungunu Artists

TIKA TONU 30 Kahungunu Artists

8 August - 1 November 2020 | Main Gallery | Curated by Sandy Adsett | TIKA TONU brings emerging and established contemporary painters and sculptors from the iwi of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, ki Heretaunga, ki Wairarapa together in an exhibition of artwork derived from, but beyond the tradition.

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Derek Henderson: Milk Run

Derek Henderson: Milk Run

4 July – 11 October 2020 | Holt Gallery | As a photographer, Derek Henderson has a broad ranging practice, working across the genres of fashion, architecture, portrait and landscape. Henderson has spent many years working abroad and he now bases himself between Auckland and Sydney. Even when living overseas, he always maintained his connection with New Zealand and the New Zealand landscape has been a regular feature of his work.

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Andrea Selwood: HOME SCIENCE - transforming light

Andrea Selwood: HOME SCIENCE - transforming light

23 May – 9 August 2020 | Foyer Gallery | Responding to coastal environments in Aotearoa, this exhibition explores the play of water and light, breaching threshold to alter states. These prismatic images suggest a universal dynamic - geometries of nature organic in origin. 

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Birgit Moffatt: Ko Papatūānuku e takoto ake nei

Birgit Moffatt: Ko Papatūānuku e takoto ake nei

23 May – 9 August 2020 | Alchove Gallery |This new installation is a sensory exploration and discovery to re-connect with the natural world in a society that changes with high speed through faster technology and global economy.

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NZQA Top Art Exhibition: 3 - 7 August

NZQA Top Art Exhibition: 3 - 7 August

We are excited to announce that the NZQA Top Art exhibition is coming to Hastings City Art Gallery from Monday 3 to Friday 7 August. Top Art is an annual touring exhibition of the best and highest achieving 2019 NCEA portfolios from around the country. Five streams are covered, including design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.

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Local Lockdown

Local Lockdown

13 June – 19 July 2020 | Alchove Gallery | In March 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, Aotearoa New Zealand was asked to stay at home and restrict all unnecessary contact with other people to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This state of precaution was officially referred to as ‘lockdown’.

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Anna Crichton: Ragpicker at 4am, An Indian Journey

Anna Crichton: Ragpicker at 4am, An Indian Journey

Until 21 June 2020 | Holt Gallery | Art as social commentary is a feature of Anna Crichton’s work and Ragpicker at 4am is an invitation to reflect on Crichton’s response to social issues in rural India.  Featuring handstitched embroideries, glass beading and wood block printed fabrics, this exhibition is sure to stimulate reflection and discussion.

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The Crescent Moon

The Crescent Moon

29 February – 17 May 2020 | Alcove and Foyer | The Crescent Moon: the Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand, gives a face and a voice to New Zealand’s Muslims of Asian descent, who form the majority of Muslims both in this country and in the world as a whole.

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Andy Leleisi’uao: Kamoan Mine

Andy Leleisi’uao: Kamoan Mine

Until 24 May 2020 | Main Gallery | The Hastings City Art Gallery is proud to present KAMOAN MINE, a comprehensive survey exhibition of Samoan / New Zealand artist Andy Leleisi’uao, curated by Ben Bergman. Leleisi’uao is one of the most significant Pasifika artists living and working in New Zealand today.

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Brian Campbell: Head Above the Water

Brian Campbell: Head Above the Water

8 May - 8 August 2021 | Holt Gallery | Campbell has for more than 40 years worked on building a darkly funny imaginary world using satire, fantasy and humour to contemplate some serious, possibly even profound, questions. For 'Head Above the Water', Campbell has delivered some of the most substantial works of his career, taking viewers on a journey with a recurring cast of characters – along with some new ones – who he commissions to help relay his commentary on contemporary life.

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Leanne Morrison: Off the Edge

Leanne Morrison: Off the Edge

7 December 2019 - 23 February 2020 | Alcove and Foyer Galleries | Leanne Morrison’s practice positions her firmly within the modernist tradition, but extends past this into a consideration of the painting as a material object in and of itself. Her style is representational - but she is representing what art critic Clement Greenberg described as “the limitations that constitute the medium of painting - the flat surface, the shape of the support, the properties of the pigment”

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te MOKO on our face / in your face

te MOKO on our face / in your face

12 June – 15 Aug 2021 | Foyer Gallery |The te MOKO exhibition showcases “the face of Māori Art today”. A specifically designed installation of contemporary artwork by artists of Heretaunga engaging in reprising cultural values beyond the Marae. Of treasuring the images that identify us; Of claiming a space to stand as ourselves; Of being Māori-centric in identifying what makes for creative artistic excellence. Curated by Sandy Adsett

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Richard Brimer: Harvest

Richard Brimer: Harvest

16 November – 1 March 2020 | Holt Gallery | Harvest is a photographic exhibition by local Hawke’s Bay photographer Richard Brimer. Through large scale format photographs Richard captures portraits of the seasonal worker, those behind Hawke’s bay booming horticulture and viticultural industries. Brimer’s access to all areas of this industry allows him to capture a series of intimate photographs shot in location that investigate and document the life of the seasonal worker a diverse community adding to a rich horticulture sector in the Hawke’s Bay region.

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Bernard Winkels: Nothing For No Reason In No Order

Bernard Winkels: Nothing For No Reason In No Order

17 August - 1 December 2019 | Foyer and Alcove Galleries | Artists talk about processes a lot, processes and practices. If you boil them down, all that means is “this is how I need to make things, and this is how I manage to do it every day”. In Bernard Winkel’s work, you sense that everyday-ness doesn’t just define his daily habit of adding to an ever-growing collection of studio productions.

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David Straight: John Scott Works

David Straight: John Scott Works

3 August - 3 November 2019 | Foyer Gallery | John Scott Works is a personal visual response to the work of acclaimed New Zealand architect John Scott. Photographer David Straight explores the essence of Scott’s work – from intimate images of architectural details and moments, to ideas rooted in te ao Māori which are found in Scott's work.

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Softly Spoken: An exhibition of contemporary textiles

Softly Spoken: An exhibition of contemporary textiles

3 August - 3 November 2019 | Main Gallery | Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua or more commonly said, ‘ka mua ka muri’, is an idea of time where past and present are intertwined.In fibre, past and present co-exist. Textile art spans new and old worlds and is, perhaps more than any other art form, defined by both its links to its archaic history and its powerful radical potential in the present.

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Bob Jahnke: Lamentation

Bob Jahnke: Lamentation

19 July – 27 October 2019 | Holt Gallery | In Lamentation, Bob Jahnke commissions new work by six poets including Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makareti. Drawing on their texts, Jahnke laments the destruction of our natural world.

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Start with a Vase

Start with a Vase

18 May – 11 August 2019 | Foyer Gallery | Estelle Martin, Keil Cas, Elena Renker, Nichola Shanley, Katherine Smyth, Laurie Steer, Isobel Thom, Daegan Wells, and archival digital prints by Kim Meek. This exhibition demonstrates the exciting diversity in current ceramic production in Aotearoa, and the enduring appeal of the clay vase. This exhibition has been supported by the Ceramics Association of New Zealand, and is presented in conjunction with the launch of Issue 3 of Ceramics New Zealand Magazine.

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Yukari Kaihori: This Land is All We Know

Yukari Kaihori: This Land is All We Know

18 May – 11 August 2019 | Alcove Gallery | In this exhibition Yukari Kaihori communicates a deep concern for the environment and its critical relationship with value systems, politics and society. Kaihori says her interest in different value systems comes from her upbringing in both the East and the West, the cultural values of which had inherent differences and similarities.

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Kauri Hawkins: Red vs Blue

Kauri Hawkins: Red vs Blue

30 March  -  7 July 2019 | Holt Gallery | Kauri Hawkins (Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata) hails from Gisborne where he grew up on the sheep station at Young Nick’s Head. Referencing the arrival of James Cook’s Endeavour at Poverty Bay in 1769, Hawkins’ sculptural project explores the duality of our heritage and identity 250 years on.

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Jan Nigro: Out of the Bedroom and into the Lounge

Jan Nigro: Out of the Bedroom and into the Lounge

6 April  -  21 July 2019 | Main Gallery | New Zealand artist Jan Nigro (b. 1920, d. 2012) was born in Gisborne and attended Manutūkē School before moving to Napier 1930. This significant retrospective exhibition has been distilled from her life’s work held by the Jan Nigro Trust. The works illustrate a strong female contribution to the trajectory of contemporary New Zealand art history and reclaims Jan Nigro as an important New Zealand artist.

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Play: Seung Yul Oh, Sara Hughes and Campbell Tamahina Burns

Play: Seung Yul Oh, Sara Hughes and Campbell Tamahina Burns

24 March - 22 July 2018 | Main Gallery, Foyer & Alcove | Bring the kids to this fun, interactive exhibition titled Play art that makes you move. Walk through the enormous inflated capsules of Seung Yul Oh’s 'Periphery'. Make music with Campbell Tamahina Burns’ 'Internal Geometries'. Imagine and build your own cityscape using hundreds of wooden blocks designed by Sara Hughes for 'Heretaunga'.

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Billie Culy and Henry Lyons: At the Table

Billie Culy and Henry Lyons: At the Table

16 February 2019 - 12 May 2019 | Foyer | A new collaborative installation is using photography, found objects and audio as a unique means to connect viewers with a small group of Hawke’s Bay people who have become the subjects of unconventional portraits by Billie Culy and Henry Lyons. Titled ‘At the Table’, Culy and Lyons’ work does not feature images of the participants, rather it focuses on personal objects, accompanied by recorded conversation to tell their stories.

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EAST 2018

EAST 2018

11 August - 11 November 2018 | Alcove, Holt and Foyer | Hastings City Art Gallery presents EAST 2018, a biennial exhibition celebrating the diversity of creative practice connected to the Heretaunga Hawke’s Bay region. Vanessa Arthur // Annette Bull // John Brown // Joyce Campbell // Terri Ripeka Crawford // Jenny Gillam // Ayesha Green // Kauri Hawkins // Michael Hawksworth // Rangituhia Hollis // Peter Madden // George Nuku // Ben Pearce // Martin Poppelwell // Clare Plug // Sonya Lacey // Lara Lindsay-Parker // Jacob Scott // Ann Shelton // Natalie Robertson // Tim Thatcher // David Trubridge // Kamaka Pottery (Bruce And Estelle Martin)

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Gary Waldrom: Here We Come Again

Gary Waldrom: Here We Come Again

8 December 2018 - 17 March 2019 | Holt Gallery | Self taught Waipawa artist, Gary Waldrom looks back on a lifetime of painting. His subjects exude character, whimsy and life - confronting the viewer with their raw humanity. Bathed in the golden glow of his warm palette, they are fully actualised beings located in a shadowy unreality of time and space. These works are arresting in their scale, their capacity for joy, and the tenderness with which the artist creates a world that his subjects, whatever their foibles, can call home.

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The Water Project

The Water Project

24 November 2018 - 24 March 2019 | Main Gallery | The Water Project engages with the complex realities of water in the 21st Century - as bringer of life and ancestral voice, but also as a contested commodity and saleable resource. Thirteen artists explore the cultural, conceptual and imaginative qualities of rivers, lakes, wetlands and freshwater systems of Aotearoa/New Zealand and their crucial role in the well-being of our communities.

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Abject Failures

Abject Failures

17 November 2018 - 10 February 2019 | Foyer & Alcove | Guest curator, Chloe Geoghegan brings together new work by five emerging and mid-career artists from around Aotearoa who push material boundaries, using a mixed media approach to resist competitive image ecologies and turn contemporary notions of the abject upside down.

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Natalie Guy: Modern with a petit m

Natalie Guy: Modern with a petit m

30 June - 5 August 2018 | Holt Gallery | Auckland sculptor Natalie Guy reworks and reconfigures the domestic interior and familiar everyday objects with a shift in scale. These new objects become neither prop nor decor, possibly belonging in a modernist collector's apartment or a museum collection.

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Kay Bazzard: Waiting (For Life to Begin)

Kay Bazzard: Waiting (For Life to Begin)

19 May - 24 June 2018 | Holt Gallery | In this world where uncertainty and radical change leave many of us profoundly vulnerable or overwhelmed local sculptor Kay Bazzard challenges us to acknowledge and engage with this reality, presenting a series of figurative images sculpted in clay.

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Susan Mabin: Anthroposcenarios

Susan Mabin: Anthroposcenarios

7 April - 13 May 2018 | Holt Gallery | In 'Anthroposcenarios', Hawkes Bay- based artist, Susan Mabin, draws together detritus and natural objects from local beaches to create a body of work that includes sculpture, photography and installation. 

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Raewyn Tauira Paterson: Koroua Whare - Home Sweet Home

Raewyn Tauira Paterson: Koroua Whare - Home Sweet Home

27 January – 11 March 2018 | Alcove | Raewyn Paterson is an artist and designer of Ngāti-rere, Ngāi Tūhoe descent. Paterson's work creating interior spaces that utilise Māori design elements for wallpapers and furnishings will delight visitors in this installation.

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Vanessa Arthur: To be Everywhere at Once Yet Nowhere at All

Vanessa Arthur: To be Everywhere at Once Yet Nowhere at All

27 January – 11 March 2018 | Vanessa Arthur: To be Everywhere at Once Yet Nowhere at All | Vanessa Arthur is a jeweller based in Hawke's Bay who has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally. Moving seamlessly between sculpture and jewellery, Arthur makes objects inspired by spaces within the built urban environment - the spaces that occur between 'planning'. 

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Paratene Matchitt: Hui

Paratene Matchitt: Hui

9 December 2017 - 18 March 2018 | Main Gallery | Paratene Matchitt is one of New Zealand’s most prominent senior artists. Matchitt’s 60-year career has seen his work in most public art gallery collections in this country. The gallery is thrilled to present new work in ‘Hui’ Matchitt’s first major exhibition in three years.

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John Eaden: Towards the Grand Tour

John Eaden: Towards the Grand Tour

9 November 2017 - January 2018 | Alcove the Foyer | Hawke's Bay based landscape artist John Eaden paints 'Towards the Grand Tour', new work from 2016/17. Earlier this year, Eaden toured Italy and was able to research locations in the Vatican Gardens and in Padova in the north. Echoes of these works are also applied by Eaden to his landscapes of Hawke's Bay.

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Ben Pearce: Life Will Go on Long After Money

Ben Pearce: Life Will Go on Long After Money

9 December 2017 - 25 March 2018 | Holt Gallery | Sculptor Ben Pearce installs a large-scale work in the gallery. Based on the true story of a man who built himself a get-away on the boulder bank of Nelson’s inlet, Pearce’s sculpture is a fascinating revisit of the event in which Ben himself played a surprising role.

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Everyday Lines

Everyday Lines

26 August 2017 - 3 December 2017 | Holt, Main, Alcove and Foyer | Everyday Lines presents the work of 16 artists who interrogate objects and activities of daily life. The result is artwork that encourages us to look closer and consider what the relationship is between the artist and the everyday.

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Into the Light: Hawke's Bay Photographers

Into the Light: Hawke's Bay Photographers

28 May 2017 - 13 August 2017 | Main Gallery | This exhibition sits alongside See What I Can See, and is a selection of works from moving image and photographic artists with connections to Hawke’s Bay. These include Nova Paul, Richard Brimer, Joyce Campbell, Mark Smith, Deborah Smith, Rakai Karaitiana, Juliet Carpenter and Helena Hughes.

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Sarah Hudson: Ariā

Sarah Hudson: Ariā

6 May 2017 - 11 June 2017 | Foyer Gallery | Ariā can be defined as the physical representation of an atua (ancestor with continuing influence). These influential characters could manifest as all types of supernatural beings, deities or guardians. This work represents the intrinsic connections between whenua (land/site) and atua.

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Edith Amituanai: #keeponkimiora

Edith Amituanai: #keeponkimiora

17 June 2017 - 3 September | Hot, Foyer and Alcove | In March 2017, Edith Amituanai spent five weeks as Hastings City Art Gallery’s first artist-in-residence, working with students at Kimi Ora Community School, Flaxmere. The result is #keeponkimiora, presenting a series of powerful images of the students in their everyday life and play.

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See What I Can See: Discovering New Zealand Photography

See What I Can See: Discovering New Zealand Photography

28 May 2017 - 13 August 2017 | Main Gallery | Co-curated by Gregory O'Brien and Sarjeant Gallery curator Greg Donson See What I Can See is a celebration of that remarkable, well-travelled, ever-changing invention – the camera – the New Zealand that it captured, and the artists who wielded it. Toured by Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui

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Makareta Tātare: Uru-te-ngangana

Makareta Tātare: Uru-te-ngangana

6 May 2017 - 18 June 2017 | Alcove | Artist Makareta Tātare creates works based on kōwhaiwhai, using repetition of Māori patterns and symbols. Tātare portrays the origins of kōwhaiwhai by describing its arrival from Hawaiiki, the land Māori are said to have migrated from hundreds of years ago. Tātare says that “By going back to traditional art forms and bringing them into the contemporary world, we can truly see the evolution of identity”.

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Asaki Kajima: Respiration

Asaki Kajima: Respiration

25 March 2017 – 30 April 2017 | Foyer and Alcove | In this exhibition Hawke’s Bay artist Asaki Kajima draws on her preoccupations with connection and communication. Combining wire, clay and fibres including twine and rope, Asaki’s ethereal sculptures connect the natural and manmade.

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The Collector’s Room: Work from Private Collections of Hawke’s Bay

The Collector’s Room: Work from Private Collections of Hawke’s Bay

10 March 2017 – 28 May 2017 | Holt Gallery | Curated by Roy Dunningham and Bronwyn Thorp, this exhibition delves into some of the private collections in Hawke's Bay, to bring us diverse, dynamic works from New Zealand artists.

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Iwi Toi Kahungunu

Iwi Toi Kahungunu

18 February 2017 – 14 May 2017 | Main Gallery | Iwi Toi Kahungunu is a recently formed collective of established artists from the visual, performance and language disciplines, whom either whakapapa to Kahungunu or reside in the iwi.

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Christine Pattullo: Crossing the Bridge and Korowai for Lilian

Christine Pattullo: Crossing the Bridge and Korowai for Lilian

1 February 2017 – 19 March 2017 | Foyer and Alcove | Pattullo creates a physical connection to her forebears, as thread, stitching and fabric form both metaphoric and literal links to the past. Woven into these works are stories of whaling off Mahia Peninsula in the 1800s...

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Meryl Winter: Library of Curiosities

Meryl Winter: Library of Curiosities

17 December 2016 – 6 February 2017 | Alcove Gallery | Meryl Winter uses assemblage to draw attention to conflicting Utopian ideals and their effect on society. With this interest in diversity as a global unifying concept, Library of Curiosities sees each object or ‘book’ in the library as a representation of an aspect of the human condition.

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Rangituhia Hollis, Daniel Campbell-MacDonald and Shannon Coulomb: Tahunga

Rangituhia Hollis, Daniel Campbell-MacDonald and Shannon Coulomb: Tahunga

26 November 2016 – 26 February 2017 | Holt Gallery | In this fascinating animated work we see both everyday and transcendent potential.

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EAST 2016

EAST 2016

12 November 2016 – 5 February 2017 | Main Gallery | The EAST biennial is a selected exhibition at Hastings City Art Gallery, surveying current arts practice in the Bay. EAST includes emergent and established artists and attracts entries from throughout New Zealand, who have connections to Hawke’s Bay.

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Matt Palmer: South of Here

Matt Palmer: South of Here

22 October 2016 - 4 December 2016 | Foyer Gallery | Matt Palmer’s images avoid idealized notions of scenic beauty and pristine wilderness. South of Here is a deliberate conversation about the altered landscape. Looking at the objects that are scattered across it like a still life painter surveys the table top. Trying to find beauty in places that feel more abandoned than lived in.

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Ann Verdcourt: Still Life

Ann Verdcourt: Still Life

3 September 2016 – 16 October 2016 | Foyer Gallery | Ann Verdcourt was born in Bedfordshire, England, and immigrated to New Zealand with her husband in 1965. Her work references many other artists and art movements, drawing from her extensive knowledge of art history. In her work one can find allusions to artists including Velasquez, Matisse, Modigliani and Brancusi to the famous earthenware depiction of the Venus of Willendorf.

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John Eaden: Scene

John Eaden: Scene

3 September 2016 – 16 October 2016 | Alcove Gallery | This new series of evolved and interpreted landscape paintings by John Eaden, uses the environs of Hawke's Bay and a recent visit to the South Island as a starting point.

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James Cousins: Restless Idiom

James Cousins: Restless Idiom

14 May 2016 – 31 July 2016 | Holt Gallery | James Cousins’ painting practice pivots around questions of how a painting might function: how do we understand the status of an image? What systems guide our understanding? What processes could be used to disrupt these assumptions? Restless Idiom is a selection of Cousins’ recent work made between 2014 - 2015.

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Olafur Eliasson: The Cubic Structural Evolution Project

Olafur Eliasson: The Cubic Structural Evolution Project

4 June 2016 - 28 August 2016 | Foyer Gallery | The Cubic Structural Evolution Project is a hands-on installation by Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson. Comprising thousands of pieces of white Lego bricks scattered on a large table, the work invites Gallery visitors to become ‘architects’ by using the Lego to create endlessly re-forming structures limited only by imagination.

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Juliet Carpenter: Silent Treatment

Juliet Carpenter: Silent Treatment

23 July 2016 – 28 August 2016 | Alcove | In this work Juliet Carpenter builds a narrative around the consumption and regurgitation of image technology. Carpenter’s practice has an ongoing concern with the re-purposing of historical formats and the cycles of self-affirmation that occur through image making. In Silent Treatment history becomes unhinged and dissolves as voices are superimposed over images of nature.

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Martin Poppelwell: Index

Martin Poppelwell: Index

30 July 2016 - 24 October 2016 | Main Gallery | This idiosyncratic look at the alphabet uses images and icons that Poppelwell has built up over years. Exploring the idea of the ‘alphabet’, the project is an acknowledgement of how in the context of New Zealand, Te Reo is entirely integral to how we think about English.

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Woollaston: The Wallace Arts Trust Collection

Woollaston: The Wallace Arts Trust Collection

13 August 2016 - 13 November 2016 | Holt Gallery | Curated by John Eaden, this exhibition of large and small oil paintings includes Toss Woollaston’s landscape...

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Visiting Asia

Visiting Asia

16 April - 17 July 2016 | Main Gallery | This vibrant exhibition shares the perspectives of New Zealand artists who have undertaken residencies in China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

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Shannon Te Ao: A Torch And A Light (cover)

Shannon Te Ao: A Torch And A Light (cover)

27 February 2016 – 17 April 2016 | Alcove | Video by Shannon Te Ao, A torch and a light (cover), 2015. In the words of a pre-colonial waiata, the narrator describes the night sky as he yearns for his wife from whom he has separated and who is now with the elders of her whanau. We are privy then, to a puzzling act in which a figure moulds and shapes waterlogged towels, intentionally manipulating them into an ambiguous form.

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Gregor Kregar: Lost World

Gregor Kregar: Lost World

27 February 2016 - 1 May 2016 | Foyer | In Lost World, sculptor Gregor Kregar combines structures made from recycled glass with large stylized bronze dinosaurs. Through this unusual juxtaposition the artist creates an environment to surprise and engage the viewer. Kregar’s interest in dinosaurs was sparked by observing his four year old’s fascination for these creatures.

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Paula Taaffe: The Endling

Paula Taaffe: The Endling

November 28 2015 – February 14 2016 | Foyer Gallery | Endling is a term used for the last of a species or subspecies. Featuring a cast of handmade creatures, this low-fi, stop motion animation is part poem, part call to action, highlighting a most dire and immediate issue for us all – extinction of endangered species.

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Selling the Dream: Classic  New Zealand Tourism Posters

Selling the Dream: Classic New Zealand Tourism Posters

5 December 2015  – 17 January 2016 | Main Gallery | More than 50 lithographs and silk-screen prints produced by some of New Zealand’s leading commercial artists between the 1920's and 1960's make up the exhibition Selling the Dream: Classic New Zealand Tourism Posters.

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Wellesley Binding: At the Wild Shore

Wellesley Binding: At the Wild Shore

23 April 2016 – 22 May 2016 | Foyer Gallery | Binding’s paintings are a response on a personal level to the battles fought in the First World War. Communicating the events through an on the ground perspective, capturing intimate instances of action and activity.

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Waitangi Wahine

Waitangi Wahine

30 January 2016 – 3 April 2016 | Main Gallery | In commemoration of the 175th anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti o te Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi, this exhibition features five Mana Wahine artists, all with reputations for pushing boundaries.

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Emily Karaka: Settlement

Emily Karaka: Settlement

30 January 2016 – 3 April 2016 | Main Gallery | Emily Karaka’s exhibition Settlement explores the Crown’s settlement process, old land claims and Turton Deeds transactions that alienated lands and islands from the Tribes of Tamaki.

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Daniel Unverricht: Ghosting

Daniel Unverricht: Ghosting

13 February 2016 – 29 April 2016 | Holt Gallery | Ghosting depicts the unsettling urban and suburban spaces of Hastings and Napier. Exploring the architectural environment over the human, Unverricht evokes a sense of the still empty night-time darkness that surrounds these spaces.

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Te Kāhui Maunga Kura Toi - 30 Years of Contemporary Māori Art from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

Te Kāhui Maunga Kura Toi - 30 Years of Contemporary Māori Art from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

September 12 – November 22 | Main Gallery | Te Kāhui Maunga Kura Toi brings together the work of carvers, weavers and multi-media artists from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, to form a kāhui marking the tertiary provider’s 30 year anniversary.

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NZ Māori Artists and Writers 1973 to 1993 - Photographs by John Miller

NZ Māori Artists and Writers 1973 to 1993 - Photographs by John Miller

September 12 2015 – November 22 2015 | Foyer Gallery | John Miller is one of New Zealand’s finest documentary photographers. In 2003 he received a Media Peace Prize Lifetime Award in recognition of his photography and its role in helping promote peace.

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Wellesley Binding, David Guerin and Bridget Sutherland: Word and Deed: Art, Memory and the First World War

Wellesley Binding, David Guerin and Bridget Sutherland: Word and Deed: Art, Memory and the First World War

November 11 2015 – January 31, 2016 | Holt Gallery | Leaving war platitudes behind, a sculptor, painter, and filmmaker strike out separately into fields where images and words may realign themselves in the imagination, with the deed of history known as the Great War.

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Five by Five: New Conversations With Clay

Five by Five: New Conversations With Clay

1 August 2015 - 26 October 2015 | Holt Gallery | In 1980, Denis Cohn Gallery in Auckland staged an exhibition of five artists who each showed five works. The artists - Bronwynne Cornish, Peter Hawkesby, Denis O’Connor, John Parker and Warren Tippett - shared a desire to abandon convention and approach ceramics from a new direction that was at some remove from the tradition of the craft potter. The works they showed were relentlessly non-functional and influenced by a range of philosophies and working processes.

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Jonathan Brown: No Direct Access to Reality

Jonathan Brown: No Direct Access to Reality

4 July 2015 - 6 September 2015 | Foyer Gallery | Winner of the 2012 Kaipara Foundation Wallace Trust Award, John Brown is a sculptor, now based in Hawke’s Bay. In this exhibition Brown asks visitors to look at objects in a different way, with a selection of new sculptural work.

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Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith: Tungaru - The Kiribati Project

Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith: Tungaru - The Kiribati Project

13 June 2015 - 30 August 2015 | Main Gallery | Tungaru: The Kiribati Project is a collaboration between two artists - Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith. Jeff, Chris and their families travelled to Kiribati in July 2012 to spend time with Chris’ extended family and to work on this collaborative project, which celebrates the culture of Kiribati.

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Kupe Sites

Kupe Sites

28 March 2015 - 3 May 2015 | Main Gallery | Kupe Sites - Ngä tapuwae o Kupe | Landmarks of the great voyager - presents 36 stunning black-and-white photographs that show physical landmarks associated with Kupe’s voyage to Aotearoa. It also tells some of the stories of these special places.

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Michael Hawksworth: hard SF

Michael Hawksworth: hard SF

16 May 2015 – 19 July 2015 | Holt Gallery | Michael Hawksworth exhibits a new body of work that includes drawings and collages alongside large-scale oil paintings. This exhibition links elements of early modernist abstraction with the science fiction genre.

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Adam Portraiture Award

Adam Portraiture Award

11 April 2015 – 21 June 2015 | Foyer Gallery | The 2014 Adam Portraiture Award shows the best of contemporary portrait painting from artists throughout New Zealand. Selected and judged by Dr Nicola Kalinsky, Director of The Barber Institute, UK, this exhibition spans a range of portraiture from intimate personal images to large scale works of more familiar subjects. Finalists selected from over 330 entries are showcased, including the winning portrait Tim, by 23 year old Henry Christian-Slane.

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Brian Brake: Lens on China and Japan

Brian Brake: Lens on China and Japan

28 February 2015 – 1 June 2015 | Main Gallery | Brian Brake is widely regarded as New Zealand’s most successful international photographer. His career spanned forty years, from the 1940’s to his death in 1988. This exhibition offers two slices from Brian Brake’s career: photographs of China in late 1950’s, and those of Japan in 1963 and 1964. These gained relatively little attention at the time, but today they firmly rank amongst his best work.

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Doris Lusk: The Lake, Tuai

Doris Lusk: The Lake, Tuai

23 April 2016 – 29 May 2016 | Alcove | To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Doris Lusk’s death and the 100 year anniversary of her birth in May the gallery is showing her painting The Lake, Tuai 1948.

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Ricks Terstappen: Rust Never Fails

Ricks Terstappen: Rust Never Fails

12 December 2014 - 1 February 2015 | Alcove and Foyer Gallery | The sculptural works of Ricks Terstappen are an on-going exploration of scale, form and colour. Whether abstract or figurative, each sculpture expresses Ricks’ love of metalwork and his in-depth knowledge of its properties and processes.

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Israel Birch: Painting with Light

Israel Birch: Painting with Light

13 December 2014 - 15 March 2015| Holt Gallery | The team at Hastings City Art Gallery are excited to present a solo exhibition of work by Israel Tangaroa Birch - one of the country's leading contemporary Maori artists.

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Peter Donovan: A Homecoming

Peter Donovan: A Homecoming

18 October 2014 - 30 November 2014 | Foyer Gallery | It is fitting that Peter Donovan’s ‘A Homecoming’ is shown at Hastings City Art Gallery, given that Peter’s first exhibition was held at a the 242 Gallery in Hastings in 1991, with Christine Conrad and Michael Smither. Peter was also a finalist in the Norsewear Art Awards here in Hastings in 2003.

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EAST 2014

EAST 2014

15 November 2014 – 15 February 2015 | Main Gallery | Hawke’s Bay’s biennial regional contemporary art exhibition highlights the unique creative capital of our province, and challenges the audience to consider new perspectives on the familiar. An external curator selects the work for EAST and this year that is esteemed Director of the Centre for Art Research at The University of Auckland, Linda Tyler.

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Now and Then: Enduring and Developing Themes In Contemporary New Zealand Photography

Now and Then: Enduring and Developing Themes In Contemporary New Zealand Photography

7 December 2013 - 2 February 2014 | The work of over 45 prominent New Zealand fine art photographers is gathered together for this exhibition. The result is a comprehensive exploration of a range of themes and trends which have emerged during the past four decades.

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F4: The Album

F4: The Album

30 August 2014 - 30 November 2014 | Holt Gallery | F4 is an artistic collective comprising of artists Susan Jowsey and Marcus Williams, and their children Jesse Williams and Mercy Williams. This new project developed for the Hastings City Art Gallery sees Susan and Marcus continue to explore their unique family dynamic using photography.

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Who Am I?

Who Am I?

9 August 2014 - 27 October 2014 | Main Gallery | This exhibition of portraits from the Dowse collection includes work by many household names including Rita Angus, Frances Hodgkins and Toss Woollaston. Elements of their works, like pose, gaze, style and setting are examined. The exhibition features hands-on activities, enabling children and their families to see how portraiture can convey the personalities of its subjects.

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Atahira: The Day After Tomorrow

Atahira: The Day After Tomorrow

31 May 2014 - 7 September 2014 | Foyer Gallery | This exhibition encompasses Matariki, which is a time for reflection. The word 'atahira' can be translated as 'the day after tomorrow', and local contemporary Maori artists Raewyn Paterson and Emanuel Dunn invite us to reflect on our relationship with the environment and what we hope to do over the next year for our ecosystem.

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Momo kauae: moko kauae in contemporary art

Momo kauae: moko kauae in contemporary art

17 May 2014 - 17 August 2014 | Holt Gallery | Momo kauae: moko kauae in contemporary art draws together the work of twelve contemporary New Zealand artists and two poets.This group of artists are all tangata whenua, connected to many iwi Māori throughout Aotearoa, some well-established and others emerging. The exhibition explores ways in which these artists have employed and referenced elements of moko kauae, the chin moko worn by Māori women. Through these moko kauae patterns, connections are made to whakapapa and whānau, mana wahine, mana Māori, ancestral stories, Māori world views, strength, struggle and identity.

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Reuben Paterson: At the Edge of a Mirror

Reuben Paterson: At the Edge of a Mirror

3 May 2014 – 27 July 2014 | Main Gallery | Renowned New Zealand contemporary artist Reuben Paterson has developed a wide following in recent years for his large-scale creations in glitter and diamond dust.

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Fiona Fox: Inscription of My Breath

Fiona Fox: Inscription of My Breath

22 February 2014 - 18 May 2014 | Alcove Gallery | Talented emerging artist Fiona Fox’s ethereal works represent an ‘unconscious language’ which is written in thread. Made of clay, thread and wire, Fiona says, “the sculptures are an act of notation through hieroglyphics that manifest a desire to be heard, not of the voice but of the unconscious other that resonates a collective pre-linguistic frequency.

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Gerda Leenards: Following the Blue Ribbon - Journeys on the River Li

Gerda Leenards: Following the Blue Ribbon - Journeys on the River Li

1 February 2014 - 4 May 2014 | Main Gallery | This collection of painted screens, panels and drawings inspired by Gerda Leenards 2007 and 2008 trips down China’s River Li began in Guilin, sister city of Hastings.

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Corrugations: The Art of Jeff Thomson

Corrugations: The Art of Jeff Thomson

15 February 2014 - 21 April 2014 | Main Gallery | This exhibition examines three decades of work by Kiwi sculptor Jeff Thomson. Known as 'the iron man of Australasia', the artist's trademark style came to the fore in the early '80s when he crafted a series of mailboxes from roadside materials.

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