A Lonely Place Facing The Sun presents moving image installation works by Amber-Jayne Bain, as the realisation of a two year Master of Fine Arts degree at Massey University.
‘Family folklore can warp and change with the telling’ - Marie-Jean Mills
This exhibition is an exploration of memory, isolation, domestic repetition and the juxtaposition of moving and still photographic imagery. Immersive and visual, it brings past and present together, and offers a response to the plurality of memory enacted through stories inherited from my mother, Marie-Jean, about her childhood on Waitai, Rangitoto ki te Tonga, D’Urville Island. The work draws upon an abundant trove of colonial settler female experiences recorded by my matriarchal line, and incorporates my own memories of a similar family place, Waitui, in the outermost tip of the Marborough Sounds.
EVENT
Artist talk
Saturday 15 February, 1pm
CONTACT
Website: ajbain.com
Email: aj@ajbain.com
Instagram: @amber_jayne_bain
#MovingStills #ArtAndMemory #InstallationArtist
A collection of work by ten Masters of Architecture students from the Wellington School of Architecture. From drawings, to models, to collages, and more, In the Making showcases a range of approaches to the making of architecture.
Bo Amoafo, Tom Arbuckle, Callum Campbell, Emelie Clarke, Logan Cooper, Harriet Cobham, Harry Coxhead-Whyte, Jordan Knight, Rebecca Kneale, Ellen O'Malley.
CLOSING EVENT
Saturday 8 February, 6pm
CONTACT
Instagram: @not.for.construction
Image credits:
Callum Campbell
Tom Arbuckle
Harriet Cobham
Harry Coxhead-Whyte
What matters to first-time mothers? This exhibit will showcase bold multimedia work by new mothers. It presents cutting-edge research on motherhood, storytelling, and care. “It takes a village”, but what does that look like? Visitors are invited to contribute to a collage that represents our vision of collective caretaking.
Open to everyone, including babies and children.
EVENT
Play morning and parent coffee
Thursday 30 January, 9am - 12pm
#TheMotheringVillage #MaternalWellBeing
Fragile Foundations is a photographic exhibition that brings into focus the earthquake-prone buildings of Wellington—a city that knows the ground beneath it can shift at any moment. Part visual critique of the negligence that postpones essential upkeep, part social commentary on the changing nature of building codes and political risk appetites, this exhibition documents a period of time characterised equally by inertia and change.
The buildings featured in this exhibition are a part of our daily urban landscape, chosen for their personal, aesthetic, historical and architectural significance. Captured on medium format film with a Mamiya 645, these monochrome images are hand-developed, reflecting the enduring yet vulnerable nature of our city. Following the traditions of both documentary and architectural photography, the black and white images highlight the strength and beauty of these buildings—the textures, the lines, the way they stand against the times, each with its story of resilience and risk.
CONTACT
Instagram: fragile_foundations
Images
Antony Kitchener, Adelaide Hotel
Poster Image, Antony Kitchener, Education House
During lockdown I started a project called Inksolation. I'd generate a prompt using a random word generator and create an artwork inspired by that word. What came out was an incredible body of work; often hilarious, usually whackadoo. My pals ended up eagerly awaiting the next one too and creativity became a great balm against the lockdown depression. It gave me a sense of purpose, something to focus on, and made people laugh.
Skip forward four years and I'm at another division in my life, having been made redundant May 2024. While this is a completely different landscape to that of lockdown, I've found myself teetering along a similar crevasse; feeling adrift and wanting purpose. This show is a revival of my prompt challenge, an artwork created in response to a randomly generated word. It's a remedy to my current situation, of wanting to capture those feelings of creative vigour and a safety net of structure.
CONTACT
Instagram: @beezy_pops
Images
Becks Popham, Drift
Becks Popham, Luminous
Becks Popham, Echo
YOUR PURCHASES HAVE POWER. SHOP LOCAL. MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
FEATURING GOOD STUFF BY:
melissa boardman . baron hasselhoff’s chocolates . forest drawn . moonrise yarn . hm makes hats . keer wood and ironworks . gael cherian . snaxpax . jackelope treasures . nana glamour . anna venture . harriet bright . oh goodness . ngaere mackinnon . simply kawakawa . pepper raccoon . nisa . galit maxwell pottery . lilla bean . carofeno makes . genevieve packer . much much . double happy hot sauces . poppy + sage . lachy . sam brown . the foliage studio .
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Facebook: JUST GOOD STUFF
Instagram: @justgoodstuffnz
#NZMade #ShopLocalNZ #BuyNZMade
ARTISTS
Aroha Matchitt Millar (Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe)
Jazmin Tainui Mihi (Te Whānau-Ā-Apanui, Whakatōhea, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine)
Frankie Matchitt Millar (Te Whakatōhea, Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe)
Huia Farrar Taite Monro (Tainui, Ngāpuhi, Whakatōhea)
'Hōmai ō Taringa Kia Ngaua e Au' is a whakataukī that asks for your ears to listen when your tipuna have something important to say. Reconnecting with knowledge held in whakapapa, Aroha Matchitt Millar follows in the footsteps of Tane ascending space and time to collect ngā kete o te wānanga. Connecting to her nan, Matchitt Millar locates this body of work in the customary practice of skinning manu. Matchitt Millar takes you through the transformation of a tūī in the form of taonga tuku iho. Accompanied by photographic works by Jazmin Tainui Mihi as well as performance and written elements by Frankie Matchitt Millar and Huia Farrar Taite Monro.
Tomorrow I braid muka
Into rattails
Thinking about my mother
and
Her mother
Would they pull me by this muka?
Like my cousin's ear
Hōmai ō Taringa Kia Ngaua e Au
Does the Tūī miss that pull of
Knowledge too?
CONTACT
Aroha Millar: @aroha_millar
Jazmin Tainui Mihi: @jazmin.tainui.mihi
Images:
Hōmai ō Taringa Kia Ngaua e Au exhibition poster, photo by Jazmin Tainui Mihi
Te Kete Tuauri, jewellery works by Aroha Matchitt Millar, 2024
#Māori #MāoriArt #Jewellery
Kihikihi is an interactive sound installation inspired by the New Zealand chorus cicada, which is renowned for its rhythmic and persistent sound that heralds the end of summer.
In the installation, the audience can activate ‘electronic insects’ by placing them on ‘electronic trees’: once contact is made, the insect starts glowing and chirping. The insects form an orchestra, their voices blending and interweaving into a polyrhythmic sound cloud.
This participatory installation provokes contemplation on the deeper interwovenness of our natural environment and the importance of insects to human survival. If the world-wide insect decline continues at its rapid rate, will artificial insects be all that we have left? Beyond their usefulness to the ecosystem, what are we losing culturally and emotionally? Who will sing for us in summer?
Website: kihikihi.info
The Spatial Ecologies Lab is an interfaculty research initiative collaboratively hosted by the School of Architecture and the School of Design. It serves as a dynamic platform for advanced exploration of environmental and spatial challenges, combining the strengths of both disciplines. The Lab supports research candidates at Master's and PhD levels, fostering interdisciplinary inquiry that bridges architectural, ecological , and design perspectives.
The Spatial Ecologies Lab exhibtion presents an exploration of architecture, art, and design, in a series of projects that examine our relationship with the built and natural world.
Drawing from the greater Wellington region, the works originate from intensive fieldwork, embracing the tactile, audible and and visual materialities of the environment. Through innovative methods these projects challenge static interpretations of the natural environment.
Freddie Cross Considering a 4D Site Model
In recent years the field of architectural site analysis has evolved significantly, driven by advancements in drone technology and data processing capabilities. Drone based 4D site modelling can provide nuanced understanding of sites, tracking temporal shifts and environmental changes that are critical for resilient architectural design.
Luke Campbell Ornate Chronicals
Dhairya Chhaya Social Computer Interface
Exploring the development of a 'social computer interface' - a system designed to democratise the architectural design process by enabling public participation through a digital platform.
Yufan Chen Looking at Depth
The visual novel is a type of game that takes the form of digital interactive fiction. visual novels usually use fixed illustrations, this research explores using a changing Depth of Field to enhance immersion in the visual novel.
Jie Jin Extended Performance
Street performances are an essential part of urban culture, fostering community and social interaction ans reflecting the artistic pulse of a city while serving as a catalyst for cultural exchange. This research explores the transformative potential of Augmented Reality (AR) technologies to enhance the street performance experience.
Mitchell Johnson Echoes in Synaesthesia
Integrating fluctuating natural elements - such as sound noise and light - into architectural design may not only improve sensory experiences but also challenge traditional boundaries between built structures and the environment.
Calvin Molina p:k Eco-Systemicity
'p:k' has a goal to revive the human's position in the natural ecosystem through design strategies, currently focusing on food fermentation.
Images:
100 hours of flight, Freddie Cross, (2024), Technologies used: Moving image Drone, Still image, LiDAR Scanning, Photogrammetry
Bachata, Mambo, Salsa, Samba, Zouk, Latin dance and music – ¡nos encanta!
Join us as we celebrate Wellington’s vibrant Latin dance community through photography. This exhibition offers an intimate glimpse backstage as our dancers get ready to perform at the 2024 Wellington Latin Showcase.
SAMBA NO PE WORKSHOP
Estudio de Samba Wellington invites you to a special 2 hour workshop. Join us in Thistle Hall Gallery where you'll learn the vibrant dance steps of Brazil and embrace the joy of samba.
Wednesday 20 November
6.30 - 8.30pm
Thistle Hall Gallery (downstairs)
Koha Entry
FREE DANCE CLASSES
Want to give Latin dance a try? Enjoy a free Latin dance taster class upstairs at Thistle Hall. No booking required just turn up 5 minutes before each class starts.
Saturday 23 November
SALSA / Salsa Magic, 5:15 - 6pm
SAMBA / Estúdio de Samba, 6:15 - 7:15pm
BACHATA / Salsa Therapy, 7:30 - 8:15pm
LATIN DANCE PARTY
A Latin Dance Party with a little bit of everything - including a few performances. Don't be late!
Saturday 23 November
9 - 12pm
Thistle Hall (upstairs)
Entry fee $10 - cash or online banking at the door
FACEBOOK EVENT
Friday night - Late night viewing
Sponsored by Creative Communities NZ and 45 Design Studio
The concept for this exhibition is to have a joint photography and interactive tactile art books made by low vision and blind artists who also have physical and intellectual disabilities. This exhibition enables these artists to express their creativity to the wider community. As well as showcasing what individuals with disabilities can achieve.
CONTACT
Instagram: @evaronz
Facebook: Evaro
#Evaro #Wellington #Art #EmpoweringDisability #Photography
Made by Maranga is made up of a group of young adults with intellectual disabilities who have created a wide range of products to show case their wonderful skills to the community.
CONTACT
Instagram: @madebymaranga
Facebook: Made by Maranga
Your favourite Scary art show is back! Skullduggery Art Show returns to Thistle Hall for its third year. The show features traditional and digital drawings, paintings and sculpture. Visitors to Skullduggery are guaranteed to see something creepy and cool that they have never seen before! Featuring the work of over 50 professional New Zealand artists the work ranges from realism to pop surrealism, illustration to lowbrow art.
ARTISTS
Andrew Durno . Andy Shaw . Anna Johnstone . Anton Gustilo . Anton Becic . Amit Dutta . Ben Stenbeck . Bill Hunt . Blake Wood . Cheryl Ong . Cassandra Lopez . Christopher Menges . Christian Pearce . Claire Tobin . Clark Roworth . Dana Franklin . Daniel Falconer . Dido . EJ Thorpe . Gaboleps . Garry Buckley . Gino Acevedo . Gus Hunter . Ivan Vegar . Imery Watson . Jack Bronswijk . James Doyle . Jemma McLean . Jenny Arcus . Joaquin Loyzaga . Johnny Fraser Allen . Matt Katz . Matty Rodgers . Matt Haworth . Malangeo . Mika Turnbull . Nathan Tucker . Nick Keller . Nyssa Skorji . Otis Chamberlain . Rebekah Tisch . Ross Murray . Sam Beetham .Sam Balzer . Simona Tositti . Dr Morse . Sonja Howard . Stacey Robson . Stacy A. Wilde . Stephen Lambert . Stephen Crowe . Stephen Sebastian Njoto . Steven Saunders .Stuart Whittaker . Tanya Marriott . Tien . Tom Robinson . Thomas Oates . Warren Mahy . Will Furneaux
EVENTS
Friday 1 November: 5pm & 6pm
Guided tour of the show by show Producers Kate Jorgensen and Paul Tobin
Free event.
Bookings essential. Book on Eventfinda.
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Sunday 3 November: 1pm
Costumed life drawing class
Free event.
CONTACT
Website: www.whitecloudworlds.com
Instagram: @skullduggery_art_show
#SkullduggeryArtShow #WhiteCloudWorlds
47 years of Wellington's local punk scene documented and presented as an evolving archive of the capital's history told through the music, photos, posters and ephemera of underground creativity. Dedicated to Jim Gardner/ Skippy.
CLOSING PARTY
Saturday 26 October 26
Barrel Brothers Bar, Constable St, Newtown
featuring Unsanitary Napkin, Condenser, Fog, E.U.G, No Sector.
CONTACT
Email: mail@upthepunks.co.nz
Instagram: @upthepunks2024
Facebook: Up The Punks
Print OnSITE is a group show featuring the work of Toi Rauwhārangi, College of Creative Arts students, from Massey University.
This exhibition celebrates Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington, through the medium of Textile Design. It showcases surface pattern as a means of observing and analyzing the urban environment.
Students travel from all over the country to study at Massey; with many exhibitors new to Te Whanganui a Tara, this exhibition documents how they have connected to the city. Observing and engaging with the capital through several perspectives, but fundamentally through drawing, with walking and drawing framed as a mode of encounter with the world around us.
Sketches of the inner city were then developed through sublimation printing and digital, hand-painted and collage processes.
The exhibition Print OnSITE presents a range of textile and ceramic tile designs that celebrate the inner city's rich diversity through color, texture, pattern, mark, and movement.
EXHIBITORS
Maggie Craig-Pearson . Zoe Elmey . Demi Jonassen . Frances Le Mesurier . Caitlin Lovegrove . Rosa MacDougall . Holly McKay . Christie Morse . Ferina Muavae . Sarina Oetgen . Mia O'Malley . Ishmael Tavita Faaiuaso . Phillip Tew
CONTACT
Website: creative.massey.ac.nz/study/design/#textile
Instagram: @print_onsite
Image: Design development by Textile Student Maggie Craig-Pearson.
#Textiles #Pattern #TextileDesign
Aotearoa Shibui are works inspired by the Asian concept of a profound and unassuming feeling. The form values simplicity and the subtle beauty of minimalism, imperfect naturalness and daily uses. Kapiti artists Emily, Yvonne and Deb each use sustainable art practices to bring their own multi media interpretations of shibui together.
Digital printed textiles, painted tatoushi works, sashiko and design applications on interior textiles, wearable arts and wall art are for sale.
Sponsored by Paraparaumu Community Board.
WORKSHOPS
All welcome, 10 people maximum.
$30 per 1 hour workshop, 12 - 2pm daily.
Materials available or BYO art or stitch project.
Textiles and Sashiko with tutor Deb Donnelly
Tuesday 8 October, 12 & 1pm
Friday 11 October, 12 & 1pm
Sashiko stitch as boro visible mending on textiles, materials provided.
To register email deb.donnellydtd@gmail.com
Orizome with tutor Yvonne de Mille
Wednesday 9 October, 12 & 1pm
Thursday 10 October, 12 & 1pm
Orizome dyes on paper workshop demonstrations.
To register email ydemille@gmail.com
CONTACT
Website: www.wia2020.org
Instagram:
@aotearoa.shibui
@debdonnelly1
@ydemillenz
#SashikoStitch #AotearoaShibui #Orizome
Tūmanako! (Hope!) is a yearly art exhibition for children and young people to express their hopes for an inclusive Aotearoa where all lives are valued, and to support a nuclear-free world. In times of conflict and division, Tūmanako! helps them learn about the root causes of violence and encourages peace.
Organised by SGINZ and supported by Wellington City Council, the exhibition was opened at Johnsonville Library Waitohi in August and is now coming to the city to be displayed across two neighbouring galleries: Thistle Hall Community Gallery and Te Whare Manaaki o Toda peace gallery - come and visit them both!
This year’s theme is inspired by a whakataukī:
Kotahi te kākano whakaaro, he nui ngā hua o te rākau houhou rongo.
One seed of thought grows the forest of peace.
CONTACT
Website: Tūmanako! - Children's Art Works for Peace
Email: gallery@sginz.org
Instagram: @whare_manaaki_o_toda
This event is part of the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture, by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
When Kaikoura shook, photographer Andy Spain got Wellington's list of earthquake prone buildings and started photographing them. The idea of fixing time became appealing, as many of the buildings were demolished. When asked to exhibit them together however, Andy began to ask what these remnants meant.
He visited the petals saved from Athfield's church of First Church of Christ Scientist and saw their fragility. He talked to architects about remedial work which never saw the light of day.
What were the consequences of all these traces existing in a time when the fates of many Wellington buildings are so contested? Where heritage competes with social housing, which competes with sustainable reuse, and so on.
So, this exhibition is not about the photographs that have been taken, or the drawings drawn, or the artworks saved. It is about how we decide to use these remnants, and what stories we want them to tell.
PUBLIC TALK - A Rather Queer Cuba Street
Saturday 28 September, 1 - 2pm
Cuba Street has a long history of being home to a diversity of businesses and organisations related to Takatāpui Rainbow+ communities. From the Club Exotique strip club, to the Royal Oak hotel, to Jacquie Grant’s pet shop with the masturbans monkey. While most of these establishments don’t exist anymore, some of the buildings still do – echoing a very queer past. Join the team from PrideNZ for a virtual 1-hour walk up Cuba Street, stepping into sometimes imaginary doorways, to hear first-hand stories told with voices from the PrideNZ audio collection.
FACEBOOK EVENT
INSTAGRAM
Andy Spain @andyspain_photography
New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch @nzia_wellington
Athfield Architects @athfieldarchitects
A collective of industry professionals and freelancers showcasing our personal projects beyond the workplace! Non Disclosed Artist 2024 ventures into the unknown, exploring worlds beyond our universe and alternate realities.
ARTISTS
Dana Franklin . Reynold Tagore . Skye Liu . Elaine Chong . Eva Hu . Jerome Moo . Priten Patel . Ludo Mortuus . Amit Dutta . Marnus Nagel . Andrew McCulloch . Victor Sanz Fernandez . Noah Forman . Ivan Vegar . Chantal McIlraith . Matt Katz . Hajnalka Mayor . Clark Roworth . Andreja Vuckovic . Marie Tricart . Sam Balzer . Myriam Catrin . Steven Saunders
EVENTS
Q and A + sculpting and painting demonstration
Wednesday 18 September
Q and A + sculpting and painting demo
Saturday 21 September
CONTACT
Website: www.nondisclosedartist.co.nz
Instagram: @nondisclosedartist
#NonDisclosedArtist #NonDisclosedArtist2024 #NDA #NZartist #Space #Aliens #FantasyArt #Sculpture
Cross beyond the threshold of everyday into sTations, a surrealistic meditation on the challenges of connection and intimacy found in human spirituality. Samih brings together works of graphite that are inspired by dreams and stories from his Aramaic heritage. Enter into dialogue with the figures in each piece, as they desire or fear connection with you, and unravel their dance between light and shadow.
Images:
Samih Zaia, The Christ of Aaru, after Salvador Dali, The Christ of Saint John of the Christ
Samih Zaia, Yichud