Start Date
9 May -  
End Date
14 May 2023
Artist
Multiple Artists
Main Image
Magical Realism
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Friday 12pm to 6pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am to 6pm
Description

Exhibitors:

Clark Roworth
Sam Balzer
Amit Dutta
Gabriel Romero
Ben Dellabarca
Nathan Tucker
Nick Fields

This Exhibition will showcase artwork from 7 Wellington based artists that blurs the lines between the surreal and the real; the sublimely fantastical and the gritty everyday. Themes of mental health and resilience may also feature throughout.
Classical representational art skills have become quite undervalued in contemporary/modern art and in formal art education. We hope to show that imagination and creativity, expressed through the use of strong representational art skills, are as valid and relevant as conceptual and abstract.

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Start Date
1 May -  
End Date
7 May 2023
Artist
Rachel Radford
Main Image
Wildfire 3
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Thursday, 10am - 6pm
Friday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm
Sunday, 10am - 1pm
Description

Wildfire: a series of paintings by Wellington artist Rachel Radford.

Initially inspired by the gorgeous sunsets that were caused by the Australian wildfires, Rachel has continued to be inspired by skycapes that result from wildfires that have surfaced in the media.

Tapping into themes of climate change and the human impact on the world, Rachel has found the beauty in some of these heavy themes, and highlights how we can continue to remember and face these events even when they no longer appear in our feeds.

These works are consistent with her energetic painterly style, and leverage gold leaf elegantly.

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Start Date
24 April -  
End Date
30 April 2023
Artist
Emily Benefield
Main Image
Major Tom and the Easter Bunny
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday, 12pm - 5pm
Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-6pm
Sunday, 10am - 1pm
Description

Following on from her sold out show in October 2021, Peeps at Nature, Emily is again exhibiting her gorgeous, funny collages in What’s wrong with this picture?


Emily will be showing a wide range of collage sizes, including cards and framed and unframed pieces.


10 percent of the sales will go towards Cyclone Gabrielle flood relief. Emily is looking forward to having an opening night this time around as Covid restrictions meant she was unable to have one for Peeps at Nature.

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Start Date
17 April -  
End Date
23 April 2023
Artist
Emily Harris
Main Image
Emily Harris  extract
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, 10am - 2pm
Description

Emilys solo exhibition of abstract collages is inspired by Wellington land and cityscapes. Depictions of inner city scenery, distant hills, and natural environments are interpreted within a minimal palette creating familiar vistas for the viewer to discover. Emily uses repetitive patterns and shapes to create uniformity in her works; blending monochromatic collage with mixed media such as ink and thread to create textural  layered works.

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Start Date
10 April -  
End Date
16 April 2023
Artist
Clotilde Damico
Main Image
Seaside scene - mist
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday, 10:30am - 6:30pm
Description

I have been captivated by the beauty of New Zealand for the past seven years, and I am delighted to share my work today. I wish it was  an invitation to experience the poetry of the Living.


Each image is the result of a deep and introspective conversation, much like the ones you might have with a tree if you take the time to listen, or with a river if you allow yourself to be immersed in its flow. I have an unwavering tenderness for all living things and strive to capture their essence.


Some pieces aim to recreate a specific moment, with an abstract rendering. Others showcase the harmony of lines, through drawing or engraving.


I delight in surrendering control and welcoming the unexpected moments that emerge during the creative process. Although my artwork may not  reflect this sense of chaos, it is present within each piece I create.

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Start Date
3 April -  
End Date
9 April 2023
Artist
Alecia Koenigsberger
Main Image
Penguins
Opening
Opening Hours
Monday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm
Description

Colour plays a big part in my life. I love using a lot of paint in my work and clearly have my favourite colours. Influenced by nature , my paintings are created from my feelings and thoughts towards the ocean and the birds. Lines and layering are also important to me.

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@aleciakoe

Start Date
27 March -  
End Date
2 April 2023
Artist
Jessica Gurnsey
Main Image
Young woman at home with posters
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Thursday, 11am - 5pm
Friday - Saturday; 10am- 6pm
Sunday - 10am - 12pm
Description

“Capturing people in their places is one of the most beautiful and fascinating things I've ever achieved. I love stepping back from a painting and recognising their expression, the specific way their hair falls, the creases by their eyes, and the way their cheeks blush when they smile. I love imperfections painted perfectly because these are what make us human.”

People Watching 2023 is young artist Jessica Gurnsey’s first-ever solo exhibition. After becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Adam Portraiture Award in 2022, Jessica has built up a collection of original acrylic on canvas portraits that capture the chaos, details, and emotion of everyday people in their places.
This event is free entry, running for one week only!  
Originals and limited edition prints are available for purchase.

Website        Exhibition page      Email     Instagram - @jessicagurnseyart

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Start Date
20 March -  
End Date
26 March 2023
Artist
Neil Johnstone, Brendan Jon Philip & Andrew Warren Curtis Smith
Main Image
colourful image for gallery exhibition
Opening
Opening Hours
Monday - Sunday, 10.00am - 6.00pm
Description

Opening: live musical performance by Sam Leamy and Neil Johnstone, 5.00pm - 9.00pm

‘Mysterium tremendum et fascinans’, or a terrible and fascinating mystery is the way 20th century scholar Rudolf Otto described his conception of the ‘numinous’ - an encounter with otherworldliness that is the base of religious or spiritual experience. The Mystery is a point of ontological tension, a liminal space of encounter where one moves from the territory of the known into the unknown. This exhibition emerges from the premise that art functions in exactly the same way. Three artists from disparate parts of Aoterora, though all with a link to Pōneke, navigate between abstraction and signification as a gesture towards forming a meaningful link between the mundane and the metaphysical. The works resonate together as the individual voices seek to describe the same ineffable territory, speaking to the metaphysical threads that weave communities and cultures together across both space and time.

Mysterium tremendum et fascinans Link to CubaDupa Festival Programme

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Sound Baths during Cuba Dupa

With a  series very specially curated Sound Baths during the Cuba Dupa weekend, 1.00pm - 3.00pm, featuring Neil Johnstone, Zachary Winterwood , Holly Winterwood,  Sam Leamy, Stephen Clothier, Brendan Jon Philip and Steve Burridge. Sounds to lose yourself in, ambient music to luxuriate in, a truly immersive sonic experience.

Soundbaths Link to Festival Programme

 

Album Release

And to top it off we will be releasing an album linked into the ideas explored in the exhibition from East Cape Calling

Again a very mellow ambient piece.

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Start Date
13 March -  
End Date
19 March 2023
Artist
Jonny Kan
Main Image
Invitation to Jonnys Exhibition
Opening
Opening Hours
Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm
Description

CityscapeNZ 9999 is an exhibition of object art by Palmerston North based visual artist Jonny Kan centred around a re-imagining of the Manawatū city.  The exhibition includes many retrospective collections and explores the depths of Jonny's world view living in the world with a head injury.  
Jonny Kan is an artist living and working in Papaioea/Palmerston North.  He has been an award winner at the IHC art awards and has work in private collections around New Zealand.

Jonny at Snails Artist Run Space in Palmy               Facebook           Contact email

Start Date
7 March -  
End Date
12 March 2023
Artist
craigharrisphotography
Main Image
Gregor Rankine exhibition photo
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday, 7 - 12 March, 10.00am-5.00pm
Description

Vintage images of skateboarders photographed in the 1980s. Including photographs of professional skateboarders such as Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Chris Miller, Lee Ralph and many more. Displaying fine art prints, photo books, tees, skate coasters & slide show.

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Start Date
27 February -  
End Date
5 March 2023
Artist
Steven Hemmens
Main Image
painting by Steven Hemmens
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 10.00am-6.00pm
Sunday, 10.00am-2.00pm
Description

Over a period of 3-4 years I have been working on a series of figurative paintings based loosely on life drawings, both here in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom. The paintings are all oil and charcoal on paper (156cmx122cm).

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Start Date
20 February -  
End Date
26 February 2023
Artist
Catz Designz
Main Image
Bunny besties collage
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, 10am - 3pm
Description

Welcome to the launch and exhibition of this new chapter as an emerging ‘creative’.

Ever since I can remember I’ve been drawn to colour, texture and pattern in the world around me and how its presence enriches life. During the Covid lockdown, as a distraction from the dark cloud and mayhem being caused by the pandemic, I rediscovered my love of creativity and its healing qualities. We can’t underestimate the power and value of a little whimsy to counter balance the more serious side of life.

Catz Designz are a fine balance between simplicity and complex detail. Stylized yet exacting. Made from carefully selected papers designed by talented Australian and American designers the materials conjure the impression of fabric and reflections of nature. The created works are understated and unexpected. With the addition of a feather here, some glitz there and lots of imagination they become enchanting and even exotic!

These creative collages provide a vehicle for people of all ages to escape reality, albeit for a moment during this exhibition, or longer if a work finds its way into someone’s home or workspace. Then a little magic shared can ripple out into the community having had a positive effect.

Start Date
14 February -  
End Date
19 February 2023
Artist
Various Artists
Main Image
artwork
Opening Hours
Tuesday, 10.00am-5.00pm
Sunday, 10.00am-12.30pm
Description

Artists: Dennis Berdinner, Leo Semau, Arawhetu Berdinner, Tai Berdinner-Blades & Eva Yocum

Artists will be present through the duration of the exhibition and available for discussion.

We are artists and makers who are connected by blood or marriage. This show explores how people and creativity thrive when given the space and appreciation to do so within a family.

Our exhibition features sculpture, mahi toi, paintings, clay works, ceramics and mixed media. Diverse in expression, our work walks between art and craft. What ties us together is simple yet multilayered - whānau.

Our family intersects across cultures - Pākehā, Māori and Samoan. We stretch out our branches as step-parents/daughters, in-laws and siblings with different mothers. We are a Venn-diagram of interconnecting relationships. Our work reflects the connection, influence and bonds we share.

Contact: Dennis Berdinner, Leo Semau, Arawhetu Berdinner & Eva Yocum

Tai Berdinner-Blades: @fable_ceramics, www.fableceramics.com

Arawhetu Berdinner: @arawhetu

Start Date
7 February -  
End Date
12 February 2023
Artist
Dan Wilkinson
Main Image
poster for exhibition, Upheaval by Dan Wilkinson
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday, 11.00am - 7.00pm
Description

For thousands of years, parts of Aotearoa have been shifting upwards through a seismic process of uplifting land. This monumental process reveals to those of us above land what was previously hidden underwater.

Powerful earthquakes around the years 600, 1000, 1400 and, most recently in 1855 have created a unique aspect and stunning coastal landscape - they have created te whanganui-a-tara & the south coast. The current state of this dynamic landform allows people almost complete access around a coastline that once would have been dotted with islands.

I run, walk, bike & drive these surroundings and the visual information has embedded itself as a point of inspiration in my work. This visual manifestation of our evolving geological DNA is the foundation of the work created for my recent show.

Exploring a range of approaches and media to express these visually compelling surroundings and the climatic and elemental effects that weather them, I seek to tell the stories of the continued creation and recreation of our coastal environment through the earth’s constantly restless upheaval.

Start Date
30 January -  
End Date
5 February 2023
Artist
Brian Connor
Main Image
the source of dreams photograph
Opening
Opening Hours
11.00am - 6.00pm, Tuesday - Saturday
11.00am - 4.00pm, Sunday
Description

An exhibition of limited edition, archival, giclee prints of original photography. Featuring landscapes of the Wairarapa, Wellington, and Bay of Islands, including an extended panorama of Wellington Harbour after sunset, and a series of fine art nudes, including portraits, environmental portraits, and formal and allegorical studies, taken over many years in locations ranging from the Wairarapa to the Cycladic Islands.

Also on display is the recently published 'The Nude: Insight & Imagination', a photographic study of twenty-eight women, aged mid-twenties to fifties, who use nudity for artistic expression and whom I have been privileged to know and to photograph. Many of them are featured in the framed works in the exhibition.

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The nude - insight & imagination

 

Start Date
23 January -  
End Date
29 January 2023
Artist
Various Art Stars
Main Image
Photo Chop collage poster of a woman with a zebra head
Opening
Opening Hours
Wednesday - Saturday, 10:30am - 6pm
Sunday, 10:30am - 2pm
Description

Photo Chop the Exhibition is the Art of Collage. Collage can be described as anything adhered to anything else. Most often paper and card, but the possibilities are endless!

WORKSHOP:

From Wednesday to Sunday - Come and make your  own collage for free. All materials provided.

Start Date
18 January -  
End Date
22 January 2023
Artist
Anna Frame, Augustina Binyamin, George Culling, Guy van der Wilt
Main Image
poster for Newtown, New Form exhibition
Opening
Opening Hours
Thursday & Friday, 10.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Sunday, 10.00am - 3.00pm
Description

Newtown, New Form is a collection of student works that propose formal relationships between a place, Newtown, and architecture. Design interventions on the same site in Newtown are explored, in order to collectively express different creative ideas through a range of creative media. Paintings, furniture, drawings, photography, and design collectively inform ideas surrounding colour, ways of making, adaptive reuse, and light & connectivity. Our exhibition aims to provoke discussion surrounding the future of architecture and urbanity in our cities.

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Start Date
12 December -  
End Date
18 December 2022
Artist
Good People Making Great Stuff
Main Image
Gifts
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 7pm
Description

Good stuff made by good people:

genevieve packer | melissa boardman | double happy! hot sauces | karin amdal ceramics | baron hasselhoff’s chocolates | forest drawn | moonrise yarn co | hm makes hats | sam keer spoons | julie & jack | gael | snaxpax | philly cowdrey designs | crafted by lori | ema marbles | jackelope treasures | nana glamour | anna venture | koke dama rama | harriet bright pottery | paris house | 2 minute needles | oh goodness | ngaere mackinnon | simply kawakawa | pencarrow candles |

6 days of local creative goodness for all your Christmas needs and more…

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Start Date
5 December -  
End Date
11 December 2022
Artist
Dirt Child Design, Datura Child, Serpent Dream, Mary Laine
Main Image
Slightly munted key
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 6pm
Description

Exhibiting Artists are:

Dirt Child Design      Datura Child     Serpent Dream    Mary Laine

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Nodus Tollens

Who?  

The creatures that wonder.

What?

The realisation that the plot of your life no longer makes sense to you, that the blueprint is just another burning memory, and the script you’ve been reading from was a sleep-deprivation hallucination.

Manifestations of madness, despair, and ecstasy in various mediums.

Where?

Way out at the dream’s edges, heads sealed, bounding into the great unseen.

How?

Translating the cryptic gestures of silhouetted trees as they cast spells in the night wind, the erratic Morse code of our beating hearts at insomnia’s anxious sunrise. Decoding the growling and bristling of captive dogs, the muffled whimpers of sleeping vagrants who chase rabbit dreams on winter streets. Listening to the ghostly echoes of forgotten dreams as they dance through the walls of our skulls one last time.

Why?

Because we didn’t leave the ocean to work in f****** restaurants.

Workshop

Ambient Sessions, Sound art works, on Friday December 9th - 7pm

Email contact

Social media:

Insta:@dirtchilddesign
www.dirtchilddesign.com

Insta : @daturachild
www.daturachild.com

Insta:@serpent.dream

Insta: @mary_laine_artist 

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Start Date
28 November -  
End Date
4 December 2022
Artist
Artists' Collective
Main Image
Poster for the exhibition
Opening
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, 10am - 4pm
Description

You are warmly invited to our Exhibition Opening, from 6pm - 8pm on Monday 28th November.

The exhibiting artists are Anthia Clarke, Brent Higham, Christine Winbush, David Rickard, Evan Davies, Fiona Thomas, Glaes Design, Iris Kauffeld, Karin McCombe Jones, Michaela Miller, Sue Laursen, Ra Gilbert-Loginov & Tangi Kopu.

The Fishbowl Art Collective are a wonderful eclectic mix of over 12 artists, who have been exhibiting together for over 4 years.

The exhibition will be full of of colour, versatility in styles, medium and prices which will delight your senses.

The Fishbowl Art Collective will be exhibiting work in various mediums from bags, ceramics, jewellery, mosaics, painting, photography, prints, sculpture and wood carving and so much more from little to big items.

With Christmas just around the corner it’s an ideal chance to buy presents as gifts for others or to simply treat yourself.

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