On Now

Start Date
1 April -  
End Date
6 April 2025
Artist
Wellington Lens Club
Main Image
Poster for Wellington Lens Club exhibition. photo credit Jon Kroll
Opening Hours
Tuesday: 12- 8pm
Wednesday - Thursday: 12 - 6pm
Friday: 12-8pm
Saturday: 10am-8pm
Sunday: 10am-4pm
Description

If you find yourself on Cuba Street on a Friday night and spot a pack of photographers poking their lenses into shop windows, it means one of two things: either Taylor Swift has added Wellington to her latest tour and the paparazzi have turned up; or the Wellington Lens Club is on their fortnightly photo walk in the CBD. 

The WLC has an unusual history. It was launched nearly two years ago by vintage lens collector and restorer Benni Krueger as “The Vintage Lens Club.” But what was meant to be a small regional group quickly drew nearly 40,000 members in more than 20 countries. A new group for locals only was spun off, and they’ve been roaming the streets of the city ever since. While the WLC is a private group, membership is open to photographers at every level so long as they live in or regularly spend time in the Wellington area. See Wellington Lens Club Meetups on Facebook.

For this exhibition, entitled Our City, all the photos in the show were captured within a few blocks of the venue, and the project is meant to be a love letter to the city that the members call home. 

While the exhibiting photographers use all manner of cameras and lenses, the group encourages the use of older and experimental glass, not all of which was designed for still photography. Some of the photos in the exhibition were shot with lenses originally designed for vintage cinema projectors, x-ray machines, aerial reconnaissance and even military tanks.

The WLC’s mission is to capture the capital's diversity and dynamism, its daily life and its vibrant culture. Each photographer will be showcasing their own unique approach and perspective, and this will be reflected in the variety of images on show.

 

Those with interest in the event are encouraged to follow the club’s Instagram account. Photos by the exhibiting photographers will be posted in the days leading up to the exhibition.

 

 

CONTACT

Instagram: @wellingtonlensclub
Facebook: Wellington Lens Club Meetups

 

 

Image:

Poster credit - Jon Kroll

Up Next

Start Date
7 April -  
End Date
13 April 2025
Artist
Brighid Jamieson Penny Wyatt on behalf of The Creative Itch Collective
Main Image
poster
Opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm
Evening events
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
CLOSING EVENT: Sunday 2 - 4 pm
Description

The Creative Itch's week of arty adventures & Sparkle Debacle Events! Celebrating Wellington communities and exploring the creative beings we ALL are. 

10am-5pm Daily: Check out the evolving exhibition, meet the artists, see the creative process in action, and have a creative crack in the ‘Creative Brewings’ space. 

 

EVENTS

Arty Farty Closing Celebration Party 
Sunday, 2 - 4pm

Come for a celebratory drink, nibble and WHOOP at Wellington’s ‘Walls of Wonder/ful’ developed over the week! 

 

WORKSHOPS

To book: message @the.creative.itch.collective or email: the.creative.itch.collective@gmail.com

Activities are FREE, koha appreciated

 

Glitter Bomb Collage
Wednesday, 5pm - 6.30pm

Bond with buddies (old or shiny-just-met new) over a pile of magazines, chop and glue to your imaginations content.

 

Pillow Talk
Thursday, 6pm - 8pm

Art on Pillowcases - Exploring the complexity, beauty, joy and pain of childbirth and supporting families through. 

 

Figure Drawing -Drag 'n 'Drop
Friday, 7 - 9pm


This workshop celebrates clothed figure drawing, diversity and creative expression. 

 

 

 

CONTACT

Instagram: @the.creative.itch.collective
Email: the.creative.itch.collective@gmail.com

Start Date
23 April -  
End Date
27 April 2025
Artist
Eleftheria Apostolidis
Main Image
Exhibition poster for artist Eleftheria Apostolidis, Mud & marble at Thistle Hall Community Gallery
Opening
Opening Hours
Wednesday - Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Sunday: 10am - 2pm
Description

Marble & Mud is a creative manifestation of my identify examined under the lens of my Greek whakapapa. Years of exploring my relationship with my heritage and upbringing have brought rise to the same core themes with an undeniable flow, be it in icons, colours, symbols or sound. This exhibition will be a collage of visual art, showing mixed media, textiles, writing, projection and performance art. 

My experience of self within the Greek diaspora is layered with love and pain, beauty and rejection. My gender, sexuality, purpose and ways of being both clash in conflict and yearn in longing for home. Processing inherited trauma, internalised colonisation and cultural displacement currently sits in a dreamscape of classical pop art, stories from the village, and where I find myself between the Marble and Mud.

 

FACEBOOK EVENT

 

 

WORKSHOPS

Wednesday 24 April: 6.30pm

Automatic Drawing
Koha entry


Thursday 25 April: 6.30 - 8.30pm

Craft an Evil Eye Charm
$30, limit to 8 people

 

 

CONTACT

Instagram: @eleftheria_pnevma
 

 

 

 

 

Images:

Matai Masks

Ovulation Automation