Working with clay is therapeutic, but also quite challenging.

There are so many different clays and techniques, if I lived to a hundred I would not have had time to try them all.

Ko ahau te taiao, ko te taiao, ko ahau – the ecosystem defines my quality of life.

Barbara Wheeler most often works with foraged botanicals and waste textiles diverted from landfill. Leaves and flowers give colour to the clothes she designs; local plant fibres feature in her baskets and sculptures. This exhibition is a tour of Australian and New Zealand lands, continuing the conversation about the inextricable links between nature and wellbeing.

On show will be a selection of hand crafted wooden  items from our furniture makers, green woodworkers, carvers and wood turners as well work from invited local artists.

Guild of Woodworkers Wellington

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The African Fashion Festival is a collaborative effort with designers from Africa/ former Refugee and Migrant Communities showcasing African fashion, style, designs, prints, and textures. New Zealand is a multi-cultural nation with around 213 ethnicities which is more than there are countries in the world! This makes New Zealand a melting pot of cultures with such diversity and rich experiences from the different groups.

DIY Culturalists is an exhibition showcasing multidisciplinary artists from around Aotearoa. This synthesis of paint, print, music, digital and sculpture presents the ethos of DYI arts culture that sits within our everyday lives.

Iconic Wellington Architect Roger Walker is well known for his quirky design and love of colour.  Now, after finding himself with a bit of spare time and nowhere to go during the COVID 19 lockdowns,  he has turned his distinctive creative style to joyful and colourful creations on canvas.

www.rogerwalkerart.co.nz

rogerwalkerart@gmail.com

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The Fish Bowl Artist Collective is happy to bring their art to Wellington City for the first time!

This group of talented and varied artists have been exhibiting together for 3 years, with different styles, stages and levels in their careers as artists.

Come and join us for a wide range of variety including

Painting

Photography

Ceramics

Ants are small insects - generally a nuisance for people and usually seen working together in groups. But divorced from their usual context, how do machine learning algorithms recognise ants as objects? By studying datasets of thousands of photos of ants, modern AI algorithms are able to capture their visual essence in ways that are meaningful to other machines. This exhibition presents abstract paintings of ants drawn by intelligent algorithms. These algorithms were allowed to express themselves visually so that we can appreciate their own unique way of seeing the world.

Courtney Blakemore lives in Wellington, New Zealand and paints from the perspective of a mother.

“My work seeks to find a connection between the feelings of loss and chaos that I have experienced as a mother in addition to the overwhelming love and satisfaction. I am rediscovering myself as an artist and individual, someone with a sense of purpose other than that of serving the needs of others. I seek to find beauty in the mundane, order in the chaos and art within the mess of it all.

Expressing the weaving of Japanese tastes and aesthetic into the turning of the seasons in three different mediums.

As Japanese artists, “Shiki” (four seasons) is an essence that underpins many of our art forms.