Opening night Monday 23rd 7.30pm - 9.30pm. Karanga starts at 7.30pm. All welcome. 

Place.meant, what is a place meant for? And how do we define that meaning?

Using the strongly evocative material of barrier mesh, with its meaning of demarcating zones of safety and non-safety, I have been exploring the “demolish and build”, cycle of the urban and suburban landscape in iconic sculptural forms. This is a constant: the demolishing and constructing affects the house-scape, the work-scape, the people-scape, and a question is how central are we humans to this, or has it taken over?

This shows theme is destruction and recreation, representing that through destruction comes loss, grief, pain and with recreation we can start from scratch creating a world built from our truth, reborn from a place of love.

Each artists will create a image; photo, painting, multimedia image with a beat/piece of music that accompanies the image. 

People will be asked to enter the exhibition with their phones, connect to a soundcloud link to listen to the music through their own personal devices, to listen and connect within their own space. 

CLAY IN DAILY LIFE - Elevating the domestic to ritual

Objects from the artist’s hands to yours.

Simple beauty for a world awash in waste.

Galit Maxwell has been sitting down at a potter’s wheel on and off for twenty years, but right now she can’t seem to stop.

Everyday we touch and use objects, when they are made by hand from natural resources its elevates our daily tasks to ritual.  People even say that their coffee tastes much better when you drink it from handmade mug.

As well as being a natural, physical phenomena, the circle is a universally transcendent symbol. With no beginning or end, its simplicity is often used to represent totality, wholeness, original perfection and the infinite. 

Opening on Wednesday 7 March, Anneke Nahkies is exhibiting a collection of pointe ballet shoes. These are mostly used shoes that, having fulfilled their original function, Anneke has ‘recovered’ to wonderful works of art that have given the shoes an ongoing and enduring purpose.  In completing the work for this exhibition Anneke has married her artistic flair with her growing love of ballet and her active engagement in dance. 

Big teeth! A ridiculous pompadour! Devious eyes and full lips! The Big Teeth x Petals exhibition showcases peculiar character designs presented in a myriad of decorative ways, that you can look at with your very own eyeballs!* The works celebrate the strangeness of the modern person by translating the broad personalities of the community into vibrant creatures to visually delight and tickle your humor thingy.

Works will range from oil paintings to digital prints and more. Purchasable art will be available from as low as $5, up to original oil painting prices.

Good Luck Works explores the interplay between good luck and hard work, which plays out as we all agitate for our little patch of Pantone Greenery. Good luck can work, but it also works – and it often works hard.

We are excited to announce Thread Redemption in the Thistle Hall Community Gallery. This week- long event will raise awareness and offer creative ideas around how we deal with clothing and textile waste in Aotearoa. There will be a range of family friendly drop-in activities to try, free & low-cost evening workshops (ticketed) and the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion. 

Our event schedule will be released this week - 12 - 18 March 2018

300 and Under brings together artists that represent the community that is Pablos.

We are a creative space in Wellington’s CBD providing a studio environment where our artists can explore connecting to the process of making art.

Join us and celebrate the creative journey in all its forms as we acknowledge personal connections and communal relationships.

Check us out on Facebook and preview a selection of works to whet your appetite.