Exhibitions
Proposed Tours
Titokowaru’s Dilemma - Marian Maguire
Dates: March 2012 - December 2014
A new series of lithographs and etchings by artist Marian Maguire.
Lynley Dodd - A Retrospective
Dates: January 2012 - December 2014
An exhibition celebrating the work of storybook writer and artist Lynley Dodd.
Exhibitions Currently Touring
A Micronaut in the Wide World - The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy
Dates: July 2011 - December 2014
This exhibition rediscovers the life and work of one of New Zealand's most talented and original artists.
Bohemians of the Brush - Pumpkin Cottage Impressionists
Dates: July 2010 - December 2012
This exhibition brings alive the story of New Zealand's early impressionist movement at the legendary Pumpkin Cottage, Silverstream.
Face Value - Photography and film installation by Serena Giovanna Stevenson
Dates: June 2009 - December 2012
Expressed through photography and film, Face Value conveys the universal intimacy of Maori facial moko.
Hard on the Heels - Peter Bush - Capturing the All Blacks
Dates: May 2010 - December 2012
60 years of All Black photography by Peter Bush.
The Crescent Moon - The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand
Dates: June 2009 - December 2011
The Crescent Moon gives a face and a voice to New Zealand's Muslims of Asian descent. Text by Adrienne Jansen. Photographs by Ans Westra.
The Labours of Herakles - Marian Maguire
Dates: September 2008 - December 2012
Lithographs and etchings by Marian Maguire.
Mirek Smìšek - 60 years 60 pots
Dates: January 2010 - July 2012
Mirek Smìšek: 60 Years 60 Pots is a stunning survey of our pioneering studio potter.
Past Tours
Another View - 20th Century Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection
Dates: December 2005 - November 2007
20th century photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Eugène Atget, W. Eugene Smith, Bill Brandt, Giacomelli, G H Brassaï, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo and others.
John Bevan Ford - He aho Tangata - the human threads.
Dates: August 2008 - December 2009
John Bevan Ford was one of our finest contemporary Maori artists. Alongside peers Ralph Hotere, Clive Arlidge, Fred Graham, Paratene Matchitt and others, he was a pioneer of the contemporary Maori arts movement.
TATAU
Dates: January 2008 - July 2010
TATAU explores the dynamic complexity and cultural significance of Samoan tattooing today.
Towards the Precipice - Propaganda Posters collected by WB Sutch
Dates: December 2004 - June 2007
Propaganda posters from the 1930s & 40s collected by WB Sutch
All Dogs Shot - Photographs by Roger Donaldson
Dates: August 2007 - July 2009
Roger Donaldson's first public exhibition of photographs. ALL DOGS SHOT, presents a stunning collection of black and white photographs shot in New Zealand and around the world.
Ey! Iran - Contemporary Iranian Photography
Dates: July 2008 - December 2009
An international exhibition of photomedia from Iran.
Subjects to Hand - Joanna Margaret Paul Drawing
Dates: April 2006 - June 2009
When Joanna Margaret Paul died in 2003 she had been working for nearly four decades as an artist and poet. Subjects to Hand: Joanna Margaret Paul Drawing examines in depth the practice at the core of her art.
Biscuits - cookies crackers & gingernuts
Dates: June 2006 - July 2008
Black & white photographs by Alan Knowles. Documenting and revealing the ubiquitous biscuit at Griffin's factory - 'the beauty of repetition, the dance of form, aroha in the workplace and the hands which translate food into art'.
Songs of Innocence - Photographs of a NZ Childhood by John Pascoe
Dates: December 2004 - November 2006
While John Pascoe is well known for his photography documenting New Zealand for the Department of Internal Affairs between the late 1930s and mid-1940s, Songs of Innocence focuses on a previously unexplored area in which Pascoe applied the same devoted and focused attention - his children.
History Unfurled & Jack or Black
Dates: September 2005 - November 2007
Two exhibitions. The history, and future, of the New Zealand flag.
The Botanical Drawings of Nancy Adams
Dates: September 2003 - October 2006
This exhibition features botanical artist Nancy Adam's exquisite watercolours and drawings, created over a 50-year period. Despite never having been exhibited, Nancy's watercolours and drawings are familiar to many.
Hiroshima Nagasaki A-bomb Exhibition
Dates: February 2005 - September 2006
An exhibition commemorating the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan.
Gandhi - A Photographic Exhibition
Dates: September 2003 - November 2004
The exhibition consists of 34 b/w images taken by Bombay photographer D.R.D.Wadia during the 1940's. The collection includes portraits and informal images of Gandhi with his friends, followers and with Nehru, Jinnah and other major political leaders of the Indian independence movement
Sound Design - Music Graphics from the UK & NZ
Dates: May 2002 - June 2004
An international exhibition of Music Graphics from the UK & NZ.
Reclaimed - Recycling in Contemporary British Craft and Design
Dates: January 2002 - June 2003
'Reclaimed' celebrates the achievments of a new generation of British artists who have responded in a witty and inventive way to the incorporation of recycled materials in their work.
Through the Looking-Glass - Kathryn Madill
An exhibition of 27 paintings and mezzotints by Dunedin based artist Kathryn Madill.
Frances Hodgkins - The Field Collection
This collection of forty four paintings is unique in that it offers not only an insight into Frances Hodgkins' work but also provides an opportunity to consider the art millieu that nurtured her.
