Information about events, exhibtions, workshops and more at Toi Pōneke.
Tune in at 2pm to see Liana Leiataua painting live at the mural site at Wesleyan Church - Taranaki St, Te Aro Wellington.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is pleased to announce the 2025 residency program for d/Deaf and/or disabled artists, with a call for submissions. Applications close 5pm Monday 18 November 2024
Come into the gallery to see Keanyn Arthur (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Maniapoto, Rangitāne o Wairau) and Kauia Moriarty (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Koata) doing some live painting inspired by the painting practice - kōwhaiwhai.
Join artists Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, Kohai Grace and Vianney Parata as they discuss the works in the exhibition Aho Hononga and their respective artforms.
Join us for tea or coffee and meet artist Alison Leauanae as she leads you through her exhibition Saili – Seek.
Join the artist Selene Simcox to experience ‘Mess’ painting. As it sounds, this is a workshop all about painting messily. Selene’s workshop is designed to inspire your creativity, invoke your inner child to have fun and be in a safe space to let your creativity fly.
Join us for a tea or coffee and meet the artist Amanda Smith as she leads you through her exhibition This is the Life That Was to reveal the personal stories that have inspired each work..
This is the life that was, attempts to make sense of life and the world of Amanda Smith; recognising private trauma and public chaos co-exist. Memory and time play a significant part in exploration, the unrealistic longing for times now gone and for times ahead.
Join artists Connah Podmore and Johanna Mechen, and writer Flora Feltham, as they discuss some of the inspiration behind Podmore's exhibition Ordinary Devotion, and the influence that domestic environments has had over their respective practices.
Ordinary Devotion, is an installation of large-scale drawings and simple architectural interventions reflecting on domestic space and motherhood. This artwork stems from an established line of work exploring interior surfaces, shadow and the many individual histories layered within our homes.
Toi 500 annual residents’ exhibition is a chance for audiences to grab an art bargain with works $500.00 or under. Works presented by Anthea Hayley, David Brown, Franzeska Pound, Jane Hyder, Kedron Parker, Laura Woodward, Maria Colls, Odette Anscombe-Smith, Selene Simcox, Yon Yi Sohn, Terence Turner, Workspace Studios and more.
Join the artist Selene Simcox to experience ‘Mess’ painting. As it sounds, this is a workshop all about painting messily. Selene’s workshop is designed to inspire your creativity, invoke your inner child to have fun and be in a safe space to let your creativity fly.
Come ‘binnekijken’ and join the artist Elisabeth Vullings for a ‘look inside’ her exhibition – Gehaakte Gordijntjes - Crocheted Curtains. In this guided tour, the artist will lead you through the exhibition to explain the personal stories associated with each artwork.
Gehaakte Gordijntjes - Crocheted Curtains examines how the 21 houses Elisabeth grew up in shaped her understanding of 'home' and her identity as a Dutch New Zealander. Using architectural constructs based on fragments of memory, experience, and migration; the gallery transforms into an abstract house, inviting contemplation of the sense of home we all carry within.
This workshop will touch on the basics of patterns and colours used in both Korean and Maori traditional art and design, and the myths and symbolism associated with them.
Join Yon Yi Sohn, Moonhee Han & Eun Jung Jang, who will talk about their artistic journey through different mediums over the years, and the ideas and development of their exhibition Listening to Lines, which they have collaborated on. A Q&A session will follow.
Inspired by Richard Long’s 1967 work ‘A Line Made by Walking’, three Wellington-based Artists collaborate in this exhibition of drawing, painting, embroidery and installation of ‘lines’ - the basic element of visual storytelling - examining the cultural hybridity of their Korean heritage in their adapted lives in New Zealand.
He Rito follows the hands of four rangatahi Māori artists who reconnect to and work with harakeke.
This is breath. This is growth. This is healing. Woven together by their shared interest in the active potential of harakeke, the hands of four Ringatoi explore materiality through customary and contemporary practice. He Rito integrates whanaungatanga and reclamation, reconnecting with taonga and imagining expansive futures of Māoritanga.
Under the pile of washing, school notices, birthday present wish lists and to-dos, there’s an abundance of seething creativity. How do we start to acknowledge invisible labour, its significance, its cost, its beauty and the generosity of it? Dirty Laundry brings together thirteen artists and writers to explore this question.
Curated by Stevei Houkāmau, Te Matapihi is an exhibition concept that brings together a diverse group of Māori artists. Originating from a range of backgrounds and artforms, this group of established makers have dedicated themselves to working outside of the box, exploring the full spectrum of Māori creativity and practice from the historic to the contemporary. Te Matapihi or “The Window” offers a view and invites you to explore the beauty and diversity of Māori art and practice through the eyes of a talented group of makers.
Under Heaven’s Heel is an eclectic survey of the oppressive economic and social practices of capitalism dating back over 500 years. Paintings and sculptures by artist Sam Clague muse on the origins of our political landscape.
Liminal explores altered and occasionally recycled photographs which blur the lines between recognition and puzzlement, the familiar and the unfamiliar.
Looking for a unique artistic gift for Christmas?
Come along to our pop-up, cash & carry style art market, where you will find a selection of affordable artworks ranging from painting, drawing, uku/ceramic and jewellery.
Artists, designers, photographers, makers, and crafters from Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are proud to present Toi Poneke Arts Centre Residents Exhibition 2022.
Exhibition celebrating the monomono pani works of Ane Nanasi Pahulu - renowned for her patchwork style of monomono pani (sewn quilts and bedspreads).
Rosa and Oliver emigrated to Wellington from London in 2020. They have produced art in response to these uncertain times and to their hopes and dreams. This will be their debut exhibition in Wellington - bringing together a selection of abstract and figurative paintings and drawings.
Join Mango Collective for a series of online panel discussions: Contemporary Art Institutions Around the Globe, Digital Collaborations, Street Art Producer-Curators, and Māori Wāhine in Public Arts.
Here & Out sees nine female street artists from five different countries present new work in response to the impacts of Covid-19. Artists include: Dreamgirls Collective (Wellington, NZ), Janine Williams (Aotearoa), Gleo (Colombia), and Caratoes (Hong Kong - Belgium).
This is your opportunity to view and purchase other works from Toi Three Sixty artists before the exhibition opens.
Looking for an opportunity to start your own art collection or expand on your current one? See what the residents of Toi Pōneke have been up to in our annual cash & carry and online exhibition.
