Information about events, exhibtions, workshops and more at Toi Pōneke.
Join artists Matt Tini, Maija Stephens, Renati Waaka, and Elena Rei as they discuss their thoughts around the exhibition, what brought them together, and their reflections on this collaboration. The talk will touch on their individual relationships to contemporary Māori identity and how their art practices help them reconnect to and affirm this.
Join us for an afternoon kōrero with artist Sam Clague who will be discussing his current exhibition Under Heaven’s Heel. Touching on some of the reoccurring motifs and symbols depicted in his paintings and sculptures and how they are inspired by the works of Albrecht Dürer and Philip Guston.
Join Te Whanganui- a-Tara artist, Stuart Forsyth, his three-legged SPCA mixed-breed canine companion, Roo, and Chora – a qualified dog trainer for a training session to teach basic city street walking manners.
Stuart will “lead” a walk-through of his exhibition The Hand of Dog, where he will discuss how his beloved canine companion Roo has played muse to his artistic output over the past 5 years.
The Hand of Dog explores the influence and contribution that pets can have on their owners and their lives - in this case the relationship between Te Whanganui-a-Tara artist, Stuart Forsyth, and his three-legged SPCA mixed-breed canine companion, Roo.
Please join us for an in-depth discussion with Photographer Simon Mark, who will be in conversation with curator/educator Heather Galbraith, talking about his new work in Liminal at Toi Pōneke Gallery.
The Places We Called Home brings together the work of Andrew Ross & Cody Ellingham, two photographers capturing the history of urban Wellington twenty years apart. The exhibition explores the homes, streets, and changing landscape of the city from the 1990s through to today.
Holly Walker’s mahi toi reveals fragments of her cultural experience of being Pākehā.
Identifying as Pākehā and as Tangata Tiriti comes with responsibilities to the landscape, environment, to people and the past. Holly’s practice is a therapeutic process of re-connecting to her identity through performance, sculptural works and kōrero with the whānau.
This is your opportunity to view and purchase other works from Toi Three Sixty artists before the exhibition opens.
Come and hear local dancer Sacha Copland (Java Dance) and musician/composer Tristan Carter talk about their recent cross-disciplinary collaboration. They will speak about how they use risk and vulnerability in their creative process.
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.
Pack your bags for an exhibition of vlogs, photography and collage! Anna Brimer and Max Fleury go on holiday at top tourist destinations and Airbnbs, visiting the visited and photographing the photographed.
Join Pip Adam (writer, novelist), James Gilberd (Photospace Gallery and Ghost-hunter) and Claire Harris (Visual Artist) in a discussion about themes in the exhibition Wound Whistled Air.
Join us for a pertinent and facscinating discussion around ecology, utopia, dystopia and how we imagine our futures. A panel discussion featuring academics Dr Nicholas Holm and Dr Sy Taffel and photographers Wayne Barrar and Clayton Morgan.
TerraObscura is a new exhibition of photography from emerging artist Clayton Morgan.
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 exhibition.
Coinciding with Ted Whitaker’s exhibition Oceans turn to goo, Waves is a collaborative book project with Fraser Austin.
Oceans turn to goo is an exhibition of photography and sculpture by artist Ted Whitaker, based on physiological mutations that are common with surfers.
On his 50th birthday, artist Bryce Galloway got his first tattoo and posted a bandmates wanted flyer. four songs, played twice revisits this mid-life crisis story and the nine bands Galloway started that year.
Join curators Megan Tamati-Quennell and Paora Allen for a talk about the concepts and exhibition development of Haukāinga True people/Home.
Haukāinga, True people/Home is a curated exhibition drawn from the Wellington City Council’s City Art Collection.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is proud to announce Chevron Hassett as the 2019 Visual Artist in Residence.
Johanna Mechen’s exhibition Sonorous Shadow the culmination of her 12 week Visual Arts residency at Toi Pōneke.
