Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is proud to announce Mitchell Manual as our 2024 Visual Artist in Residence.

Mitchell Manuel is a digital artist of Cook Island Māori (Ngāti Toora, Ngāti Apai, Ngāti Taraare) Tahitian, Scottish (clan Brown/Broun) and Portuguese descent. He was born and raised in Tāmaki-Makaurau Auckland, and now lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Manuel is an innovative, multi-talented creative with a background in film and television (actor, script writer, Gofta award winner), digital textile design and fashion. 

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Yon Yi Sohn as the 2023 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence.

Yon Yi explores systematic and geometric abstract, patterns, grids, forms and colour arrangements, expressed mainly in the medium of drawing, painting, printmaking, embroidery and installation.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Francesca Carney as the Write Room Producer Intern for 2022.

Stevei Houkāmau is the 2021 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence. Her uku (clay) practice is distinctive for its carved surface designs that draw upon the indigenous tattoo practices of tā moko and tātau. Ira Tangata Ira Atua springs from research into the artist’s whakapapa. By acknowledging and celebrating her whakapapa, Houkāmau unwraps narratives that will be retold through uku, projection and soundscape.

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Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Wellington writer, director, musician and graphic artist - Will Agnew as the recipient of the 2021 Wellington Write Room Screenwriter’s Residency with his project The Demon.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Stevei Houkāmau as the 2021 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence.

Toi Pōneke is calling for applications for our 2021 Visual Arts Residency.

Garden Leave, a new exhibition by Toi Pōneke Art Centre’s visual artist-in-residence Matilda Fraser, examines the future of work and labour in an economic landscape impacted by pandemics, recessions, global trade, automation and excess.

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Matilda Fraser as the 2020 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence.

An exhibition of new video works by Toi Pōneke’s 2019 Artist in Residence Chevron Hassett. Home is where my heart will rest connects back to the people and places - the essence - of his childhood.

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.

Toi Pōneke is pleased to announce the recipient of our inaugural Visual Arts Residency, Johanna Mechen. Working in video and photography, Johanna’s recent work has focused on engagement and participation with a site and its community in order to tell ecological, historical, and cultural stories. Johanna’s project involves exploring a domestic site, motherhood and connection to place.