Art
Rewriting the narrative
A local business and four local artists have banded together to celebrate the arrival of spring and bring Garden Party to the Kaiwharawhara Furniture by Design store from the 30th of August to the 12th of October.
Was, are, will be
Reflecting the human and spiritual lives that have passed and currently pass through Courtenay Place, Tiaki will stand in the centre of Wellington’s nightlife hub until the 5th of October.
A place of belonging
From now until the 9th of November, Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s ungeographic takes over the entirety of Pātaka Art + Museum to create a sense of place for Australian South Sea Islanders.
Harnessed, harvested, honoured
Examining the connection between sugar, colonisation, global trade, and climate change, artists William Franco and Miki Seifert present Azúcar / Sugar at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre until the 8th of August.
Re-assemblage and resistance
In her latest photographic exhibition at Jhana Millers Gallery until the 5th of July, Ann Shelton explores suppressed plant-based knowledge systems to present a feminist reappraisal.
Taniwha Chasers
Jazmin Tainui Mihi Paget-Knebel has placed first at the esteemed Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award for her photograph Taniwha Chasers. See the winning work and each exceptional submission at New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pukenga Whakaata until the 17th of August.
A world more balanced
In their exhibition The Female Gaze and How It Shapes Our World at Toi Pōneke until the 30th of May, mother and son creative team Ashraf and Pedram Pirnia explore “how visual storytelling can restore dignity, challenge injustice, and nurture both personal and collective wellbeing” through photographic and painted works.
Moments of immersion
A unique New Zealandness pervades South African-born, Aotearoa-based painter Sean Beldon’s work. Explore The long white cloud at Exhibitions Gallery from the 15th of May to the 7th of June.
Come running sea
Kiwi artist Gregory O’Brien finds himself diving into the sea in his latest exhibition At the Washaway, moored at Bowen Galleries from the 29th of April until the 17th of May.
Marble and Mud
Examining her identity under the lens of her Greek whakapapa, Te Whanganui-a-Tara-based artist Eleftheria Apostolidis creates a multidisciplinary collage of her practice in Marble and Mud at Thistle Hall from the 22nd to the 27th of April.
Banquet of love
Feast your eyes on Fortune, a knitted yum cha banquet at Te Waka Huia Wellington Museum until the 27th of April.
Rhythms of the Earth
In Rosa Allison’s exhibition FLYING DREAMS at Page Galleries until the 22nd of March, floral and fungal forms flirt with humanoid shapes and other instruments of earthly pleasure.