Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is a creative space where the city's arts communities interact, produce innovative works, teach and exhibit in the heart of Wellington.
Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is pleased to announce that painter Maisie Chilton is the recipient of its 2025 d/Deaf and/or Disabled Artist Development Residency.
We are eight artists with varied creative practices who came together because of our shared interest in textiles. We all wanted to develop as artists, and honest but encouraging critique from other group members has allowed us all to progress our work in varied ways.
Come and learn a technique for hand stitching onto wool or linen to express your protest thoughts. Katherine and Philippa will show you how to embroider with embroidery threads to get your ideas across. Techniques for marking designs, sewing and washing will be taught. You will come away with a new technique, new ideas and hopefully inspiration!
Toi Pōneke presents the first in our series of Wāhine Wānanga. Join us for a kai and korero in a wāhine focussed space, with a presentation by wāhine toa Tu Chapman. Tu is an advocate for change, a proven thought leader on issues relating to applied indigenous approaches in Te Āo Māori, Tikanga Māori, Social Justice and Wellbeing & Development.
Meet ‘Les Grandes Dames’ - the artists of Creating Connections – Anna Hicks, Anna Prussing, Catherine Croucher, Gael O‘Donnell, Jill Bowman, Katherine Morrison and Marilyn Daly.
Les Grandes Dames will be facilitating a tour of the Creating Connections exhibition. They will discuss their own work and describe some of the techniques they used to make these textiles.
A relaxing class of meditative slow stitching whilst learning about the health benefits of creativity. Create a small improv quilt by hand and learn some big stitch hand quilting.
This new programme follows on from our Emergent – Beginner Level so that those who completed this course can continue their learning. It is also open for new people to join if they already have some beginner level te reo.
‘Ua Tafa Mai Ata refers to both the title of the upcoming exhibition held at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, and the way that many remember the Dawn Raids. Although this is a period associated with trauma, discrimination and feelings of unsafety, ‘Ua Tafa Mai Ata invites an opportunity to engage with this history, while giving Pasifika the agency to let go and bring forward aspects of healing.
