Visual Artist in Residence 2025 – Call for Applications
Apr
30
to 1 Jun

Visual Artist in Residence 2025 – Call for Applications

Toi Pōneke is calling for proposals from Wellington-based artists for our 2025 Visual Arts Residency.

The aim of this residency is to support a Wellington-based visual artist or small group of Wellington-based visual artists to develop their individual or collective practice and provide them with resources to dedicate themselves full time to their practice for a period of 12 weeks.

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The Female Gaze and How It Shapes Our World
May
8
to 30 May

The Female Gaze and How It Shapes Our World

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This May, Toi Pōneke Gallery presents a compelling mother-son exhibition that reclaims vision and voice through the powerful mediums of painting and photography. Featuring the evocative work of Ashraf Pirnia and Pedram Pirnia, this showcase dives into deep introspection and feminist resistance, amplifying silenced voices and uncovering layers of identity, truth, and transformation.

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The Female Gaze and How It Shapes Our World
May
8
6:50 pm18:50

The Female Gaze and How It Shapes Our World

This panel gathers a remarkable group of artists, and academics. Rooted in creative practice, scholarship, and lived experience, each speaker brings a perspective that challenges dominant narratives and illuminates alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and belonging. Together, they explore how voice, vision, and artistic expression become powerful tools for personal and collective change.

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GUEST
Jun
6
to 4 Jul

GUEST

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Sonic artist Kieran Monaghan presents GUEST, an interdisciplinary exhibition of sound, image and organic matter, which offers up a sonic practice for the Anthropocene. This body of work explores a practice that places the ‘human’ not at the centre, but as an ongoing active collaborator. Working as a member of the non-human/tech/human trio, vegetable.machine.animal, Monaghan makes space where the voice of the ‘Other’ is amplified and essential to the voice of the ‘Whole’.

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A Guest among the Guests:
Jun
14
1:00 pm13:00

A Guest among the Guests:

Join us for this talk facilitated by K Monaghan, Assoc. Prof. Dr Julie Deslippe - from Victoria University School of Biological Sciences and Dr Eli Elinoff - from Victoria University School of Social and Cultural Studies. This discussion will touch on interesting studies around human and non human life patterns, interspecies connections, living with plant and fungi rather than alongside.  

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Creating Connections Artists' Talk
Apr
19
2:00 pm14:00

Creating Connections Artists' Talk

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.

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Wāhine Wānanga
Apr
16
5:30 pm17:30

Wāhine Wānanga

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. 

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Protest Stitching Workshop
Apr
12
12:00 pm12:00

Protest Stitching Workshop

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!

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Creating Connections
Mar
29
to 24 Apr

Creating Connections

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.

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Foraged Fibres: Basket weaving workshop
Mar
16
12:00 pm12:00

Foraged Fibres: Basket weaving workshop

Hannah Schickedanz uses diverse natural fibres in her sculptural work, which then provide reference material for her paintings. Join her to learn the art of twined and woven basket-making, using grasses, harakeke and other foraged materials. You'll take home a small basket and a useful skill, enabling you to create baskets from any number of fibres found in nature.

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Human. Nature.
Feb
22
to 21 Mar

Human. Nature.

Toi Pōneke Gallery is proud to present Human. Nature., an immersive debut exhibition by sisters Hannah Schickedanz and poet Jessica Arcus. This deeply personal collaboration combines painting, sculpture, and poetry to create a soothing balm for the overstimulation of modern life.

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Bent
Jan
18
to 14 Feb

Bent

A team of local creatives from Wellington's zine scene have created illustrated portraits, historical protest art, photography, fanart and writing for BENT - a new collaborative zine series looking at our city’s subcultural and queer communities. The exhibition shows off their work in a collection of over fifty risograph-printed pieces.

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Emerging Producer Residency 2025 - Call for applications
Nov
26
to 25 Feb

Emerging Producer Residency 2025 - Call for applications

This is a 6-week opportunity for a Wellington based emerging producer to work alongside a Wellington choreographer, a cast and crew (of up to 3), and a producer mentor to produce a development season of a new dance theatre work. You will receive a stipend for the 6 weeks.

Over the 6 weeks; the emerging producer will be working with their mentor to prepare a funding application for this new dance theatre work.

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Dance Development Residency 2025 – Call for Applications
Nov
26
to 25 Feb

Dance Development Residency 2025 – Call for Applications

This opportunity is open to one Wellington based choreographer who will receive 25hrs a week for 5 weeks in the Toi Pōneke Dance Studio to develop a new dance theatre work. You will work alongside an emerging producer and a cast/ crew of up to 3. We recommend your cast/crew could be made up of 2 dancers and a videographer/photographer to help document the work. The choreographer and crew will receive a stipend to rehearse and will present to an ‘industry only’ showing at the end of the residency. The choreographer will also have access to a paid mentor. (A choreographer, Dramaturg or Director.)

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Ua Tafa Mai Ata
Oct
19
to 15 Nov

Ua Tafa Mai Ata

Artist Liana Leiataua explores themes of identity, memory and symbolism in an upcoming exhibition that commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Dawn Raids. Ua Tafa Mai Ata is a visual response that acknowledges the ongoing and lived experiences that Pacific communities continue to be impacted by the events that occurred in 1974-1976. Through collaboration with Pasifika youth and aiga, the exhibition seeks to create a path towards healing, reclamation, peace, and restoration of the mana for future generations to come.

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Artist’s Talk
Sept
21
1:00 pm13:00

Artist’s Talk

Join artists Rosalie Koko, Mauatua Fa’ara-Reynolds and Aroha Mattchit-Millar in a talk delving deeper into the thinking behind the works in the exhibition Whetuurangitia, moe mai raa. Facilitated by curator Israel Randell this talk will provide a space for artists to talk to their works and larger artist practices. 

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Whetuurangitia, moe mai raa
Sept
21
to 11 Oct

Whetuurangitia, moe mai raa

When faced with the fear of losing our whakapapa, the question remains: how do we maintain hope in humanity in the face of devastating circumstances?

Whetuurangitia is the transformation from tangata to tipuna by way of stars, responding to current crises Aroha Matchitt-Millar, Rosalie Koko and Mauatua Fa’ara-Reynolds come together to process the unbearable weight of grief for those in Palestine.

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Story Time with The Tiwhas
Sept
15
11:30 am11:30

Story Time with The Tiwhas

Story time with The Tiwhas! invites anyone and everyone to Toi Pōneke for an expressive afternoon to start off Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Led by queens Dame Jthan and Tina Coco Couture, Story Time with the Tiwhas! will bring a great sense of energy and passion to deliver tantalizing stories in Te Reo to an open, friendly space. Toi Pōneke Arts Centre invites audiences to dress to the nines, express yourself, bring your all!

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