20 Years at Abel Smith

Saturday, 25 October 2025 10:00 am 10:00
Friday, 21 November 2025 8:00 pm 20:00

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre 61 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington Wellington New Zealand (map)

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25 October - 20 November

Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, originally Wellington Arts Centre, first opened in July 2005 by Mayor Kerry Prendergast at 61 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, and has been growing to better support the art of Wellington ever since. Over the last 20 years Toi Pōneke Arts Centre has seen over 200 exhibitions in the gallery.

20 years at Abel Smith looks back on the tapestry of Toi Pōneke at Abel Smith Street and invites artists, friends, family and guest on a small stroll down memory lane in hopes to build an even stronger step forward into the future. Opens Friday 5:30 24 Oct and is on in the back gallery until Friday 21 Nov 2025.

Photographic Practice - Frankie Rouse

Viewpoint - Sarah Thomas, Karina Rossiter

The Velveteen City - Alastair McAra

Windance - Emily Farncombe

The Happy Couple - Bruce Mahalski, Stefano Tevaga

One Revolution - Elisabeth Vullings

Snapshot - Naomi Clements

Splendor and Serenity - Wei Wu

Outside Culture - Angela Blachnitzky

Ai Sasaki

Allotropy - Jeanette Scharing

The Candidate - John Lake

Digital Phenomena - Giles Whitaker

Utopia Dystopia - Wellington Art Teachers Assiosiation

The Fermi Paradox - Tania Willis

Forgotten Space Remebered - James Voller

What are you driving at? - Bevan Shaw

Locale - Lynda Garrod, Shaun Matthews, Kirsty Woods

Nag - Martyn Robert, Marcus McShane, Peter Stenhouse, Andrew Shaw, Erin Banks, Thomas Press, Joseph Nicholls, Adri Lamprect

Excavation - David H Brown

Book - Maude Heath, Anneke Cottle

Fight or Flight - Shane Michael McGrath

The Great World - Kerry Ann Lee

Toi Pōneke Residents 2012 Exhibition

Street Shift - Vanessa Arthur

Refuge In Anglesea - Tam Webster

An Encounter with lived experience - Martin Butts

no ideas but in things - Lee Houlihan, Emma Mudgway

Paper Blaze - Magdalena Podbielkowska Bisley

…and all of this I do in the huge court of my memory - Karina Rossiter

Mana for Jam - Reuben Friend, Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Tina Ngata, Sarah Hudson, Rina Kerekere, Tai Kerekere

From here to somewhere - Yukari Kaihori

Water is to paper - Rebekah Rasmussen

Order Structure Pattern - Gabby O'Connor, Shaun Hendy

Disrupt - Perry Scott

Assembly Line - A packet of salt - Li Xiaofei

M.V. Subterranean Universe - Moniek Schrijer

Adding C, D and E - Emma Chambers, Hamish Coleman

Copy Wildly - Birgit Bachler

The Best Things In Life Come Wrapped in Cellophane - Jade Townsend

RIP - Marci Tackett

Plan B "the accured item" - Caroline Thomas

Kaokao - Terri Te Tau, Bridget Reweti, Sarah Hudson, Erena Arapere-Baker

Here we are... Home, at last - Negin Dastgheib, Jessca Hubbard

Lest We Go Ashore - Shaun Matthews

Abstract/Ethics - Robbie Whyte

1260 - Sign for change - Justine Flecher

Shadow out of time - Natalie Smith

Cahoot - Whitireia Visual Arts Exhibition

The Residents Toi Pōneke Group Show

Black Dog Failure - Mark Anthony Steelsmith

Low Noise 2 - Blake Johnston, Paul Matthews, Richard Robertshawe, Mo H. Zareei, Timothy Barraclough, Jason Wright

In Response - Connah Podmore, Maria O'Toole

What We Saw - Sally Griffin

You occupy my body by looking - Virginia Kennard, Sonia Sly

Walk on fallow lands - Angela Kilford, Elijah Winter

Retold - Rebecca Holden

Open Day Celebrating 10 Years of Toi Pōneke

The Nummulosphere - Carlos Wedde, Hayden Pruijean

Breathing in Beijing - Bevan Shaw

Steal this book - Sutthirat Supaparinya

As A Lattice - Hannah Hallam Eames

Moop - Fran Carter

The Toi Two Hundy - Toi Pōneke Residents Show

Soliflore - Lee Jensen

Howdy Cowboy - Dao Tung, Mat Logan, Tran Ming Du'c

Other ways other wise - Karina Van Roosmalen

A/Part - Sam Dollimore

Dead Bug Live - Kate Lepper

Locked Rooms - Nik Hanton

The Four Finger Fandango - James Gilbert-Milne

Certain Ways - Caroline Earley, Kate Walker

The hereafter and the here-now - Petra Stueben

For Sale: baby shoes, never worn - Justine Walker

Coastline Paradox - Josette Chiang

Kōhikohīko - Alexandra Batley, Eugene Hansen, Dave Matthews, Adrian McCleland, Shannon Te Ao

The Toi two hundy - Toi Pōneke's Annual Residents Show

Octophonic Ambisonic - Thomas Voyce

Take That which has passed - Louise Rutledge, Ruth Buchannan, Julian Dashper, Sonya Lacey, Neil Pardington, Ann Shelton, Shannon Te Ao

Over Under - Alice Alva

Between Moods - Josephine Jelicich, Lauren Redican, Tyler Jackson

Dirty edges/clean lines - Lisa Munnelly

Pūkana whakarunga! Pūkana whakararo - Reweti Arapere, David Hakaraia, Kauri Hawkins, Stevei Houkamau, Lonnie Hutchinson, Robyn Kahukiwa, James Lainchbury, Reuben Paterson, Kereama Taepa, Ngatai Taepa