Looking for an opportunity to start your own art collection or expand on your current one? See what the residents of Toi Pōneke have been up to in our annual cash & carry exhibition.

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.

Turumeke Harrington’s new exhibition Gentle ribbing is a birth, a coming into being with a lifetime ahead. The exhibition of sculpture and major installation features a huge, brightly coloured quilt.

Artist Katy Cottrell’s new exhibition Furniture Memoirs delves into the untold and forgotten stories of trees used in the production of domestic furniture.

Oceans turn to goo is an exhibition of photography and sculpture by artist Ted Whitaker, based on physiological mutations that are common with surfers.

In Loose Parts and Joyful Mayhem artist Rebekah Rasmussen explores the boundaries between a child’s and an adult’s creativity.

Sometimes art making feels like an act of self-acceptance. What are these tangled, drippy, complex, funny things? They are you, and me, and what’s between us. They push and pull, unravel and stick together. They are proud and stand up. They are tired, and slump against a wall, their back drooping and moulding to what’s already there.

A pop-up exhibition showcasing work from the residents of Toi Pōneke.

Robbie Handcock’s practice draws from an ever-evolving archive of gay erotic material, working towards a queer visual language in painting.

Depictions of queer sexuality are used to discuss ideas of desire, taste and lineage.

Intuitive messy mark making meets a colourful, hard-edged geometric practice in this exhibition of new work from Gary Peters.

An exhibition of new work by the 2019-20 Toi Pōneke New Zealand School of Music Artist in Residence.Why is matter so intelligent, though? explores the acoustic relationships between reef fish, sea urchins, snapping shrimp and other marine life forms in the Hauraki Gulf, considering the symbiotic interdependencies of these organisms through sound.

Toi Pōneke’s Annual Resident’s show is back! All works $300 or less. Cash and Carry.

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.

See It Like This is a solo show by Wellington artist Greta Menzies, exploring meaning making and absurdism through a fabulated landscape of paintings and sculptural works..

Drawing from collected found moments reflecting ways in which urban environments are constructed, Storm water Solutions combines installations by Teresa Collins and Bena Jackson weaving amusement and sentimentality.

Marilyn Jones’ exhibition Linear Impositions occupies and interrupts the gallery with a series of new works that investigate relationships between space and form.

On his 50th birthday, artist Bryce Galloway got his first tattoo and posted a bandmates wanted flyer. four songs, played twice revisits this mid-life crisis story and the nine bands Galloway started that year. 

Haukāinga, True people/Home is a curated exhibition drawn from the Wellington City Council’s City Art Collection.

EOmma is a series of sculptural works by Emerita Baik exploring an emotive response of people living with a language barrier. 

Rauropi [ I II III ] is an installation by Jason Wright, made up of a series of object integrated sound sculptures.

Ghosts, floating is an autobiographical exhibition of paintings, poems and small sculptures by Wellington artist Briana Jamieson that form abstract and personal shrines to people and experiences.

Rebecca Hasselman’s solo exhibition, Suspended Terrain, explores ways that a thoughtful connection to the land can be articulated through paint.

The Modern Alpha is a series of hyper-detailed illustrative works by Wellington artist Hannah Salmon, satirising dominant political and ideological systems that promote oppression, competition and financial gain.

Composer and performer Cory Champion works with the recording and amplification of cymbals, drums and drum machines to create fluid soundscapes, exploiting blurred textures between acoustic and synthesised sources. These percussion instruments are also amplified in the gallery space as sculptural works able to be played, continually modulating Champion’s immersive, harmonic soundscapes.

Give a little art this Christmas or impress friends by starting your own art collection.

Studio artists at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre have something for everyone – and everything is $200 or under.

Susanna Bauer’s exhibition The Quarry explores a 'fictional archaeology’ that reimagines the past in the present.

Johanna Mechen’s exhibition Sonorous Shadow the culmination of her 12 week Visual Arts residency at Toi Pōneke.

The Future is Death, curated by Leilani Sio aka Panda, asks what place migrant people have in a colonised land. Emerging Pasifika artists reimagine a new existence for their people.

An exhibition of virtual reality artwork by Claire Hughes with soundtrack by Isaac Lundy