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.

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

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 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.

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. 

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.

An exciting exhibition of participatory and interactive art with entertainment by the Toi Pōneke Sound System.

Saturday 30 March from 12noon

Sunday 31 March 12noon - 4pm

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.

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

This group of dynamic emerging Wellington based artists question how we consider intimacy, relationships, gender and sexuality, and how we become possible and known to each other, and to ourselves.

Referencing the heralding of Matariki, the exhibition brings heaven and earth into closer conversation. Contemporary artworks by leading and emerging Māori artists are paired with virtual taonga from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, accessed via visitors’ mobile devices.