gallery archive
Exhibitions previously held at Toi Pōneke
Exhibitions previously held at Toi Pōneke
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.
Message To a Stranger, is an ongoing body of work combining ephemeral electronic modern communication with stone cutting, which is traditional, slow and enduring. This work playfully explores how these messages are sent, hiding them in urban and natural environments. Visitors can interact with the work, creating and displaying rubbings.
Te Wharetoi o Toi Pōneke (Toi Pōneke Arts Centre) presents Aho Hononga: a six-week special exhibition to celebrate mana whenua ringatoi of Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
‘Saili’ – seek – explores the journey of navigating one’s path in seemingly uncertain times. Leauanae’s contemporary stitched works on paper are inspired by connections to the past, that propel us forward into a hopeful future, using motif and a visual language informed by her diverse cultural heritage.
always love xxx is an exhibition through Yumoi zheng and Isadora Lao’s stories. A core focus within this body of work is connection: location, family, queer identity, love and how these overlap.
This is the life that was, attempts to make sense of life and the world of Amanda Smith; recognising private trauma and public chaos co-exist. Memory and time play a significant part in exploration, the unrealistic longing for times now gone and for times ahead.
Ordinary Devotion, is an installation of large-scale drawings and simple architectural interventions reflecting on domestic space and motherhood. This artwork stems from an established line of work exploring interior surfaces, shadow and the many individual histories layered within our homes.
Toi 500 annual residents’ exhibition is a chance for audiences to grab an art bargain with works $500.00 or under. Works presented by Anthea Hayley, David Brown, Franzeska Pound, Jane Hyder, Kedron Parker, Laura Woodward, Maria Colls, Odette Anscombe-Smith, Selene Simcox, Yon Yi Sohn, Terence Turner, Workspace Studios and more.
Gehaakte Gordijntjes - Crocheted Curtains examines how the 21 houses Elisabeth grew up in shaped her understanding of 'home' and her identity as a Dutch New Zealander. Using architectural constructs based on fragments of memory, experience, and migration; the gallery transforms into an abstract house, inviting contemplation of the sense of home we all carry within.
Inspired by Richard Long’s 1967 work ‘A Line Made by Walking’, three Wellington-based Artists collaborate in this exhibition of drawing, painting, embroidery and installation of ‘lines’ - the basic element of visual storytelling - examining the cultural hybridity of their Korean heritage in their adapted lives in New Zealand.
He Rito follows the hands of four rangatahi Māori artists who reconnect to and work with harakeke.
This is breath. This is growth. This is healing. Woven together by their shared interest in the active potential of harakeke, the hands of four Ringatoi explore materiality through customary and contemporary practice. He Rito integrates whanaungatanga and reclamation, reconnecting with taonga and imagining expansive futures of Māoritanga.
Under the pile of washing, school notices, birthday present wish lists and to-dos, there’s an abundance of seething creativity. How do we start to acknowledge invisible labour, its significance, its cost, its beauty and the generosity of it? Dirty Laundry brings together thirteen artists and writers to explore this question.
Curated by Stevei Houkāmau, Te Matapihi is an exhibition concept that brings together a diverse group of Māori artists. Originating from a range of backgrounds and artforms, this group of established makers have dedicated themselves to working outside of the box, exploring the full spectrum of Māori creativity and practice from the historic to the contemporary. Te Matapihi or “The Window” offers a view and invites you to explore the beauty and diversity of Māori art and practice through the eyes of a talented group of makers.
Following their recently released photobook ‘Territory Unknown,’ creatives Chyna Lily and Simon L Wong are displaying their work in a group show ‘Sailing Lanterns’ at Toi Poneke, opening on the 19th of May from 5:30 pm. Chyna and Simon Invite Grace Ko, Allister Tran, Matthew Yee and Jacqueline Trinh to expand on being Asian creatives in Aotearoa.
The 2022 Toi Pōneke – New Zealand School of Music Sound Artist-in-Residence, Dr. Cristohper Ramos Flores, presents the works produced during his residency. Little Portals is an audio and visual ensemble. Letterboxes collected from different points in Wellington were modified to work as loudspeakers and mechatronic instruments with small video players; acting as a miniature audio and visual orchestra that performs works composed for the exhibition.
Under Heaven’s Heel is an eclectic survey of the oppressive economic and social practices of capitalism dating back over 500 years. Paintings and sculptures by artist Sam Clague muse on the origins of our political landscape.
The Hand of Dog explores the influence and contribution that pets can have on their owners and their lives - in this case the relationship between Te Whanganui-a-Tara artist, Stuart Forsyth, and his three-legged SPCA mixed-breed canine companion, Roo.
The Places We Called Home brings together the work of Andrew Ross & Cody Ellingham, two photographers capturing the history of urban Wellington twenty years apart. The exhibition explores the homes, streets, and changing landscape of the city from the 1990s through to today.
Artists, designers, photographers, makers, and crafters from Toi Pōneke Arts Centre are proud to present Toi Poneke Arts Centre Residents Exhibition 2022.
Exhibition celebrating the monomono pani works of Ane Nanasi Pahulu - renowned for her patchwork style of monomono pani (sewn quilts and bedspreads).
The gallery is closed for refurbishment. Please come again in August for our next exhibition.
Rest as a form of resistance. An exhibition of new works upon single fitted bed sheets by 12 wāhine Māori artists, acknowledging how our tīpuna would have spent this time of Matariki.
Rosa and Oliver emigrated to Wellington from London in 2020. They have produced art in response to these uncertain times and to their hopes and dreams. This will be their debut exhibition in Wellington - bringing together a selection of abstract and figurative paintings and drawings.
Here & Out sees nine female street artists from five different countries present new work in response to the impacts of Covid-19. Artists include: Dreamgirls Collective (Wellington, NZ), Janine Williams (Aotearoa), Gleo (Colombia), and Caratoes (Hong Kong - Belgium).
Fran & Caroline are contemporary jewellers who are inspired by the world around them. From the mundanity of city streets to the beauty of nature, jewelleryness is everywhere.
Stevei Houkāmau is the 2021 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence. Her uku (clay) practice is distinctive for its carved surface designs that draw upon the indigenous tattoo practices of tā moko and tātau. Ira Tangata Ira Atua springs from research into the artist’s whakapapa. By acknowledging and celebrating her whakapapa, Houkāmau unwraps narratives that will be retold through uku, projection and soundscape.
This is your opportunity to view and purchase other works from Toi Three Sixty artists before the exhibition opens.
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 and online exhibition.
Pack your bags for an exhibition of vlogs, photography and collage! Anna Brimer and Max Fleury go on holiday at top tourist destinations and Airbnbs, visiting the visited and photographing the photographed.
Three new video works riffing on weird tales, cinema of unease, and camp horror to draw out the moments before collapse into terror or laughter.
In a gentle reminder artist Ruby Joy Eade considers the textile ephemera of her own life, the generations that came before her, and those yet to come.
An exhibition of paintings and poetry exploring the intersection of trauma, disability and radical vulnerability.
TE MAURI O PŌHUTU is a new series of collaborative installation and time-based artworks by Bianca Hyslop, Rowan Pierce and Tūī Matira Ranapiri Ransfield.
The work responds to the loss of mātauranga Māori due to cultural interruption and assimilation. It is a sensual offering that addresses the fragility of memory, connection to whenua and reclamation of culture from within foreign frameworks.
Bailee Lobb’s new exhibition In Bathing, Bask considers how spaces can act as a supportive environment for stimming, sensory processing and soothing the nervous system.
Disabled artist Bailee describes living with a highly sensitised central nervous system like ‘living with the volume turned up on all your sensory inputs’ – everything is too loud, too busy, too much. She has created a series of undulating textile spaces for Toi Pōneke Gallery, transforming it into a stimulatory playground for interactive fun, sensory play, and self-regulation.
Cuming constructs elaborate sonic devices, optic paintings and prints based on analogue information systems and technology including radios, records, tapes and books. He explores how information can be recorded and altered through filters like sound and pattern, reminding us of the multiple ways meaning can be manipulated or shift through translation.
Tree Museum, a new exhibition of paintings by Pōneke artist, Ben Lysaght explores peculiarities within the history of botanical gardens and archives.
Marcus Jackson is an artist, composer and writer based in Pōneke. He creates work that interrogates the links between physical gesture and sound production, often with uncanny results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Listening to Yourself Listening is a solo exhibition by Blake Johnston, exploring a new approach to sound art. Johnston has generated a series of new works that create meta-perceptual experiences, inviting the audience to turn their attention back to themselves and meditate on their own subjective experience.
Te reo Māori, like any language is important to the vitality and meaning of culture. The exhibition Te reo Pākehā asks how we understand these meanings when looking at Te reo Māori as a non-Māori or as a Māori disconnected from learning the language in the home? Working across installation and painting, artists Martin Awa Clarke Langdon and Elliot Collins converse and reflect on the power of language, place and variation of 'meanings' we have access to.
Gloaming explores chromatic transformation - the time between day and night - through a series of observational watercolour paintings and writings by Chora Luz Carleton.
At gloaming, a strange light obscures our perceptions, colours transfigure into shadowy masses. This state of transition changes our mental perception and focus: our world becomes a smaller more intimate space, and the darkness looming beyond calls the imagination.
Anti-body aims to draw lines between the conflicting intimacy we feel towards an increasingly technological landscape and our innate desire to be connected to our earth.
Tread Softly is a collaboration between photographer Tom Hoyle and choreographer Sacha Copland.As the days grow shorter Autumn will spread throughout the gallery and dancers will capture moments of abandon in and amongst falling leaves.
HANDSHAKE 4 is the fourth iteration of the unique mentor/exhibition project that originated in 2011. The HANDSHAKE project supports New Zealand jewellery artists, allowing them to develop ideas and artworks for a succession of national and international exhibitions with the assistance of a chosen mentor.
Something in mind is an exhibition of new paintings by Yvette Velvin that considers objects; tiny, beautiful things, recognisable and comfortably familiar, rendered with oils on clay, timber and linens.
Flo Wilson and Olivia Webb join forces as Wellington’s 2017-18 Toi Pōneke / New Zealand School of Music sound artists in residence. Their exhibition Attunement features new sound and performance works that explore the voice and identity.
The Toi Two Hundy is back for its 3rd year, showcasing great art at an affordable price.
Kirsty Lillico presents an installation of large fabric banners, based on Google Earth views of the Canterbury Plains (Kā Pākihi whakatekateka a Waitaha) and the Mackenzie Basin (Te Manahuna).
This new body of work from Gina Matchitt discusses issues of disparity and inequality, namely, Pakeha privilege and Māori disadvantage in New Zealand society.
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.
Informed by research into neuroscience, artists Astrid Visser and Alexia George delve into the workings of the mind through the creation of sculptural and wearable forms alongside moving image.
Isabella Loudon’s hand-formed concrete and fabric sculptures perceive vulnerability at the edge of collapse. I do not want to be a fool humours the risks the artist takes to push the material to its limits.
A collection of works from leading Māori and Pacific artists inhabit Toi Pōneke Gallery alongside a virtual showcase of Taonga from The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
In Dirty Edges / Clean Lines, line ventures out into the white expanse, feeling its way around the paper.
Form and space are subtly manipulated in Between Moods. Artists Tyler Jackson, Josephine Jelicich and Lauren Redican create minimal sculptures and wall works that gently nudge viewers towards a more intimate relationship with their surroundings.
Alice Alva presents Over/Under, an exhibition investigating the physical connections between traditions of textile and pattern making, domestic crafts, ornamentation and decoration.
Environmental sound composer Thomas Voyce brings an 8-channel (octophonic) speaker system to Toi Pōneke Gallery for an immersive surround sound listening experience.
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