EXHIBITIONS
A Collection Sample
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery
23 March - 11 June 2023
A Collection Sample presents a selection of artworks from the Wallace Arts Trust’s collection. Many of the works were recently acquired over the last 12 months and included in exhibitions and projects at the Pah Homestead (Hillsborough, Auckland) in 2022. The artists represented are emerging, mid-career or established, and work in a variety of media. These practitioners come from all over Aotearoa, with a few living in Kirikiriroa or the Waikato region.
Image: Alice Alva Go big or go home (I'd rather be at home), 2022
returning to the source
new imagined landscapes by Charlotte Giblin
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
18 March – 6 April 2023
OPENING 11AM, 18 March 2023
Charlotte Giblin returns to the location where her professional career began in New Zealand. She has worked in the visual arts for twenty-five years, including two years as the inaugural director of the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville. Charlotte is a full-time artist and writer living in New Plymouth.
Summer Okey: Let’s Have Sum Mcfun
EXHIBITIONS
Community Gallery
18 March – 6 April 2023
OPENING 11AM, 18 March 2023
A selection of paintings and sculptures see Summer Okey embracing the "weird & the wonderful" as she brings a playful lightness to the gallery in this series of fun works.
COMING UP
Art in Thread
Waikato Embroiderer's Guild
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
15 April - 7 May 2023
OPENING 11AM 15 April
A Waikato Embroiderers' Guild exhibition demonstrating a variety of technique and design
to show what can be achieved with needle and thread.
Image: Laura Perin, Northern Lights. Embroided by Racheal Stringer
'Seasons'
Kay Sheffield Regional Challenge
Community Gallery
15 April - 7 May 2023
OPENING 11AM 15 April
Association of New Zealand Embroiderer's Guilds Inc.
Waikato & BOP Regional Exhibition
Ngahere: the bush of Aotearoa
Whakaaturanga & Community Galleries
13 May - 18 June
OPENING 11AM 13 May
Feel like you are immersed in the beauty and majesty of the New Zealand bush in this exhibition by members of The Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand.
Image: Agnes Hauptli