Exhibitions
STILLS
Arts House Trust Collection Gallery
8 February - 28 April
Photography from The Arts House Trust Collection
Image: Beth Garey, Nectar/Pollen - Kale
PANZ: Purely Pastel
Whakaaturanga Gallery &
Community Gallery
23 March - 28 April
Opening night: Friday, 22 March, 5PM-7PM
PANZ is succeeding in its aim of raising the awareness of the art-buying public, artists, and galleries of pastel art. A Convention and National Exhibition is held in a different region each year. So far they have been held in Blenheim, Cambridge, Upper Hutt, Mapua, Christchurch, Stratford, Fielding, Dunedin, Tauranga and Auckland.
Image: Eastland Port, Zoe Alford-Pilot
COMING UP
Jenni Taris: Pottery Making For Forty Years
Whakaturaanga Gallery
5 May - 2 June
Opening: Sunday, 5 May 1.00Pm - 3.00Pm
Jenni Taris works every day in in her own studio, she has her own kilns and equipment, her work comes from my stories and experiences in her life. “I still experience the feeling of Christmas mornings when I open my kilns never know what’s it going to be like, I can plan it out as much as I can some times surprises and wonderful things happen”
Dianne Baker: Focus
Whakaturaanga Gallery
8 June - 14 July
Opening: Saturday, 8 June, 11AM - 1PM
“Throughout art history, we see so many paintings of important dignitaries whereas I enjoyed the artists who painted people going about their ordinary lives without formal posing. I enjoy the challenge of honouring, through paint on canvas, people in their own environment and using their individual skills and knowledge.” Dianne Baker.
Image: Hammer and Chisel, Dianne Baker
LandEscape
Whakaaturanga Gallery
Opening night: Friday, 16 February 5PM - 7PM
16 February - 17 March
LandEscape explores the different ways that artists in Aotearoa express their relationship and connection to the land – this exhibition explores eight Artists approach to landscape and focuses on artistic identity and the various ways this can be presented.
Image: Tristan Zhang
The Jolly Girls
Community Gallery
Opening night: Friday, 16 February 5PM - 7PM
16 February - 17 March
The Jolly Girls is a Collaborative exhibition consisting of 6 Fibre and Fabric artists led by Anne Jolly.
Image: Anne Jolly
Hit 'em With their Laser Beams
Arts House Trust Collection Gallery
6 December – 6 February
Hit ‘em with their Laser Beams is a selection of painting and drawing from the Arts Trust Collection.
Image: Bill Hammond, The Young Designers 1989
SARATH/ FREDDIE SURENDRAN: APRICITY
Community Gallery Official Opening: Friday, 12 January 5PM-7PM
13 January - 11 February
"let us all find the peace amongst the chaos just like my paintings" - Sarath/ Freddie Surendran
Mr Black: Almost Human
Whakaaturanga Gallery
Official Opening: Friday, 12 January 5PM-7PM
13 January - 11 February
The Covid pandemic gave us thought to a world without humans, a place where humans once existed. Almost Human plays on this apocalyptic thought, imagining a place where there are tell tale signs that humans were there, but maybe no longer exist.
Helen and Brian's Christmas show
Community Gallery
21 November - 21 December
Free Entry
Helen and Brian Gibsons annual Christmas show
Morrinsville College Portfolios 2023
Whakaaturnga Gallery
5 December- 21 December
This exhibition showcases the works of Morrinsville College students, featuring piece's from Year 9 - Year 13
Image: year 10 student
DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
IT MAY TAKE YOU ON ANOTHER JOURNEY
The Arts House Trust Collection Gallery
13 September - 2 December 2023
Curators Talk: Saturday 7 October 11AM
Curated by Laura Campbell and Justin Jade Morgan.
Bringing together a diverse selection of artworks from The Arts House Trust, New Zealand’s largest privately held art collection, ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover; it may take you on another journey’ aims to lure the viewer beyond the cover of a book to reveal new pictorial narratives.
Artnexus6: Shapes and Scapes
Whakaaturagna Gallery
7 October - 5 November
Official Opening: Saturday, 7 October, 11.00AM
As members of Artnexus we have drawn on 20 years of support and encouragement within the co-operative to showcase works that vary in media, colour, subject and form. they have exhibited annually from 2001 to 2020 as part of the larger Artnexus co-operative, including at Morrinsville Gallery, ArtsPost Gallery (Hamilton), Sandz Gallery (Hamilton) and Estuary Arts Centre (Orewa). Some of us have also exhibited in small group or solo exhibitions.
Image: Joy Keates- Rose, Sunday
Morrinsville Intermediate
Community Gallery
7 October- 5 November 2023
Morrinsville Intermediate students presents 3 series of works in the Community Gallery.
Image: Eva Thompson- Tia
Creative Fibre Waikato Exhibition
Whakaaturanga Gallery
8 November- 3 December
Official opening: Wednesday, 8 November 10.30AM
This exhibition showcases skill & creativity across a diverse range of talents using predominantly natural fibres, both plant and animal.
Liquifying Light
The Arts House Trust Collection Gallery
14 June – 10 September 2023
Official opening: Sunday 25 June 11am
Curated by Daisy Nicholas
Liquifying Light explores the dynamic relationship between experimental contemporary photography and environmental physics. As an open-ended dialogue featuring contemporary New Zealand artists, this exhibition examines relationships between nature and the various ways of capturing movement and light.
Image: Daisy Nicholas
Dale Gilmore: Really?
Whakaaturanga Gallery
2 September - 1 October
Official opening: Saturday 2 September 11am
Dale Gilmore is a retired Secondary School art teacher. Starting out originally as a Signwriter but retrained in his thirties when signwriting was starting to enter the digital age.
Gilmore graduated from Wintec with a Media arts Degree and has enjoyed pushing paint around on a surface for a lot of his working life.
he generally works in series to explore ideas. Most of his work deals with the nature of reality, designed to challenge and provoke the viewer into questioning many of the assumptions we take for granted. As a teacher he wanted students to develop critical thinking skills. So too, he wants the viewer to engage with the work with a critical, questioning mindset.
Morrinsville School
Community Gallery
2 September - 1 October 2023
Works by Morrinsville School surrounding Kaitiaki O Papatūānuku
Image: Room 11
Vicki Carruthers: The Language of Landscape
Whakaaturanga Gallery
29 July – 27 August
OPENING 11AM 29 July
Abstract and semi-abstract expressions in paint and stone speak of the permanence and transience of landscapes and landforms from the sea and the land.
Jean Horn: Celebrating 100 years in the Waikato
Community Gallery
29 July – 27 August
OPENING 11AM 29 July
Celebrating a life of 100 years shaped by the Waikato.
A selection of artworks that reflect the artist’s perception of landscapes in the Waikato over a lifetime.
Community Matariki Exhibition!
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
25 June - 23 July 2023
OPENING Sunday 11AM 25 June
We have had a great response to our call for work for the 2023 Matariki exhibition!
Come and visit to see the incredible work from our community.
The Gallery Painting Group
The Entrance Gallery
The Gallery Painting Group was formed in late 2022. This untutored group consists of five local artists who have come together for support and a desire to advance their painting skills. They meet every Friday afternoon at the gallery for a lot of fun and comradeship. The group welcomes other members who are able to regularly attend and are of an intermediate or above level.
Currently the artists are: Judy Flashman, Samantha Derewlany, Rosemary MacKinven, Denise Boreham & Susan Roome
David Street School
Community Gallery
22 June - 23 July 2023
With a school vision asking students to be a community of courageous learners, David Street School presents work within the theme of CHANGE in the Community Gallery over four weeks.