2023 Exhibitions
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.
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.
Ngahere: The bush of Aotearoa
Whakaaturanga & Community Galleries
13 May - 18 June 2023
A tactile exhibition that blends imagination, skill and creative flair, ‘Ngahere – The Bush of Aotearoa’ brings together some of New Zealand’s most talented weavers.
Featuring over 45 stunning artworks, including hand woven textured and gauze fabrics, tapestries, Jacquard weaves, floor rugs and cushions, this show explores all aspects of our New Zealand bush.
Image: Agnes Hauptli
A Collection Sample
The Arts House Trust Collection Gallery
23 March - 11 June 2023
A Collection Sample presents a selection of artworks from The Arts House Trust 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
Art in Thread
Waikato Embroiderers' Guild
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
15 April - 7 May 2023
A Waikato Embroiderers' Guild exhibition demonstrating a variety of techniques and designs to show what can be achieved with needle and thread.
Image: Laura Perin, Northern Lights. Embroidered by Racheal Stringer
'Seasons'
Kay Sheffield Regional Challenge
Community Gallery
15 April - 7 May 2023
Association of New Zealand Embroiderers' Guilds Inc.
Waikato & BOP Regional Exhibition
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.
PAINT
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery
7 December 2022 – 12 March 2023
Smudged, splattered, and caked on, PAINT brings together a selection of paintings and sculptures from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection to celebrate the physicality and sheer joy of painting.
Curated by Hester Rowan
Image: Hannah Ireland 'Declan' 2019
Sarah Lee: Making Friends
Community Gallery
11 February – 12 March 2023
Sarah Lee is drawn to making "fiddly & laborious works" that teeter on the brink of disaster. Her sculptural works invite the viewer to create their own personal narrative or dialogue and to perhaps make a new friend in the process.
Sarah works out of her studio in Te Aroha and has a Diploma of Art & Craft from Hungry Creek.
Collision: Artworks by Wintec graduates
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
11 February – 12 March 2023
Former Wintec students present work exploring new subjects.
Curated by Georgia Hancock
Jana Wood: Gestures, the land speaks
Community Gallery
14 January - 5 February 2023
Jana Wood continues an on-going expression of connection to place and the investigation of space in 'Gestures, the land speaks', a series of work made over the past year in Port-Waikato, where Wood lives. She describes the works as developing carefully, resulting from a slow kind of looking and feeling, hearing, listening and being. These works are not just a visual observation, but rather present an all-encompassing deep awareness of surroundings.
5 plus 2
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
14 January - 5 February 2023
5 plus 2 : A travelling exhibition of glass art created by five established NZ artists and two emerging local guest artists.
Using a mixture of techniques with glass, this exhibition highlights the incredible diversity and versatility of glass as a medium.