PAST EXHIBITIONS
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.
CHRISTMAS in MINIATURE LIGHT DISPLAY
Community Gallery
22 November - 22 December 2022
The Christmas miniature show is back by popular demand! The gallery will once again be showcasing Helen and Brian Gibson’s Christmas miniature collection & it is even bigger and better this season!
Come along and enjoy the magical carnival scenes and winter landscape in a village setting.
Photo credit: Alan Murphy
Michael Barker: The Artist as Storyteller
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
12 November - 18 December 2022
Works of 'visual stories' with Michael Barker as storyteller.
Featuring a range of art works in various media including oil paint on canvas, watercolour and pencil drawing as well as 'hero' props.
Māpura Studios in Morrinsville
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery
15 September – 4 December 2022
Māpura Studios, based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, is a creative space that provides programmes and activities in visual arts practice, creative expression, dance-movement, music and art therapy for people living with disability and diversity. Māpura Studios was originally founded in 2000, as Spark Centre of Creative Development.
The works on display in this exhibition are mostly from the Wallace Arts Trust collection, with some recently produced artworks available to purchase from Māpura Studios.
Patrick Cush: Transporter Room
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
1 October - 6 November 2022
Patrick Cush describes the studio as a transporter room with painting as the means of departure. A painting creates a space within a space - a portal through which to lose oneself.
Graduating with a BFA from Quay School of Art in 2000, Cush has been based in Whanganui for over 25 years. An abstract colourist painter, his work explores technical aspects of painting - colour, surface, form, space - and existentialism, without the distraction of conceptual themes, world events or social commentary.
Norma Slabbert : House Home Place
Community Gallery
1 October - 6 November 2022
House Home Place is a collection of wall and bed quilts by Norma Slabbert. Her quilts speak to the concept of home as a physical and social place between our roots, and our future, and the hold it has on our bones.
'Will home ever be the same again? Since the office moved in, home has become much more than a private shelter. It has become a makeshift workplace, a school, a playground, a social hub, a media centre, and everything in between.'
Norma Slabbert is a quiltmaker and writer from Hamilton. She has been using the quilt form as her medium of expression for more than thirty years.
Lorene Taurerewa: Life in a Box
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
20 August - 25 September 2022
Many of Lorene Taurerewa's drawings and paintings are guided by a series of work book drawings which can be seen as a daily drawn visual diary. Accumulated over the years, recording narrative imagery in pen on paper, these works are drawn from a variety of sources including memory, imagination, popular culture, family and everyday existence.
For Taurerewa, drawings are the life force of her practice and over time she has accumulated a large cache of drawings which underpin the work in this exhibition. These works are stored in a box.
MORRINSVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
Community Gallery
15 - 27 September 2022
Student work from Year 7 and 8 will be on display in the Community Gallery in September.
Come along and see skillful works in a variety of media from our local Intermediate school.
Over & Over & Over (again)
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery
29 June –
Closes Saturday 10 September 2022
Curated by Kiki Hall, Gabriella Lidstone White and Heleana McNaught
Wallace Arts Trust Summer Interns 2022
Join us for the Curators Talk on Saturday the 9th of July 11am
Over & Over & Over (again) gathers works from the Wallace Art Trust Collection and newly
created works by artists Kiki Hall, Gabriella Lidstone White and Heleana McNaught.
This exhibition reflects the simple gifts of nature through painting, ceramics, photography and sculpture.
Luca de Andrad-Odgers: liminal
Community Gallery
20 August - 11 September 2022
Through the act of making, emerging artist Luca de Andrad-Odgers manifests his inner world. Luca's work can be read as a discovery utilising the energy of emotion and feeling. The works are often created with an initial set intention, then unfold in the manner of automatism, guided by the unseen realm. Luca considers the final work to be an offering to the viewer.
Luca works out of his converted garage studio in Matamata where he can see the Wairere Falls.
Born in Kirikiriroa Hamilton in 2001, Luca's creative instinct was evident from an early age.
Matariki Photographic Exhibition
'Remember the past, celebrate the present and plan for the future'
9 July - 14 August 2022 Gallery Foyer
A community exhibition that speaks to the key themes of Matariki:
Remembrance – Honouring those we have lost since the last rising of Matariki
Celebrating the present – Gathering together to give thanks for what we have
Looking to the future – Looking forward to the promise of a New Year
Suss: figuring the impact of social order
Nicol Sanders O’Shea | Lynette Fisher | Anne Shirley | Heidi Martin Douglas | Donna Dinsdale | Darcell Apelu
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
9 July -14 August 2022
It is said that sustainability is about meeting our own needs without compromising the future generations to meet their own needs. This visual investigation plays with the notions of social imperatives within an intergenerational context with work crossing multi disciplinary lines to illuminate the way in which systemic issues surrounding social order can be expressed.
Jennifer Wright: Our Lives
Community Gallery
9 July - 14 August 2022
Through travels across the globe, Jennifer Wright was struck by the stories that people can choose to tell about their lives - and all of the stories they choose not to tell.
This exhibition is intended to capture some of that fascination of the unknown that is felt when watching strangers or speaking with them.
Jennifer Wright is a New Zealand artist who works in oil paint and mixed media.
In 2014, she attended New York University (NYU) Steinhardt and studied fine art under Meleko Mokgosi and also studied finance at NYU Stern School of Business.
Craig McClure & Jeremy Mayall: Pb.1.2022
Whakāturanga Exhibition & Community Galleries
4 June - 3 July 2022
A collaborative and immersive art experience spanning two gallery spaces.
Craig McClure is a contemporary visual artist who has studied and worked in a variety of creative fields. His artistic career in the Waikato has spanned over a decade and has often been in support of other artists. He is a doodler, painter, illustrator, muralist, curator, festival director and project manager. In 2016 McClure’s practice shifted to include installation and collaboration projects including sound design, sculpture, and theatrical lighting.
Jeremy Mayall is a composer, performer, collaborator and researcher from Kirikiriroa Hamilton. His work is primarily in the fields of music, sound art, installation and multimedia formats, with a focus on the interrelation between sound, time, space, the senses, and the human experience.
Fumbles for Rhymes
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery
On until Saturday 25 June 2022
Fumbles for Rhymes explores the use of humour by Aotearoa New Zealand artists - senior, mid-career and emergent. Presented through works from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection, this exhibition begins with several artists who established themselves in the 1980s and employed a number of humorous motifs. They received recognition partly due to elements of witticism in their work. Fumbles for Rhymes shows how contemporary artists have used humour repeatedly in their practice.
Featured Image: detail "Paradise Mound”, Laura Williams, 2021 Image courtesy of Laree Payne Gallery Photo credit to Mark Hamilton
Katie Blundell: Country Air
Whakāturanga Exhibition Gallery
30 April - 29 May 2022
Focussing on the human experience and making it both personal and universal, Katie Blundell expresses her thoughts, ideas and relationship to the world around her through art.
Country Air was inspired by Blundell’s return to her family farm.
Bev Kotkin-Smith | Jenny Davis | Sandy Burdon: North and South in our Backyard
Community Gallery
30 April - 29 May 2022
United by a love of painting, three local artists present work that takes inspiration from the natural environment.
Te Toi Tūāhu
23 February - 8 May 2022
Te Toi Tūāhu Project took place across 7 months with initial wānanga at the Matamata Piako Libraries creating opportunities to discuss, interpret and understand the cultural significance of Matariki practices. The final phase of this project was held in the Community Creative Space at the gallery over one weekend with creative practitioners sharing their cultural and/or creative process. Participants of all ages were then able to explore creative ideas as they reflected on the earlier teachings.
The gallery and Morrinsville Library (56 Canada St, Morrinsville) are show casing the work created throughout April.
Image: 'Uetonga' Ray Hohipa
TRACY & TIM CROUCHER: Ground - Water
Whakaaturanga Exhibition Gallery
19 March - 24 April 2022
Ground - Water is a selection of recent paintings by Tim and Tracy Croucher. The works create a gentle dialogue around their experiences of living and travelling in Aotearoa.
Sometimes idyllic, sometimes disquieting in their sensation, Tim and Tracy’s paintings together re-see familiar subjects of pastoral and waters scenes.
Some of my best work
Community Gallery
19 March - 24 April 2022
In February we asked the community, Have you ever dreamed of having your artwork displayed in an art gallery? We wanted to give the Matamata-Piako community and our gallery volunteers an opportunity to showcase their artistic talent. This exhibition is the result. We asked for artwork of all types from artists of all ages and levels of experience and were delighted with the number of works we received. Thank you to all the artists who submitted their work, we only wish we had space to display it all
FELIPE QUERIQUELLI: Before My Eyes Close
Whakaaturanga / Exhibition Gallery
12 February - 13 March 2022
This photographic project originated with the need to investigate the changes in human beings over the last century, within a social and axiological sphere.
Felipe Queriquelli notes two relevant points for the realization of the photographic practice and also for the theoretical development of the work - the difficulty of communication and the fear of the end.
BRUCE MAXWELL: Kōrerorero
Community Gallery
12 February - 13 March 2022
A self-taught artist of Māori (Te Arawa, Ngati Rangiwewehi) and European (Scottish/English) descent, Bruce Maxwell presents a series of personal narratives in acrylic.
Throughout his life, Bruce has created works that respond to the land & water and he continues to express his experiences while developing a personal symbolism and style.
MIKE MORGAN: REMINISCING
Main Gallery
14 January—6 February 2022
Opening 10.30am Friday 14 January
Mike Morgan has been painting with oils for 50 years as a self taught artist, and exhibiting since the early 80's. He works with many mediums but oils are his preferred choice. Humour and fun can be seen running through Mike's work as he comments on social situations and behaviour.
ROBERT HAGAN : Spontaneous Abstraction
Community Gallery
11 January—6 February 2022
Robert Hagan is a local self-taught artist who started painting in the 1980s when he was in his 30s. Robert works intuitively and spontaneously with colour and texture. Taking inspiration from nature, he paints non-specific locations in an abstract style.
MORRINSVILLE COLLEGE NCEA FOLIOS
Community Gallery
11 January—6 February 2022
Student work from 2021 will be on display in our Community Gallery throughout January.
CHRISTMAS in MINIATURE LIGHT DISPLAY
Main Gallery
19 November - 23 December 2021
The Christmas miniature show is back by popular demand! The gallery will once again be showcasing Helen and Brian Gibson’s Christmas miniature collection, but this time in the Main Gallery & it is even bigger and better this season!
Come along and enjoy the magical carnival scenes and winter landscape in a village setting.
Photo credit: Alan Murphy
WACKY & WONDERFUL WEARABLE ART
Wallace Gallery Annex
19 November - 23 December 2021
Come and view a selection of the Wearable Art entries from the August fundraiser show!
We wish to thank everyone who entered and attended this show.
Special thanks to the fundraising committee for organising this event tor raise funds for the gallery!
BRADLEY STEVENS : BAROQUE DOODLES
Community Gallery
6 - 28 November 2021
Opening Preview 11am Friday 5 November
Bradley Stevens is a developing artist who gathers all things historical, esoteric, whimsical, even nonsensical and filters these through his own processes to create original works that embody his loves and passions.
JANE ZUSTERS – TE KARORO KARORO : A PLACE CALLED HOME : THE RED ZONE CLEARANCES : CHRISTCHURCH/ŌTAUTAHI
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery
On until the 23 December 2021
Over four decades, Jane Zusters has developed a broad, open, and experimental approach to her art practice, establishing a significant career as a painter, photographer and art educator.
GAYE JURISICH : Backstories, Humour, and Truth
Main Gallery
2 October - extended to 14 November 2021
Backstories: the stuff that fills the mind and creates the drive to create
Humour: the stuff that makes me laugh
Truth: the stuff we should all be aware of
Playful: narratives of three artists
Wallace Arts Trust Collection Gallery Annex
2 October - extended to 14 November 2021
Carmen Simmonds
Graeme Hitchcock
Karin Barr
Three contemporary artists showcase their diverse practices within the discipline of glass art.
VALENTINE VENIMORE: Waikato River, Various Views
Community Gallery
2 - 31 October 2021
Opening 10.30am 2nd October
In this exhibition Valentine simply explores and celebrates the 425 kilometres of river that has been a significant environment for him for much of his life.
Ekaterina Dimieva: Always Different, Always the Same
Main Gallery
7 August - closing 26 September
Opening 7 August 10.30am
With these paintings Ekaterina explores the concepts of difference and repetition, complexity and chaos and the state of becoming.
Morrinsville Intermediate School
‘Our People, Our Place, Our Connections’
Community Gallery
7 August - closing 26 September
A selection of work from Year 7 & 8 students will be on display in the Community Gallery over August.
RAEWYN WHALEY & ALEX WHALEY-SMITH : PRESENCE
Main Gallery
10 July - 1 August 2021
Opening 10 July 10.30am
In PRESENCE, two Waikato based artists join to present their respective series.
Raewyn Whaley's work from Cloud of Unknowing explores ideas of 'being' and contemplative thought through spontaneous undirected drawing & Alex Whaley-Smith works with embroidered figurative layering over painted layers of surfaces found in nature in her work from Storied lines.
VALERIE CROMPTON: A LIFETIME OF CREATIVITY
Community Gallery
10 July - 1 August 2021
Opening 10 July 10.30am
Valerie Margaret Crompton (née Titchener) has been inspired by colour, design, fibres, fabrics, and threads since she could hold a needle. This collection draws from a lifetime of hand-made items collected by her daughters.
ALICE ALVA : A MEANS TO AN END
Main Gallery
5 June - 4 July
Opening 5 June 10am
Alice Alva is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and designer based in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand, who works across drawing and illustration, embroidery and textiles, painting and graphic design.
Her work is informed by an interest in patterns, ornamentation, architecture and craft-based processes.
DIANNE BAKER : CONNECTIONS WITH LAND
Community Gallery
5 June - 4 July
Opening 5 June 10am
21 paintings by artist Dianne Baker showcase people working with and enjoying their animals on the land, as well as a beekeeper and gardeners working in their respective environments. The work exhibited expresses the joy of connection with land as well as presenting images of the reality of rural life.
THE 29TH ANNUAL WALLACE ART AWARDS 2020: 8 April - 20 June 2021
Wallace Collection Gallery
8 April - 20 June 2021
You won’t want to miss this exhibition!
The annual Wallace Art Awards profile outstanding examples of contemporary New Zealand art. The aim of these important awards is to foster, honour and support the practices of visual artists. Over the years some of New Zealand’s most prominent artists have entered and the residencies awarded to the winners have transformed their career
SEFTON RANI: Ara-nui-a-Toi : The Great Road of Toi
Main Gallery
8 - 30 May
Opening 10.30am Saturday 8 May
Artist Talk 11am
DAVID STREET SCHOOL: PATTERN!
Community Gallery
6 - 30 May
20 classes, from Year 0 - 6
Come and see the incredible work from David Street School students!
On display in the Community Gallery over May.
WAIKATO EMBROIDERERS' GUILD: STITCH ALCHEMY
Main Gallery
10 April - 2 May
Opening preview: Saturday 10 April 10.30am, awards announcement at 11am
An exhibition featuring a variety of embroidery techniques, both contemporary creative and traditional.
THE KAY SHEFFIELD REGIONAL CHALLENGE
Community Gallery
10 April - 2 May
The Kay Sheffield Regional challenge exhibition is held biennially, this year in conjunction with the Waikato Embroiderers guilds exhibition.
AUCKLAND FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL COMMISSIONS
Wallace Collection Gallery
16 December - 1 April 2021
Launched in 2011, the Auckland Festival of Photography’s Annual Commission was the first annual commission in New Zealand to be offered for photographic artists and is seen as an important step in actively promoting and advancing the artists and the art form.
MARIE JOHANSEN: WATERCOLOURS
Gallery Foyer exhibition space
6 March - 1 April
Marie Johansen (nee Vickerman) attended Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland in the 1940s and was part of the Rutland Group. Original watercolour illustrations, painted by Marie for a children’s book of poetry, will be on display in the gallery foyer throughout March.
JASMINE BIRCH: MANA WAHINE
Community Gallery
6 March - 1 April
This series of paintings showcases Birch’s journey of self-discovery.
GRAEME HORGAN: WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD; I SEE TREES OF GREEN, RED ROSES TOO...
Main Gallery
6 - 28 February 2021
Opening Saturday 6 Feb, 10.30am
Graeme Horgan has found his passion in life through landscape painting and presents a variety of landscape scenes in the Main gallery.
SAMANTHA CARPENTER: 20 SOMETHING
Community Gallery
6 - 28 February 2021
Opening Saturday 6 Feb, 10.30am
Samantha Carpenter presents figurative paintings that depict moments observed from her day-to-day life. With a strong interest in the human condition and social interactions, her work explores both physical and psychological spaces. The materiality of paint is at the forefront of Carpenter’s work as she explores the limitations of both the medium of acrylic and oil.
PAUL DARRAGH: REACH & ENGAGEMENT
Main Gallery
9—31 January, 2021
Opening 10.30am 9th January
Paul Darragh creates bold abstract paintings that manipulate depth using flat colour and pattern.
Artist Talk - 11am 9th January
ANNE & BRIAN JOLLY: THE LONG JOURNEY
Community Gallery
9—31 January
Opening 10.30am 9th January
Anne and Brian Jolly share a love of landscape and the natural world. Having met in their school days, the title of the show reflects the many years they have supported each other both in life and art.
CHRISTMAS NEEDLEWORK: MORRINSVILLE PATCHWORK, QUILTERS & EMBROIDERERS GROUP
Main Gallery
9 - 20 December
The Morrinsville Patchwork, Quilters & Embroiderers group present beautiful Christmas themed work in the Main Gallery.
MORRINVILLE COLLEGE: YEAR 11 & 12 NCEA FOLIOS
Main Gallery
9 - 20 December
Come along and see the Year 11 and 12 Visual Art Folios from Morrinsville College.On display in our Main Gallery until our closing day on the 20th of December.
Congratulations to these art students, their teacher and families.
CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND
Community Gallery
2 - 20 December
The Christmas Wonderland is back by popular demand! The gallery will once again be showcasing Helen and Brian Gibson’s Christmas miniature collection in the Community Gallery & it is even bigger and better this season!
GEMMA REID: THE LITTLE THINGS
Community Gallery
7 - 29 November
Intaglio prints by Gemma Reid that record and recognise the beauty of the everyday object.
NANCY TSCHETNER: OUR SANCTUARY
Main Gallery
7 November — 6 December, 2020
For over twenty years Nancy has been inspired by natural resources in her artistic expression. At the forefront of her work is the sustainability of Mother Nature’s assets and ways in which to showcase this to different audiences.
PETE WHEELER: PAINTING OUT OF TIME
Wallace Collection Gallery
14 October - 13 December
For all that Pete Wheeler has never shied away from the big existential issues – sex, death, politics, religion, and indeed he brazenly wrestles it onto his canvas as his subject matter – first and foremost it’s about his love for the materiality of paint.
BRUCE MAXWELL: MAURI, DRAWINGS OF DISCOVERY
Main Gallery
10 October - 1 November
‘Mauri, drawings of discovery’: charcoal drawings by Bruce Maxwell inspired by his first visit to Wairere Falls in 2016 speak of the life principle or vital essence as expressed through material symbol.
MORRINSVILLE INTERMEDIATE '50 YEARS YOUNG'
Community Gallery
10 October - 1 November
Morrinsville Intermediate turned 50 this year and to celebrate, students have created work that references the history of their school.
THE MINDS OF GEN Z: MORRINSVILLE COLLEGE PAINTING STUDENTS GROUP SHOW
Community Gallery
8 September - 4 October
Morrinsville College Level 3 NCEA Painters present a selection of folio work that develops and clarifiesideas towards their external folios.
Opening 5pm Tuesday 8th September
LINDA GILBERT: MAGNETIC FIELDS UNDER NEON SKIES
Main Gallery
5 September - 4 October
Magnetic Fields Under Neon Skies, a series of paintings by Linda Gilbert celebrating the magic of everyday phenomena.
”We are surrounded by wild colours and experience subtle energy fields everyday. Consider the many hues of green in the landscape, the neon pink and orange of a sunrise, or the charm of a rainbow.”
NGAIRE PENE: HE KĀKANO PIRAU, I RUIA MAI I HEA? THE DECAYING SEED, WHERE WAS IT SOWN?
Main Gallery
8 August – 30 August
Using symbol and metaphor, Ngaire Pene presents work that shines a light on the impacts and continuing effects that colonisation has on Māori.
MORRRINSVILLE SCHOOL: MYTHS & LEGENDS AROUND THE WORLD
Community Gallery
8 August - 30 August
Don’t miss this incredible exhibition by students from Morrinsville School. The work on show creatively responds to myths and legends from around the world.
JENNI BAYLIS, SARAH LEE & JOANNA WRIGHT: ‘I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE INTERESTED IN THE SKY’
Main Gallery
11 July – 2 August
Circles, spheres and connections to the natural world feature strongly in this group show by Jenni Baylis, Sarah Lee and Joanna Wright.
MORRINSVILLE PATCHWORK, QUILTERS & EMBROIDERERS: FOR THE LOVE OF STITCHING – PART 2
Community Gallery
11 July – 26 July
Part 2 of a group show of needle workers with a combined stitching experience of over a thousand years.
JEFFREY HARRIS: WITHIN THE TIDES
Wallace Collection Gallery
7 July – extended until 11 October
Within The Tides presents works by Jeffrey Harris from the Wallace Arts Trust collection, covering a thirty-year period from 1974 to 2003. This exhibition highlights some key moments from a long career of one of New Zealand’s preeminent artists, which is still ongoing.
MORRINSVILLE PATCHWORK, QUILTERS & EMBROIDERERS
Community Gallery
6 June – 5 July
A group show of needle workers with a combined stitching experience of over a thousand years will present a variety of work in the Community Gallery.
PETER DORNAUF: THE BARBERRY DAYS
Main Gallery
6 June – 5 July
Peter Dornauf will be showing a series of paintings in the Main Gallery that draw on a body of poetry from his two collections of poems, Metaphysical Midnight Cowboy Blues, (2013) and Every So Often, (2017).
PAULINE TAPPING: ALCHEMY
Community Gallery
13 – 31 May
In this, Pauline's first solo show with the gallery, she presents a series of work that explores her love of the New Zealand landscape. Rather than a representation of a specific location, the works can be read as Pauline's response to memories from childhood and past journeys throughout the South Island.
CHRISTINA LITTLE: A LIVING STILL, ANOTHER WATER
Main Gallery
13 – 31 May
A Living Still, Another Water is a continuation of a new series of works by contemporary photographer Christina Little. This series was created with photographic material sourced from Rocky Bay – a small bay on Porirua’s west coast.
FRANCEE HAYDON: EQUINE BEAUTY
Virtual Gallery
Francee Haydon’s virtual exhibition showcases the dramatic and unique photographs from her series Equine Beauty.
SAM FOLEY: NOCTURNE
Wallace Collection Gallery
24 March – 28 June
Nocturne – Selected Wanderings 2004-2019 is a survey from Dunedin-based artist Sam Foley and spans the last 16 years of exploring 'The Night' as a consistent theme within his wider practice.
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Wallace Gallery Virtual was established in response to the closure of the gallery due to Covid-19. Over a four week period, the gallery welcomed work for the online exhibition space delivered via our social media accounts.