Tokimeku
‘Tokimeku’ (ときめく) is a Japanese word that beautifully captures the sensation of a throbbing, fluttering, and palpitating heart—a visceral response to the dance of anticipation. This concept serves as the inspiration for Coral Noel Yang latest collection of...
The Spell of the Sensuous
Opening event: 28 October, 2:00PM – 4:00PM Exhibition dates: Saturday 28 October – December 16 2023 “I found myself caught in a nonverbal conversation with this Other, a gestural duet with which my conscious awareness had very little to do. It was as if my body...
Fragments of Us
Exhibition dates: Saturday 24 February – 6 April 2024 Auckland-based artist Amrit Kaur takes inspiration from the natural world, producing paintings full of intention and from a place of peace. Turning towards the detail of everyday life, she brings forth...
Threads
Located on our Wall Gallery Threads is an exploration of metaphorical threads in time – observing memories and recognising the subsequent evocations from these moments; emotions, sounds, smells, light. Small, unfinished paintings are positioned carefully on Uxbridge’s...
Howick Youth Council’s East Auckland Visual Arts Showcase
In partnership with Arts Out East, UXBRIDGE Arts & Culture, and Te Tuhi, the Howick Youth Council’s Youth Visual Art Showcase is back for the fifth year with over 70 submissions. Showcasing the best of our young visual Artists, between the age of 18 – 24...
Howick Photographic Society Exhibition
Opening Celebration, Tuesday 4th June at 7:30pm in the Malcolm Smith Gallery. The Howick Photographic Society, in conjunction with the Auckland Festival of Photography, is proud to showcase a large selection of images by award winning and emerging photographers. The...
Dorks, Losers, Lemons
Dorks, Losers, Lemons is a collaborative project between Isabella Dampney and Sophie Sutherland. Together they explore the absurdity of rigid structures in urban life. The show is an invitation to confront the propriety of spaces within and outside the gallery, while...
EAA18: Estuary Art and Ecology Award 2024
The only contemporary art prize in Aotearoa New Zealand with ecology at its core. Artists are invited to research and respond to the Tāmaki Estuary, to underscore the ecological value of this vital waterway and encourage action against its pollution. With a total...
Floral Art Conversions
The Howick Floral Art Club are delighted to be part of the celebration of Howick’s 175th anniversary with a showcase of contemporary floral art designs exhibited at UXBRIDGE. The designs are to illustrate how floral art has developed in New Zealand over the past 45...
Anamnesis
Open to view Saturday 22nd June until Saturday 21st September. Roma Andersons’ Anamnesis is a triptych of digital images derived from Polaroid photographs taken in the Waiatarua Wetlands during Tāmaki Makaurau’s first lockdown in 2020. Formerly a...
Perspectives: Te Tai Ao, Notions Of The Universal
Exhibition dates: 9 February – 11 March ‘Perspectives: Te Tai Ao Notions of the Universal’ Exhibition has brought together artists of diverse backgrounds and ethnicity to explore the question of what constitutes the universal. Is this an outdated construct which...
Howick Youth Council’s East Auckland Visual Arts Showcase
In partnership with Arts Out East, UXBRIDGE Arts & Culture, and Te Tuhi, the Howick Youth Council’s Youth Visual Art Showcase is back this year. Showcasing the best of our young visual artists, between the ages of 14 – 24 living in East Auckland. Whether it be...
Diary Pages
11 February – 25 February 2023 Inspired by her own painting ‘Navel-gazing’ (A finalist in The Adam Portraiture Exhibition 2022 and currently travelling around Aotearoa and features as the first release of advertising for the Pride Festival). Katie Blundell...
Ebb & Flow
Calmly situated in a world both abstract and representational, this new body of photographs by Kristin Hatland fluently moves through the familiar and its more surreal inversions. A pair of ice skates sit at rest with their laces cast behind as if animated in full...
EAA17: Estuary Art and Ecology Award 2023
The only contemporary art prize in Aotearoa New Zealand with ecology at its core. Artists were invited to research and respond to the Tāmaki Estuary, to underscore the ecological value of this vital waterway and encourage action against its pollution. With a total...
Metamorphōsis
Metamorphōsis is a collection of paintings that explore the confusion, discomfort and uncertainty that often comes with growing up. Her figures peel at their skin, their spines sprout wings, or they slowly emerge from unravelling cocoons, all shedding layers that...
Dreaming in Colour
Opening night: 10 March, 7:00PM – 9:00PM Exhibition dates: 9 March – 12 May Pat Basse A collection of pieces that grew from the artist’s memories as a 4-year-old evacuee during WW2. Without her family, Pat experienced extreme unhappiness from which she found respite...
Celestial Numinance
Derived from ‘numinous’, meaning awakening spiritual awe, and ‘luminance’, meaning the amount of light emitted, or reflected from a surface; Celestial Numinance is an exhibition that explores the awe-inspiring beauty of cosmic phenomena. Sewell’s artistry is affected...
Tipua Sculpture Tour
Tipua Sculpture Tour 12 March – March 31 2023 Community Open Day: March 25 The Tipua (New Growth) Sculpture Roadshow is a regional tour of new and traditional Whakairo Sculpture created by artists for Lake House Arts exhibitions during Symposiums and Festivals in 2020...
Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together!
Exhibition dates: Monday 3 April – Saturday 13 May Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together! has been curated by Alys Longley and Máximo Corvalán-Pincheira in collaboration with over 100 artists from across the world. Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together! is an...
A Place Worth Visiting
Opening night: 13 May, 3:00PM – 6:00PM Exhibition dates: Saturday 13 May – Friday 26 May The “dairy experience” is something both Catherine Guevara and Juliana Duran can relate to as migrants in Aotearoa. There is a normalcy in entering these spaces who...