by Visual Arts | Jan 31, 2023
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...
by Visual Arts | Jun 15, 2025
Astral travel can be defined as an intentional out-of-body experience – one in which consciousness functions separately from the physical body, emerging to embark on a journey through the astral plane and beyond. Flowing between real and unreal, other worlds...
by Visual Arts | Jan 1, 2023
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 Is this an outdated construct which...
by Visual Arts | Jun 12, 2025
Growing up, artist Amina Baker always adored flowers. Spending endless summers in her Mother’s and Grandfather’s gardens, Baker would examine the vibrant colours, sumptuous shapes and textures of every botanical. The artist delighted in the fact that, with their...
by Communications | Mar 30, 2023
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...
by Visual Arts | Feb 8, 2023
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...
by Visual Arts | Feb 8, 2023
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...
by Visual Arts | Jun 19, 2024
Located on our Wall Gallery 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...
by Visual Arts | Jul 11, 2024
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...
by Visual Arts | Jul 11, 2024
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...
by Visual Arts | Sep 11, 2024
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...
by Visual Arts | Aug 6, 2024
Located on our Wall Gallery 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,...
by Visual Arts | Oct 23, 2024
Expressive colour, virtuosic detail and a free ranging approach to subject matter define the work of Peter Hall. Equally at home in the abstract and the representational, Hall’s paintings are a creative tour de force, surveyed here through 16 key works produced over...
by Visual Arts | Feb 2, 2025
When Emilia Maude Nixon arrived in Howick in 1925, she established the Tainui Garden of Memories in the spirit of Kotahitanga (unity), with the support of Ngāi Tai kaumātua, under the korowai of the Kiingitanga. In the past thirty years, the Tainui Garden of Memories...
by Visual Arts | Feb 5, 2025
The only contemporary art award in Aotearoa New Zealand with ecology at its core. The Estuary Art and Ecology Awards are Aotearoa’s only annual contemporary art awards with ecology at the core. Artists are invited to research and respond to the Tāmaki Estuary, explore...
by Visual Arts | Apr 10, 2025
PHOTO OP. x Malcolm Smith Gallery presents LONG COVID, an exhibition of solo and collaborative work by Matt Henry and Emil McAvoy. LONG COVID developed out of a period of intense and sustained conversation between the artists which began during the first COVID-19...
by Visual Arts | Jan 8, 2025
Framed as a collection of daydreams, Reverie is a window into the mind of East Auckland artist Joseph John Watson. Following his interest in ‘strange art’, his work explores the bizarre, dreamlike and irrational. Peering into Watson’s reality we are enveloped by...
by Visual Arts | May 13, 2025
In 2024 artist Samantha Jiayin Ou-Yang visited her father and grandfather’s hometown of Jun’anzhen, Guangdong Province in southern China. During her stay, she took part in the 170-year-old festival 关帝侯王巡游 or ‘The Procession of Emperor Guan Yu’. In the wake...
by Visual Arts | Jul 14, 2025
Qiuwang Wang (born in China, 1973) is a figurative painter based in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Through symbolic forms and multi-layered compositions, his work explores the relationship between humanity, nature, and consciousness — feeling the resonance between spirit...
