Trees
Opening night: 20 May, 5:00PM – 7:00PM Exhibition dates: Saturday 20 May – Saturday 17 June Expansive yet minuscule, spontaneous yet during; Trees are living beings that play a role not just in the ecosystem, but also in the minds of many artists. This exhibition...
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...
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...
Howick Photographic Society
Exhibition dates: Sunday 28 May – Saturday 24 June The Howick Photographic Society is proud to showcase a large selection of images by award winning and emerging photographers. The public is warmly welcomed to view the wide range of styles and subjects on display. All...
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...
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...
Reverie
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Take Five
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...
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...