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    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi calls New Zealand Artists: New Public Sculpture Commission Open Now!
      • City Gallery Wellington is marking its return to its heritage home in Te Ngākau Civic Square with a new opportunity for a New Zealand-born or based artist to create a major outdoor sculpture in the capital: City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi Sculpture Terrace Commission. “We are so excited to have a new site for […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi calls New Zealand Artists: New Public Sculpture Commission Open Now! appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Cornelia Parker: City Gallery Wellington back with a bang
      • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi is announcing its return to Te Ngākau Civic Square with a major new exhibition from one of the most significant artists of the 21st century, Cornelia Parker. “I have always said this is the one exhibition I want to do before I die. I have been following Cornelia Parker’s […] The post Cornelia Parker: City Gallery Wellington back with a bang appeared first on City Gallery.

    • A new fund to support women artists
      • City Gallery Wellington is deepening its commitment to women’s voices in the arts through a dedicated fund that provides vital support for the creation of new work by female artists. We launched the inaugural Women’s Art Fund to a group of Wahine Toa at an event generously hosted by Foggy Valley Aotearoa Trust, and we’ve been overwhelmed to raise $33,500 for […] The post A new fund to support women artists appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Open Letter to Hon. Erica Stanford, Minister of Education: Why Art History Matters
      • 19 September 2025 We write as representatives of Aotearoa New Zealand’s arts and cultural sector to express our shared concern about the suggested removal of Art History from the New Zealand Secondary School Curriculum. Art History develops critical 21st-century skills In a world increasingly dominated by images, Art History provides essential skills. It teaches analytical […] The post Open Letter to Hon. Erica Stanford, Minister of Education: Why Art History Matters appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Open Letter to Hon. Erica Stanford, Minister of Education: Why Art History Matters
      • We write as representatives of Aotearoa New Zealand’s arts and cultural sector to express our shared concern about the suggested removal of Art History from the New Zealand Secondary School Curriculum. Art History develops critical 21st-century skills In a world increasingly dominated by images, Art History provides essential skills. It teaches analytical and critical reasoning, […] The post Open Letter to Hon. Erica Stanford, Minister of Education: Why Art History Matters appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Human Godwits: on John Ward Knox  
      • By Megan Dunn I’m no bird watcher but I’ve had my eyes on John Ward Knox’s ducks. I first saw them online. Gosh, they are so bloody beautiful. How I covet those wooden ducks, like decoys, but so much more. Ward Knox’s elegant sensibility is always, at least for me, a little bit elegiac, almost […] The post Human Godwits: on John Ward Knox appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Human Godwits: on John Ward Knox
      • I’m no bird watcher but I’ve had my eyes on John Ward Knox’s ducks. I first saw them online. Gosh, they are so bloody beautiful. How I coveted those wooden ducks, like decoys, but so much more. Ward Knox’s elegant sensibility is always, at least for me, a little bit elegiac, almost unbearably poignant. Last […] The post Human Godwits: on John Ward Knox appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Art History has been cut as a school subject. What could be lost?
      • Dr. Kirsty Baker | 17 September 2025 I, like many others, was devastated to hear that the Minister for Education had quietly cut Art History from the high school curriculum late last week. What I did not feel, however, was a great deal of surprise. It was a deeply demoralising realisation. Art History as a discipline […] The post Art History has been cut as a school subject. What could be lost? appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Is it wrong to anthropomorphise animals?
      • Megan Dunn is curator special project at Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington. OPINION: The quick answer to my question is yes, the long answer starts on Molesworth St, where I saw a man walking a llama on a lead outside the National Library last year. The llama was stopped by construction workers who wanted a photograph with […] The post Is it wrong to anthropomorphise animals? appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Is it wrong to anthropomorphise animals?
      • The quick answer to my question is yes, the long answer starts on Molesworth St, where I saw a man walking a llama on a lead outside the National Library last year. The llama was stopped by construction workers who wanted a photograph with it. Obviously. Who doesn’t want a selfie with a llama? I […] The post Is it wrong to anthropomorphise animals? appeared first on City Gallery.

    • New exhibition explores humanity, other animals, and AI
      • What do an elk riding the New York subway, a flock of carved godwit, and a photograph of a taxidermied elephant standing on a sleepyhead mattress have in common? They all feature in Messengers, the latest exhibition from City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi that brings together historical photographs and contemporary works to examine the […] The post New exhibition explores humanity, other animals, and AI appeared first on City Gallery.

    • New exhibition explores humanity, other animals, and AI
      • 15 July 2025 What do an elk riding the New York subway, a flock of carved godwit, and a photograph of a taxidermied elephant standing on a sleepyhead mattress have in common? They all feature in Messengers, the latest exhibition from City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi that brings together historical photographs and contemporary works […] The post New exhibition explores humanity, other animals, and AI appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Site Seeing brings birds into view
      • Kirsty Baker is a curator/kaipupuri whakaaturanga for City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi OPINION: I imagine that humans have been telling stories about birds for as long as we have been storytellers. The appearance and disappearance of vast numbers of birds has been used to mark seasons, to track environmental change and to provide rich metaphorical […] The post Site Seeing brings birds into view appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Site Seeing brings birds into view
      • I imagine that humans have been telling stories about birds for as long as we have been storytellers. The appearance and disappearance of vast numbers of birds has been used to mark seasons, to track environmental change and to provide rich metaphorical terrain. In Aotearoa many native bird species are read as tohu (signs), their […] The post Site Seeing brings birds into view appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition: photographic works of dreamy beauty critique colonial lens
      • Site Seeing, the latest City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition, brings together two artists, Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu) and Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi), to critique the colonial lens of scenic photography. Landscapes, dreamy and mercurial, are shown as a choice between the altered and the real, what we observe and what […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition: photographic works of dreamy beauty critique colonial lens appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition: photographic works of dreamy beauty critique colonial lens
      • Site Seeing, the latest City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition, brings together two artists, Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu) and Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi), to critique the colonial lens of scenic photography. Landscapes, dreamy and mercurial, are shown as a choice between the altered and the real, what we observe and what […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition: photographic works of dreamy beauty critique colonial lens appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Flight Paths: Tracing Journeys through Site Seeing
      • Kirsty Baker Site Seeing brings together the work of contemporary Māori photographic artists Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu, Scottish, Welsh) and Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi), encouraging us to reconsider the ways we see the land and how we might imagine our relationships to it. It is an exhibition concerned with the ways that […] The post Flight Paths: Tracing Journeys through Site Seeing appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Flight Paths: Tracing Journeys through Site Seeing
      • Site Seeing brings together the work of contemporary Māori photographic artists Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu, Scottish, Welsh) and Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi), encouraging us to reconsider the ways we see the land and how we might imagine our relationships to it. It is an exhibition concerned with the ways that we picture […] The post Flight Paths: Tracing Journeys through Site Seeing appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Meditations: Moorina Bonini, Lily Dowd and Te Ara Minhinnick
      • Discover how artists Moorina Bonini, Lily Dowd and Te Ara Minhinnick cultivate agency, autonomy and activism as they speak to their works in Meditations. Meditations is presented at National Library of New Zealand | 30 November – 29 March 2025. The post Meditations: Moorina Bonini, Lily Dowd and Te Ara Minhinnick appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Meditations: Moorina Bonini, Lily Dowd and Te Ara Minhinnick
      • Discover how artists Moorina Bonini, Lily Dowd and Te Ara Minhinnick cultivate agency, autonomy and activism as they speak to their works in Meditations. Meditations is presented at National Library of New Zealand | 30 November – 29 March 2025. The post Meditations: Moorina Bonini, Lily Dowd and Te Ara Minhinnick appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Live performance links with Jarman exhibition
      • Aaron Lister is Kai Pupuri Matua Senior Curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington staged the largest performance in its history in mid-November. Artist Tobias Allen and their collaborators from Footnote Dance roamed through all the currently vacant spaces of the gallery. These now mute, empty galleries were filled with sound, […] The post Live performance links with Jarman exhibition appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Live performance links with Jarman exhibition
      • Aaron Lister is Kai Pupuri Matua Senior Curator at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington staged the largest performance in its history in mid-November. Artist Tobias Allen and their collaborators from Footnote Dance roamed through all the currently vacant spaces of the gallery. These now mute, empty galleries were filled with sound, […] The post Live performance links with Jarman exhibition appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition Meditations takes collaborative approach to explore time
      • 30 November 2024 Meditations, the latest exhibition from City Gallery Te Whare Toi, at its temporary home in National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, is an exploration of time and the creation of personal archives. Four artists: Moorina Bonini (Yorta Yorta/Woiwurrung), Lily Dowd, Te Ara Minhinnick (Ngaati Te Ata) and Dr […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition Meditations takes collaborative approach to explore time appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition Meditations takes collaborative approach to explore time
      • Meditations, the latest exhibition from City Gallery Te Whare Toi, at its temporary home in National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, is an exploration of time and the creation of personal archives. Four artists: Moorina Bonini (Yorta Yorta/Woiwurrung), Lily Dowd, Te Ara Minhinnick (Ngaati Te Ata) and Dr Areta Wilkinson (Kai […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi exhibition Meditations takes collaborative approach to explore time appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Designing the alphabet with Julian Hooper
      • Megan Dunn is Curator Special Projects at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. A is for addictive! Last year I discovered the alphabet paintings of Tamaki Mākaurau Auckland based artist Julian Hooper and was instantly hooked. Since 2018, Hooper has amassed multiple drawings and paintings of the alphabet. His palette is stylised and pared back, […] The post Designing the alphabet with Julian Hooper appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Designing the alphabet with Julian Hooper
      • Megan Dunn is Curator Special Projects at City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. A is for addictive! Last year I discovered the alphabet paintings of Tamaki Mākaurau Auckland based artist Julian Hooper and was instantly hooked. Since 2018, Hooper has amassed multiple drawings and paintings of the alphabet. His palette is stylised and pared back, […] The post Designing the alphabet with Julian Hooper appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi says goodbye to Quasi
      • One of Wellington’s most recognisable sculptures leaves the roof of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi this week, after five years surveying the city and its inhabitants. Quasiby Ronnie van Hout was initially commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in 2016, to grace the roof of Christchurch Art Gallery following the 2011 […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi says goodbye to Quasi appeared first on City Gallery.

    • City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi says goodbye to Quasi
      • One of Wellington’s most recognisable sculptures leaves the roof of City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi this week, after five years surveying the city and its inhabitants. Quasiby Ronnie van Hout was initially commissioned by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in 2016, to grace the roof of Christchurch Art Gallery following the 2011 […] The post City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi says goodbye to Quasi appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Speaking in Darkness — Tobias Allen in Conversation
      • Performance artist Tobias Allen sat down with City Gallery Wellington’s Public Programmes Specialist, Graham Frost to discuss How Far Do Your Arms Reach? his upcoming collaborative performance with Footnote New Zealand Dance, commissioned by City Gallery Wellington to mark the exhibition Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days.  Can you tell us about the inspiration behind How Far Do […] The post Speaking in Darkness — Tobias Allen in Conversation appeared first on City Gallery.

    • Speaking in Darkness — Tobias Allen in Conversation
      • Performance artist Tobias Allen sat down with City Gallery Wellington’s Public Programmes Specialist, Graham Frost to discuss How Far Do Your Arms Reach? his upcoming collaborative performance with Footnote New Zealand Dance, commissioned by City Gallery Wellington to mark the exhibition Derek Jarman: Delphinium Days.  Can you tell us about the inspiration behind How Far Do […] The post Speaking in Darkness — Tobias Allen in Conversation appeared first on City Gallery.

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