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    • Our City
      • Marble & Mud is a creative manifestation of my identify examined under the lens of my Greek whakapapa. Years of exploring my relationship with my heritage and upbringing have brought rise to the same core themes with an undeniable flow, be it in icons, colours, symbols or sound. This exhibition will be a collage of visual art, showing mixed media, textiles, writing, projection and performance art.

    • Pōneke Portals
      • Pōneke Portals is a group show featuring a series of installations inspired by portals. Rather than transporting visitors to another place or time, these portals resist the pull of elsewhere, returning attention to the here and now. The installations invite relationality with more-than-human worlds and counter-colonial ways of seeing. Each portal-based work becomes an opening—amplifying encounters in the present moment while acknowledging the past and possible futures of Pōneke and its surrounding lands.

    • Woe Plush Be Upon Ye!
      • Woe Plush Be Upon Ye! is a surreal collision of the internet meme landscape and the gallery space; a fun display of mixed media artworks by twelve local and international artists that aims to celebrate internet pop culture through one viral anime plush toy.

    • ART MAKES ME HAPPY!
      • Daniel Phillips is a 51-year-old artist based in Lower Hutt, Wellington. Daniel is a person with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) living his best life as a hugely prolific independent artist. When asked why he loves to make art so much his reaction is “art makes me happy!” Daniel has been a practicing artist for many years, his distinctive style has won him critical acclaim in the Wellington region and beyond. Daniel has a particular love of travel and visually records his weekends spent on planes, buses, trains, ferries and cable cars. He knows exactly the times and numbers of the modes of transport he uses. He loves to save money from the sale of his art to go on big journeys like ship cruises and flights to Europe to travel on every type of transport he can. Daniel also loves portraits and will be creating some on opening night.

    • Nine Lives, a Thousand Details: A Feline Altas
      • Nine Lives, A Thousand Details: A Feline Atlas brings together Rae Huang's intricate ink drawings and vibrant embroidery works, creating a whimsical journey through feline-centered worlds. In the artist's detailed drawings, cats take on human-like qualities – they work, dream, celebrate, and go about daily life in elaborately crafted scenes. Each composition reveals a rich narrative where cats become the storytellers of modern life, blending imagination with familiar situations in unexpected ways.

    • Punaka
      • PUNAKA is a collaborative installation between 11 artists of varied backgrounds. The work explores an embodied approach to practices of communion and collaboration. Through the interweaving of diverse knowledge systems and personal histories, a transient and nurturing place is formed. This place is what we call ‘Punaka’. It reflects on the ways we gather, build, and sustain each other through collective acts of making.

    • The Mothering Village Exhibit
      • What matters to first-time mothers? This exhibit will showcase bold multimedia work by new mothers. It presents cutting-edge research on motherhood, storytelling, and care. “It takes a village”, but what does that look like? Visitors are invited to contribute to a collage that represents our vision of collective caretaking.

    • Fragile Foundations
      • Fragile Foundations is a photographic exhibition that brings into focus the earthquake-prone buildings of Wellington—a city that knows the ground beneath it can shift at any moment. Part visual critique of the negligence that postpones essential upkeep, part social commentary on the changing nature of building codes and political risk appetites, this exhibition documents a period of time characterised equally by inertia and change.

    • Fragile Foundations
      • Fragile Foundations is a photographic exhibition that brings into focus the earthquake-prone buildings of Wellington—a city that knows the ground beneath it can shift at any moment. Part visual critique of the negligence that postpones essential upkeep, part social commentary on the changing nature of building codes and political risk appetites, this exhibition documents a period of time characterised equally by inertia and change.

    • Bingo Card
      • During lockdown I started a project called Inksolation. I'd generate a prompt using a random word generator and create an artwork inspired by that word. What came out was an incredible body of work; often hilarious, usually whackadoo. My pals ended up eagerly awaiting the next one too and creativity became a great balm against the lockdown depression. It gave me a sense of purpose, something to focus on, and made people laugh.

    • Bingo Card
      • During lockdown I started a project called Inksolation. I'd generate a prompt using a random word generator and create an artwork inspired by that word. What came out was an incredible body of work; often hilarious, usually whackadoo. My pals ended up eagerly awaiting the next one too and creativity became a great balm against the lockdown depression. It gave me a sense of purpose, something to focus on, and made people laugh.

    • Kihikihi
      • Kihikihi is an interactive sound installation inspired by the New Zealand chorus cicada, which is renowned for its rhythmic and persistent sound that heralds the end of summer.

    • Skullduggery Art Show
      • Your favourite Scary art show is back! Skullduggery Art Show returns to Thistle Hall for its third year. The show features traditional and digital drawings, paintings and sculpture. Visitors to Skullduggery are guaranteed to see something creepy and cool that they have never seen before! Featuring the work of over 50 professional New Zealand artists the work ranges from realism to pop surrealism, illustration to lowbrow art.

    • Up The Punks 2024
      • 47 years of Wellington's local punk scene documented and presented as an evolving archive of the capital's history told through the music, photos, posters and ephemera of underground creativity. Dedicated to Jim Gardner/ Skippy.

    • sTations
      • Cross beyond the threshold of everyday into sTations, a surrealistic meditation on the challenges of connection and intimacy found in human spirituality. Samih brings together works of graphite that are inspired by dreams and stories from his Aramaic heritage. Enter into dialogue with the figures in each piece, as they desire or fear connection with you, and unravel their dance between light and shadow.

    • Everything is impermanent
      • Discover Elja Maria's solo exhibition in Wellington, a profound exploration of life's transient beauty. Symbolism in her iconic peonies, cherry blossoms, and animals aligns with the essential aspects of street art and graffiti. Highlights include No Fight, No Glory, depicting a classic Japanese character with spray cans, and A Dedication to My Spiritual Practice, a small painting of a spray can. A 15-minute documentary about the graffiti scene in Java adds depth to the collection, sharing lessons from her global travels. This exhibition invites art lovers, creatives, and collectors to reflect on impermanence and engage in meaningful conversations about life's fleeting moments.

    • KANOHI ORA - The Living Face
      • KANOHI ORA – THE LIVING FACE showcases the connection between past, present, and future through the lens of indigenous portraiture. The exhibition narrates the ancestral journey from Hawaiki Nui to the present, exploring the essence of Tahitian culture and its significance in Polynesian heritage. It is a series of portraits by Te Māreikura Whakataka-Brightwell that connect us to history, land, and people, portraying Tahitians as cultural aristocrats and ancestors living in the present.

    • Artist's Floor
      • Through the unconventional choice of spray paint, this series encapsulates the vibrancy and unexpected elegance of daily life in Wellington. This technique sheds light on the oft-overlooked medium, elevating its potential to convey the intricate dance between order and accident.

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