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    • 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.

    • BOYS
      • BOYS is a celebration of queer male identity through intricate and lavish collage. Each "Boy" has a distinct character, from "Farm Boy" to "Dandy Boy", they portray glammed up, glittering versions of themselves. Camp, colourful, and often kitschy, BOYS takes the male gaze and turns it inwards to find the fabulous in the everyday. James Graves is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara Wellington. His practice in collage has developed since finishing a BFA in video and performance.

    • Broccoli X Queer Joy
      • The uniting visual theme of this art exhibition is the broccoli, which our team has embraced as a symbol of queer joy and frivolity during this difficult time for our rainbow communities. With transphobia and online hate speech continuing to rise, we wanted to create a space of joy and silliness that gave a platform to rainbow artists of all generations and backgrounds.

    • Theme - Gatherings
      • Many hours are spent working up layers in the background, using mixed media, of oil, acrylic, old papers and architectural plans. Then scraping, peeling back and adding before the desired patina is achieved. The layers in the background often reflect the items painted on top, worn and chipped by time and use.

    • Community of Practise
      • Community of Practise is a collective exhibition highlighting creative practise outside the constraints of a standard working day of 9-5. The exhibition is a celebration of Whanganui-a-Tara based artists who are working in range of mediums from furniture, drawing, sculpture and painting. This community is most interested in establishing meaningful relationships between those interested in creative practise.

    • Poetics of Geometry
      • You are warmly invited to Poetics of Geometry, a solo exhibition featuring new abstract paintings by Beata Kozlowska. From the last several years of Wellington-based artistic journey, Kozlowska delves into the painterly medium, focusing on the language of abstraction. Poetics of Geometry explores unique visual associations from geometric shapes, analogous to the play of language in poetics. Kozlowska employs elements like colour, shape, texture, form and structure to manifest in varying scales and frequencies, mirroring nature.

    • Skullduggery Art Show
      • Made by Maranga is a creative collective of young adults with intellectual disabilities based in Wellington. We create a wide range of bespoke, ethically produced, handmade products working towards our goal of self-employment.

    • Made by Maranga
      • Made by Maranga is a creative collective of young adults with intellectual disabilities based in Wellington. We create a wide range of bespoke, ethically produced, handmade products working towards our goal of self-employment.

    • Optiv101 Political Football: Away Game
      • Political Football references two distinct cultural meanings across British and American politics. For hot and contentious issues, the Westminster code is to bury or prevaricate in contrast to the US style of scrimmage and fast resolution. The Optiv101 Political Football exhibition uses the US code of play, acting as a broadsheet of diverse readings and commentaries, as each artist kicks some hot issues to the centre field, adding perspective to the wider social and political milieux.

    • HM MAKES HATS
      • Local milliner Hayley May has over 30 years’ experience working in costume, specialising in making hats, gloves and other soft accessories – from Narnia to Middle Earth to Mulan and beyond… This exhibition of her work features limited edition and one-off visors, hats and headpieces made from a mix of vintage materials and off cuts, collected over the course of her career.

    • Scarcity & Abundance
      • My art comes from a deep appreciation of plants and has been an essential part of my healing after multiple bereavements over the past two years. I work in cyanotype and I use botanicals as my subjects. I am exploring ferns in this show because I find these ubiquitous and majestic plants beautiful, surprising and fascinating.

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