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    • Affordable Abstract Collage
      • Emily's solo exhibition of affordable, abstract collages is inspired by land and city scapes. Emily incorporates paper collage and mark making, using a minimal palette and repetition to build depth in her work.

    • Affordable Abstract Collage
      • Emily's solo exhibition of affordable, abstract collages is inspired by land and city scapes. Emily incorporates paper collage and mark making, using a minimal palette and repetition to build depth in her work.

    • Wind Between Worlds
      • Art and Pain: Living with chronic pain through art, is a powerful and deeply personal exhibition by Mara Elwood. Through her work, Mara shares insights into living with chronic pain, offering both reflection and connection through creative expression.

    • The Ground Will Learn My Name
      • Art and Pain: Living with chronic pain through art, is a powerful and deeply personal exhibition by Mara Elwood. Through her work, Mara shares insights into living with chronic pain, offering both reflection and connection through creative expression.

    • Coming into Being - Te putanga mai
      • Small Print is a regular, travelling exhibition by members of the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ), a national non-profit organisation that promotes fine art printmaking in New Zealand. PCANZ that seeks to raise the profile of printmaking in New Zealand.

    • Small Print
      • Small Print is a regular, travelling exhibition by members of the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ), a national non-profit organisation that promotes fine art printmaking in New Zealand. PCANZ that seeks to raise the profile of printmaking in New Zealand.

    • Inspiration Expiration
      • At first, I wanted to give space to these almost invisible elements by rendering them in large-scale drawings. I then returned to smaller engravings for their intimate and precious quality, like quiet tributes. Some works also take the form of more classical landscapes, where I explore the play of light and reflections on water. My work explores the living world through a sensitive gaze. I am drawn to what breathes and moves - trees, waves, and leaves - but also to what quietly disappears: birds, flowers, and forgotten seeds.

    • Inspiration Expiration
      • At first, I wanted to give space to these almost invisible elements by rendering them in large-scale drawings. I then returned to smaller engravings for their intimate and precious quality, like quiet tributes. Some works also take the form of more classical landscapes, where I explore the play of light and reflections on water. My work explores the living world through a sensitive gaze. I am drawn to what breathes and moves - trees, waves, and leaves - but also to what quietly disappears: birds, flowers, and forgotten seeds.

    • UNSEEN
      • Unseen brings together recent paintings by Nong Shao Hua that explore the quiet spaces between memory, perception, and imagination. In these works, fragments of everyday life—figures, objects, dim interiors, and anonymous landscapes—appear suspended in ambiguous settings where narrative remains deliberately unresolved. Nong’s restrained palette and layered brushwork create atmospheres that feel both intimate and distant, inviting viewers to look slowly and attentively.

    • Fragrance on Paper
      • Following our hugely successful inaugural exhibition in April 2025, our next exhibition, “Our City - A Wider Lens”, documents and reflects Wellington but from a wider perspective, with new photographers and all new photos. We are an informal and diverse group who are passionate about photography and passionate about Wellington. We get together regularly in Cuba Mall and explore the inner city, its people, its architecture, its details, its hidden gems with our cameras. Outside of those meetups, we also arrange regular outings to explore the wider Wellington region. Each photographer will be showcasing their own unique approach and perspective, and this will be reflected in the variety of images on show.

    • Light and Joy
      • Following our hugely successful inaugural exhibition in April 2025, our next exhibition, “Our City - A Wider Lens”, documents and reflects Wellington but from a wider perspective, with new photographers and all new photos. We are an informal and diverse group who are passionate about photography and passionate about Wellington. We get together regularly in Cuba Mall and explore the inner city, its people, its architecture, its details, its hidden gems with our cameras. Outside of those meetups, we also arrange regular outings to explore the wider Wellington region. Each photographer will be showcasing their own unique approach and perspective, and this will be reflected in the variety of images on show.

    • Our City - A Wider Lens
      • Following our hugely successful inaugural exhibition in April 2025, our next exhibition, “Our City - A Wider Lens”, documents and reflects Wellington but from a wider perspective, with new photographers and all new photos. We are an informal and diverse group who are passionate about photography and passionate about Wellington. We get together regularly in Cuba Mall and explore the inner city, its people, its architecture, its details, its hidden gems with our cameras. Outside of those meetups, we also arrange regular outings to explore the wider Wellington region. Each photographer will be showcasing their own unique approach and perspective, and this will be reflected in the variety of images on show.

    • Teshigoto
      • Teshigoto - Japanese for “hand-work” - celebrates slow making through visible stitches, thoughtful repair, and objects that carry stories. Rooted in the aesthetics of mending and reuse, this exhibition honors repairs as marks of care that deepen an object’s beauty.

    • Teshigoto
      • Teshigoto - Japanese for “hand-work” - celebrates slow making through visible stitches, thoughtful repair, and objects that carry stories. Rooted in the aesthetics of mending and reuse, this exhibition honors repairs as marks of care that deepen an object’s beauty.

    • The Sacred Grove
      • This series of ‘tree of life’ paintings have been created to stimulate personal investigation and self-inquiry as well as to be beautiful and out of the ordinary. For thousands of years the tree has symbolised powerful universal motifs such as life, death, fertility and metamorphosis, and even the ensouled human being itself. This ancient and timeless understanding of ‘the tree’ underlies the contextual foundation for these creative works. ‘I see my paintings as visual metaphors and empowering talisman that can be experienced as meditations, each exploring one of eight themes – Courage, Letting Go, Protection, Boundaries, Transformation, Karma, Renewal and Awakening.’ 'I believe that each of these paintings offers a door, a pathway, to wholeness and to physical and spiritual agency in helping ameliorate the dehumanising pressures that assail us in these troubled times.'

    • Of A Wild God
      • Tauranga-based artist Cordula Taiwo is set to open her exhibition, "Of a Wild God," at Thistle Hall, intentionally overlapping with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Wellington concerts (Feb 5 & 6). This sophisticated body of work is a deeply personal creative response to Nick Cave’s music, his public correspondence (The Red Hand Files), and his published conversations (Faith, Hope and Carnage).

    • Nontropolis
      • A Nontropolis is an old-world-charm tiny town, village, or neighbourhood, that grew organically over time. The word Nontropolis is a neologism, coined by multi media artist Marcel. This exhibition features 650 colourful miniature Italian inspired town houses in wood, urban sketches of Nontropolises from places like Italy, Greece, Spain, and Malta. Works feature on paper, driftwood, gift items like T-shirts, and even furniture. And then there is the book: '100 Love Stories' by Lynsey Gedye, a friend of Marcel. The book was inspired by Nontropolis, and written about the people living in Nontropolis. With 100 Love stories of every kind promising laughter that surprises you, tears you never knew you needed, reckonings and reunions, courage and tenderness, it is a captivating read. Lynsey will launch his book on Saturday 31st January. Some stories have become short films, which will be screened during the artist talk and book launch.

    • Refugee stories expressed in art
      • In My Dreams is a whimsical, vibrant, first ever, solo exhibition by artist Hannah Truly, featuring an enchanting collection of miniatures, floral paper sculptures, original paintings & prints, hand-crafted zines, tiny furniture, and beaded tapestry. Stepping into this show will feel like entering a fairy ring — a place of beauty, magic, enchantment, a place to uncover mysteries. Taking you on a journey through a constructed hallucination, reconstructing the hazy, glittery landscape within a dream. Falling into the loop of losing touch, creating, losing touch, only to find your way back to the comfort of a decadent delirious dream. In an effort to extricate oneself from the realities of the world into a place where disassociation becomes daydream becomes magical fantasy, where motherhood becomes the key to unlocking your own childhood. A space where childhood melds with motherhood.

    • In My Dreams
      • In My Dreams is a whimsical, vibrant, first ever, solo exhibition by artist Hannah Truly, featuring an enchanting collection of miniatures, floral paper sculptures, original paintings & prints, hand-crafted zines, tiny furniture, and beaded tapestry. Stepping into this show will feel like entering a fairy ring — a place of beauty, magic, enchantment, a place to uncover mysteries. Taking you on a journey through a constructed hallucination, reconstructing the hazy, glittery landscape within a dream. Falling into the loop of losing touch, creating, losing touch, only to find your way back to the comfort of a decadent delirious dream. In an effort to extricate oneself from the realities of the world into a place where disassociation becomes daydream becomes magical fantasy, where motherhood becomes the key to unlocking your own childhood. A space where childhood melds with motherhood.

    • JUST GOOD STUFF
      • FEATURING GOOD STUFF BY: melissa boardman . baron hasselhoff’s . galit maxwell pottery . genevieve packer . hmxhm . jackelope treasures . nana glamour . anna venture . oh goodness . simply kawakawa . gael cherian . snaxpax . lilla bean . carofeno . much much . lachy . sam brown . the foliage studio . 2 minute needles . analogue . julie+jack . indi & wild . commonkind . side quest . sarah drake ceramics . shoreline studio . scotty’s provisions . holland road yarn co .

    • Unity of Opposites
      • Erin Jaeger-Freeborn's solo show The Unity of Opposites are a series of sculptures in response to the pre-Socratic philosophy of Heraclitus, where seemingly contradictory forces are not only interconnected but essential to each other's existence. The forms oscillate between tension and harmony, precision and gesture, structure and chaos, movement and stillness.

    • Earth Wind and Sea
      • You cannot help but be shaped by the sea, wind and earth living on the southern end of Te Ika-a-Māui. In turn, we use our hands to give form to the inevitable connection we feel to these places. Five artists connected to the Greater Wellington region - the Kāpiti Coast, Ngaio, Wairarapa, and the South Coast - bring together their art across mixed mediums (sculpture, paintings, drawings, ceramics, jewellery) to share their love for nature. All artists are connected through The Learning Connexion in Taita, Lower Hutt.

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