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    • 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.

    • Light Searches for Colour
      • Gifts from the Sea showcases art works by three Wellington women who share a deep love and respect for our south coast. Each of us draws on our creative skills to bring attention to the beauty and fragility of the underwater world. We are each conservationists at heart. Margaret Elliot Using fine pastels and pigmented oils, Margaret brings the vibrant underwater world alive from photographs she takes when she is out snorkeling in the Taputeranga Reserve. Mary Livingston has spent many years with her camera photographing our south coast. She braves all weathers to catch the mood of the blue waters that rage and seethe unpredictably, tearing sea life from their refugia. Nicole Miller has made seaweed the centre of her life. The documentary 'Seaweed, A Love Story' narrates her work to protect Wellington's kelp forests and bring the beauty of the marine world to the surface through art & storytelling.

    • Gifts from the Sea
      • Gifts from the Sea showcases art works by three Wellington women who share a deep love and respect for our south coast. Each of us draws on our creative skills to bring attention to the beauty and fragility of the underwater world. We are each conservationists at heart. Margaret Elliot Using fine pastels and pigmented oils, Margaret brings the vibrant underwater world alive from photographs she takes when she is out snorkeling in the Taputeranga Reserve. Mary Livingston has spent many years with her camera photographing our south coast. She braves all weathers to catch the mood of the blue waters that rage and seethe unpredictably, tearing sea life from their refugia. Nicole Miller has made seaweed the centre of her life. The documentary Seaweed, A Love Story' narrates her work to protect Wellington's kelp forests and bring the beauty of the marine world to the surface through art & storytelling.

    • Gifts from the Sea
      • Gifts from the Sea showcases art works by three Wellington women who share a deep love and respect for our south coast. Each of us draws on our creative skills to bring attention to the beauty and fragility of the underwater world. We are each conservationists at heart. Margaret Elliot Using fine pastels and pigmented oils, Margaret brings the vibrant underwater world alive from photographs she takes when she is out snorkeling in the Taputeranga Reserve. Mary Livingston has spent many years with her camera photographing our south coast. She braves all weathers to catch the mood of the blue waters that rage and seethe unpredictably, tearing sea life from their refugia. Nicole Miller has made seaweed the centre of her life. The documentary Seaweed, A Love Story' narrates her work to protect Wellington's kelp forests and bring the beauty of the marine world to the surface through art & storytelling.

    • Veil into the Air -Japanese Artistic Journey-
      • An exhibition exploring the theme of "Veil" through Japanese crafts, touring two venues in New Zealand. Focusing on the delicate and ephemeral nature of materials such as Japanese paper (washi), white porcelain, wool, and incense, visitors can experience a quiet world of expression where visual and sensory perceptions intertwine as if dissolving into the air. The concept of "Veil" symbolizes both concealment and revelation, boundaries and expansion. The works range from those with a lightness that seems to drift in space to others that engage the sense of touch. Through expressions woven with culture, memory, and personal experience, this exhibition offers a fresh perspective and beauty shaped by the techniques and sensibilities of Japanese artists.

    • Veil into the Air - Japanese Artistic Journeys
      • An exhibition exploring the theme of "Veil" through Japanese crafts, touring two venues in New Zealand. Focusing on the delicate and ephemeral nature of materials such as Japanese paper (washi), white porcelain, wool, and incense, visitors can experience a quiet world of expression where visual and sensory perceptions intertwine as if dissolving into the air. The concept of "Veil" symbolizes both concealment and revelation, boundaries and expansion. The works range from those with a lightness that seems to drift in space to others that engage the sense of touch. Through expressions woven with culture, memory, and personal experience, this exhibition offers a fresh perspective and beauty shaped by the techniques and sensibilities of Japanese artists.

    • Wellington Photographic Society - Annual Exhibition
      • Cerys Wiles’ and Frankie Matchitt-Millar’s practices reflect light back at each other, eroding the boundaries of individual art-making to a collective, ongoing discussion. Holding between them skills of painting, drawing, installation, ceramics, performance, and writing, this duo returns discipline to curiosity, following threads of embodied practice and wide scholarly research.

    • Erosion is a Soft Force
      • Cerys Wiles’ and Frankie Matchitt-Millar’s practices reflect light back at each other, eroding the boundaries of individual art-making to a collective, ongoing discussion. Holding between them skills of painting, drawing, installation, ceramics, performance, and writing, this duo returns discipline to curiosity, following threads of embodied practice and wide scholarly research.

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