Current exhibitions

Matarau 44, Photo Cheska Brown
Waiora
Hemi Macgregor
29 March–6 July 2025 Daylight Gallery
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Lovers &
Castaways
29 March–6 July 2025 Front Gallery, West Gallery
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Toloa Tales
Sione Tuívailala Monū
and Edith Amituanai
29 March–6 July 2025
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour
Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Children’s Interactive Gallery Space
Imagination Engine-web
Arca Arcade
“Round One”
Preston Khan McNeil
12 April–22 June 2025
Leafiness web
Leafiness – living shapes us all
Rhona Orr
9 May—15 June Toi Gallery
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Leafiness – living shapes us all
Rhona Orr
9 May—15 June Toi Gallery
Matarau 44, Photo Cheska Brown
Waiora
Hemi Macgregor
29 March–6 July 2025 Daylight Gallery
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Lovers &
Castaways
29 March–6 July 2025 Front Gallery, West Gallery
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Toloa Tales
Sione Tuívailala Monū
and Edith Amituanai
29 March–6 July 2025
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour
Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Children’s Interactive Gallery Space
Imagination Engine-web
Arca Arcade
“Round One”
Preston Khan McNeil
12 April–22 June 2025

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Events

Opening soon

70s Dames group photo-group

The 70s Dames

Anneke Borren, Jenny Shearer, Pamella Annsouth
21 June–27 July 2025 Toi Gallery

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Festival of Wood 2025

The Wellington Guild of Woodworkers
28 June–10 August 2025 Bottle Creek Gallery

Jasmine Togo-Brisby, It is Not a Place, 2024_01

Jasmine Togo-Brisby: ungeographic


26 July–9 November 2025

Maungaroa Punga a Kupe, anchor stone, 700-900AD. Collection of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand and Ngāti Toa Rangatira ME015920

Mutumutu ki Mukukai:
Freshwater to Saltwater

Ngāti Toa Rangatira connected waterways.
Saturday 6 December 2025

Recent exhibitions

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Kei runga, kei raro: As above, so below

Mitchell Manuel
28 March–4 May 2025

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Transient encounters & transformational shifts

Janet Mazenier & Sarah Treadwell
14 February–23 March Toi Gallery

Kim Ireland and Java Bentley

Ahu

Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
1 February – 6 April Bottle Creek

student artwork Porirua East School, Mandala 2024 copy

Toi Rama

Inspiring Tamariki Through Art
15 November 2024 – 9 February 2025 Toi Gallery

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Points of No Return– Liana Leiataua


9 November 2024 – 26 January 2025 Bottle Creek

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Jack Kirifi

Tokelau tā tatau – Tokelau tattoo: A re-connection to Tokelau cultural identity
27 September – 10 November

E sab amma log ke sapna hai hum - Seema Singh

Katha:

Stories of the Girmit Women of Fiji
20 September – 3 November 2024 Bottle Creek

Child’s boro noragi-Ca1920s -1930s

Boro – Timeworn Textiles of Japan


14 December 2024–9 March 2025

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Rangirua


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Taku Hoe


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Diane Prince: Activist Artist


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Birgit Moffatt: Reimagining Geometry


9 August – 22 September 2024

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The Friends of Pātaka Art Awards


26 July-15 September 2024

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Mauri Oho

Ka mua ka muri: Reflecting on our past to inform our futures
31 May – Sunday 21 July 2024

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Matt Overend: Views from my Chair


3 May–16 June 2024

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Anton Forde: Papare Eighty.one


22 JUNE–13 OCTOBER 2024

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Sanap Wantaim – Stand Together


21 JUNE–4 AUGUST 2024

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The Ulumate Project

Na Tolu: Joana Monolagi, Ole Maiava, Daren Kamali
22 JUNE–13 OCTOBER 2024

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Red Wave, Blue Wave

Artist Collectives from the Oceania Centre, Suva, Fiji
22 June–13 October 2024

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Te Ara o Raukawa Moana

Bottle Creek Gallery
6 APRIL – 26 MAY 2024

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Maioha Kara: In Good Relation


2 MARCH – 3 JUNE 2024

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Ahilapalapa Rands: Across the Sea


2 MARCH – 3 JUNE 2024

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Paraikete Threads

Jeanine Clarkin, Noa Blanket Co and Mataaho Collective.
2 MARCH – 3 JUNE 2024

02b Sambe Jogakbo (detail)

Hono Aho—Connecting Lines

Tiki Coverny, Yon Yi Sohn, Moonhee Han, and Eun Jung Jang
15 MAR–28 APR 2024

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She Held a River

Rebecca Stewart
26 JAN –10 MAR 2024 Toi Gallery

Two-Herons

Te Awarua o Porirua-Our Harbour


2 FEB – 31 MARCH 2024

Blue Paper

Frances Jill Studd: Touches of Silence

TOI GALLERY
8 DEC 2023 – 22 JAN 2024

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Ngā Pari Tai Rua

Shannon Te Rangihaeata Clamp
27 OCT – 3 DEC 2023

La mafana warm sun Joy sipeli 2023

Foaki Noa:

The Art of Ie Pili Niue
18 NOV 2023 – 21 JAN 2024

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Ka mua, ka muri

25 Exhibitions
22 SEPT – 23 OCT 2023

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