Current exhibitions

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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
Janet Mazenier and Sarah Treadwell -web
Transient encounters &
transformational shifts
Janet Mazenier
& Sarah Treadwell
14 February–23 March Toi Gallery
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Rangirua
2 November 2024–9 March 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
Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
Ahu
Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
1 February – 6 April Bottle Creek
Child’s boro noragi-Ca1920s -1930s
Boro – Timeworn Textiles of Japan
14 December 2024–9 March 2025
Child’s boro noragi-Ca1920s -1930s
Boro – Timeworn Textiles of Japan
14 December 2024–9 March 2025
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Taku Hoe
2 November 2024–9 March 2025
Diane Prince_Maunga-Maunga-You've taken my Maunga_2008-ink on paper
Diane Prince:
Activist Artist
2 November 2024–9 March 2025
Janet Mazenier and Sarah Treadwell -web
Transient encounters &
transformational shifts
Janet Mazenier
& Sarah Treadwell
14 February–23 March Toi Gallery
Rowan_Panther-My_mother_was_a_Wulf-now_Im_a_Panther 2
Rangirua
2 November 2024–9 March 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
Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
Ahu
Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
1 February – 6 April Bottle Creek

Upcoming exhibitions

Events

Recent exhibitions

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

Fragements of Deconstruction-9044-2

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

Kaetaeta Watson and Louis Humphry

Tibuta – Kinaakiia Ainen Kiribati

Tibuta – Identifies Kiribati Women
7 OCT – 11 NOV 2023

Falepipi he Mafola Niuean Handicraft Group Inc, 2022

Fenoga Tāoga Niue I Aotearoa

Niue Heritage Journey In Aotearoa
18 Nov 2023 - 11 Feb 2024

Susanne Kerr, Tributary, 2019, gouache, pencil on Hahnemühle paper.

Susanne Kerr: Remnants


18 NOV 2023 – 11 FEB 2024

Tau‘atāina, 2023

Manu Vaea

Koe Tau’atāina o e Leitī | The Freedom / Emancipation of the Leitī
18 NOV 2023 – 11 FEB 2024

Noise Pekere Fruean

Pēkere Fruean & Darcy Nicholas

Contemporary Māori Artists
28 JUL – 17 SEPT 2023

Detail of Ponga by Agnes Hauptli

Ngahere – The Bush of Aotearoa

Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand
18 AUG - 1 OCT 2023

Kohai grace 2023 muka harakeke natural dyes web

Toiora: Ki te Pō ki te Ao

The Art of Wellbeing: Through Light and Shadow
1 JUL – 13 AUG 2023

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Tim Li

Te Tini a Tangaroa - The multitudes of Tangaroa
16 JUN – 23 JUL 2023

3. Oh My Murray Darling Web

naadohbii: to draw water


1 JUL – 29 OCT 2023

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Here and Beyond

Photographs and Interviews by Ehsan Hazaveh
12-25 June 2023

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Peter Mitchell

Past & Present Exhibition
5 MAY to 11 JUN 2023

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Creative Fibre

National Exhibition 2023
24 MAR – 7 MAY

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Lines of Sight

Elisabeth Vullings
31 MAR – 30 APR 2023

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Vicki Fanning

Passenger
18 MAR – 11 JUN 2023

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Kura Pounamu

Tō tātou kōhatu | Our Treasured Stone
18 MAR – 11 JUN 2023

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Hā!

Group Exhibition
3 FEB 2023 - 19 MAR 2023.

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Huia!

Group Exhibition
3 February 2023 - 26 March 2023.

Cyanotype-HERO

Student Cyanotype Exhibition


16 Dec 2022 – 30 Jan 2023 Bottle Creek

CPotY10

Capital Photographer of the year


28 October2022 – 11 December2022 Toi Gallery

Untitled design (1)

Tesserae Tales of Aotearoa

Rowena Rooney, Michelle Arnold nee Black and Rachel Silver
9 DEC 2022 – 29 JAN 2023

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The Festival of Wood

The Wellington Guild of Woodworkers
5 NOV – 4 DEC 2022

Glen Wolfgram - A'eva Tokotaha he Pasifiki-Solo across the Pacific

A‘eva tokotaha he Pasifiki:

Solo across the Pacific
20 NOV 2022 – 26 FEB 2023

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Tūrama

Lighting the Collection
20 NOV 2022 – 26 FEB 2023

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Gerda Leenards:

Regeneration - a story of trees
16 SEPT – 23 OCT 2022

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Apato

Anna Hayes
5 AUG – 11 SEPT 2022

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Kanohi ki te kanohi

Faces from the Collection
24 JUL – 30 OCT 2022

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Kohai Grace – Matariki 2022

Ringatoi - Pouako
23 JUN – 16 JUL

Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

The Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022


26 AUG – 30 OCT

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Star Gossage

Kia tau te Rangimārie – Let Peace be Among Us
24 JUL – 30 OCT 2022

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Porirua Harbour Connections

Mana Arts Society
1 JUL – 21 AUG 2022

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Phthalo + Quinacridone + Azo

Helen Reynolds
24 JUN – 31 JUL 2022

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Jack Trolove: Thresholding


24 JUL – 30 OCT 2022

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Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

26 August – 30 October 2022
Bottle Creek Gallery

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Purely Pastel

Pastel Artists of New Zealand PANZ
1 April – 15 May 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Pleiades: A Woven Narrative

Patricia Armour
13 May – 19 June 2022 Toi Gallery

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Woven Tapestry: Ancient Art in a Modern World

Tapestry Network
20 May – 26 June 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Brian

27 February – 27 March 2022
Brian Gunson, 1941-2019, Artist Remembered.

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Robèrt Franken

Reflections in a pond
4 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH 2022

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Lisa Reihana: Nomads of the Sea

27 February – 3 July 2022
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If the shoe fits


17 December 2021 – 20 February 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Melvin Day — the legacy

Still Life and Landscape works from the Oroya & Melvin Day Charitable Trust collection
10 December 2021 – 30 January 2022

Image: Layne Waerea, (Waiting-for) Free-rain, video still

Mischief Makers

27 November 2021–6 February 2022

Orongorongo, 1982 Oil on canvas Collection of BNZ

Melvin Day

A Modernist Perspective
27 November 2021 – 6 February 2022

Lull

Ko Murihiku Tōku Whaea,Southern Mother

Kyla Cresswell, Emma Kitson, Kim Lowe
29 October - 5 December 2021

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The Artist’s Needle

Mana Embroiderers’ Guild
5 November – 12 December 2021

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Ka mua, ka muri.

Beverly Rhodes
17 September – 24 October

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Freedom

Gear Homestead Woolshed Potters
24 September – 31 October 2021 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Wero

Victor Te Paa
31 Jul – 12 Sep 2021, Toi Gallery

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Ahi Toi


31 Jul – 12 Sep 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

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Waharoa

Mauri Oho Kairaranga Collective
25 June - 25 July 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

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Toi Koru

Sandy Adsett
31 July - 7 Nov 2021

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Rauemi Taiao/Material Nature

Katy Cottrell
14 May - 20 June 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

NOVEMBER 2024 – FEBRUARY 2025

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