Current exhibitions

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Maioha Kara:
In Good Relation
2 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2024
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Ahilapalapa Rands:
Across the Sea
2 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2024
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Paraikete Threads
Jeanine Clarkin, Noa Blanket Co
and Mataaho Collective.
2 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2024
Tuhiwai mere pounamu nephrite weapon 1500_1800 Otago maker unknown Gift of the Wineera family
Whiti Te Rā!
The story of Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Until October 2024
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour
Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Children’s Interactive Gallery Space
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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Te Ara o
Raukawa Moana
Bottle Creek Gallery
6 APRIL – 26 MAY 2024
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Te Ara o
Raukawa Moana
Bottle Creek Gallery
6 APRIL – 26 MAY 2024
Maioha Kara_Whakamanawa_2023 web
Maioha Kara:
In Good Relation
2 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2024
Sequence 01.00_00_53_09-1.Still007 copy-Enhanced-SR-landscape-website
Ahilapalapa Rands:
Across the Sea
2 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2024
Noa-Blanket-Co_web
Paraikete Threads
Jeanine Clarkin, Noa Blanket Co
and Mataaho Collective.
2 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2024
Tuhiwai mere pounamu nephrite weapon 1500_1800 Otago maker unknown Gift of the Wineera family
Whiti Te Rā!
The story of Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Until October 2024
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour
Te Awarua-o-Porirua
Children’s Interactive Gallery Space
02b Sambe Jogakbo (detail)
Hono Aho—
Connecting Lines
Tiki Coverny, Yon Yi Sohn,
Moonhee Han, and Eun Jung Jang
15 MAR–28 APR 2024

Upcoming exhibitions

Events

Recent exhibitions

Rebecca_Stewart_TheBridalVeil-2023

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

kinaTimLi pataka web

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

Here and Beyond Poster web

Here and Beyond

Photographs and Interviews by Ehsan Hazaveh
12-25 June 2023

Tui-detail-web

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

Hero Image

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

Pataka22-3a

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

Cultivation-the measure of trees_2022

Gerda Leenards:

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

Hayes, Anna - Surfboard case-web

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

Reef Fish tapestry-Elizabeth Arnold.jpg

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
FREE ENTRY

If-the-shoe-fits

If the shoe fits


17 December 2021 – 20 February 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

MD-Cubist Still_life_with_fish-bottle_and_fruit-1959.

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

Mana Whenua Banner

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

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Who am I to wear Moko Kauae

Putaanga Waitoa
1 April - 9 May 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

Gallery-install-pic copy

Main gallery Closed

Exhibitions installation
Open to the public on 2 March 2024

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Outside Inside

Marilyn Jones
26 March – 2 May 2021, Toi Gallery

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Where Memories Sleep


28 March – 11 July 2021

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Moving Along the History Wall

Rob Taylor
12 Feb– 28 March 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

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Extinction is Forever

Marilyn Rea-Menzies
5 Feb– 21 March 2021, Toi Gallery

Marja Helander, Dolastallat (To have a campfire), 2016. Video still. Courtesy of the artist

Among All These Tundras


28 March – 11 July 2021

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The Enchanted Forest by the Sea

Michael Angelo
11 Dec 2020 – 8 Feb 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

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Indefinite

Amanda Wilkinson
18 Dec 2020 - 31 Jan 2021, Toi Gallery

Shrek the musical

Porirua Little Theatre - The First 70 Years

Bottle Creek Community Gallery
23 Oct - 6 Dec 2020

Russ Flatt Kōruru (Knucklebones) 2020

29th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2020

Exhibition of winners and finalists
6 Dec 2020 – 28 Feb 2021

Daniel Reeve & Michael Barker

Myth & Legend

Daniel Reeve and Michael Barker: The Artist as Storyteller
30 Oct – 13 Dec 2020, Toi Gallery

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サ-モアのうた (Sāmoa no uta) A Song About Sāmoa

Yuki Kihara
6 Dec 2020 – 28 Feb 2021

Sheree Willman artwork detail

Raranga

Sheree Willman
18 Sep – 25 Oct 2020, Toi Gallery

FOPAA 2020

Pātaka Friends Art Awards 2020


11 Sep – 18 Oct 2020, Bottle Creek Gallery

Gerda Leenards, here comes the ocean kapiti, 2019, 760 x 1520mm acrylic on canvas

Kapiti

Gerda Leenards
31 July – 13 September 2020, Toi Gallery

Angles of Perception

Angles of Perception

Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand
24 July – 6 September 2020, Bottle Creek Gallery

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