Current exhibitions

Whiti Te Rā!

The story of Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Until 2024

Tuhiwai mere pounamu nephrite weapon 1500_1800 Otago maker unknown Gift of the Wineera family

Jack Trolove: Thresholding

July 24 – October 30

West Gallery

Our Harbour

Te Awarua-o-Porirua

Children’s Interactive Gallery Space

Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.

Apato

Anna Hayes

Pākehā, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Rakaipaaka

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Porirua Harbour
Connections

Mana Arts Society

1 July – 21 August 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Kanohi ki te kanohi

Faces from the Collection

24 July – 30 October 2022

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Star Gossage

Kia tau te Rangimārie – Let Peace be Among Us

24 July – 30 October 2022

Upcoming exhibitions

Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

26 August – 30 October 2022
Bottle Creek Gallery

Events

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Recent exhibitions

Kohai Grace
Matariki 2022

Ringatoi - Pouako
Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Porou, Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Raukawa Lives in Porirua.

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Phthalo +
Quinacridone +
Azo

Helen Reynolds
24 June – 31 July 2022 Toi Gallery

Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

26 August – 30 October 2022
Bottle Creek Gallery

Purely Pastel

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

Orongorongo, 1982 Oil on canvas Collection of BNZ

Melvin Day

A Modernist Perspective
27 November 2021 – 6 February 2022

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

Ahi Toi

31 Jul – 12 Sep 2021, Bottle Creek Gallery

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

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

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Outside Inside

Marilyn Jones
26 March – 2 May 2021, Toi Gallery

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