Current exhibitions

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3. Oh My Murray Darling Web
Tuhiwai mere pounamu nephrite weapon 1500_1800 Otago maker unknown Gift of the Wineera family
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
Our Harbour – Te Awarua-o-Porirua, 2017, illustration detail by artist Mat Tait.
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3. Oh My Murray Darling Web
Tuhiwai mere pounamu nephrite weapon 1500_1800 Otago maker unknown Gift of the Wineera family

Upcoming exhibitions

Events

Recent exhibitions

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Star Gossage

Kia tau te Rangimārie – Let Peace be Among Us

Noise Pekere Fruean

Pēkere Fruean & Darcy Nicholas


Contemporary Māori Artists

Detail of Ponga by Agnes Hauptli

Ngahere – The Bush of Aotearoa

Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand
Friday 18 August - Sunday 1 October 2023 Bottle Creek Gallery

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 Bottle Creek

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Tim Li

Te Tini a Tangaroa - The multitudes of Tangaroa
16 June – 23 July Toi Gallery

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Here and Beyond

Photographs and Interviews by Ehsan Hazaveh
12-25 June Bottle Creek

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Peter Mitchell

Past & Present Exhibition
5 May to 11 June 2023 Toi Gallery

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Creative Fibre

National Exhibition 2023
24 March – 7 May Bottle Creek

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Lines of Sight

Elisabeth Vullings
31 March – 30 April | Toi Gallery

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Vicki Fanning

Passenger
18 March to 11 June

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Kura Pounamu

Tō tātou kōhatu | Our Treasured Stone
18 March – 11 June

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Hā!

Ngarongo Phillips, Kahurangiariki Smith, Shairae Taepa, Hori, Pirika Taepa, Cecilia Kumeroa and Robyn Kahukiwa
3 February 2023 - 19 March 2023. Bottle Creek

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Huia

Claire Jensen, Fiona Pardington, Hannah Shand, Kirsty Gardiner, Michelle Arnold (nee Black)
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 December 2022 – 29 January 2023 Bottle Creek

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The Festival of Wood

The Wellington Guild of Woodworkers
Saturday 5 November – Sunday 4 December Bottle Creek

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

A‘eva tokotaha he Pasifiki:

Solo across the Pacific
20 November 2022 – 26 February 2023 Pātaka

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Tūrama

Lighting the Collection
20 November 2022 – 26 February 2023 Pātaka

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Gerda Leenards:

Regeneration - a story of trees
16 September – 23 October

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Apato

Anna Hayes
Pākehā, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Rakaipaaka

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Kanohi ki te
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Faces from the Collection
24 July – 30 October 2022

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Kohai Grace
Matariki 2022

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

Friends of Pātaka Art Awards 2022

The Friends of Pātaka
Art Awards 2022


26 August-30 October Bottle Creek Gallery

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Star Gossage

Kia tau te Rangimārie – Let Peace be Among Us
24 July – 30 October 2022

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Porirua Harbour
Connections

Mana Arts Society
1 July – 21 August 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

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Phthalo + Quinacridone + Azo

Helen Reynolds
24 June – 31 July 2022 Toi Gallery

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Jack Trolove:
Thresholding


July 24 – October 30 West Gallery

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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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Christine Gregory

Light Waves

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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
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

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

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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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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

Karin Amdal virus teapots

Down to earth

Aimée McLeod, Rebecca Flowerday, Rebecca Neal, Jenny Turnbull and Karin Amdal
19 June – 26 July 2020, Toi Gallery

Does Ava Dream

Does Ava Dream?

Grant Sheehan
12 June – 19 July 2020, Bottle Creek Gallery

Photography by Ben Dickens

Malo Tokelau

Photography by Ben Dickens
6 March - 10 May 2020

Disorientation by Clive Kely

Getting to the Point

Clive Kelly
13-March - 17 May 2020, Toi Gallery

Wendy Fairclough

Common Ground

Wendy Fairclough
6 June – 8 Nov 2020

Bing Dawe Downstream under Aoraki Tuna with barrier 2018

Wai

The water project
6 June – 8 Nov 2020

Ipu Whenua

He Kākano

Stevei Houkāmau
6 June – 8 Nov 2020

Four Seasons by Creative Fibre Wellington

Four Seasons

Creative Fibre Wellington
24 January - 1 March 2020 Bottle Creek Community Gallery

Kerry Jane Scott painting 2020

Pari-rua

Kerry Jane Scott
31 January - 8 March 2020

Toi Poutama 2019 Graduate Exhibition artwork

Toi Poutama

Whitireia 2019 Graduate Exhibition
6 December 2019 - 12 January 2019, Bottle Creek Gallery

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