Current exhibitions

Mischief Makers

27 November 2021–6 February 2022

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Whiti te rā

The story of Ngāti Toa Rangatira

Until mid 2022

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

Our Harbour

Te Awarua-o-Porirua

Children’s Interactive Gallery Space

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

Melvin Day

A Modernist Perspective

27 November 2021 – 6 February 2022

Orongorongo, 1982 Oil on canvas Collection of BNZ

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

MD-Cubist Still_life_with_fish-bottle_and_fruit-1959.

If the shoe fits

17 December 2021 – 20 February 2022 Bottle Creek Gallery

If-the-shoe-fits

Upcoming exhibitions

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Robèrt Franken – Reflections in a pond

4 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH 2022
TOI GALLERY

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Lisa Reihana: Nomads of the Sea

27 FEBRUARY–3 JULY 2022
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Events

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Te Wānanga o Aotearoa:
Toi workshops at Pataka

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd January 2022

Recent exhibitions

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

Where Memories Sleep

28 March – 11 July 2021

Moving Along the History Wall

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

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

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

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

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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