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

Our Harbour

Te Awarua-o-Porirua

Children’s Interactive Gallery Space

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

Our Harbour

Te Awarua-o-Porirua

Children’s Interactive Gallery Space

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

Lisa Reihana: Nomads of the Sea

27 FEBRUARY–3 JULY 2022

FREE ENTRY

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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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Pleiades: A Woven Narrative

Patricia Armour

13 May – 19 June 2022 Toi Gallery

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Upcoming exhibitions

Pataka Friends Arts Award 2022

26 August – 30 October 2022
Bottle Creek Gallery

Events

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Artisan Craft Market at Pātaka Art + Museum

Sunday 19th June

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Recent exhibitions

Pataka Friends Arts Award 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

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

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

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

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