Our exhibitions feature local, national and international artists. You can view details of exhibitions taking place at our arts centres through the links below.
Fresh Gallery Otara
Mangere Arts Centre
Nathan Homestead
Fresh Gallery Otara
FRESH09
When: 27 November – 19 December
Opening: Thursday 26 November - 6-8pm
Fresh Gallery Otara has developed an exciting regional, national and international profile as a unique avenue for the exposure of fresh visual arts ideas depicting the cultural richness of Manukau. Local artists have held exciting boundary-pushing exhibitions and artists from outside of Manukau have relished in the opportunity to place their work within an urban grassroots
environment.
FRESH09 acknowledges the achievements of Fresh Gallery Otara and its rise to notoriety. The exhibition will be a visual melee including highlights from past exhibitions and new works by visual artists from the Fresh Gallery Otara community.
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Mangere Arts Centre
Focus
When: 3 - 28 November
An exhibition of photographic works from the Manukau City Council Art Collection. These images have been taken over a number of years by various artists recording the people, their lives and events of Manukau. Presented as part of the Manukau Festival of Arts, the exhibition will feature work by Jeff Hewitt and Isabel Sutherland amongst others.
Te Puakitanga (Emergence)
When: 12 November – 2 December
Te Puakitanga profiles the work of emerging artists from the Maori Focus Certificate and Diploma of Visual Arts Programme at Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT).
The exhibition will include a selection of 2D, 3D and multimedia work based on working back through the whakapapa of the tauira (students), while using a contemporary approach.
Identity
When: 5 – 24 December
The artists in this exhibition convey how identity is an important part of a person’s life-long journey. The journey is conveyed using materials such as:
- Woodblock prints
- Digital art
- Painting
- Weaving
- Illustration
- Photography
Featured artists:
- Te Kori Fatuloa
- Dana Rapata
- Lome Tanuvasa
- Aaron Unasa
- Kerrie-Anne Van Heerden
- Allen Vili
- Vanessa Wynyard.
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Nathan Homestead
Botanical Art
When: 26 November – 8 December
Originally from South Auckland, former tutor at Nathan Homestead, and recipient of International recognition for his work in botanic art; Brent McGuire curates this group exhibition as part of his passion in promoting a wider awareness of this specialised, and exquisite discipline in the arts. His own inspiration was fired after seeing Monet’s waterlilies series, and subsequently he has been painting water gardens and lotus, with a strong awareness of Monet’s influence on his work.
As well as featuring a selection of his finest works, some of the artists included in this exhibition are students of the curator.
Dollmania
When: 11 December – 22 January
Dolls have been a part of our history for thousands of years. Often making memorable gifts or marking a special time in our lives they are loved, battered, given haircuts, hung upside down, played with and grow to have personalities of their own.
Throughout history, dolls have had other uses - sometimes being perceived to have power, used to display the latest fashion, to hold night clothes and adorn a bed, or to describe folk tales. This exhibition coincides with the Christmas season and shows selected dolls from private collections along with works by local printmakers Toni Mosley, Natalie Couch and Gabrielle Belz.
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