COVID-19 Gallery Update
The gallery is OPEN 10 - 4 everyday
Waiheke Artists will be showing in the 'Annex' gallery. We will be bringing you an ever changing exhibition with more works and artist details in the Annex over the next few months. All works are available to purchase or delivery can be arranged. Please feel free to contact us on info@waihekeartgallery.org.nz
Proudly presented by Fullers, exercise your creative conscience - recycle, rework, re-purpose, recreate! This popular open exhibition is promoted widely throughout the community and always results in an inventive cornucopia of creations!It encourages the creation of innovative, useful, entertaining artworks containing at least 80% recycled materials. Download an Entry Form or pop into the gallery and pick one up, get stuck in and have fun creating. We can't wait to see what you come up with!
A Taxonomy The underlying idea for this work is thinking about loss and extinction. How I might look back and remember the pulchritude of objects sought and collected from fascinating places. Objects that are the ecological canary in the coalmine. How will we recognise future beauty? I am interested in the tension and exchange between science and art. The work appears as a Victorian amateur scholar collection of scientific specimens of natural curiosities, recognisable but slightly subverted objects of sea organisms. They are ...
The Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award 2020 is proudly sponsored by Walker & Hall in association with Casita Miro Vineyard,The Skin Institute Waiheke, and the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. This is a National Award for two dimensional works in any medium and has a Prize of $5000 as the Premier award. The Selector and Judge this year is Richard Wolfe, New Zealand author, artist, museum curator. The Winner of the Premier Prize this year was Judy Woods with her work Jettyland ...
RETURN MAIL 1081 - Denis O’Connor THE WORLD EXISTS TO BE PUT ON A POSTCARD. This was the title of a show I saw at the British Museum in London last year that traced artist’s postcards from 1960 to the present. This letterbox scale little device covers broad territory. Political postcards, feminist postcards, satirical and altered postcards. Postcard invitations. A Gilbert & George exhibition invitation proclaims that ‘postcards are our shield, our swords, our emblems, our vision, our tombstone and our ...
What a treasure trove of works are on show this year, congrats to all of you imaginative creators! Be sure to visit the exhibition on until 11 September, and pick up a work or two to take home! This is a wonderful opportunity to collect a work from an established or emerging artist and at the same time supporting your local creative community!
Katy gives us a glimpse into the life of her great grandmother, Miriam. "..Since the day when she first heard 90 year old Miriam Bridelia Soljak speak of World Peace, perched on top of a soap box in Albert Park, Katy has been a huge fan of her grandmother. Miriam, born in Thames in 1879, was forced to register as an alien in her own country after she married Petar Soljak in 1908. She campaigned all her life to change the British ...
Oliver Stretton Pow is a sculptor living and working on Waiheke Island from his studio and art foundry. He has exhibited widely and this exhibition Make History was shown in Auckland at Kinder House in Auckland earlier this year. Now it's Waiheke's turn to experience works from this thought provoking and intricate collection. Artists Statement: "...I spent a considerable amount of my youth in a parochial museum environment as my parents were the proprietors of the historic Stone Store in Kerikeri (built in 1833). ...
Our travelling exhibition returns for a final show on Waiheke. The Gallery has been extended the privilege of hosting an exhibition of the estate works of the late Malcolm Harrison. Malcolm was an outstanding textile artist whose work was collected by major New Zealand institutions and galleries and frequently commissioned for public spaces. The exhibition on Waiheke includes major quilt works, tapestries, assemblages, small sculpture, painted works on paper, poetry plus illustrations and writings for children's books. Here's the Herald article from the ...
Te Manawa Ora o Papatuanuku - Hope for Papatuanuku is the theme for this year's Matariki exhibition, curated by Jeanine Clarkin. This exhibition is a part of ongoing E Tipu e Rea programme where young Waiheke rangatahi are mentored by senior artists and produce works for exhibition. Proudly supported by the Waiheke Local Board and Te Puni Kokiri
A unique collection of colour photographs that show China at a time when it was largely unknown to Western visitors and media. There may be a re-screening of 'Gung Ho' at the Waiheke Cinema - watch this space! This 50 minute documentary hosted by Geoff Stevens, looks at China during the time of Rewi Alley's life there.
The Small Sculpture Prize is a National Award for an original free-standing or wall sculpture up to 800mm in any direction and has a Premier prize of $3000 Proudly sponsored by Perpetual Guardian and in association with Te Motu, the Small Sculpture Prize is presented by the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. The winner of The Small Sculpture Prize 2020 is Waiheke artist Gail Barratt for her ceramic work Ecosystem Crisis. The Benefactors Merit award went to Mark Mitchell for his work Bubble: ...
Di West presents a delightful exhibition of wild and not so wild friends of hers. Come and see the exhibition in the Small Gallery now we're open at Level 2! Artist's Statement "..This unique exhibition is the culmination of many years of fascination with the passive expression, hence my intrigue with face to face portraits. I enjoy creating artworks where the viewer is fully engaged and can create a narrative of their own. These paintings are all portraits with ideally, a ‘resting face’. What do the ...
It is a priviledge to be exhibiting celebrated Coromandel sculptor Rex Homan who was the Supreme winner at the 2019 Te Waka Toi Awards. Rex Homan, Lorna Dixon Rikihana and Moana Clarke present Ko Waihehe Te Kainga - Waiheke is our Place, commemorating the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi at Karaka Bay on 4 March 1840 Rex Homan (Ngāti Paoa, Te Rarawa, Te Atiawa). Rex is an outstandng international sculptor in bronze and wood. His work is influenced by Māori mythology ...
Clive Humphreys curates Cross Currents featuring artists Mark Bolland, Madelaine Child, Gordon Crook, Inge Doesburg, Graham Fletcher, Tom Fox, David Green, Clive Humphreys, Lynn Kelly, Richard Killeen, David McLeod, Richard McWhannel, Alistair Nisbet-Smith, Alan Pearson and Ray Wade. We share some comments from curator Clive Humphreys speech at the exhibition opening. "...When one thinks of a community gallery it is often in a regional context... a gallery that reflects the needs and values of a geographical area, the local artists, the resident audience, ...
In the Small Gallery, Sarah Guppy, Sally Simons and Lauren Drescher present a collection of new works. Sarah Guppy "...My brothers home in Tanger looks down to a terraced two acres garden, across the Mediterranean to Spain. I have travelled there many times and been inspired by ceramic objects, the mystery of a walled city with its cultural colour and daily rhythms. Henry Mattise, Mary Fedden and Francis Hodgkins were among many others who were captivated by the light which washes everything in ...
‘Unearthed’ is a story of history, events and change. It began with large stands of kauri trees cut, transported to Auckland, milled and laid as cobbles for Karangahape Road in the early 1900’s. Soaked in creosote to withstand trams they were later covered in bitumen. ‘Unearthed’ is composed of exterior slices of kauri that were left by an ingot making process for Headland Sculpture in the Gulf 2017 by Matte Harte and Anton Forde. In ‘Unearthed they experience their final intervention ...
Three painters and one sculptor bring together new works in a large format. Russell Jackson is joined by Mark Wooller, Jane Simcock and Pamela Howard -Smith. The artists will be expressing their pleasure in painting - most with a special reference to Waiheke. Russell Jackson ~ Thompsons Point Russell Jackson ~ Owhanake Russell Jackson ~ Owhanake Beehives Russell Jackson ~ Ostend Russell Jackson ~ Kingfisher Waiheke Russell Jackson ~ Gannet Rock Russell Jackson ~ Cow Waiheke Russell Jackson ~ Birds Little Barrier Island
Maarit Mäkelä works as an artist in the junction of ceramics and fine art. Her works deals with femininity. Her works has been displayed in Finland, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Italy, Spain, USA, Poland, Germany, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and China. She is a member of Finnish Painters' Union and Finnish Association of Designers. She works as a Professor of Design in Aalto University, Finland, where she also completed her master and doctoral studies ...
The Art Map Artists exhibition showcases Waiheke artists in the Main gallery. Pick up the new Art Map 2020 and plan your studio visits with this taster of Waiheke, Auckland's vibrant Island of Art.
Mike Morgan returns to Waiheke with a superb collection of new works in the Small Gallery. Here's a selection from the opening and in the Small Gallery, they deserve a close up view as they are each so unique and full of his inimitable detail and humor - don't miss it!
Waiheke artist Grant Finch presents a thought provoking selection of new paintings in the Annex.