Waiheke is certainly established as Auckland's Island of Art with 43 artists featuring on the 2022 Art Map! Come along and check out a sampler of their work, pick up a new Art Map and plan your studio visits over the summer.
Teri presents a new exhibition with intricate portraiture works painted in oil on fine Belgian linen in the Small Gallery. View the ONLINE CATALOGUE
The Annex is transformed into a beautiful object gallery featuring unique objects from previous exhibitions and more! Image: Phillip Stokes - Amorphous Bubble
The Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award 2021 is proudly sponsored by Walker & Hall in association with 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 Fiona Blanchard, Head of Visitor Services - Auckland War Memorial Museum. The Premier Winner is Joon-Hee Park for her work 'Pastime' - oil on Canvas The ...
Katy's exhibition and book launch features paintings from her new book "My First Real Pash" From a girl growing up in the Hawkes Bay to a woman living on Waiheke Island, "My First Pash and Other Stories" offers a series of entertaining tales of a life lived in New Zealand. At times - gripping, funny, tragic, and cathartic, these stories condense the experience of a whole life into a few pages. In her warm, frank and colloquial style, Soljak offers a ...
Te Mauri O Te Whenua - A Search For Paptuanuku In association with the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic, Martin Baber presents his Diploma in Ceramics Graduation Exhibition. "A personal journey that I began this year to consider the notion of faith, and in particular, how this impacts upon my ability to see the world in both physical and spiritual terms. The centrepiece of this exhibition, Te Ao Mārama, a whakapapa in clay, acknowledges the both the physical and spiritual ...
The Last Post Office is part two of the exhibition ‘Return Mail’, which was shown at WCAG in October 2020. It includes works on slate honouring postage stamps; envelopes; postcards and the gradual disappearance of handwritten letters, correspondence and Post Offices. These two shows have evolved from Denis O’Connor’s labyrinthine archive established during fifty years living and working on Waiheke Island. Some slates call up significant artists who have made Waiheke home over this time - people like the poet Sam ...
Bronwen Newbury is the 2021 Artist in Residence. Her exhibition 'Falling Light' is featured below These beautiful works present Waiheke through her eyes. You can view them below and through the On-line CATALOGUE HERE To purchase a work, please email director@waihekeartgallery.org.nz Have a listen to her recent RNZ interview in which she talks about her time here on Waiheke. Residency Interview Watch the beautiful Short Film Bronwen Newbury - Falling Light
Fresh and revolving exhibition of new works from Waiheke artists are often exhibited in the Annex Gallery. Due to Alert Level 4 the gallery is physically closed however Waiheke artists are gearing up to get ready for the 2022 ArtMap The Map is produced each year and features just some of the exhibiting artists, so be sure to visit the gallery. Artists are often available to talk about their practise so don't hesitate in getting in touch. Check out the 2021 Map and ...
Members Show 2021 is here! What an incredible array of creativity from you all, the show extended into all three galleries....and extends online now until we come out of lockdown. Keep safe everyone! We're working on getting as many works up here online as able...it's also a great opportunity, if you had an eye on some fantastic local art, just send us an email at: director@waihekartgallery.org.nz
Curated by Jeanine Clarkin. Here on Waiheke we take pride in presenting an annual Matariki exhibition where the Whakatoki or exhibition theme changes each year. Given our place in the Gulf, Te Kapa Moana, the Rahui recently put in place and development around our foreshore, our 2021 Matariki exhibition will focus on protection and enhancement of the Moana and waters of our country. The whakatauki for 2021 is He toi whakaaro, He mana tangata, translated this refers to art and people and how ...
Margaret Emsley presents new works in charcoal that explore the tension between light and shadow. Artists Statement: The transformation of a flower through it’s brief lifespan reveals the inevitable, inescapable process of change. As the colours fade and petals wither, she sees new possibilities emerge, an energy or life force that can’t be contained which she tries to express with charcoal on paper. This medium provides the ideal tool to explore the tension that is created between the opposing forces of light and ...
An exhibition for small works! This popular public exhibition is now open, please download an information/ entry form or pick one up at the gallery. Works can be no larger than 350mm in any direction, wall works, sculpture, jewellery, installation, small bronzes, ceramics we encourage you to look outside the square and have fun! Entry fee is $20 for up to four work submissions ($15 for current members). All works must be for sale. Get creating! Download Information and Entry Form HERE
Susan Garland presents a thought provoking suite of new works in the Small Gallery. Artist Statement: CITY CONSTRUCTS. These six paintings on sheets of perspex, using oil paint glaze medium and metal foils, were my response to moving from Palmerston North to an Apartment in Auckland city. I then had a view on two sides over the city, harbour, and Spaghetti junction. The works are not photographic representations of the views, but collections of elements and sensations of how I felt about my ...
New Plymouth artist wins New Zealand’s only small sculpture prize New Plymouth artist Volker Hawighorst is the winner of the 2021 Small Sculpture Prize, for his work Dimly #7, a sculpture created entirely from plastic bread tags. In talking about the work selector Hamish Coney mentioned the subtle colour shifts that pull the viewer back again and again, revealing connections to tukutuku and links to the works of Roasalie Gascoigne and English painter Bridget Riley. It successfully makes the jump from ...
Anna explores the essence of Renaissance painting. During the lockdown Anna had the impression that time stopped and the suddensilence was a great help in focusing on her work.She started a close conversation with European painters from Giotto to theRenaissance : Piero della Francesca , Titian, Rubens, Durer, up to some 18thcentury painters such as Fragonard and Boucher. She has seen their works manytimes in the Louvre, in Florence in Rome and every time is enchanted andhypnotized. In those paintings there ...
Knowledge, artefacts, treasures that have transitioned from homelands to new lands. Tira Haere features 22 artists who have diverse cultural backgrounds that link to Hungary, Slovenia, Japan, Korea, South Africa, Holland, the Pacific and Aotearoa New Zealand and who are all residents of our nation. The exhibition will feature painting, sculpture, jewellery and ceramics within the themes of journey, voyaging and discovery. The exhibition has been curated to support Auckland's Summernova Festival. Included in the show in the Artworks Courtyard you will ...
Uliai presents a series of mixed media artscapes which reveal a tapestry of interwoven found objects. "...A series of mixed media artscapes, created on my partner Siddho’s photographic backgrounds of old walls layered by paint. These provide the timeline for a unique fusion of literally 100’s of added details of paper fragments. These fragments are interplaying and overlapping, they are stitches in space. And through further layering, veiling and enhancement with added paint and textural element, visual references are transformed into ...
The gallery is very excited to exhibit renowned sculptor Virginia King in the Main Gallery. "..Kauri: Spirit and Illusion The Waipoua Forest is not far from Ohaeawai in Northland, where I grew up. The forest was one of my favourite places and I loved to visit there with my dad. It always seemed to be summer with cicada song. I loved the dark green canopy blocking out the sky, the coolness of lush ferns and the leafy smell of the bush. I loved its ...
Peter, Richard and Cathy present a bright new exhibition of Ceramics, paintings and photography in the Small and Annex Gallery.