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Challenging the Status Quos

At the end of May, Rangiora Chamber Gallery is opening an exhibition from an association of artists; the group Índependence: Joy, Hakehake, Girls, Play, Engineers, Noho here kore, a coming together of artists, designers and an engineer. Curator and artist Rachel Malloch...
Julia Holderness- A Contemporary All-Woman Art Studio

In The Studio, Julia Holderness uses her research and practice-based approach to explore the history of an all-woman art studio and exhibiting space in Ōtepoti Dunedin (1939-40) that was shared by Doris Lusk, Anne Hamblett and Mollie Lawn. Considering the ‘group studio’ as a site of practice, shared resources and social...
Murray & Co- Positioning Ōtautahi Artists in the Limelight

Murray & Co is well-known as an investment banking firm in Aotearoa, where over the last 10 years it has also had an additional and significant role through its resolute commitment to the arts in Ōtautahi, creating opportunities for emerging artists and exhibiting their work through annual exhibitions since 2012. Installing...
Catherine Coster- Light and Enlightenment

Australian-based artist Catherine Coster is exhibiting in May and June at the Mctamney Gallery, Geraldine. An expressionist painter on a number of levels, her paintings are characterised by their contrasting subjects of light against darkness and the gestures and marks of her brush. Yet, such a description is by necessity qualified by..
Kira Aleksandrova and Ian Macleod at Diamond Harbour

Artist, Kira Aleksandrova works predominantly in watercolour, actively embracing the spontaneity and unpredictability of the medium, and Ian Macleod is influenced by abstract expressionism, his interest in capturing movement and energy, created in predominantly small works in acrylic and mixed media. Kira Aleksandrova was born in Russia,...
Diversely- Group exhibition at Down by The Liffey Gallery

An exhibition featuring the work of Sayoko Pettigrew; a graduate from the Nagoya Zokei College of Art and Design in Japan; and Martin Letha,; a landscape artist who interest resides in the country’s mountains and rivers; and Richard Poole; a digital artist, originally from the UK, and now resident in...
2019 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Michael Dell

Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Michael’s work ‘Every Valley’ measuring 1.9 metres by 1.4 metres, a charcoal drawing on a prepared canvas stretcher, was chosen as the winner from an impressive 472 entries nationwide and 78 finalists at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts’ Academy Galleries. We caught up with...
Pausing the awards to offer fellowships in 2022

Te Putanga Toi Arts Access Awards have been our main advocacy event since 2008, celebrating the leaders who pave the way for increased access to the arts for everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand. This recognition of creative and generous people has been an annual celebration we have come to love.
2018 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Jacqui Colley

Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Jacqui’s work was chosen as the winner of the Parkin Drawing Prize in 2018. Her work Long Echo was selected from an impressive 463 submissions nationwide and 72 finalists at the opening of The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. We caught up with...
2017 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Kirsty Lillico

Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Kirsty Lillico – winner of the 2017 Parkin Drawing Prize Kirsty Lillico’s work State Block was chosen as the winner of the Parkin Drawing Prize in 2017. Her work was selected from an impressive 502 submissions nationwide and 84 finalists at the opening of The Parkin Drawing...
2013 Inaugural Winner Monique Jansen Parkin Drawing Prize

Monique Jansen’s work AO Folded Moire Drawing was chosen as the winner of the inaugural Parkin Drawing Prize in 2013. Her work was selected from an impressive 800 submissions nationwide and 115 finalists at the opening of The Parkin Drawing Prize exhibition at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. We caught up with Monique to find out what...
Jacquelyn Greenbank- Pork Chop Express at the Ashburton Art Gallery

When the Zonta Ashburton Female Art Awards (ZAFAA) opened in March at the Ashburton Art Gallery, the work from its 37 finalists shared the gallery’s spaces with an exhibition, Pork Chop Express, from the ZAFAA’s 2021 recipient, Jacquelyn Greenbank. As an...
A Layered Approach- The International Paste-Up and Sticker Festival

Opening the same week as the Flare Street Art Festival, the International Paste-Up and Sticker Festival took a different approach to the higher profile mural event, honing in on paper-based practices and employing a unique approach that balanced various modes of display and dissemination. Created by the Slap City collective, and led by..
Jacob Yikes- Street Art, Painting and Split Personalities

Street/gallery artist Jacob Yikes’ exhibition at Fiksate in Sydenham represents more than two years of studio work. In conversation with Warren Feeney, he highlights the differences and boundaries between his street-art murals and paintings, their dissimilarities being fundamental to his commitment to both aspects of his arts practice....
Eastside Gallery- “Make something and you make yourself”

Eastside Gallery, part of the Linwood Community Arts Centre, is one of several community development projects that Te Whare Roimata Trust has established working alongside the people of the Inner City East and Urban Maori. (Others include Stanmore Book and Post, Smith St Community Gardens, the Tiny Shops Village and the Tin Roof Op...