Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett. Featuring sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today. The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum...
Whanganui photographer Richard Wotton finds beauty in ordinary utilitarian design and accidental arrangements, and his images capture timeless scenes that evoke illusive recollections and nostalgia for an imagined recent past. Places that are familiar are viewed as distant and the overlooked placed in sharp focus. Image: Richard Wotton, Church near Scott's Ferry, Rangitikei, April 2018...
Whanganui photographer Richard Wotton finds beauty in ordinary utilitarian design and accidental arrangements, and his images capture timeless scenes that evoke illusive recollections and nostalgia for an imagined recent past. Places that are familiar are viewed as distant and the overlooked placed in sharp focus. Image: Richard Wotton, Church near Scott's Ferry, Rangitikei, April 2018...
Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett. Featuring sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today. The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum...
Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett. Featuring sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today. The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum...
Join Yoko from Environment Network Manawatū on the third Saturday of every month for free upcycling workshops. Take paper, fabric and other materials that might go to waste and learn how to make new things out of them. All ages welcome.
Toi Koru presents the first major survey exhibition of paintings by the Māori master of colour and kōwhaiwhai, Dr Sandy Adsett. Featuring sixty paintings created over six decades, Toi Koru tracks the trajectory of Adsett’s painting practice from the late 1960s to today. The exhibition features artworks from major public collections, including the National Museum...
Artist Brigham Anderson (Ngāti Hauiti) views the home as the most important place in the world: a place of safety, protection, learning and love; where potential is nurtured. His work combines tukutuku patterns with text to remind us of how home should be.
Meet artist Brigham Anderson and learn about his process of making art for his exhibition Te Whare Tukutuku, opening the same day. He'll discuss some of the meanings encoded in his work, and also explore the connections he sees between text, tukutuku and the transmission of knowledge. Nau mai, haere mai! Image: Faith | Whakapono...
Head into outer space with this interactive science exhibition designed to deepen young people’s interest in the stars. Grounded in Māori traditional narratives and concepts, the exhibition celebrates our country’s space achievements, and is filled with exciting hands-on displays. Test rocket designs, handle the remains of a crashed Russian space probe, heft a 4 billion...
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