Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
Art of the PacificNGV INTERNATIONAL
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
This display brings together works by artists and designers from Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia (including the Torres Strait). Spanning diverse periods, places and media – including photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, video, fashion, tapa and lei – these works explore both contemporary innovation and the preservation of customary cultural practices. Seen together, these works highlight the vitality of art from the Pacific, and its role as a powerful vehicle for storytelling, ceremony, resistance and the transmission of culture across generations.
Kaikōura Cultural Artwork TrailAlong the 60km scenic stretch of State Highway 1 from Oaro to Waiau Toa (Clarence River), experience this unique art trail centred around seven safe stopping places. Pull over to see murals, pouwhenua and tekoteko (carved pillars), beautiful native planting and information panels that share the rich stories of the hapū of Kaikōura.
Ralph Hotere CollectionThis collection comprises more than 60 graphic works and paintings by major New Zealand contemporary artist Ralph Hotere. A long-time supporter of the Eastern Southland Gallery, Hotere chose to gift 36 lithographs to Gore in 2001.
A toast to Toi - Social ClubA space to create, connect and share!
No pressure, no expectations - just time set aside for creativity and good company.
What to expect?
- casual kōrero
- creative flow
- tea & coffee provided
- space to share and get feedback on projects
- occasional guest speakers
Private ViewPrivate View opens the door to some very special artworks drawn from private homes across Tauranga Moana.
Hung and clustered around dining tables and in the heart of living rooms, these artworks carry stories of their makers and their collectors. A Toss Woollaston painting that was a gift from a father to a daughter; two sisters who meet Reuben Paterson in his New York studio as he is making an artwork glimmer; a protest piece by Ralph Hotere, that reminds the collector of their brother’s career as an All Black in the 70s and the political uproars of the time; manu (bird) figures, created by an artist named Te Maari, who receives personal letters and creates artefacts based on the stories they receive — and many other precious belongings on display.
E Awa te AraDrawing from the waiata tangi Te Tangi a Tamapāhore, the exhibition traces the ancestral pathways and explores how whakapapa and kōrero tuku iho continue to shape contemporary practice. Together, mahi toi and taonga are presented in conversation, across time, material, and perspective.
La Biennale di Venezia : Taharaki SkysideFiona Pardington presents seventeen striking large-scale portraits of birds. Rich with impossible beauty and aching loss, they continue her exploration of taxidermied native birds from museum collections around Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Highlighting the deep material and cultural significance of birds in the Māori world, she engages directly with them as ancestors and messengers between physical and spiritual realms. A flock reappears from the darkness; renewed, enigmatic and vividly present.
Some of these birds are extinct; others, critically endangered. All underscore the ecological and cultural losses wreaked by humans. Pardington’s attentive approach gives them new life, creating a powerful tribute that acknowledges our shared responsibility.
These towering birds meet us eye to eye, not merely replicated, but reborn. In their frank gaze, we see glimpses of their original habitats, taken from 19th century photographs. This act of care counters the isolation of museum drawers and vitrines, returning them once again to the wild.
What does it mean when an artist tilts our view skywards? Horizons mark the limit of our vision, the curve where knowledge gives way to mystery. Taharaki Skyside holds us at this threshold between the familiar and the unknown.
Silent KōreroSilent Kōrero is conceived as a gathering - a quiet hui of conversations that have unfolded in Peata Larkin’s studio over the past two decades. It brings together works created across time, uniting the past to the present. Each artwork carries the memory of the one before it, where the symbolism of tukutuku, tāniko and raranga operate as a personal and collective visual language and acts of reclamation. They embody knowledge and genealogy, and embrace the rhythms of the artist’s tūpuna, who wove, bound, and carved before her.
Puawānanga
Ahakoa He ItiImage: Neke Moa, Haumie Tiketike (detail), 2026. Photo: Max Bull-Crossan.
Karanga atu rā ki a koutou e ngā Atua-Kuia e, karanga atu rā, karanga atu rā.
He kōrero a Ahakoa He Iti — he whakawhitinga kōrero na tētahi kapa ringatoi whakarākei hou, ko ētahi he tautōhito, ko ētahi anō he tauhou. He whakaata tā rātau whakawhitinga kōrero i ngā kōrero rīrā ka hua mai i ngā taipitopito iti noa iho nei, i tētahi mahi toi iti rānei te āhua.
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu “Ahakoa te iti, he taonga whakahirahira.”
Ahakoa He Iti is a kōrero — a conversation between a group of contemporary adornment artists, some well-established and others starting their journey. Their exchange reflects on the powerful narratives that can sit within a minute detail, or a physically small artwork.
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu "Although small, it is a precious treasure.”
ĀKE, AKE, ACHE (Forever is a Long Time)An exhibition about whenua and friendship and heartache and community and bones and whakapapa and grief and love.Based across Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Ōtautahi, Turumeke Harrington (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) works across sculpture, painting, jewellery, design, and installation to explore how colour, material, and form embody mātauranga Māori. Her playful works sit between art and design, combining humour and whakapapa to reimagine cultural narratives within contemporary space.
He maramara tupu aranga: Carin Wilson and 50 years of Aotearoa designimage: Carin Wilson, Lair for a Lounge Lizard, 1988
Carin Wilson’s career, spanning more than five decades, includes furniture making, sculpture, architectural design, education and advocacy. He maramara tupu aranga explores this extensive output, which has come to help define an Aotearoa design aesthetic. A sample of Wilson’s work includes design and fabrication of the iconic reading chairs in Wellington Central Library, conceptualisation of the interiors of Whakata Māori television studios, and co-facilitation of Artiture, a series of exhibitions held in the 1980s and 1990s.
LAND / MARK 2026Group Show with Hiria Anderson-Mita Johl Dwyer, Russ Flatt, Star Gossage, Chevron Hassett, Ngahina Hohaia, Areez Katki, Tracy Keith, Maureen Lander, Alberto Garcia-Alvarez, Joe Sheehan, Salome Tanuvasa, Ngaroma Riley, Nephi Tupaea.
Life in Forms: Pauline Kahurangi YearburyLife in forms is a focused survey of the work of trailblazing Ngāpuhi artist Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1928-1977). It charts the artist’s practice over four decades, from her early works in the 1940s to her final pieces in the 1970s. Showcasing sketches, paintings and incised wood panels, the exhibition examines Yearbury’s distinctive approach to depicting the energy and emotion of the human form, and her commitment to sharing Māori cultural narratives.
He Ao Āpōpō, He Ao Tea: Māori Futures Image: Kereama Taepa. ‘Pākati Sonic’, 2021. Image courtesy of Jhana Millers Gallery.
Our Puanga exhibition is about Māori futures.
He ao āpopō, he ao tea is a hopeful extraction from a proverb written by Dr. Rangitakuku Metekingi of Whanganui iwi. It translates to ‘tomorrow is a new day, and the new day will bring clarity’. This is the ngako, the core theme of our exhibition and is about manifesting futures and dreams. We remember and honour the inspiring words of Dr. Rangitakuku Metekingi.
The artist line-up for this exhibition includes Kauri Hawkins, Eugene Kara, Maioha Kara, Peata Larkin, Tiopira McDowell (Mokotron), James Ormsby, Tia Ranginui, Tyrone Te Waa, Kereama Taepa, Ron Te Kawa, Saffronn Te Ratana, Nephi Tupaea, Paeheretia Collective, John Walsh and Siobhan Wooding.
Cecelia Kumeroa, Curator
CRIT: Art learning since 1987This exhibition explores how artists, educators, and communities have learned inside, beside, outside, around, and against institutions in Aotearoa and beyond since the late 1980s. Through artworks,archives, and case studies, the exhibition considers how learning happens not only in classrooms, but through conversations, critique, friendship, shared cultural knowledge, and collective action. Rather than presenting a single model for the future of art education, CRIT brings together many different ways of learning, making, and being together
Tōwai : Between Forest, Mountains and OceanPalenque Casa
Vicente León y Don Bosco N5-32 y,
170136 Quito,
Ecuador
Whakawhiti: Toi WhakaTAA <> Toi WhakaATAWhakawhiti marks a milestone moment in the work of the national Māori printmakers collective through the work of six key members in Gabrielle Belz, Maude Cook-Davies, Vanessa Edwards, Jasmine Horton, Faith McManus and Alexis Neal. This exhibition celebrates and reflects on 20 years of this unique collective with signature works from across this time presented alongside new works.
Economies of DeferralThe exhibition includes artists from Taranaki, Aotearoa and working internationally between the 1980s to the present whose work bears witness to, advocates from within, and troubles our understanding of the profound economic, social and political transformations that have shaped the last four decades.
Ngahuia Harrison, Crude Stores, 2021, from the series Coastal Cannibals.
Bird Land: Te Kāhui ManuFrom taoka tuku iho to contemporary moving image, Aotearoa’s birds take centre stage.
In te ao Māori, birds and their habits are closely observed, carrying rich metaphor, poetry and instruction. This extraordinary gathering of artworks brings centuries of human engagement with birds to life. Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu is an immersive exploration that highlights the significance of manu and te taiao—birds and the natural world—in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history. Gathering birds within the environments they inhabit—forest, river, marsh, mountain, ocean, shore—Bird Land invites reflection on ecological interconnections alongside layered cultural meaning. Balancing vulnerability and wonder, it encourages connection and contemplation of the enduring inspiration of New Zealand’s birds.
Assimilation
WhakapapaComing soon: Darren George at The Dowse
Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far WalkingAt the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of the Brisbane Festival.
Mahana, a 185-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to present-day Aotearoa. This bi-lingual retelling is drawn from the original play Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou), writer of the BAFTA and NZ Film Award winning film The Whale Rider.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
Art of the PacificNGV INTERNATIONAL
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
This display brings together works by artists and designers from Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia (including the Torres Strait). Spanning diverse periods, places and media – including photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, video, fashion, tapa and lei – these works explore both contemporary innovation and the preservation of customary cultural practices. Seen together, these works highlight the vitality of art from the Pacific, and its role as a powerful vehicle for storytelling, ceremony, resistance and the transmission of culture across generations.
Kaikōura Cultural Artwork TrailAlong the 60km scenic stretch of State Highway 1 from Oaro to Waiau Toa (Clarence River), experience this unique art trail centred around seven safe stopping places. Pull over to see murals, pouwhenua and tekoteko (carved pillars), beautiful native planting and information panels that share the rich stories of the hapū of Kaikōura.
Ralph Hotere CollectionThis collection comprises more than 60 graphic works and paintings by major New Zealand contemporary artist Ralph Hotere. A long-time supporter of the Eastern Southland Gallery, Hotere chose to gift 36 lithographs to Gore in 2001.
A toast to Toi - Social ClubA space to create, connect and share!
No pressure, no expectations - just time set aside for creativity and good company.
What to expect?
- casual kōrero
- creative flow
- tea & coffee provided
- space to share and get feedback on projects
- occasional guest speakers
Private ViewPrivate View opens the door to some very special artworks drawn from private homes across Tauranga Moana.
Hung and clustered around dining tables and in the heart of living rooms, these artworks carry stories of their makers and their collectors. A Toss Woollaston painting that was a gift from a father to a daughter; two sisters who meet Reuben Paterson in his New York studio as he is making an artwork glimmer; a protest piece by Ralph Hotere, that reminds the collector of their brother’s career as an All Black in the 70s and the political uproars of the time; manu (bird) figures, created by an artist named Te Maari, who receives personal letters and creates artefacts based on the stories they receive — and many other precious belongings on display.
E Awa te AraDrawing from the waiata tangi Te Tangi a Tamapāhore, the exhibition traces the ancestral pathways and explores how whakapapa and kōrero tuku iho continue to shape contemporary practice. Together, mahi toi and taonga are presented in conversation, across time, material, and perspective.
La Biennale di Venezia : Taharaki SkysideFiona Pardington presents seventeen striking large-scale portraits of birds. Rich with impossible beauty and aching loss, they continue her exploration of taxidermied native birds from museum collections around Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Highlighting the deep material and cultural significance of birds in the Māori world, she engages directly with them as ancestors and messengers between physical and spiritual realms. A flock reappears from the darkness; renewed, enigmatic and vividly present.
Some of these birds are extinct; others, critically endangered. All underscore the ecological and cultural losses wreaked by humans. Pardington’s attentive approach gives them new life, creating a powerful tribute that acknowledges our shared responsibility.
These towering birds meet us eye to eye, not merely replicated, but reborn. In their frank gaze, we see glimpses of their original habitats, taken from 19th century photographs. This act of care counters the isolation of museum drawers and vitrines, returning them once again to the wild.
What does it mean when an artist tilts our view skywards? Horizons mark the limit of our vision, the curve where knowledge gives way to mystery. Taharaki Skyside holds us at this threshold between the familiar and the unknown.
Silent KōreroSilent Kōrero is conceived as a gathering - a quiet hui of conversations that have unfolded in Peata Larkin’s studio over the past two decades. It brings together works created across time, uniting the past to the present. Each artwork carries the memory of the one before it, where the symbolism of tukutuku, tāniko and raranga operate as a personal and collective visual language and acts of reclamation. They embody knowledge and genealogy, and embrace the rhythms of the artist’s tūpuna, who wove, bound, and carved before her.
Puawānanga
Ahakoa He ItiImage: Neke Moa, Haumie Tiketike (detail), 2026. Photo: Max Bull-Crossan.
Karanga atu rā ki a koutou e ngā Atua-Kuia e, karanga atu rā, karanga atu rā.
He kōrero a Ahakoa He Iti — he whakawhitinga kōrero na tētahi kapa ringatoi whakarākei hou, ko ētahi he tautōhito, ko ētahi anō he tauhou. He whakaata tā rātau whakawhitinga kōrero i ngā kōrero rīrā ka hua mai i ngā taipitopito iti noa iho nei, i tētahi mahi toi iti rānei te āhua.
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu “Ahakoa te iti, he taonga whakahirahira.”
Ahakoa He Iti is a kōrero — a conversation between a group of contemporary adornment artists, some well-established and others starting their journey. Their exchange reflects on the powerful narratives that can sit within a minute detail, or a physically small artwork.
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu "Although small, it is a precious treasure.”
ĀKE, AKE, ACHE (Forever is a Long Time)An exhibition about whenua and friendship and heartache and community and bones and whakapapa and grief and love.Based across Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Ōtautahi, Turumeke Harrington (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) works across sculpture, painting, jewellery, design, and installation to explore how colour, material, and form embody mātauranga Māori. Her playful works sit between art and design, combining humour and whakapapa to reimagine cultural narratives within contemporary space.
He maramara tupu aranga: Carin Wilson and 50 years of Aotearoa designimage: Carin Wilson, Lair for a Lounge Lizard, 1988
Carin Wilson’s career, spanning more than five decades, includes furniture making, sculpture, architectural design, education and advocacy. He maramara tupu aranga explores this extensive output, which has come to help define an Aotearoa design aesthetic. A sample of Wilson’s work includes design and fabrication of the iconic reading chairs in Wellington Central Library, conceptualisation of the interiors of Whakata Māori television studios, and co-facilitation of Artiture, a series of exhibitions held in the 1980s and 1990s.
LAND / MARK 2026Group Show with Hiria Anderson-Mita Johl Dwyer, Russ Flatt, Star Gossage, Chevron Hassett, Ngahina Hohaia, Areez Katki, Tracy Keith, Maureen Lander, Alberto Garcia-Alvarez, Joe Sheehan, Salome Tanuvasa, Ngaroma Riley, Nephi Tupaea.
Life in Forms: Pauline Kahurangi YearburyLife in forms is a focused survey of the work of trailblazing Ngāpuhi artist Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1928-1977). It charts the artist’s practice over four decades, from her early works in the 1940s to her final pieces in the 1970s. Showcasing sketches, paintings and incised wood panels, the exhibition examines Yearbury’s distinctive approach to depicting the energy and emotion of the human form, and her commitment to sharing Māori cultural narratives.
He Ao Āpōpō, He Ao Tea: Māori Futures Image: Kereama Taepa. ‘Pākati Sonic’, 2021. Image courtesy of Jhana Millers Gallery.
Our Puanga exhibition is about Māori futures.
He ao āpopō, he ao tea is a hopeful extraction from a proverb written by Dr. Rangitakuku Metekingi of Whanganui iwi. It translates to ‘tomorrow is a new day, and the new day will bring clarity’. This is the ngako, the core theme of our exhibition and is about manifesting futures and dreams. We remember and honour the inspiring words of Dr. Rangitakuku Metekingi.
The artist line-up for this exhibition includes Kauri Hawkins, Eugene Kara, Maioha Kara, Peata Larkin, Tiopira McDowell (Mokotron), James Ormsby, Tia Ranginui, Tyrone Te Waa, Kereama Taepa, Ron Te Kawa, Saffronn Te Ratana, Nephi Tupaea, Paeheretia Collective, John Walsh and Siobhan Wooding.
Cecelia Kumeroa, Curator
CRIT: Art learning since 1987This exhibition explores how artists, educators, and communities have learned inside, beside, outside, around, and against institutions in Aotearoa and beyond since the late 1980s. Through artworks,archives, and case studies, the exhibition considers how learning happens not only in classrooms, but through conversations, critique, friendship, shared cultural knowledge, and collective action. Rather than presenting a single model for the future of art education, CRIT brings together many different ways of learning, making, and being together
Tōwai : Between Forest, Mountains and OceanPalenque Casa
Vicente León y Don Bosco N5-32 y,
170136 Quito,
Ecuador
Whakawhiti: Toi WhakaTAA <> Toi WhakaATAWhakawhiti marks a milestone moment in the work of the national Māori printmakers collective through the work of six key members in Gabrielle Belz, Maude Cook-Davies, Vanessa Edwards, Jasmine Horton, Faith McManus and Alexis Neal. This exhibition celebrates and reflects on 20 years of this unique collective with signature works from across this time presented alongside new works.
Economies of DeferralThe exhibition includes artists from Taranaki, Aotearoa and working internationally between the 1980s to the present whose work bears witness to, advocates from within, and troubles our understanding of the profound economic, social and political transformations that have shaped the last four decades.
Ngahuia Harrison, Crude Stores, 2021, from the series Coastal Cannibals.
Bird Land: Te Kāhui ManuFrom taoka tuku iho to contemporary moving image, Aotearoa’s birds take centre stage.
In te ao Māori, birds and their habits are closely observed, carrying rich metaphor, poetry and instruction. This extraordinary gathering of artworks brings centuries of human engagement with birds to life. Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu is an immersive exploration that highlights the significance of manu and te taiao—birds and the natural world—in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history. Gathering birds within the environments they inhabit—forest, river, marsh, mountain, ocean, shore—Bird Land invites reflection on ecological interconnections alongside layered cultural meaning. Balancing vulnerability and wonder, it encourages connection and contemplation of the enduring inspiration of New Zealand’s birds.
AssimilationWhakapapaComing soon: Darren George at The Dowse
Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far WalkingAt the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of the Brisbane Festival.
Mahana, a 185-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to present-day Aotearoa. This bi-lingual retelling is drawn from the original play Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou), writer of the BAFTA and NZ Film Award winning film The Whale Rider.
Te Paparahi Toi Māori‘Te Paparahi Toi Māori’ the Auckland Art Walk guide, which brings Māori culture and history to life in the city’s public spaces for Aucklanders and tourists to explore.
Ata Huna, Ata Whai | Threads of ConnectionFrom dazzling UV-light installations to delicate work in harakeke, experience the art of Maureen Lander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu, Pākehā). Lander is one of News Zealand's foremost expert on raranga and a master weaver herself.
📸 Maarten Holl.
TētēkuraTwo monumental artworks - one made from burnt timber, the other from fired clay. An unmissable opportunity to encounter two icons of contemporary Māori art.
📸 Jane Harris. Te Papa
Art of the PacificNGV INTERNATIONAL
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
This display brings together works by artists and designers from Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia (including the Torres Strait). Spanning diverse periods, places and media – including photography, printmaking, painting, sculpture, video, fashion, tapa and lei – these works explore both contemporary innovation and the preservation of customary cultural practices. Seen together, these works highlight the vitality of art from the Pacific, and its role as a powerful vehicle for storytelling, ceremony, resistance and the transmission of culture across generations.
Kaikōura Cultural Artwork TrailAlong the 60km scenic stretch of State Highway 1 from Oaro to Waiau Toa (Clarence River), experience this unique art trail centred around seven safe stopping places. Pull over to see murals, pouwhenua and tekoteko (carved pillars), beautiful native planting and information panels that share the rich stories of the hapū of Kaikōura.
Ralph Hotere CollectionThis collection comprises more than 60 graphic works and paintings by major New Zealand contemporary artist Ralph Hotere. A long-time supporter of the Eastern Southland Gallery, Hotere chose to gift 36 lithographs to Gore in 2001.
A toast to Toi - Social ClubA space to create, connect and share!
No pressure, no expectations - just time set aside for creativity and good company.
What to expect?
- casual kōrero
- creative flow
- tea & coffee provided
- space to share and get feedback on projects
- occasional guest speakers
Private ViewPrivate View opens the door to some very special artworks drawn from private homes across Tauranga Moana.
Hung and clustered around dining tables and in the heart of living rooms, these artworks carry stories of their makers and their collectors. A Toss Woollaston painting that was a gift from a father to a daughter; two sisters who meet Reuben Paterson in his New York studio as he is making an artwork glimmer; a protest piece by Ralph Hotere, that reminds the collector of their brother’s career as an All Black in the 70s and the political uproars of the time; manu (bird) figures, created by an artist named Te Maari, who receives personal letters and creates artefacts based on the stories they receive — and many other precious belongings on display.
E Awa te AraDrawing from the waiata tangi Te Tangi a Tamapāhore, the exhibition traces the ancestral pathways and explores how whakapapa and kōrero tuku iho continue to shape contemporary practice. Together, mahi toi and taonga are presented in conversation, across time, material, and perspective.
La Biennale di Venezia : Taharaki SkysideFiona Pardington presents seventeen striking large-scale portraits of birds. Rich with impossible beauty and aching loss, they continue her exploration of taxidermied native birds from museum collections around Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Highlighting the deep material and cultural significance of birds in the Māori world, she engages directly with them as ancestors and messengers between physical and spiritual realms. A flock reappears from the darkness; renewed, enigmatic and vividly present.
Some of these birds are extinct; others, critically endangered. All underscore the ecological and cultural losses wreaked by humans. Pardington’s attentive approach gives them new life, creating a powerful tribute that acknowledges our shared responsibility.
These towering birds meet us eye to eye, not merely replicated, but reborn. In their frank gaze, we see glimpses of their original habitats, taken from 19th century photographs. This act of care counters the isolation of museum drawers and vitrines, returning them once again to the wild.
What does it mean when an artist tilts our view skywards? Horizons mark the limit of our vision, the curve where knowledge gives way to mystery. Taharaki Skyside holds us at this threshold between the familiar and the unknown.
Silent KōreroSilent Kōrero is conceived as a gathering - a quiet hui of conversations that have unfolded in Peata Larkin’s studio over the past two decades. It brings together works created across time, uniting the past to the present. Each artwork carries the memory of the one before it, where the symbolism of tukutuku, tāniko and raranga operate as a personal and collective visual language and acts of reclamation. They embody knowledge and genealogy, and embrace the rhythms of the artist’s tūpuna, who wove, bound, and carved before her.
Puawānanga
Ahakoa He ItiImage: Neke Moa, Haumie Tiketike (detail), 2026. Photo: Max Bull-Crossan.
Karanga atu rā ki a koutou e ngā Atua-Kuia e, karanga atu rā, karanga atu rā.
He kōrero a Ahakoa He Iti — he whakawhitinga kōrero na tētahi kapa ringatoi whakarākei hou, ko ētahi he tautōhito, ko ētahi anō he tauhou. He whakaata tā rātau whakawhitinga kōrero i ngā kōrero rīrā ka hua mai i ngā taipitopito iti noa iho nei, i tētahi mahi toi iti rānei te āhua.
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu “Ahakoa te iti, he taonga whakahirahira.”
Ahakoa He Iti is a kōrero — a conversation between a group of contemporary adornment artists, some well-established and others starting their journey. Their exchange reflects on the powerful narratives that can sit within a minute detail, or a physically small artwork.
Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu "Although small, it is a precious treasure.”
ĀKE, AKE, ACHE (Forever is a Long Time)An exhibition about whenua and friendship and heartache and community and bones and whakapapa and grief and love.Based across Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Ōtautahi, Turumeke Harrington (Kāi Tahu, Rangitāne) works across sculpture, painting, jewellery, design, and installation to explore how colour, material, and form embody mātauranga Māori. Her playful works sit between art and design, combining humour and whakapapa to reimagine cultural narratives within contemporary space.
He maramara tupu aranga: Carin Wilson and 50 years of Aotearoa designimage: Carin Wilson, Lair for a Lounge Lizard, 1988
Carin Wilson’s career, spanning more than five decades, includes furniture making, sculpture, architectural design, education and advocacy. He maramara tupu aranga explores this extensive output, which has come to help define an Aotearoa design aesthetic. A sample of Wilson’s work includes design and fabrication of the iconic reading chairs in Wellington Central Library, conceptualisation of the interiors of Whakata Māori television studios, and co-facilitation of Artiture, a series of exhibitions held in the 1980s and 1990s.
LAND / MARK 2026Group Show with Hiria Anderson-Mita Johl Dwyer, Russ Flatt, Star Gossage, Chevron Hassett, Ngahina Hohaia, Areez Katki, Tracy Keith, Maureen Lander, Alberto Garcia-Alvarez, Joe Sheehan, Salome Tanuvasa, Ngaroma Riley, Nephi Tupaea.
Life in Forms: Pauline Kahurangi YearburyLife in forms is a focused survey of the work of trailblazing Ngāpuhi artist Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1928-1977). It charts the artist’s practice over four decades, from her early works in the 1940s to her final pieces in the 1970s. Showcasing sketches, paintings and incised wood panels, the exhibition examines Yearbury’s distinctive approach to depicting the energy and emotion of the human form, and her commitment to sharing Māori cultural narratives.
He Ao Āpōpō, He Ao Tea: Māori Futures Image: Kereama Taepa. ‘Pākati Sonic’, 2021. Image courtesy of Jhana Millers Gallery.
Our Puanga exhibition is about Māori futures.
He ao āpopō, he ao tea is a hopeful extraction from a proverb written by Dr. Rangitakuku Metekingi of Whanganui iwi. It translates to ‘tomorrow is a new day, and the new day will bring clarity’. This is the ngako, the core theme of our exhibition and is about manifesting futures and dreams. We remember and honour the inspiring words of Dr. Rangitakuku Metekingi.
The artist line-up for this exhibition includes Kauri Hawkins, Eugene Kara, Maioha Kara, Peata Larkin, Tiopira McDowell (Mokotron), James Ormsby, Tia Ranginui, Tyrone Te Waa, Kereama Taepa, Ron Te Kawa, Saffronn Te Ratana, Nephi Tupaea, Paeheretia Collective, John Walsh and Siobhan Wooding.
Cecelia Kumeroa, Curator
CRIT: Art learning since 1987This exhibition explores how artists, educators, and communities have learned inside, beside, outside, around, and against institutions in Aotearoa and beyond since the late 1980s. Through artworks,archives, and case studies, the exhibition considers how learning happens not only in classrooms, but through conversations, critique, friendship, shared cultural knowledge, and collective action. Rather than presenting a single model for the future of art education, CRIT brings together many different ways of learning, making, and being together
Tōwai : Between Forest, Mountains and OceanPalenque Casa
Vicente León y Don Bosco N5-32 y,
170136 Quito,
Ecuador
Whakawhiti: Toi WhakaTAA <> Toi WhakaATAWhakawhiti marks a milestone moment in the work of the national Māori printmakers collective through the work of six key members in Gabrielle Belz, Maude Cook-Davies, Vanessa Edwards, Jasmine Horton, Faith McManus and Alexis Neal. This exhibition celebrates and reflects on 20 years of this unique collective with signature works from across this time presented alongside new works.
Economies of DeferralThe exhibition includes artists from Taranaki, Aotearoa and working internationally between the 1980s to the present whose work bears witness to, advocates from within, and troubles our understanding of the profound economic, social and political transformations that have shaped the last four decades.
Ngahuia Harrison, Crude Stores, 2021, from the series Coastal Cannibals.
Bird Land: Te Kāhui ManuFrom taoka tuku iho to contemporary moving image, Aotearoa’s birds take centre stage.
In te ao Māori, birds and their habits are closely observed, carrying rich metaphor, poetry and instruction. This extraordinary gathering of artworks brings centuries of human engagement with birds to life. Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu is an immersive exploration that highlights the significance of manu and te taiao—birds and the natural world—in Aotearoa New Zealand’s art history. Gathering birds within the environments they inhabit—forest, river, marsh, mountain, ocean, shore—Bird Land invites reflection on ecological interconnections alongside layered cultural meaning. Balancing vulnerability and wonder, it encourages connection and contemplation of the enduring inspiration of New Zealand’s birds.
AssimilationWhakapapaComing soon: Darren George at The Dowse
Tiri: Te Araroa Woman Far WalkingAt the Brisbane Powerhouse as part of the Brisbane Festival.
Mahana, a 185-year-old matriarch, from her birth at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi to present-day Aotearoa. This bi-lingual retelling is drawn from the original play Woman Far Walking by Witi Ihimaera (Te Whānau a Kai, Ngāti Porou), writer of the BAFTA and NZ Film Award winning film The Whale Rider.
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