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  • Pasifika Art Wave to Hit Melbourne Shores

    This is the first time Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust in Auckland has collaborated with a gallery in Australia for a shared exhibition.
    On view from November 15 – December 1, 2019, the exhibition Tautai x Black Dot will showcase cutting edge works by nine Oceanic artists, four that currently practice in Aotearoa New Zealand and five Oceanic artists based in Australia. Read More

  • Fresh Off The Boat

    19Oct
    09Nov

    Written byOscar Kightley and Simon SmallDirected byTanya Muagututi’aCharles isn’t just arriving into New Zealand – he’s arriving into another life. But READ MORE >

  • ‘The Adventures of Tupaia’

    Video Credit: Tagata Pasifika  Written in dramatic prose and verse by Tautai director Courtney Sina Meredith and stunningly illustrated in graphic READ MORE >

  • First Fridays September

    First Fridays is about sharing knowledge and bringing the community together. It is a FREE event series that invites the Oceanic arts community to come together once a month, with creative presentations and performances. Read More

  • WINTER JAM | Florence Ulutunu

    Over winter, Tautai will host three workshops with the purpose of developing together as artists and as a community.The series READ MORE >

  • TAUTAI WINTER WORKSHOPS SERIES 2019 | Katherine Atafu-Mayo

    Over winter, Tautai will host three workshops with the purpose of developing together as artists and as a community.The series READ MORE >

  • Artweek | Performing the Ocean

    For one evening only, join Tautai for a performance art showcase curated by Katharine Atafu-Mayo. Tautai, 300 K’Road, Level 1. Thu 17 Oct, 6pm–7pmRead More

  • July First Fridays

    In association with Tautai, Adam Art Gallery is pleased to host First Fridays July.
    These monthly events showcase Pasifika talent while creating opportunities for Pacific communities to come together through an evening of creative presentations and performances.Read More

  • May First Fridays | Central City Library

    First Fridays feature’s current New Zealand Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh, Will ‘Ilolahia and a performance by the Black Friars. Hosted by Daren Kamali at the Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne St, Auckland.Read More

  • Offstage 2019

    JULY FIRST FRIDAYS
    12Apr
    12Apr

    Offstage is Tautai’s annual moving image and live performance event. In its 9th iteration, Offstage continues to provide a space for experimentation, offering a night of edgy and thought-provoking niu work. Read More

  • First Fridays | 5 April 2019

    First Fridays feature Tigilau Ness and Pauline Smith, presenting Dawn Raid stories, with a performance by Ufitia Sagapolutele. Hosted by Lana Lopesi and held at Artspace (Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Auckland). This is a pre-cursor to the upcoming Dawn Raid exhibition, at Fresh Gallery Otara.Read More

  • Jasmine Togo-Brisby | 2019 Dunedin School of Art – Artist in Residence

    Tautai, in partnership with the Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Art, are proud to announce that Jasmine Togo-Brisby is the successful artist for the 2019 Dunedin School of Art – Artist in Residence.Read More

  • First Fridays

    First Fridays (FF) is a niu event series that invites the Oceanic arts community to come together once a month for talanoa and inspiration. Read More

  • From where I stand, my eye will send a light to you in the North

    Artists Siliga David Setoga and Jasmine Togo-Brisby with John Akomfrah, Fernando Arias, Regina José Galindo, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Runo Lagomarsino, Sarah READ MORE >

  • From The Shore

    From the Shore considers the influence of Māori filmmakers Barry Barclay and Merata Mita on a current generation of artists READ MORE >

  • To Uphold Your Name

    06Oct

    Artists Salome Tanuvasa and Quishile Charan have created an exhibition that upholds stories of Pacific female resilience. In this way READ MORE >

  • The Future is Death

    “The Future is Death explores our place as migrant people in a colonised land,” says curator Leilani A Sio aka Panda. “It asks, as manuhiri in Aotearoa, to consider our role and responsibilities, to write our own future. The Future is Death presents work by five emerging Pasefika artists that reimagines a new existence for their people, to reveal their images of what will follow.”Read More

  • HAU

    Hau pervades the whole body yet is not located in any particular part of the body. Read More

  • And Then What?

    16Aug
    12Sep

    And Then What? explores political agency in art and how colonialism shapes identity. The Tautai exhibition is curated by leading artist Rosanna Raymond and features works by eleven Auckland and Wellington tertiary students.Read More

  • Chris Charteris: Truth, Simplicity and Love

    12Jun
    11Jul

    12 June – 11 July
    Milford Galleries
    DunedinRead More

  • Held by Stars: Darcell Apelu and Emily O’Hara

    31 May 2018 – 15 Jul 2018
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    AucklandRead More

  • Storytelling As Koha: Tuafale Tanoa’i AKA Linda T.

    01Jun
    15Jun

    1 June – 15 July
    The Corban Estate Arts Centre 
    AucklandRead More

  • Pacific Dance Festival 2018

    2 June – 23 June
    Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • Art Talk: Brothers Lord

    May 8
    The 312 HUB
    Onehunga, AucklandRead More

  • TYPEFACE: ENJOY

    10May
    02Jun

    10 May – 2 June 2018
    Enjoy Public Art Gallery
    WellingtonRead More

  • Ko ‘eku ‘iai: Visesio Poasi Siasau

    01May
    02Jun

    1 May – 2 June 2018
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara
    AuklandRead More

  • Pacific Notion: 20 Years On

    10Jun
    29Jun

    28 May – 17 June
    White Space
    AucklandRead More

  • Still Life With Chickens

    08May
    02Jun

    8 May – 2 June
    Circa Theatre
    WellingtonRead More

  • Moana With Sound

    05May
    05May

    5 May
    Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • Acts Of Passage

    18May
    27Apr

    18 May – 27 May
    Te Tuhi Offsite (Silo 6, Wynyard Quarter, Auckland)
    AucklandRead More

  • Still Life With Chickens

    07Apr
    15Apr

    7 April  –  15 April
    Centrepoint Theatre
    Palmerston NorthRead More

  • The Wizard Of Otahuhu

    20Apr
    28Apr

    20 April – 28 April
    Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • Hearts Of Men

    05Apr
    14Apr

    5 April – 14 April
    Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • WHAT WE DO AT HOME: PDX > AKL

    19Apr
    01Jun

    19 Apr 2018 – 1 Jun 2018
    St Paul Street Gallery
    Auckland Read More

  • Wantok

    21Apr
    26May

    Apr 21 – May 26
    Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • One For The Pacific (Concert)

    11Apr
    11Apr

    11 April
    The Trusts Arena
    HendersonRead More

  • Between You And Me – Louisa Afoa, Natasha Matila-Smith and Molly Rangiwai McHale

    19Apr
    01Jun

    19 April 2018 – 1 June 2018
    ST PAUL St Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • Bradley Lane Illuminated

    07Apr
    07Apr

    7 April
    Te Oro
    AucklandRead More

  • Conversation On Art and Labour

    Saturday 14 April 2018
    Te Tuhi
    PakurangaRead More

  • Numangatini Fraser Mackenzie – Faux Patutiki

    23Mar
    28Apr

    24 March – 28 April
    Papakura Art Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • Alicia Frankovich, Ani O’Neill, Estate of L Budd, et al.

    13Mar
    13Mar

    Tuesday 13th March
    Stark White
    AucklandRead More

  • Humans Of South Auckland

    19Mar
    21Apr

    19 March – 21 April 2018
    Fresh Gallery
    OtaraRead More

  • Polyfest

    14Mar
    17Mar

    14 March – 17 March
    Manukau Sport Bowl
    ManukauRead More

  • Toi Art Opening

    17Mar
    18Mar

    17 – 18 March
    Te Papa
    WellingtonRead More

  • Pati Solomona Tyrell – Fāgogo

    Saturday 17 March – 14 April
    Blue Oyster Art Project Space
    DunedinRead More

  • Whanui: 4 Tha Lumanai’i

    23Mar
    24Mar

    23 – 24 MarchMangere Art CentreAuckland A ground-breaking live performance led by music and sound producer Anonymouz, 4 THA LUMANA’I finds READ MORE >

  • Artist Talk: Graham Fletcher

    03Mar
    03Mar

    3 March
    Gus Fisher Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • Whānui

     Whānui is a celebration of Tāmaki Makaurau and our creative neighbourhoods.   For 2018 the Whānui theme is creative intergenerational conversations: where READ MORE >

  • “you kids should only experience this for a moment – don’t be here for life like me”

    10Mar
    22Jul

    “you kids should only experience this for a moment – don’t be here for life like me”
    10 March – 22 July
    Te TuhiRead More

  • Still Life With Chickens

    17 March – 24 March
    Mangere Arts Centre
    MangereRead More

  • Heavenly Creatures

    March 1 – April 7
    Verge Gallery
    SydneyRead More

  • Falevai Flava

    10Mar
    14Apr

    10 March – 14 April
    Mangere Arts Centre
    MangereRead More

  • Tea

    9 March – 18 March
    Auckland Arts Festival
    Loft Q Theatre
    AucklandRead More

  • Still Life With Chickens

    08Mar
    14Jan

    8 March – 14 March
    Mangere Arts Centre
    MangereRead More

  • Wild Dogs Under My Skirt

    07Mar
    11Jan

    7 March – 11 March
    Hannah Playhouse
    WellingtonRead More

  • A Waka Odyssey

    23Feb
    04Mar

    23 Feb – 4 March
    New Zealand Festival
    WellingtonRead More

  • Salome Tanuvasa: Do you want to give it a name?

    07Feb
    03Mar

    7 February – 3 March
    Tim Melville Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • The Third Space: The Art of Graham Fletcher

    02Mar
    28Apr

    2 March – 28 April
    Gus Fisher Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • Dawn Raid

    3 March – 9 September
    Southland Musuem & Art Gallery
    InvercargillRead More

  • Bless The Child

    08Mar
    12Mar

    8 March – 12 March
    Rangatira Q Theatre
    AucklandRead More

  • Bless The Child

    28 February – 4 March
    Hannah Playhouse
    WellingtonRead More

  • Takatāpui

    04Feb

    4 February
    Academy Cinemas
    AucklandRead More

  • Voyaging Across The Pacific

    27Feb

    27 February 4:30pm
    Te Marae, Te Papa
    WellingtonRead More

  • Volume South

    02Feb
    31Aug

    2 February – 31 August
    MIT Manukau Campus
    ManukauRead More

  • Katitiakitanga

    4 January – 14th January
    Waitaia Nursery
    CoromandelRead More

  • Think of a Garden

    25 January – 28 January
    Nathan Homestead Gallery
    ManurewaRead More

  • Luke Willis Thompson

    21Feb
    15Apr

    21 February – 15 April
    Adam Art Gallery
    WellingtonRead More

  • This Is Love

    17 February – 2 March
    Nathan Homestead Gallery
    ManurewaRead More

  • Collaboration Is The Future

    30Jan
    24Feb

    30 January – 24 February
    Melanie Rogers Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • Rainbow Pasefika: We Exist, We Belong

    20Jan
    20Jan

    20 January (12pm – 6pm)
    Wellington Pasifika Festival
    Odlins Plaza, Cable StreetRead More

  • Pacific Climate Change Conference 2018

    21Feb
    23Dec

    21 – 23 February 2018
    Te Papa
    WellingtonRead More

  • 15 Years on The Estate | Group show featuring Pacifica Mamas

    15Dec
    11Feb

    15 December, 2017 – 11 February, 2018
    Opening Thursday 14 December, 6-8pm
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    AucklandRead More

  • Yellow Moon: He Marama Kōwhai | Group show featuring Niki Hastings-McFall and Ani O’Neill

    28Oct
    28Oct

    28 October 2017 – 28 October 2018
    Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
    ChristchurchRead More

  • Dark Meat | Ema Tavola

    12Dec
    22Dec

    12 December, 5:30 – 8pm
    Tautai
    AucklandRead More

  • MIT CELEBRATION PARTY

    2 December, 3pm – 8pm
    Faculty of Creative Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology
    AucklandRead More

  • MOHE OFI | Tanya Edwards & Luisa Veakovi Fonua Nau

    08Dec
    19Jan

    8 December 2017 – 19 January 2018
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara
    AucklandRead More

  • Femisphere launch

    15Dec

    15 December, 5:30pm

    Strange Haven

    AucklandRead More

  • Te Taenga Mai o Salome | Yuki Kihara

    08Dec
    05Jun

    8 December – 5 June
    MTG Hawke’s Bay
    GisborneRead More

  • Garland Te Moana nui a Kiwa

    09Dec

    9 December, 4pm
    Objectspace
    AucklandRead More

  • Measina Festival 2017

    07Dec
    09Dec

    7 – 9 December
    Pātaka Art & Museum
    PoriruaRead More

  • ROUNDHOUSE | Tira Walsh, Gabriel Tiongson & Reece King

    12Nov
    11Feb

    12 December – 11 February
    Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre
    Auckland
    Read More

  • AA | Annie Moors & Amani Tia

    23Nov
    10Dec

    23 November – 10 December
    Blak Dot
    MelbourneRead More

  • Kahoa Kakala | Sione Monu

    08Dec
    18Feb

    8 December – 18 February
    Objectspace
    AucklandRead More

  • Elam Artists Graduate Show

    30Nov
    03Dec

    30 November – 3 December
    Elam studios, George Fraser Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • Whitecliffe MFA Open day

    25Nov
    25Nov

    Saturday 25 November 11am – 4pm
    Whitecliffe
    Parnell
    AucklandRead More

  • Kaitani | University of Canterbury Fijian Students Association & Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka

    24Nov
    24Dec

    Preview: Friday 24 November at 5.30pm
    On view 25 November – 24 December
    Physics Room
    ChristchurchRead More

  • UNI SHORTS

    23 – 26 November
    Unitec
    AucklandRead More

  • UNITEC gradfest 2017

    23Nov
    23Nov

    Thursday 23 November, 5:30pm
    UNITEC
    Mt Albert
    AucklandRead More

  • Art Ache | featuring Vaimaila Urale

    23Nov
    23Nov

    Thursday 23 November, 5 – 8pm
    The Golden Dawn
    AucklandRead More

  • Storytelling with Tuaratini from Turou Takitua

    18Nov
    18Nov

    Saturday 18 November, 1pm

    Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery

    AucklandRead More

  • Lima | PIPA

    29Nov
    01Dec

    29 November – 1 December
    Playhouse Theatre
    Glen Eden
    AucklandRead More

  • Natural Forces | featuring Josh Bashford & Fatu Feu’u

    21Nov
    16Dec

    21 November – 16 December
    The Diversion Gallery
    Picton Read More

  • Whenua Fonua ‘Enua | Artist Talk

    18Nov
    18Nov

    Saturday 18 November, 2:30pm
    Malcolm Smith Gallery
    Uxbridge Arts and Culture
    HowickRead More

  • Yuki Kihara Solo Exhibition | MTG Hawke’s Bay

    8 December 2017 – May 2018
    MTG Hawke’s Bay Tai Ahuriri
    Hawke’s BayRead More

  • O le Malaga | Ana Teofilo

    03Nov
    09Dec

    3 November – 9 December 2017
    Nathan Homestead
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • Art Writing: The Good, The Bad and The Digital | Lana Lopesi

    02Dec
    02Dec

    Saturday 2 December, 3pm-5pm
    Time Out Bookstore
    Mt Eden
    AucklandRead More

  • Mixtape | Joash Fahitua & Perri Exeter

    24Nov
    25Nov

    24 – 25 November 2017, 7.30pm
    Te Oro
    Glen InnesRead More

  • Neon Bootleg | FAFSWAG

    21 November – 25 November 2017
    Basement Theatre
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • PROJECT BANABA

    17Nov
    17Dec

    17 November – 17 December 2017
    Carriageworks
    NSW, AustraliaRead More

  • un/trained thoughts | Dagmar Dyck

    14Nov
    02Dec

    15 November – 2 December 2017
    Warwick Henderson Gallery
    NewmarketRead More

  • Fa’afeagaiga | Uelese Vavae

    11Nov
    20Jan

    11 November 2017 – 20 January 2018
    Mangere Arts Centre
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • Cover Versions: Mimicry and Resistance

    11Nov
    14Jan

    11 November 2017 – 14 January 2018
    Shepparton Art Museum
    VIC, AustraliaRead More

  • Moana Pacific Storytelling | The Pacifica Mamas

    09Nov
    09Nov

    Thursday 9 November 2017 6pm – 7pm
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    West AucklandRead More

  • Whenua Fonua ‘Enua | Benjamin Work

    27Oct
    02Dec

    6 November – 2 December 2017
    Malcolm Smith Gallery
    Uxbridge Arts and Culture
    HowickRead More

  • Nesian Dance class | Julia Mage’au Gray

    04Nov
    16Dec

    Saturday 4 November 2017, 4 – 5.30pm
    Te Oro
    East AucklandRead More

  • Pollywood Pasifika Film

    04Nov
    18Nov

    Pollywood Pasifika Film
    Sat 4 November & Sat 18 November 2017
    Mangere Arts Centre & Auckland Art GalleryRead More

  • #keeponkimiora | Edith Amituanai

    03Nov
    10Dec

    3 November – 10 December 2017
    Flaxmere Community Centre
    FlaxmereRead More

  • The Mountaintop | F.C.C

    31Oct
    11Nov

    31 October – 11 November
    Basement Theatre
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Artwest 2017

    27 October – 31 October 2017
    Kelston Girls’ College
    West Auckland Read More

  • Turou – The call from our ancestors, the call to return home

    27Oct
    10Dec

    27 October – 10 December
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    Henderson
    AucklandRead More

  • An Unlovely Sorry | Andy Leleisi’uao

    26Oct
    02Dec

    26 October – 2 December 2017
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • ‘Are Pasifika | Nina Oberg Humphries

    21Oct
    18Nov

    21 October – 18 November 2017
    The Arts Centre – Christchurch
    ChristchurchRead More

  • Tautua | Pascal Atiga-Bridger

    21Oct
    25Nov

    21 October – 25 November 2017
    Papakura Art Gallery
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • Vessel | Ashlei- Luckman Taupaki, Darcell Apelu, Juanita-Louisa Karora, and Nia-Val Ngaro

    20Oct
    29Oct

    20 October – 29 October 2017
    Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
    TaurangaRead More

  • The Vultures | MÄ«ria George

    18Oct
    21Oct

    18 October – 21 October 2017
    Q Theatre
    Central Auckland Read More

  • Black Friday: Fijian Language Week Display

    13Oct
    21Oct

    13 October – 21 October 2017
    Auckland Central Library
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Itutu | Needlework | Chris Charteris

    Image courtesy of FHE Galleries and Artweek Auckland
    12Oct
    30Nov

    12 October – 30 November 2017
    FHE Galleries
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Breathing in glass, running out of air | Rosanna Raymond

    Rosanna Raymond
    11Oct
    11Oct

    The Peter Turner Memorial Lecture
    Wed 11 October, 6.30pm
    Te Papa Tongarewa
    WellingtonRead More

  • COLIN McCAHON: ON THE ROAD | Gary Silipa

    Gary Silipa 'Spacebeams'
    09Oct
    14Oct

    9 October -14 October 2017
    Somervell Presbyterian Church
    Remuera
    East AucklandRead More

  • Return to Havaiki | UFO Islands | Benjamin Work & Andy Leleisi’uao

    9 October – 30 November 2017
    Bergman Gallery
    Rarotonga, Cook IslandsRead More

  • Artweek Auckland 2017

    07Oct
    15Oct

    7 October – 15 October 2017
    Various locations
    AucklandRead More

  • LIT! | Artweek Auckland

    07Oct
    15Oct

    7 October – 15 October 2017
    Artweek
    Central Auckland Read More

  • Karanga Maha | Karanga Ink

    07Oct
    21Oct

    7 October – 21 October 2017
    Karanga Ink
    Central AucklandRead More

  • ETA (Edith’s Talent Agency) | Edith Amituanai

    ETA (Edith's Talent Agency) | Edith Amituanai | Anna Miles Gallery
    05Oct
    27Oct

    5 October – 27 October 2017
    Anna Miles Gallery
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Louise Tu’u | Performing the Margins

    30Sep
    30Sep

    30 September 2017, 5.30pm
    Artspace
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Draw | Lorene Taurerewa

    27Sep
    27Oct

    27 September – 27 October 2017
    Geoff Wilson Gallery
    WhangareiRead More

  • Siapo Cinema 2017: An Oceania Film Festival

    20Sep
    30Sep

    20 September – 30 September 2017
    Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
    WellingtonRead More

  • Island Hopping: Kaua`i | Galerie103

    21Sep
    21Sep

    21 September
    Galerie103
    Honolulu, HawaiiRead More

  • Study of Hands (after Largilliere) | Yuki Kihara

    21Sep
    15Oct

    21 September – 15 October 2017
    Martin Browne Contemporary
    SydneyRead More

  • Friends I haven’t Met | Tevita Latu

    Tevita Latu, image courtesy of Northart
    18Sep
    04Oct

    18 September – 4 October
    Northart
    North AucklandRead More

  • Get the picture | Blak Dot Gallery

    14Sep
    01Oct

    14 September – 1 October 2017
    Blak Dot Gallery
    Melbourne Read More

  • Nohoaka Toi – Ngāi Tahu Artists in Residence | CoCA

    08Sep
    26Nov

    8 September – 26 November 2017
    Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art
    ChristchurchRead More

  • OFFSTAGE 8 | Artspace and Tautai

    08Sep
    14Oct

    8 September – 14 October 2017
    Artspace
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Body Surface | Ioane Ioane, Jeremy Leatinu’u and Siliga David Setoga

    Ioane Ioane, South Pacific Arts Festival Guam 2016, Tameka Sowman
    08Sep
    22Oct

    8 September – 22 October
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    West AucklandRead More

  • Wallace Art Awards Finalists Exhibition | The Pah Homestead

    05Sep
    12Nov

    5 September – 12 November 2017
    The Pah Homestead
    Auckland Central Read More

  • I’ll see you at Orion | Louisa Afoa

    08Sep
    22Oct

    8 September – 22 October 2017
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    West AucklandRead More

  • A MEMOIR FOR FALLING LIGHT | Robert George

    Robert George, A memoir for falling light, 2017
    02Sep
    19Nov

    2 September – 19 November 2017
    Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
    West AucklandRead More

  • Decent Exposure | The University Art Collection Undressed

    01Sep
    31Oct

    1 September- 13 October 2017
    Old Government House
    AucklandRead More

  • Ngaa Taonga: Treasures from Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato

    01Sep
    29Oct

    1 September – 29 October 2017
    Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
    HamiltonRead More

  • Generation Housing NZ | Cora-Allan Wickliffe and Daniel Twiss

    30 August – 23 September 2017
    Blue Oyster Art Project Space
    DunedinRead More

  • A Study of a Samoan Savage | Yuki Kihara

    28Aug
    26Nov

    28 August – 26 November 2017
    Whangarei Art Museum – Te Manawa Toi
    WhangareiRead More

  • Colonial Sugar | Tracey Moffatt and Jasmine Togo-Brisby

    Colonial Sugar, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Bitter Sweet (2015)
    26Aug
    19Nov

    26 August – 19 November 2017
    City Gallery Wellington
    WellingtonRead More

  • The Cold Islanders | Waikato Museum

    26Aug
    03Dec

    26 August – 3 December 2017
    Waikato Museum
    HamiltonRead More

  • Pacific Short Film | Whau Pacific Festival

    26 August, 7pm – 9pm
    Hollywood Cinemas
    AvondaleRead More

  • Homonoia People | Andy Leleisi’uao

    Andy Leleisi’uao, Garamond People Part I (2017) acrylic on canvas, Courtesy of PG Gallery
    21Aug
    15Sep

    21 August – 15 September 2017
    PG Gallery 192
    ChristchurchRead More

  • Whau Pacific Festival 2017

    23Aug
    27Aug

    23 – 27 August 2017
    AvondaleRead More

  • Culture and Privilege: Round table discussion with artists John Vea and Sakina Ewazi

    19Aug
    19Aug

    Sat 19 August, 11am – 12pm
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    West AucklandRead More

  • Murihiku Māori & Pasifika Cultural Trust 2017 Polyfest

    Murihiku Māori & Pasifika Cultural Trust 2017 Polyfest
    21Aug
    25Aug

    21 – 25 August 2017
    ILT Stadium Southland
    InvercargillRead More

  • FA’AAFA | Basement Theatre

    15Aug
    19Aug

    15 – 19 August, 8pm
    Basement Theatre
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Tautai Winter Workshops | The Business of Art

    Tautai Winter Workshops
    16Aug
    13Sep

    16, 23 & 30 August, 6 & 13 September 2017
    Tautai office
    Central AucklandRead More

  • SOCIAL MATTER | RM Gallery

    Sione Monu, Social Matter
    19Aug
    09Sep

    19 August – 9 September 2017
    RM Gallery
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Occulture: The Dark Arts | Lorene Taurerewa

    Image: Lorene Taurerewa and light and sound installation artist Tony Oursler (USA)
    12Aug
    19Nov

    12 August – 19 November 2017
    City Gallery Wellington
    Wellington
    Read More

  • DIRT FUTURE | Artspace

    04Aug
    02Sep

    4 August – 2 September 2017
    Artspace
    Central AucklandRead More

  • ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING | TAUTAI

    05Aug
    05Aug

    5 August 2017, 3pm
    Tautai Offices
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Kahoa Kakala | Sione Monu

    Image: Sione Monu, Manu Vaea, 2017
    08Aug
    09Sep

    8 August – 9 September 2017
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • Lei-pā | ST PAUL St Gallery

    Vaimaila Urale, Koko & Taufolo (video still), 2009. Image courtesy of the artist.
    04Aug
    08Sep

    4 August 2017 – 8 September 2017
    ST Paul St Gallery
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Ranterstantrum | Victor Rodger

    01Aug
    12Aug

    1 August – 12 August 2017
    Basement Theatre
    Central AucklandRead More

  • The Score | Yuki Kihara

    01Aug
    05Nov

    1 August – 5 November 2017
    The Ian Potter Museum of Art
    MelbourneRead More

  • Plants and People | Studio One Toi TÅ« Residents’ Exhibitions

    Studio One Toi Tū Residents’ Exhibitions
    20Jul
    10Aug

    20 July – 10 August 2017
    Studio One Toi TÅ«
    Central Auckland Read More

  • Lovers Rock | 2017 PIMPI Winter Series

    31 July – 19 August 2017
    Lime Espresso Bar & Eatery
    ŌtāhuhuRead More

  • The Asia-Pacific Century: Part Two | Te Uru

    29Jul
    01Oct

    29 July – 1 October 2017
    Te Uru Waitakare Contemporary Gallery
    West Auckland Read More

  • PICAA Inc. | ReHavaiki

    Friday 14 July 2017, 7.30pm – 9.30pm
    The Bowery Theatre,
    MelbourneRead More

  • Concrete is as Concrete Doesn’t | John Vea

    21Jul
    03Sep

    21 July – 3 September
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    West AucklandRead More

  • Sir John Sulman Prize 2017 | Angela Tiatia

    Angela Tiatia (2017), 'Invisibleness', oil on linen, 153 x 117 cm
    29Jul
    22Oct

    29 July – 22 October 2017
    Art Gallery of New South Wales
    SydneyRead More

  • 100 Days Show Gisbourne | Tairawhiti Museum

    23Jun
    10Dec

    23 June – 10 December 2017
    Tairawhiti Museum
    GisborneRead More

  • BLOOD RED | Greg Semu

    12Jul
    17Jul

    12 July – 17 September 2017
    Cairns Art Gallery
    Cairns
    Queensland, AustraliaRead More

  • Nocturnal Projections and other Small Happenings | Cath Cocker

    11Jul
    11Aug

    11 July – 11 August 2017
    In and around Central Dunedin
    DunedinRead More

  • Changes | 2017 PIMPI Winter Series

    10Jul
    28Jul

    10-28 July 2017
    Lime Espresso Bar & Eatery
    ŌtāhuhuRead More

  • Don’t Dream It’s Over | Janet Lilo

    06Jul
    06Jul

    6 July 2017
    Karangahape Road
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Rukahu | James Nokise

    04Jul
    08Jul

    4 – 8 July 2017
    Basement Theatre
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Tatala | Vaimaila Urale

    04Jul
    23Jul

    4 July – 23 July 2017
    Sanderson Contemporary Art
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Namesake | Quishile Charan & Salome Tanuvasa

    29 June – 22 July 2017
    Enjoy Gallery
    WellingtonRead More

  • Fāgogo Performance Showcase | ST PAUL St Gallery

    30Jun
    30Jun

    7pm Friday 30 June 2017
    ST PAUL St Gallery
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Relative Reciprocity | Lonnie Hutchinson and Reuben Paterson

    24Jun
    20Aug

    24 June – 20 August 2017
    Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
    West AucklandRead More

  • Exposé | A proposition by Benjamin Lignel

    24Jun
    17Sep

    24 June – 17 September 2017
    Espace Solido
    FranceRead More

  • autoportrait | Luke Willis Thompson

    23Jun
    27Aug

    23 June – 27 August 2017
    Chisenhale Gallery
    London E3 5QZRead More

  • Recent Painting | Claudia Jowitt

    21Jun
    15Jul

    21 June – 15 July 2017
    Melanie Roger Gallery
    Central AucklandRead More

  • #keeponkimiora | Edith Amituanai

    17Jun
    03Sep

    17 June – 3 September
    Hastings City Art Gallery
    HastingsRead More

  • Talanoa: Four Pacific Plays | Meet the Playwrights

    15Jun
    22Jun

    15 June – 22 June 2017
    Little Island Press
    AucklandRead More

  • Abstraction – Latitude by Longitude | Filani Filina Macassey

    15Jun
    13Jul

    15 June – 13 July 2017
    Geoff Wilson Gallery
    WhangareiRead More

  • Pacific Dance Festival 2017

    15-24 June 2017
    Mangere Arts Centre – Nga Tohu o Uenuku
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Return to Paradise and Peace | Ana Teofilo

    13Jun
    01Jul

    13 June – 1 July 2017
    Warwick Henderson Gallery
    Newmarket, AucklandRead More

  • MAKING SPACE | CoCA

    10 June – 20 August 2017
    Centre of Contemporary Art
    ChristchurchRead More

  • Fāgogo | Pati Solomona Tyrell

    08Jun
    21Jun

    8 June – 21 June
    ST PAUL St Gallery
    Central AucklandRead More

  • ‘Uli ‘i he ‘Uli – Black On Black | Visesia Siasau

    8 June – 1 July 2017
    OREXART
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Fire In The Water, Fire In The Sky | Miria George

    02Jun
    17Jun

    2 – 24 June 20-17
    Kia Mau Festival 2017
    WellingtonRead More

  • The Auckland Festival of Photography 2017 | Janet Lilo

    01Jun
    20Jun

    1 June – 20 June
    Silo 6
    Waterfront AucklandRead More

  • Pacific Hibiscus | Helen Tau’au Filisi

    27May
    02Jun

    27 May – 2 June 2017
    Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    Māngere
    AucklandRead More

  • Ata Te Tangata | Studio One Toi TÅ«

    25May
    15Jun

    25 May – 15 June 2017
    Studio One Toi TÅ«
    Galleries One, Two, Three & Four
    Central AucklandRead More

  • INFLUX | PÄ€TAKA Art and Museum

    20May
    13Aug

    20 May – 13 August 2017
    Pātaka Art and Museum
    Porirua CityRead More

  • INFLUX | PÄ€TAKA Art and Museum

    20May
    13Aug

    20 May – 13 August 2017
    Pātaka Art and Museum
    Porirua CityRead More

  • Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show | Auckland Art Gallery

    20May
    15Oct

    20 May — 15 Oct 2017
    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
    AucklandRead More

  • Vibe Youth Festival 2017

    03Jun
    03Jun

    Saturday 3 June, 1pm to 7pm
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    West AucklandRead More

  • The Gendered Lens | Milford Galleries Dunedin

    20May
    14Jun

    The Gendered Lens
    20 May – 14 Jun 2017
    Milford Galleries DunedinRead More

  • True True | Calder and Lawson Gallery – Academy

    15May
    14May

    15 May – 14 July 2017
    Calder and Lawson Gallery
    Academy of Performing Arts, University of Waikato
    HamiltonRead More

  • Coconuts that grew from concrete | Yuki Kihara

    18May
    01Jul

    19 May – 16 June 2017
    Artspace
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Here, Now, Then, Always | The Pah Homestead

    17May
    02Jul

    17 May – 2 July 2017
    In and around Central Dunedin
    South IslandRead More

  • RealTalk: Safe Space / Best Practice | Facilitated by Ema Tavola

    13May
    13May

    13 May 2017, 2pm
    The Old Otahuhu Library
    Otahuhu,
    South AucklandRead More

  • Earthpushers | Jeremy Leatinu’u

    13May
    22Oct

    13 May 2017 – 22 October 2017
    Te Tuhi
    Pakuranga,
    East AucklandRead More

  • PERSONAL STRUCTURES – open borders | Angela Tiatia

    13May
    26Nov

    13 May – 26 November 2017
    Palazzo Bembo, Palazzo Mora and Giardini Marinaressa
    Venice, ItalyRead More

  • Emerging Technology, Design and Indigenous Culture Conference | Media Design School

    10May
    10May

    10 May 2017, 9:30am — 4pm
    Media Design School,
    Central AucklandRead More

  • Pacific Currents | OREXART

    06May
    27May

    6 – 27 May 2017
    OREXART Gallery
    Central Auckland Read More

  • KELSTON GIRLS’ COLLEGE: PROJECT KAI | TE URU

    06May
    09Jul

    6 May – 9 July
    Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery
    West AucklandRead More

  • PÅŒULIULI (FĀ‘ALIGA) | YIRRAMBOI First Nations Arts Festival

    04May
    12Apr

    4 May – 12 May 2017
    ST PAUL St Gallery Three
    Central AucklandRead More

  • A Pool is not the Ocean | Louisa Afoa

    04May
    12May

    4 May – 12 May 2017
    ST PAUL St Gallery Three
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Time and Tide | Alcaston Gallery, AUS

    02May
    27May

    2 May – 27 May 2017
    Alcaston Gallery
    11 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy,
    Melbourne, Victoria, 3065 AustraliaRead More

  • Beats & Pieces | Kenneth Merrick

    25 April – 14 May 2017
    Whitespace
    AucklandRead More

  • Communityity | Olivia Blyth

    22Apr
    22Apr

    22 April 12pm – 4pm.
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    AucklandRead More

  • This time of Useful Consciousness: Political Ecology Now | The Dowse Art Museum

    14Apr
    30Jul

    14 April – 30 July 2017
    The Dowse Art Museum, WellingtonRead More

  • Pukepuke ‘o Tonga’s Lomipeau Fika ‘Ulaki ‘o Aotearoa

    08Apr
    08Apr

    Saturday 8 April 2017 11:00am – 6:00pm
    Mangere Arts Centre – Nga Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • #bighairdontcare: Hope Vs. Survival in the Imperial Shadow | Miria George

    6 April, 2pm – 3.15pm
    Campus Centre 307
    University of Hawai’i at HiloRead More

  • Bedroom Producers | Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara

    31Mar
    06May

    31 March – 6 May 2017
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • The Journey of a Million Miles – Following Steps | New Zealand Maritime Museum

    18Mar
    03Sep

    18 March – 3 September 2017
    New Zealand Maritime Museum
    Central AucklandRead More

  • HYBRID | Gary Silipa

    15Mar
    25Mar

    15 – 25 March 2017

    The Good, The Bad Gallery

    Glen Innes,

    AucklandRead More

  • The Perpetual Flux of Transitional Otherness | Olly

    10Mar
    02Apr

    10 March – 2 April 2017
    Olly
    Mt EdenRead More

  • Vahine – Catching the Trade Wind | Whitespace

    14Mar
    02Apr

    14 March – 2 April 2017
    Whitespace
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Magdalena of Mangere | Louise Tu’u

    29 March – 1 April 2017

    Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o UenukuRead More

  • Tupou College | Emily Mafile’o

    18Mar
    06May

    18 March – 6 May 2017

    Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o UenukuRead More

  • how you hear me | Curated by Naawie Tutugoro

    10Mar
    10Apr

    10 March – 10 April 2017
    Waiheke Community Art Gallery
    Waiheke IslandRead More

  • Reasoning On Paper: The Myth Of Herself | Ora Gallery, NY

    08Mar
    31Mar

    8 – 31 March 2017
    ORA Gallery
    51 7th Avenue, New York, NYRead More

  • Middle of Now | Here – Honolulu Biennial 2017

    8 March – 8 May 2017

    Honolulu Biennial 2017

    Honolulu, HawaiʻiRead More

  • Confessions of a teenage afakasi | Faith Wilson

    08Mar
    01Apr

    8 March – 1 April
    Blue Oyster Art Project Space
    DunedinRead More

  • SAUNIGA | Saint Andrew Matautia, Pati Solomona Tyrell and Uelese Vavae

    04Mar
    01Apr

    4 March – 1 April
    ICL Building,
    Level 7,
    10 – 14 Lorne St,
    Central AucklandRead More

  • WITCHBITCH presents: Statuesque Anarchy

    10Mar
    01Apr

    10 March – 1 April 2017
    Enjoy Gallery
    WellingtonRead More

  • Dark Objects | Huni Mancini, Natasha Matila Smith, Curated by Faith Wilson

    03Mar
    23Jul

    3 March – 23 July 2017
    The Dowse Art Museum
    Lower Hutt,WellingtonRead More

  • Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise | Salote Tawale, Leafa Wilson & Olga Krause

    23Feb
    31Mar

    24 February – 31 March 2017
    ST PAULS St Gallery
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Der Papālagi (The White Man) | Yuki Kihara

    23Feb
    31Mar

    24 February – 31 March 2017
    ST PAUL St Gallery
    AucklandRead More

  • This sky, too, is folding under you | Natasha Matila-Smith

    17Feb
    09Apr

    17 February – 9 April 2017
    25 February | Artists Talk
    Corban Estate Arts Centre
    AucklandRead More

  • Lukautim Solwara | Rosanna Raymond

    17Feb
    17Feb

    17 Feb 2017, 8pm
    Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
    111 Sturt Street, Southbank, VICRead More

  • When Can I See You Again? | Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara

    16Feb
    25Mar

    16 February – 25 March 2017
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara,
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • Still [Marine] Life | Lianne Edwards

    14Feb
    12Mar

    14 February – 12 March 2017
    Whitespace
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • Earthpushers | Jeremy Leatinu’u

    28Jan
    03Feb

    28 January – 3 February 2017
    Waiheke IslandRead More

  • headland Sculpture on the Gulf

    27Jan
    19Feb

    27 January – 19 February 2017
    Waiheke Island, Hauraki GulfRead More

  • A Turn of the Wheel | Malcolm Smith Gallery

    21Jan
    25Feb

    21 January – 25 February 2017
    Malcolm Smith Gallery
    Auckland East.Read More

  • ADDITIONS | Corban Estate Art Centre

    16Dec
    12Feb

    16 December – 12 February 2017
    Corban Estate Art Centre
    Henderson, Auckland West
    Read More

  • Der Papālagi (The White Man) | Yuki Kihara

    18Nov
    29Jan

    18 November – 29 January 2017
    Cairns Regional Gallery
    North Queensland, AustraliaRead More

  • B is for BFN | Serene Timoteo

    16Dec
    12Feb

    16 December – 12 February 2017
    Corban Estate Art Centre
    Henderson, Auckland WestRead More

  • Post-Graffiti Pacific | Curated by Olivia Laita

    13Dec
    12Feb

    13 December – 12 February 2017
    Pah Homestead
    AucklandRead More

  • Kohikohi | Kalisolaite ‘Uhila

    04Dec
    11Feb

    2 December 2016 – 11 February 2017
    Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara
    Auckland SouthRead More

  • Pigs in the Yard II | Kalisolaite ‘Uhila

    12Nov
    19Mar

    12 November – 19 March 2017
    Te Tuhi
    Auckland EastRead More

  • Altered Ego | Mangere Arts Centre

    12Nov
    15Jan

    11 December 2016 – 15 January 2017
    Māngere Arts Centre uckland- Ngā Tohu o Uenuku
    AucklandRead More

  • PUSI VAELE URALE | Blonde Maiden

    17Nov
    26Nov

    17 – 26 November 2016
    Tautai
    Auckland CentralRead More

  • OUR INHERITED BODY & THINKING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY

    19Nov
    04Feb

    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally showcases works by young local artists and secondary school students on what Papakura means to them. Curator Amiria Puia Taylor, with tutors from Papakura High School, worked with young people to create works inspired by their social and cultural positioning within the Papakura area. Our Inherited Body features photographs, adornment pieces and filmed performances that demonstrate complex interactions between artist and object. “As makers and artists, we are interested in objects as recorders of accumulated history,” says Jasmine Te Hira.Read More

  • Art Sale for Phoenix | Fundraising event

    02Nov
    11Nov

    Art Sale for Phoenix curated by Pascal Atiga-Bridger is a fundraising event in support of Jason and Arna Suttie who are raising funds for the stem cell treatment of their little boy Phoenix who has cerebral palsy.Read More

  • TAUTAI Fia Fia Night – Friday 18 November

    18Nov
    18Nov

    The Tautai Fia Fia night will bring together the essential ingredients of a Fia Fia – Pacific culture, food, and entertainment – and celebrates Tautai’s Urbanesia programme. The night also gives our Pacific artists and central city community the chance to engage and connect with each other. The entertainment will showcase live art: film, tatau, dance, celebrating our unique Pacific identity and reflecting the vibrant neighbourhoods of K Road and Ponsonby Road. Read More

  • Unique project involves trading artworks for food to be gifted to Auckland City Mission

    “The Changing Lanes project on the St Matthew-in-the-City site is an opportunity for people to enjoy and obtain artworks by contributing something to support people in need while also drawing attention to an important social issue,” Tiffany Singh says.Read More

  • See My Pretty Flower, Flower, Flower | Serene Timoteo.

    22Sep
    13Oct

    Using woven silk ribbon with plastic mats, Serene Timoteo’s exhibition is a vibrant and hybrid take on traditional Pacific craft. The large scale and intricate hand woven pieces acknowledge the work of her grandparents in planting a beautiful garden for her family and also a beautiful life here in Auckland.Read More

  • Reading Middens, Tracing Lines | Michel Tuffery

    On show for the exhibition Reading Middens, Tracing Lines new paintings, prints and bronze sculpture works that elevate objects such as shell and our native trees, metaphors for narrating as witnesses to past times and events and are the connection to the iwi of Te Motu Arairoa.Read More

  • Fifty Shades of Blak | Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Australia

    Blak Dot Gallery presents ‘Fifty Shades of Blak’ as part of this years 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival, an exhibition exploring the voices of First Nations women from across Australia and the world. Read More

  • FLWS & AFCT | Kenneth Merrick

    09Sep
    23Oct

    Kenneth Merrick’s practice forms a basis for broad enquiry into eclectic ideas across a range of media and methods. His latest exhibition, FLWS & AFCT extends from an evolving interest in archetypal imagery, hypothetical spaces, pattern and form.Read More

  • The Glorious Children of Te Tumu | Benjamin Work.

    09Sep
    23Oct

    Benjamin Work has developed a bold visual language that relates to historic events and symbolism specific to Oceania. Cross-cultural encounters between European explorers in Tonga and the lasting effect of trade and exchange are examined in this exhibition. Read More

  • Contemporary Artefacts | Chris Charteris

    09Sep
    23Oct

    Contemporary artefacts by Chris Charteris is a collection of sculptural and adornment pieces that resonate with the old world and the new. Charteris draws on his own diverse ancestry to reflect on the interconnected nature of cultural forms in a time of increasing globalisation.Read More

  • A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift. Incl Yuki Kihara

    11Jun
    17Apr

    A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift celebrates a decade of artworks acquired through the support of a single generous benefactor. Including work from Yuki Kihara.Read More

  • Ioane Ioane | Revitalised Art form

    16Sep
    07Oct

    Ioane Ioane’s journey of revitalisation began with a six thousand kilometre ride across the Pacific ocean to Guam on the Royal READ MORE >

  • INFLUX | ST PAUL ST GALLERY

    23Sep
    28Oct

    INFLUX brings together diverse artworks that collectively push and pull our understanding of the Pacific from a perspective that is much larger than Aotearoa New Zealand. The Tautai exhibition of tertiary students’ work opens at Auckland’s ST PAUL St Gallery, AUT on 23 September – 28 October 2016 and at Wellington’s PATAKA Art + Museum 20 May-13 August 2017.Read More

  • Gina Cole | Black Ice Matter

    09Sep
    09Sep

    Gina Cole’s debut book of short stories Black Ice Matter, will be officially launched by Selina Tusitala Marsh, who described READ MORE >

  • OFFSTAGE RETURNS TO ARTSPACE

    03Sep
    15Sep

    This year in it’s seventh iteration OFFSTAGE7 returns to Artspace and features eight video works and three live performances which will take place on the opening night. The works showcase and offers the audience, a snapshot of the diverse scope of interests and concerns of Contemporary Pacific art practitioners including gender, representation, class and embodied knowledge.Read More

  • Nina Oberg Humphries | Contemporary Christchurch

    This survey exhibition has been selected by an expert panel of influential art figures – curators, writers, and artists. The artworks in Contemporary Christchurch are all linked to the city, and have been produced in the past three years. The exhibition captures a moment in time, demonstrating the vibrancy of the local community and exploring the city as a stimulating environment for creative people. Read More

  • SHARE/CHEAT/UNITE and LONELY ISLANDS BILLBOARDS

    13Aug
    23Oct

    “To fit into Western frameworks, we are still trying to either deflect entirely from a Pacific aesthetic or embrace an exoticised version of Pacificness . . . Lonely Island is an attempt to reclaim or birth some semblance of cultural identity lost to colonisation.” – Natasha Matila-SmithRead More

  • OperaNesian on O’Connell

    11Aug
    11Aug

    Left to right: Joel Amosa, Kalauni Pouvalu, Noah Filimoehalaa & Benson Wilson 2016 Lexus Song Quest Winner   We Invite READ MORE >

  • Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age

    01Sep
    03Sep

    “Moana, a film of incomparable calm and beauty, is not a documentary in the strict sense, but it remains a document of great historical truth: Here is how Flaherty and the Western world preferred to imagine that tribal cultures lived… How much is an accurate depiction of these lives?”Read More

  • Whau Pacific Festival 2016

    The Whau Pacific Festival 2016 is a celebration of our diverse Whau Community. Four days of free events happening around the Whau. Food, art, music and Celebrations between young and old. The Whau Pacific Festival 2016 is a celebration of our diverse Whau Community. Four days of free events happening around the Whau. Food, art, music and Celebrations between young and old. The Creative souls project is a small community arts projects who work with young creatives offering opportunities to use and develop their talents.Read More

  • INFLUX of political agency

    23Sep
    28Oct

    “Tautai provides an important platform between tertiary studies and the arts sector,” Ane Tonga says. “It does this in a variety of ways, such as mentoring with senior artists and industry professionals, providing opportunities to curate and exhibit, and sharing its expansive networks across Aotearoa and further abroad.”Read More

  • JANET LILO: FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMMES

    28May
    28Aug

    Head along to Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery for a selection of free public programmes presented in association with Janet Lilo’s READ MORE >

  • Matthew Faiumu Salapu | Resample GuÃ¥han

    23Jul
    03Aug

    Resample GuÃ¥han is a 20 and a half minute long soundscape composition by South Auckland Urban/ Pacific/ Avant Garde Music Producer ‘Anonymouz’ (Matthew Faiumu Salapu), created entirely out of audio samples recorded on location from the various natural environments and performance events taking place around Guam at the recent 12th Festival of the Pacific Arts Guam 2016 (Guam FestPac 2016).Read More

  • LONNIE HUTCHINSON | RAMP GALLERY

    08Aug
    31Aug

    Lonnie Hutchinson (Ngāi Tahu/Kai Tahu, Samoan, Ngāti Kuri ki Ngāi Tahu) is a multi-media artist who works across a wide range of media including moving image, performance, painting, sculpture and installation. The discipline of drawing always lies at the foundation of her practice and for Light my fire at Ramp Gallery, Lonnie has created a new series of drawings on paper.Read More

  • Yours to tell | Catherine Hunt

    04Aug
    20Aug

    Yours to tell is a group exhibition engaging the art of storytelling through sculpture, video, photography and installation. Artists, curators, READ MORE >

  • Miria George | Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency

    Writer, producer and director Mīria George is the first Cook Islands artist to receive the Fulbright- Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency at the University of Hawaii.Read More

  • Artists revealed for 2017 headland Sculpture on the Gulf

    03Feb
    26Feb

    The artists have been announced for the outdoor sculpture exhibition, Waiheke Island’s headland Sculpture on the Gulf…Read More

  • KENNETH MERRICK AT RAMP GALLERY

    18Jul
    29Jul

    This is a simple show about shows and showing, showcasing art created since the beginning of the millennium by a range of artists in Aotearoa New Zealand. There are photographs, paintings and sculptures, small and big, pictures of and things that just are. Including Kenneth Merrick. Read More

  • Kalisoliate ‘Uhila works onsite at the Adam Art Gallery

    16Jul
    17Jul

    As the Adam Art Gallery exhibition Inhabiting Space draws to a close they are pleased to announce the following events this READ MORE >

  • Siliga David Setoga | The Seven Stars of Matariki

    30Jun
    21Jul

    The Studio One group exhibition includes the work of our very own Siliga David Setoga, who continues to provoke with questions of identity, politics, religion and social issues that are a constant for our Pacific people.Read More

  • OFFSTAGE 7 | Expressions of Interest

    OFFSTAGE is our annual moving image and live performance event. The one night only event offers Pacific artists the opportunity to showcase new and experimental work. The year OFFSTAGE 7 will open 3 September 2016 and will be curated by Louisa Afoa. Read More

  • Miles Art Awards – Entry now open!

    13Aug
    16Oct

    Entry in the Miles Art Awards, Tauranga Art Gallery’s fourth biennial prize and exhibition, is now open…Read More

  • The JAFA Poetry Slam Presents Grace Taylor

    20Jul
    20Jul

    The JAFA Poetry Slam Presents Grace Taylor is in conjunction with Merge Cafe and Lifewise. Grace Taylor is a poet. Co-founder of the RISING VOICES YOUTH POETRY MOVEMENT, published her first collection AFAKASI SPEAKS in 2013 and writer and performer of poetic theatre show MY OWN DARLING. Read More

  • ALL GOODS | PUSI VAELE URALE

    07Jul
    17Jul

    BLONDE MAIDEN a solo exhibition by Pusi Vaele Urale…Read More

  • Drisana Tonga: Heliaki | In Between Worlds

    18Jul
    03Aug

    …one culture/way of thinking can instantly transition into another, hence the title ‘Heliaki | In between worlds’.Read More

  • Handshake 3 & Samundar and Haldi

    09Jul
    13Aug

    Objectspace warmly invites you to the opening of two new exhibitions, Handshake 3 and Samundar and Haldi…Read More

  • TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre | Painting Programme

    Painting Programme or ‘Prog’ for short is a mixed media exhibition that marks the end of an era in New Zealand Art, and the beginning of another…Read More

  • Brian Fuata | The Physics Room

    16Jul
    20Aug

    Brian Fuata’s practice is in text, improvisation and performance contextualised by his theatre history…Read More

  • FRESH HORIZONS Tauranga (13 – 15 July)

    13Jul
    15Jul

    Tautai’s next Fresh Horizons workshops are being held on 13-15 July 2016, at the Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic…Read More

  • THE CONCH | WHITE GUITAR

    28Jun
    15Jul

    Renowned hip-hop artist Scribe features with his father John and brother Matthias in this stunning new play – the true story of their family, the Luafutus.Read More

  • Fatu Feu’u & Friends

    25Jun
    25Jun

    The Miranda Farm Gallery now has a premises in Thames and they are opening with ‘Fatu Feu’u and Friends’… Read More

  • EMA TAVOLA | DRAVUNI: SIVIA YANI NA VUNILAGI – BEYOND THE HORIZON

    24Jun
    10Oct

    Dravuni: Sivia yani na Vunilagi – Beyond the Horizon explores cultural transmission in the digital age…Read More

  • PAPER ARCHITECTURE NEW AND RECENT WORK BY SHEYNE TUFFERY

    Sheyne Tuffery is an expert printmaker who uses a range of art forms to facilitate his visions of Pacific urbanisation. READ MORE >

  • CZARINA WILSON | THE GOOD THE BAD GALLERY

    21Jun
    25Jun

    Glen Innes local Czarina Wilson has been a regular…Read More

  • Anonymouz aka Matthew Salapu | Resample

    16Jun
    16Jun

    As part of the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts the Resample GuÃ¥han…Read More

  • Benjamin Work | For King and Country

    09Jun
    30Jul

    Benjamin Work’s exhibition of new work ‘For King and Country’ features 9 paintings guarded by mythical Tongan warriors…Read More

  • Miria George | The Vultures

    08Jun
    18Jun

    Money can’t buy you happiness. No wait – maybe it can.Read More

  • The White Face Crew | La Vie Dans Une Marionette

    17Jun
    21Jun

    The hilarious White Face Crew present the award winning show La Vie Dans Une Marionette…Read More

  • Dr Richard Shortland-Cooper | Balance

    27May
    10Jun

    …a new solo exhibition from Dr Richard Shortland-Cooper…Read More

  • Pacific Dance Festival 2016

    13Jun
    18Jun

    The festival is New Zealand’s first contemporary Pacific dance festival of its type…Read More

  • Greg Semu | The Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (People of the Pacific)

    10Jun
    11Sep

    This exhibition of new large-scale photographic works draws…Read More

  • Janet Lilo: Status Update – Dates

    28May
    28Jul

    Janet Lilo: Status Update runs at Te Uru from 28 May – 28 August 2016…Read More

  • Benjamin Work | The Glorious Children of Te Tumu

    27May
    11Jun

    …bold visual language that references historical narratives…Read More

  • Auckland Art Fair 2016

    25May
    29May

    Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand’s premier showcase for contemporary art…Read More

  • Politics of Sharing / On Collective Wisdom | Exhibition at the ifa-Galerie Berlin

    03Jun
    10Jul

    Politics of Sharing / On Collective Wisdom features new works by Lonnie Hutchinson, a new performance by Kalisolaite ‘Uhila…Read More

  • The 12th Festival of Pacific Arts (FOPA) | Guam 2016

    22May
    04Jun

    The Festival of the Pacific Arts is held every four years since 1972, and brings together artists and cultural practitioners from around the Pacific…Read More

  • Raymond Sagapolutele | Talking Culture

    12Jun
    12Jun

    Raymond Sagapolutele will be giving a free talk at Auckland Art Gallery…Read More

  • Michael Tavioni and Awhitia Tavioni | Mirage Gallery

    Michael and Awhitia Tavioni are an artist couple based in Rarotonga…Read More

  • Uniform: Exchange

    07May
    28May

    Uniform: Exchange present pieces memory and activate community building…Read More

  • 10 x 10 Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara 10th Birthday

    05May
    11May

    In May 2016 we celebrate the 10th Birthday of Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara…Read More

  • Ane Tonga: Artist Talk

    14May
    14May

    Artist and Curator Ane Tonga will discuss her exhibition Men are from Maama, Women are from Pulotu with Ron Brownson…Read More

  • Siapo Cinema 2016

    10May
    21May

    Join Siapo Cinema 2016 in Wellington, for a festival of moving images by, for and about Pasifika people and communities here and abroad.Read More

  • The Hive Hums with Many Minds, Part Two

    30Apr
    29May

    THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS, PART TWO is a Te Tuhi Offsite exhibition…Read More

  • Love Letter to Frida

    16Apr
    16Apr

    By engaging with the historical notions of Frida Kahlo and her iconographic relationship to Catholic symbolism and the metaphysical world…Read More

  • God and Tonga are my Inheritance

    09Apr
    15May

    Mafile’o offers us multi-faceted documentation of the Tongan King’s coronation both expanding our view and inviting us to reflect on the complexities of life in Tonga.Read More

  • Men are from Maama, Women are from Pulotu

    01Apr
    28May

    Ane Tonga’s exhibition Men are from Maama, Women are from Pulotu examines nifo koula (gold teeth) as a cultural phenomenon.Read More

  • The Tie That Binds

    A group exhibition at Whitespace which is curated by Marlaina Key and includes the work of artists Kenneth Merrick and Christina Pataili’i. Read More

  • The Veiqia Project

    Curated by Ema Tavola and Tarisi Vunidilo. Artists include Margaret Aull, Torika Bolatagici, Donita Hulme, Joana Monolagi, Dulcie Stewart, Salote Tawale, Luisa Tora.
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  • 12th Pacific Arts Association International Symposium 2016

    The 12th Pacific Arts Association International Symposium 2016 will be hosted by Auckland Museum…

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  • Kofukofu Koloa

    A bed stacked with family koloa is at the centre of this installation that pays homage…Read More

  • TAUTAI | NAVIGATE:

    05Mar
    22Mar

    TAUTAI | NAVIGATE showcases a cross-section of some of the artists whose work has contributed…
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  • Liberal Application

    03Mar
    02Apr

    3 March – 2 April. Bath Street Gallery, Auckland.
    Claudia Jowitt. Claudia is one of the most exciting young contemporary painters in New Zealand. Claudia’s carefully realised paintings capture an exploratory creative process that she describes as simultaneously “unfolding and becoming”.
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  • Marama

    02Mar
    06Feb

    2 March – 6 March. Q Theatre, Auckland.
    Directed by Nina Nawalowalo. Marama is a powerful call from women of the Pacific – the voices of a vanishing world. The devastating effects of deforestation on their homelands and culture are brought startlingly to life.
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  • A Study of a Samoan Savage

    27Feb
    22May

    Yuki Kihara. Large format photographs and a life-size projection are displayed alongside rare archives…

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  • Whau the People

    10Feb
    10Feb

    A one hour inspirational conversation with Whau the People…Read More

  • PUZZY | Basement Theatre

    09Feb
    13Feb

    Mele is just your average Samoan Jehovah’s Witness – except she’s a lesbian. After she comes out and embarks on a quest for true love…Read More

  • G.G. Talk that talk | Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara

    12Feb
    19Mar

    Within Auckland’s urban Pacific vernacular exist a sub-genre of terms…Read More

  • 2016 PÅ«tahi Festival

    Putahi 2016
    09Feb
    13Feb

    The programme for the PÅ«tahi Festival 2016 is out now…Read More

  • Survey / Fā’aliga

    06Feb
    20Mar

    Angela Tiatia’s Survey / Fā’aliga is the first solo exhibition in Māngere for this emerging video performance artist.
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  • Kalisolaite ‘Uhila | KELEKELE MO’UI

    05Feb
    12Mar

    Kelekele mo’ui (Giving Life) is a new performance work by artist-in-residence Kalisolaite ‘Uhila…Read More

  • Jeremy Leatinu’u | Queen Victoria

    05Feb
    27Feb

    Jeremy’s exhibition Queen Victoria opens Thursday 4 February…Read More

  • Certainly Very Merry

    02Feb
    02Mar

    Certainly Very Merry is a creative, diverse, joyful cross-section of work by GLBT visual artists…Read More

  • Camera Broke

    10Dec
    16Dec

    10 December – 16 December. 17 Tory Street, Wellington.
    Mishelle and Tanya Muagututi’a. Mishelle and Tanya record their peers from the creative world for the Camera Broke Series capturing a small part of the artists life what happens behind the scenes.
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  • Luke Willis Thompson; Sucu Mate/Born Dead

    29Jan
    27Feb

    Sucu Mate/Born Dead is Thompson’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.Read More

  • OLOA ORA | John Pule, Fatu Feu’u

    26Jan
    31Mar

    OLOA ORA dynamic show in dynamic locale… Read More

  • Tanu Gago & Pati Solomona Tyrell

    26Jan
    28Feb

    FA’AAFA is a solo performance by Pati Solomona Tyrell and The Sound of the Ocean…Read More

  • Rainforest

    05Dec
    26Dec

    5 December – 26 December. Miranda Farm Gallery, Miranda.
    Rainforest is a solo exhibition by Fatu Feu’u including paintings, prints and sculpture.
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  • THE MEMORIAL PROJECT: MANATUA

    24Jan
    24Jan

    WWI had an enormous impact on New Zealand’s relationships with the Pacific Islands.  ManAtua — which translates from Samoan as READ MORE >

  • Made of Snow featuring Ani O’Neill

    23Jan
    05Mar

    Made of Snow is a group exhibition featuring a new site specific installation from Ani O’Neill.Read More

  • TE ORO: Summer Holiday Programme

    20Jan
    03Feb

    The Pacific Dance NZ Holiday programme is an arts workshop series for children and young people. Read More

  • The Girl From Niue Island

    19Jan
    30Jan

    She was brought up to serve her culture, respect her elders and don’t talk back. She is to love the mean teachers at school, clean, wash the clothes, make the umu…Read More

  • The Plaza: Connecting Papatoetoe and Silo Park

    14Jan
    24Jan

    The Plaza engages local audiences in Papatoetoe and Silo Park to bring to light the unsung heroes of every day encounters – shopkeepers.Read More

  • Ghosts of a Second Samoan

    05Dec
    23Jan

    5 December – 23 January. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Andy Leleisi’uao. These images reflect ongoing issues within our communities that we need to address. Issues of malignant ignorance; hurtful to our loved and unloved.
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  • Enshrine

    04Dec
    01Feb

    4 December – 1 February. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Tiffany Singh. Enshrine, the latest meditative and multi-sensory installation by Tiffany Singh is influenced by the teachings of Anicca, or impermanence and the repeating cycle of life, death and rebirth.
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  • Vai Niu Wai Niu Coconut Water

    27Nov
    24Feb

    27 November – 24 February. Caboolture Regional Art Gallery.
    Curated by Léuli Eshraghi. Artists include Torika Bolatagici, Kirsten Lyttle, Salote Tawale, Angela Tiatia, Chantal Fraser, James Tylor, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Taloi Havini, Cecelia Kavara Verran, Latai Taumoepeau, Lisa Hilli, Steve Fieldsend, Eric Bridgeman.
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  • SAMOA TULA’I. Samoa Arise!

    27Nov
    24Feb

    27 November – 24 February. Caboolture Regional Art Gallery.
    Curated by Leanne Joy Lupele Clayton. Artists include Grace Vanilau and Fono McCarthy. This exhibition is by local residents from the Samoan community who participated in workshops organized by the MBRC Art Gallery Network.
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  • Write Night

    25Nov
    25Nov

    25 November. Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.
    Leilani is a poet, social commentator, Pacific historian and former New Zealand diplomat. In 2013 she was the Fulbright / Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the University of Hawai’i in Mānoa.
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  • Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8)

    21Nov
    10Apr

    21 November – 10 April. QAGOMA, Australia.
    Includes Nicolas Molé and Rosanna Raymond. The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT8) is the only exhibition series of the 160 biennials and triennials currently staged to focus on the contemporary art of Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
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  • Salafai

    19Nov
    10Dec

    19 November – 10 December. Studio One Toi TÅ«, Auckland.
    Ioane Ioane and Lalovai Peseta. Ioane Ioane and Samoan-based tatau artist Lalovai Peseta will collaborate through painting, drawing, tatau and carving, sharing the journey of two Samoan artists.
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  • Tungaru: The Kiribati Project (E – Book)

    14Nov
    24Jan

    Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith. Tungaru: The Kiribati Project is a collaboration between contemporary New Zealand artists, Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith. The show incorporates sculpture, photography and interactive video.
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  • Undressing the Pacific: Mid-Career Survey 2000-2013

    14Nov
    28Feb

    14 November – 28 February. Waikato Museum, Hamilton.
    Yuki Kihara. The exhibition Undressing the Pacific draws attention to the central role of dress in the art of Shigeyuki Kihara. Her performance and photographic works utilize dress as a key signifier of identity and reveal the body as a site of cultural inscription.
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  • Urbanesia

    13Nov
    28Nov

    13 November – 28 November. Various locations across Auckland.
    Experience over 70 events across Tāmaki Makaurau with Auckland’s contemporary Pasifika arts and culture festival. For a full programme visit www.urbanesia.org.nz
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  • You’re Local

    13Nov
    10Jan

    13 November – 10 January. Nathan Homestead, Manurewa.
    Curated by Elisabeth Alani. Artists include Louisa Afoa, Clinton Hewett, TK Hards, Daphiney Owens and Daisy Tavilione. You’re Local is an exhibition by five artists who all have a personal connection with the place, Manurewa.
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  • Enjoy Feminisms

    11Nov
    12Dec

    11 November – 12 December. Enjoy Gallery.
    Includes work from Dilohana Lekamage, Faith and Leafa Wilson and Single Brown Female. This exhibition contains eight pieces of work: three on display in the gallery, three onsite performative/participatory works, and two offsite participatory works.
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  • Oceans made from Sand

    07Nov
    16Jan

    7 November – 16 January. Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Robert George, Diana Gordon, Jasmine Te Hira and Kenneth Merrick. ‘Oceans made from Sand showcases four Pacific artists who explore themes of identity, culture, death and a sense of place in a contemporary context.
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  • Siva

    06Nov
    07Nov

    6 November – 7 November. ASB Theatre, Auckland.
    For 20 years the explosive and pioneering work of Black Grace has taken local and international audiences on an epic journey into the best of Pacific Contemporary dance. To mark this milestone, choreographer Neil Ieremia brings the large scale new work Siva.
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  • Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary

    06Nov
    26Jan

    6 November – 25 January. Ashburton Gallery, Ashburton.
    Curated by Nina Tonga. The Ashburton Art Gallery is delighted to present Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary an exhibition of work by thirteen Tongan New Zealand artists toured by Pataka.
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  • Pacifique(S) Conference

    04Nov
    06Oct

    4 November – 6 November. Le Havre University, France.
    The conference will coincide with “Pacifique(S) Contemporain” featuring thirteen Māori and Pacific artists across many spaces in Rouen and Le Havre. The exhibitions explore and reconsider relationships between Europe and the Pacific.
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  • Pacifique(s) Contemporain

    04Nov
    19Dec

    4 November – 19 December. Le Havre and Rouen, France.
    Janet Lilo, Ane Tonga, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Rosanna Raymond, Robert George, Greg Semu, Angela Tiatia and Michel Tuffery.
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  • Pollywood Film Festival

    04Nov
    04Nov

    4 November. Titirangi Theatre.
    Hosted by Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
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  • Without to Within

    04Nov
    28Nov

    4 November – 28 November. Bath Street Gallery, Auckland.
    Includes work from Jeremy Leatinu’u and Talia Smith. Without to Within is an exhibition of four lens-based artists, who investigate and recontextualise known exterior landscapes through their interactions, from both sides of the lens.
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  • Urban Mythologies

    02Nov
    22Nov

    2 November – 22 November. Northart Gallery, Northcote.
    Fidalis Buehler, Penny Howard, Kenneth Merrick, Tui Gillies and Sulieti Burrows.
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  • ManAtua

    31Oct
    31Oct

    31 October. Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku.
    Choreographed by Peresetene Afato and Terry Faleono. A dance performance as a tribute to mankind’s response to war. The ever changing world repeats yesterday, today, tomorrow.
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  • FCC Play Reading

    31Oct
    31Oct

    31 October. TAPAC, Auckland.
    Join FCC for a play reading of Wild Dogs Under my Skirt by Tusiata Avia.

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  • God and Tonga are my inheritance

    30Oct
    05Nov

    30 October – 5 November. Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara, Auckland.
    Emily Mafile’o. This series of photographs ‘God and Tonga are my inheritance’ presents images of Tongan people taken during the occasion of the 2015 Coronation, the official crowning of the King Tupou VI, ‘Aho’eitu ‘Uniaki’otonga Tuku’aho Tupou.
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  • Local Sound

    24Oct
    05Dec

    24 October – 5 December. Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland.
    Louisa Afoa and Anita Jacobson. Local Sound consists of two artists who grew up in Papakura and still have strong connections to people and communities within it. The project will be an exploration of a local time and space and the cultural memory embedded therein.
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  • Myths and Legends in my veins

    24Oct
    05Dec

    24 October – 5 December. Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland.
    Artists include Rosanna Raymond and Molana Sutton; Siliga David Setoga and Sean Terra Hill; Mandy Flood and Troy Egan; Vaimaila Urale and Dorothy de Lautour; Julian Chote and artist Ben Birks; Robert George and Reina Sutton.
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  • Yoke

    22Oct
    29Nov

    22 October – 29 November. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Angela Tiatia. Reflecting on the consequence of out-sourcing production overseas, Angela has filmed factory working life here and in China capturing the people behind the anonymous low cost labour force. Read More

  • Malaga

    17Oct
    18Oct

    17 October – 18 October. Q Theatre, Auckland.
    Thomas Fonua. Malaga is a dynamic new work featuring performers from Australian Dance Theatre. Tracing back to the 19th century when Samoan men, women and children toured Germany as part of “human zoos” or ‘Volkershau”.
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  • For King And Country – Ma’ae Tu’i mo e Fonua.

    17Oct
    22Nov

    17 October – 22 November. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Benjamin Work. Benjamin’s new works reference the ancient semiotic language surrounding chiefly lines found within Tongan artefacts housed in institutes across Europe and mixes it with his own impulses in a contemporary context.
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  • The SaVAge K’lub Inaugural High Tea

    17Oct
    17Oct

    17 October. Alleluya Bar and Cafe, Karangahape Road, Auckland.
    The SaVAge K’lub. The SaVAge K’lub invites you to indulge in an afternoon of conviviality featuring a variety of artful and literary entertainments. Exotic tea will be brewed, sumptuous treats will served, be sure to bring your own regalia.
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  • Talanoa, Colloquies of The Unrecognised Worker

    17Oct
    17Apr

    17 October – 17 April. MTG Hawke’s Bay, Napier.
    John Vea. The show will include existing sculptural and moving image works alongside a new performance piece based on interactions John has had with people in Hawke’s Bay. The underlying thread of the exhibition is the notion of Talanoa.
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  • My Own Darling

    16Oct
    22Oct

    16 October – 22 October. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Grace Taylor. Grace made her directorial debut last year with Skin for Auckland Theatre Company’s Youth Season and in My Own Darling she brings her heart and soul to the stage inviting audiences to join her on an intimate journey.
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  • Localise

    15Oct
    19Oct

    15 October – 19 October. The Plantation, Auckland.
    Ioana Gordon-Smith and Lana Lopesi. Localise is a temporary newspaper publication that will be produced for the Whau Arts Festival 2015, a weekend festival of music, visual art, theatre and performance.
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  • Whau Arts Festival

    15Oct
    18Oct

    15 October – 18 October. The Plantation, Auckland.
    The Whau Arts Festival is an epic-community-art extravaganza that is one of the highlights of Auckland’s annual creative calendar. This year’s line-up will include visual art, theatre, poetry, music, workshops and more.
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  • 3.15

    12Oct
    28Oct

    12 October – 28 October. Northart Gallery, Northcote.
    Includes Dagmar Dyck. An exhibition by current and past art teachers and students of Westlake Girls and Westlake Boys High Schools.
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  • Artweek Auckland

    10Oct
    18Oct

    10 October – 18 October. Various locations across Auckland.
    Artweek Auckland has been developed by the NZ Contemporary Art Trust. The aim of the event is to grow Auckland’s visual arts audience through discovery and discussion.
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  • Fresh

    06Oct
    07Oct

    6 October – 7 October. Q Theatre, Auckland.
    Includes Katerina Fatupaito and Chris Ofanoa. Emerging choreographers take on contemporary dance, mixing traditional forms with aerial circus, interactive props and Pacific folklore.
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  • MahābhÅ«ta

    28Sep
    19Nov

    28 September – 19 November. Malcolm Smith Gallery, Auckland.
    Tiffany Singh. Her site-specific installations deal with notions of ritual and sacredness. They are multi-sensory works with swarms of ribbons, flowers and bells. Her interdisciplinary artwork at Uxbridge brings together the diverse communities.
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  • PAA Pacific Conference in Tonga: Trading Traditions

    28Sep
    04Oct

    28 September – 4 October. Nuku’alofa, Tonga.
    The theme of this conference offers a myriad of investigations into the role/s art has played in the exchange of objects, peoples, technologies, and ideologies in the pre-historic, historic, or modern Pacific, not limited to ‘physical’ exchanges.

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  • All that glitters is not gold

    26Sep
    26Oct

    26 September – 26 October. The Vivian, Matakana.
    Includes Chris Charteris.
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  • Hood

    18Sep
    19Sep

    18 September – 19 September. Nathan Homestead Theatre.
    Directed by Troy Tu’ua. Join Robin Hood on an hilarious journey through the greeny steamy woods as he gathers his Merry Men to combat the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham who plans to marry the lovely Maid Marian.
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  • Them and Us

    16Sep
    17Oct

    16 September – 17 October. Various locations around Germany.
    Yuki Kihara. The Samoans are back! A century after they were lucratively exhibited in German Zoos, three of them return to Germany in a folk-colonial spectacle by the Berlin choreographer Jochen Roller and the Samoan performance artist Yuki Kihara.
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  • Pulse

    10Sep
    12Sep

    10 September – 12 September. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    The Pacific Institute of Performing Arts presents their Diploma One dance production with the presentation of two new group works and five duets.
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  • 24th Annual Wallace Art Awards

    08Sep
    08Nov

    8 September – 8 November. The Pah Homestead, Auckland.
    Includes Visesio Siasau (paramount winner), Lorene Taurerewa and Andy Leleisi’uao. These Awards are now the longest surviving and largest annual art awards of their kind in New Zealand, with a value amounting to over $195,000.
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  • Black Bird

    22Aug
    29Nov

    22 August – 29 November. The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.
    Lonnie Hutchinson. Bringing together diverse works from public and private collections throughout New Zealand, Black Bird is the first major survey of 16 years of Lonnie Hutchinson’s rich and varied practice.
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  • Pirianga Toto

    11Sep
    24Oct

    11 September – 24 October. Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland.
    Curated by Leilani Kake. Includes Cook Islands 15 Stars, Vaine Tini, Jane Anne Akamoeau, Renee Bevan, Teariki Engu, Robert George, Julienne Greig, Rua Henry, Clinton Hewett, Sylvia Marsters, Deborah McDonald, Courtney Meredith and Amiria Puia-Taylor.
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  • A study of a Samoan savage

    29Aug
    26Sep

    29 August – 26 September. Milford Galleries Dunedin.
    Yuki Kihara. The series, A Study of a Samoan Savage (2015), is comprised of two broad themes – the histories of motion photography and anthropometry – explored together.
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  • Know, what I mean Jellybean?

    27Aug
    12Sep

    27 August – 12 September. Big Willie Legacy Barber & Tattoo.
    Leilani Kake, Niutuiatua Lemalu, Genevieve Pini, Pati Tyrell. This exhibition touches on cultural chameleonism, and the negotiation of difference across cultural and social environments, vernacular and humour, ways of being and seeing.
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  • Tea Lounge

    22 August – 23 August. Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.
    Linda T. Tea Lounge is a collaborative installation featuring legendary video installation performance artist Linda T and Tasty Space Tea, a collective who aim to provide tea as a way of creating temporary and accessible community spaces.
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  • ST PAUL St Curatorial Symposium

    20 August – 22 August. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
    Includes Léuli Eshraghi. This year’s symposium is focused on expanding an ethics of curatorial practice, with a particular emphasis on alternative modes of education, research, and indigenous knowledge.

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  • PACIFIKUS

    8 August. Westergasfabriek Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    The show will capture the heart and soul of the Pacific. Sharing our unique Pacific cultures with the People of central Europe, as well as to the people visiting Amsterdam from all over the world at no cost.
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  • Make Me

    7 August – 31 October. Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga.
    Darcell Apelu. Darcell explores perceptions of the Pacific body through identification, specifically that of ‘being other’ within the social climate of New Zealand and the Pacific. Darcell’s work contests the position of constantly being ‘other’.
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  • That’s not Pacific Art

    6 August – 22 August. Big Willie Legacy Barber & Tattoo Studio.
    Featuring Faafeu Kapeneta, Ana Lakusa, Qingze Nan and Genevieve Pini. The second exhibition in the #PIMPIWinterSeries subverts ideas around what (and who) defines ‘Pacific Art’.
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  • Plants and Rags

    1 August – 21 February. Te Tuhi Billboards, Auckland.
    Talia Smith. Talia Smith photographs vacant industrial lots and failed developments for the latest instalment in Te Tuhi’s Billboard series. In exploring these banal urban sites, Smith seeks to capture a quiet beauty in their transitional state.
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  • Digital Talanoa

    31 July – 5 September. Fresh Gallery ÅŒtara, Auckland.
    Anonymouz, Mario Faumui, Vea Mafile’o, Emily Mafile’o, Lanita Ririnui Ryan and Wave 9. Digital Talanoa is a meeting / a hui between urban Pasifika people united by indigenous expression, a journey through an ever-evolving digital landscape.
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  • Flock west

    30 July – 6 September. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Niki Hastings-McFall. Concerns for the protection of cultural and environmental landscapes, underlies Flock west Niki Hastings-McFall’s. This immersive installation of multi-coloured bird forms is inspired by birds and all things avian.
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  • Medal Artists of New Zealand: Regroup Reflect Regenerate

    21 July – 20 September. The Pah Homestead, Auckland.
    Includes Fatu Feu’u. Regroup Reflect Regenerate looks to the past, present and future of this impressive group of artists through a comprehensive display featuring 35 exhibitors and over 200 medals.
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  • Matariki Art Market

    19 July. Auckland War Memorial Museum.
    Includes Numa Mackenzie. Nau mai e te hunga nui! Purchase unique works from some of Tāmaki Makaurau’s leading creative artists and enjoy performances, art and dynamic Māori culture in the atmospheric surroundings of Tāmaki Paenga Hira.
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  • WunderrÅ«ma: New Zealand Jewellery

    18 July – 1 November. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
    Includes Niki Hastings-McFall. WunderrÅ«ma binds the German word wunder (wonder) with the Māori word rÅ«ma (room), evoking ‘Wunderkammer’, or a cabinet of curiosities – collections of objects including artworks, cultural artefacts, and more.
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  • Post-Graffiti Pacific

    16 July – 23 August. aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney.
    Curated by Olivia Laita Benjamin Work, Gary Silipa and Route52. Embracing the concept of Post-Graffiti, and to highlight relationships to the new urban contemporary art movement, the artists emphasise their cultural backgrounds as New Zealanders.
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  • U Can’t Touch This

    16 July – 1 August. Big Willie Legacy Barber & Tattoo Studio.
    Curated by Ema Tavola. Includes Talafungani Finau, Sione Monu, Siliga David Setoga, Daisy Tavilione. Four Pacific artists have created new work about the head (literally), and the most important and sacred parts of life.

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  • TITLE TITLE WHAT’S A TITLE

    10 July – 11 July. Yes Collective, Auckland.
    Includes Talia Smith. TITLE TITLE WHAT’S A TITLE has evolved out of an collective google document, which outlines concerns over the tensions around the body and anxieties around representation in a proto digital age.

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  • Te Tuhi Party

    4 July. Te Tuhi, Auckland.
    Including Sione Faletau. Catch a ride on the Art Bus to Te Tuhi this Matariki for the Unstuck in Time book launch, and to conclude Auckland University’s Cities in a Climate of Change conference. The evening includes a video screening by Sione Faletau.
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  • The Woodcut Show

    1 July – 8 August. Solander Gallery, Wellington.
    Includes Michel Tuffery. Woodcut has been synonymous with printmaking for over 1000 years and yet as a medium still has the power to illicit challenging works of art. Woodcut, shows the hand of the artist in direct dialogue with the medium.
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  • It’s incredible…..It’s all ours.

    1 July – 25 July. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington.
    Chantal Fraser. Via experiences of seduction and longing, the curiosities and romanticism of colonialism are considered in reference to the past and allude to consequences of colonialism from a female perspective.
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  • Black Bird: A Selection

    27 June – 22 August. Franklin Arts Centre, Pukekohe.
    Lonnie Hutchinson. This show represents the wide range of Lonnie’s multi disciplinary practice including sculptures, video, prints, paper cut outs and framed prints. Lonnie focuses on the craft, process, and attention to structural properties.

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  • Ngā Mahi Tuku Iho (Skills From Our Ancestors)

    25 June – 27 July. Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland.
    Tanya Edwards. Ngā Mahi Tuku Iho (Skills From Our Ancestors) is a tribute by Tanya Edwards to her Māori and Tongan ancestors. Tanya embraces the traditional artform of her ancestors and pays homage to the wonderful histories recorded.
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  • Wrap my bones in wild taro leaves

    19 June – 2 August. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Reina Sutton. I am ripe Malaitan cocoa. I am blood red Tikopian turmeric. Flesh and bone. My bloodlines paddled. I ride on waves made of shoulders. Backbones. Childbearing hips. And scarred knees. I climb the spine of my mother.
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  • Embodied Spaces

    18 June – 26 July. De Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    Includes Yuki Kihara. In this project, Eyene continues an ongoing cross-cultural dialogue with women and queer artists addressing the body, gender, and sexuality in their work within the frame of African, Caribbean, Pacific, Black and Romani cultural identities.
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  • Tungaru: The Kiribati Project

    13 June – 30 August. Hastings City Art Gallery.
    Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith. Chris was inspired by the traditions of Kiribati to make contemporary works and Jeff documented their time in Kiribati and has created digital works exploring new technologies.
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  • Kindred

    12 June – 23 August. Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.
    Curated by Jodi Meadows. This show brings together a selection of New Zealand studio furniture designers whose work shares an interest in making work informed by a distinctly New Zealand point of view.
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  • Dawson

    12 June – 20 June. Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland.
    Fatima Alhussain, Nina Dong, Vii Esera, Veralyn Ioane, Losalina Milford, Isobel Tamatoa, Jezcie Toparea, Jess Liutogia. Dawson is the result of a series of photography workshops facilitated by Artspace-Tautai Education Intern Louisa Afoa.
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  • The Forgotten

    11 June – 13 June. Olivia Laita Gallery, Auckland.
    Route 52. Equipped with his 135 and 120 format cameras and his own in-house darkroom. He explores and captures abandoned Auckland sites and places that are frozen in time but are overcome by the nature of deterioration.

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  • Selina Shanti Woulfe: Curiosity Corner

    6 June – 5 July. Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.
    Selina Shanti Woulfe. Auckland based artist Selina often uses her own skin as a sensory material to be tested, crafting a dialogue between the body and mind that foregrounds the physical and psychological experience for wearer and viewer alike.
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  • Colour my Winter

    31 May – 20 June. Warwick Henderson Galley, Auckland.
    Includes Fatu Feu’u. Colour my Winter is an exhibition of works with a burst of colour.
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  • Two Bodies, Two Landscapes

    29 May – 21 June. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
    Greg Semu. This exhibtion reflects the short, contrary to expectations of no bloodshed embossed German -samoan time examined from a modern perspective with contemporary instruments that once divided, together lived historical episode.

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  • Sacred Suburbia – We know more than we know we know

    16 May – 28 June. Nathan Homestead, Auckland.
    Terry Koloamatangi Klavenes. This explores ideas around that much of what and how we see also exists largely within our heads. Maybe the amount of attention we choose to give to what we see is the determining factor in what we experience as reality.
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  • Tiny Niue

    16 May 10.30 – 12 noon. Upper NZI Room, Aotea Centre, Auckland.
    Includes Damon Salesa. As the wife of New Zealand’s High Commissioner to Niue, Margaret Pointer spent several years there and has now produced a highly readable 200-year history of Niue up to the establishment of self-government in 1974.
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  • The Art of the Play

    16 May 9am – 10am. Upper NZI Room, Aotea Centre, Auckland.
    Includes Victor Rodger. In two new Festival forums, we investigate the process of writing for the stage. In our first session, we ask what makes for a good play and marks the successes out from the flops? A part of the Auckland Writers Festival.
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  • Short and Sharp

    15 May 5.30 – 6.20pm. Limelight Room, Aotea Centre, Auckland.
    No excerpts here! Complete pieces of work read within ten minutes from the short story, poetry and essay team of Jose Barbosa, Julie Hill, Nic Low and Leilani Tamu, introduced by Rachael King. A part of the Auckland Writers Festival.

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  • Art-up 2015

    16 May – 30 June. Corner of Ponsonby and Franklin Roads.
    Includes Chris Charteris. FHE Galleries are pleased to announce a new exhibition space in the heart of Ponsonby this Autumn season. Situated on the corner of Ponsonby and Franklin Rds- ‘ART-UP’ will be a showcase of specially created new works.

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  • Go East: The Gene and Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection

    14 May – 26 July. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
    Yuki Kihara. This exhibition showcases Australian philanthropists Gene and Brian Sherman’s collection of contemporary Asian art, including artists from the Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Tibet, Thailand, Vietnam, China and India.
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  • Siapo Cinema

    12 May – 29 May. Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Gallery, Wellington.
    Sione Faletau, Lesieli Finau, Vea Mafile’o, Vaimaila Urale, Olga Krause aka Leafa Wilson, Atawhai Charteris, Anastasia Lafo. Tautai presents a compilation of moving image and multimedia work from Pacific artists.
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  • Personal Structures – Crossing Borders

    9 May – 22 November. Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy.
    Greg Semu. Personal Structures – Crossing Borders will launch one of Greg’s new three part auto series Earning my Stripes and his now iconic triptych Self Portrait with Front, Side and Back of Pe’a, Sentinel Road, Herne Bay for the first time in Europe.
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  • C.H.O.L.A.

    8 May – 20 June. Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland.
    Cerisse Palalagi (Ceeroc), Allen Vili (Onesian) and Waiora Palalagi (Hoodsavvy). Cerisse’s interests are diverse, often contemplating the interconnected mix of architecture, pattern & landscape investigating the connectedness through polyslang.
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  • Lay of the Land

    2 May – 13 June. Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland.
    Includes work from Sean Atavenitia, Talia Smith. Lay of the Land features lens-based artists that are currently recording the urban expansion and transformation in Auckland and its surrounds. Part of Auckland Festival of Photography 2015.
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  • Killer and Kind

    2 May – 7 June. Mangere Arts Centre Nga Tohu o Uenuku.
    Julian Hooper. Julian’s paintings for Killer and Kind revolve around his ancestry and include representations of his descendants. Often appearing abstract, his work is, however, figurative and takes an oblique look at modernism.
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  • Toutouta

    30 April – 2 May. Olivia Laita Gallery, Auckland.
    Benjamin Work. Toutoutā delves into the act of repetition. His new works explore the heliaki (semiotics) of the Akau tau (ancient Tongan war clubs) adorned with warrior symbols, the Tui’ Tonga (Sacred Ruler), and societal and spiritual constructs.

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  • Tamatoa

    25 April – 2 May. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Arnette Makimou Arapai. A WW1 1914-1918 play inspired by the 500 Cook Islands soldiers who went to fight for King and Country.

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  • The Checkmate of Wild Rainbows

    20 April – 22 May. Pierre Peeters Gallery: Vero, Auckland.
    Andy Leleisi’uao. Andy’s current series titled The Checkmate of Wild Rainbows is in homage to all those great men and women who are quoted on the Wall of Words featuring over 70 literary and other quotations that ‘capture the New Zealand spirit’.
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  • Since 1984: He aha te ahurea-rua?

    17 April – 22 May. St Paul St Gallery, Auckland.
    Including Elisapeta Heta and Jeremy Leatinu’u. Since 1984: He aha te ahurea-rua? brings together artists from the ‘kohunga reo generation’ – 30 years on. Acknowledging events of the 80s.

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  • Time of Others

    11 April – 28 June. Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan.
    Includes Graham Fletcher. The notion of a discreet, homogeneous continental or maritime unity is foreign to the Asia-Pacific region. Endeavours to define geographical borders or identity systems have been based on political agendas and ideological assumptions.
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  • Lest We Forget the 500 Cook Islands Soldiers

    11 April – 6 May. Depot Artspace, Auckland.
    Includes Richard Shortland Cooper, Teariki Engu, Tepaeru-Ariki Lulu French, Numangatini Mackenzie, Sylvia Marsters, Fongsaiyuk Mckanzie Ngaro, NiaVal Ngaro, Michel Tuffery, Cypress Vivieaere-Davis & images from the late Jim Vivieaere.
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  • The Lolly Witch of Mumuland

    11 April – 14 July. Mangere Arts Centre & Selwyn College.
    Lauren Jackson and Lolo Fonua. Another adventure in the wacky world of Mumuland, this time with a Hansel and Gretel theme… but like you’ve never seen them before! Be part of the adventure in the April and July school holidays!
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  • Resonance

    10 April – 3 May. Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
    Naup Waup, Salote Tawale, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Kirsten Lyttle, Chantal Fraser, Leuli Eshraghi, Anna Crawley and Eric Bridgeman. Curated by Chuck Feesago. Resonance is an exhibition of Pacific artists asked to celebrate individuality and voice.

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  • Imaginary Date Line

    3 August – 16 August. Artspace Sydney, Australia.
    Includes works by Pilimi Manu, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Darcell Apelu, Vea Mafile’o, and Janet Lilo. Imaginary Date Line is a selection of video art, made by artists from the Pacific region, many of whom live in New Zealand.
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  • The Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival 2015

    9 April – 11 April. Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne.
    The Contemporary Pacific Arts Festival (CPAF) is a showcase from Pacific diaspora communities in Australia. This festival explores Oceania Now: the spiritual, physical, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Pacific identity.

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  • TÄ«vaevae: Out of the Glory Box

    2 April – September. Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.
    Curated by Nina Tonga. Celebrates the art of Cook Islands quilting through Te Papa’s significant collection of tīvaevae.
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  • Construction Piece Scores

    1 April – 4 May. Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne.
    Ann Fuata. In Construction Piece Scores Victorian based artist of Samoan descent Ann Fuata will collaboratively develop a work based on ancient intercontinental ocean floor highways that are thought to stretch across the entire Pacific Ocean.
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  • Cultivate

    21 March. Wynyard Quarter, Auckland.
    John Vea. In a performance entitled Cultivate, staged with the help from the H.E.P.T. collective, urban taros will be planted in rows, suggestive of an island plantation, along the edge of the newly constructed Daldy Street.
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  • Tungaru: the Kiribati project

    21 March – 31 May. Pataka Art Museum, Wellington.
    Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith. Tungaru: the Kiribati project is a creative collaboration between artists Chris Charteris and Jeff Smith incorporating free-standing sculpture, wall mounted assemblages, photography and interactive video.
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  • Not To Speak Is To Speak

    20 March – 2 May. Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland.
    Gary Silipa. This solo exhibition will explore how art can be used as a medium to draw attention to social issues troubling his community in Auckland. Drawing attention to these social issues helps raise awareness and discussion around how positive change.

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  • Ha’amonga

    19 March. Otara Cube, Auckland.
    Sione Faletau curated by Ane Tonga. Ha’amonga will launch the new exhibition programme at the Ōtara Cube, a public exhibition space at the Ōtara Town Centre, curated by Ane Tonga with funding from the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board.
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  • Lady sings the blues

    18 March. Festival Club at Paradiso Spiegeltent, Auckland.
    Includes Ladi6 and Annie Crummer. It’s been one hundred years since her birth and Billie Holiday’s legacy endures. On this special night, some of Aotearoa’s finest female vocalists will perform songs by the Lady herself and by other legendary vocalists.

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  • Where the apple falls

    15 March. Festival Club at Paradiso Spiegeltent, Auckland.
    Tigi Ness, Che Fu, Annie and Will Crummer. Get some intimate insights into the dynamics that have shaped some of our greatest artists and share the magic of music that binds and spans generations.

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  • Te Wā Tōiri

    14 March – 24 April. Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.
    Includes Niki Hastings-McFall and Ioane Ioane. Wā refers to space and time while Tōiri is used in this context to mean to reverberate and tingle. A sense of continual movement pervades all the works transporting viewers through meanings, memory and place.
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  • WHITE NIGHT WORKSHOP

    14 March. Studio One Toi Tu, Auckland.
    Reina Sutton and Molana Sutton. Create your own piece of jewellery inspired by traditional Solomon Island body adornments with sister artists Molana and Reina Sutton.
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  • Falesā

    12 March. Loft Q Theatre, Auckland.
    Concept by Nathanial Lees with John Pule, Bill Urale, Ingelese Ete. Falesā is a work being developed for the stage using a fono matai process. Fono matai is based on the shared experiences and ideas of senior-level artists with strong cultural connections.

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  • Flock

    10 March – 29 March. Whitespace, Auckland.
    Niki Hastings-McFall. Niki’s work is instantly recognisable due to its originality and spanning of genres – jewellery, sculpture, mixed media assemblage and installations. It draws on aspects of our cultural landscape in disarming and provocative ways.

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  • Black Bird: Lonnie Hutchinson 1997-2013: A Survey

    7 March – 2 May. Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland.
    Lonnie Hutchinson. Bringing together diverse works, from sculpture and paper-cuts to video and virtual reality ‘experiences’, Black Bird is the first major survey of Lonnie Hutchinson’s varied and rich practice.
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  • I AM

    6 March – 7 March. ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, Auckland.
    Mau directed by Lemi Ponifasio. I AM questions our humanity, faith and redemption. Colin McCahon’s expressive painting victory over death 2 (1970) dominates the work. Frighteningly beautiful projections loom large behind the performers.
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  • Fale Ula

    4 March – 22 March. TimeOut Festival Garden, Auckland.
    Niki Hastings-McFall. Using synthetic lei, one of her signature materials, Hastings-McFall ‘polynises’ the green space of Aotea Square into a vibrant, living artwork based on the Samoan fale, creating a site of contemplation, relaxation, gathering and sharing.
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  • Lorene Taurerewa

    2 March – 10 March. Patan Museum, Nepal.
    Lorene Taurerewa. As a part of her residency at Patan Museum in Nepal, Lorene is showcasing work that she has made during the time.
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  • PACIFIC MATERIALITY

    4 March – 28 March. Studio One, Auckland.
    Curated by Natasha Matila-Smith. Ayesha Green, Salome Tanuvasa, Kenneth Merrick, Claudia Jowitt and Robbie Fraser. Selected artists investigate materiality through the medium of painting.
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  • A’oga Hutt

    28 February – 7 March. Common Ground Arts Festival, Wellington.
    Facilitated by Lana Lopesi. Performances by Atapana Meleisea, Faith Wilson, Leafa Wilson aka Olga Krause and Darcell Apelu. Intersecting art and education A’oga Hutt is a centre for sharing Pacific narratives acting as a hub of activity over the week.
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  • 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience

    25 February – 24 May. New Museum, New York.
    Includes work by Luke Willis Thompson. Titled “Surround Audience” this exhibition features fifty-one artists and artist collectives from over twenty-five countries; for many, this will be their first inclusion in a museum exhibition in the United States.
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  • Tonga ‘I Onopooni

    20 February – 7 April. Forester Gallery, Oamaru.
    Curated by Nina Tonga. Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Dagmar Dyck, Glen Wolfgramm, Julian Hooper, Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka, ‘Ilo Me’a Fo’ou, Ane Tonga, Ahota’e’iloa Toetu’u, John Vea, Lucy ‘Aukafolau, Emily Mafile’o, Vea Mafile’o and Terry Koloamatangi Kalvenes.
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  • Nuku | Symbols of Mana

    14 February – 26 April. The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.
    Tui Emma Gillies. Mana is a ‘creative and dynamic force motivating the individual’. When combined with wahine (women), mana extends the capacity for women’s potential, communicating our integrity, influence, authority, prestige, and power.

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  • Grills

    13 February – 8 May. Waikato Museum, Hamilton.
    Ane Tonga. Grills is a new photographic series and moving image work that explores the intersection between Tongan notions of beauty defined as faka’ ofo’ ofa and western ideals of beauty. This is part of an ongoing photographic investigation.
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  • CELLBLOCK RESIDENCY

    11 February – 4 March. Cell Block at Studio One.
    Christian Wolfgramm, Talia Smith curated by Natasha Matila-Smith. The artists will occupy a studio in the Studio One cellblock as residents from 11 Feb to 4 March. At the conclusion of the residency, they will present an exhibition of the works created.
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  • Wave of Possibility

    11 February – 7 March. Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland.
    Based on the eastern concept of the chakra, this collaborative work between Tiffany Singh and the Auckland Print Studio aims to combine the vibrational qualities of sound and colour together to correspond to the connection between aspects of the human body.

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  • Culture for Sale Forum

    4 February. Studio One Toi TÅ«, Auckland.
    Presentations by Yuki Kihara, Mandy Treagus. Moderated by Caroline Vercoe. This Culture for Sale Forum explores the inspiration behind Shigeyuki Kihara’s itineric live performance and video installation ‘Culture for Sale’.
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  • ‘O lā ‘āitu lāitiiti We have always been here

    3 February – 11 February. Studio One Toi TÅ«, Auckland.
    Léuli Eshraghi. Tautai Trust Artist in Residence 2015 Léuli Eshraghi will discuss his and wider Islander Arts Practice in Australia with interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara before launching his exhibition ‘O lā ‘āitu lāitiiti (We have always been here).
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  • Loops and Lines

    27 January – 14 February. Whitespace, Auckland.
    Kenneth Merrick. Through image making Merrick seeks to convey perspectives that form a basis for a type of visual thinking, underpinned by explorations into cultural experience, speculative spaces, and myth.

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  • FORM

    24 January – 7 March. Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland.
    Claudia Jowitt and Jasmine Te Hira. Following on from CONSTANT PRACTICE, which focused on hands-on making from diverse contemporary visual artists; FORM takes objects – made from clay or paint – as subjects looking at them within intuitive production.
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  • Back to the Future

    23 January. Headland Scuplture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island.
    John Ioane with Numa Mackenzie, Daren Kamali, Rev Mua Strickson-Pua, Siliga David Setoga, and members of the SaVAge K’lub including Reina Sutton. Join us for an evening of performance on and around the Star (mound) and the Tangaroas.

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  • headland Sculpture On the Gulf

    23 January – 15 March. Matiatia Walkway, Auckland.
    Artists include Lonnie Hutchinson and Ioane Ioane. The 2015 exhibition walkway will provide an enjoyable experience for all our visitors. The 2km walk takes approximately 2 hours to enjoy the magnificent views and, of course, the sculptures!

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  • Close To The Heart

    16 January – 23 February. Waiheke Community Art Gallery.
    Artists include: Chris Charteris and Sheyne Tuffery. “Close to the Heart” is our summer exhibition of small sculptural works, wearable sculptural pieces and small wall installed pieces, works that capture the notion of endearment.

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  • Between Wind and Water

    10 January – 24 January. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington.
    Tanu Gago, Leilani Kake, Luisa Tora curated by Ema Tavola. An exhibition providing context for a series of talks, gatherings and activities offering opportunities to discuss art, themes, and wider context of art about Pacific experience in Aotearoa.
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  • PIKO: Pacific Islander Contemporary Art

    10 January – 26 July. The Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum, USA.
    Noelani Arists, Micki Davis, Chuck Feesago, Sia Figiel, Moana Nepia, Carl Pao, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, and Lorene Taurerewa. This exhibit examines the current state of contemporary art by Pacific Islanders based in the United States and its Territories.
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  • Tivaevae

    1 December – 24 December. BCA Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
    Tungane Broadbent and Vereara Maeva –Taripo. Tivaevae artists collaborate in an amazing exhibition. Broadbent who features in the Queensland Art Museum collection, with Maeva – Taripo will present new pieces, handstiched over the past 18 months.

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  • The Great World (fonuagalo)

    10 December – 31 December. Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.
    John Pule. When John Pule first arrived in inner city Auckland, the formal tenets of poetry and painting were largely unknown. Over the next 30 years Pule would explore new directions, and has since emerged as one of this countrys most recognised painters.
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  • Ko e hala Hangatonu: The Straight Path

    7 December – 2 March. Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua.
    Robin White and Ruha Fifita. Iconic New Zealand artist Robin White has collaborated with Tongan artist Ruha Fifita over a number of years to create a monumental installation of ngatu (painted tapa) to be exhibited at Pataka Art + Museum this Summer.
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  • Life is but a Vapour

    11 December – 1 February. Te Uru Gallery, Auckland.
    Tiffany Singh. Calling A Circle: He Karanga Pae by McCahon House Artist in Residence Tiffany Singh is about the concept of wellbeing in relation to the process of grief, death and dying. Complete immersion in an engaging activity, it’s a natural anti-depressant.

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  • The Drowned World

    4 December – 6 December. Silo Park, Auckland.
    Curated by Daniel Satele. Lesieli Finau; Nina Oberg Humphries; Sara Riordan; Elyjana Roach; Salome Tanuvasa; Jasmine Te Hira and Luisa Tora. The Drowned World, is a virtual exhibition exploring the intimate connection between human life and water.

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  • Pasifika Clothing est 1992

    26 November – 20 December. Studio One Toi TÅ«, Auckland.
    Pasifika Clothing opened in High Street and sold wholesale to high end stores such as World and Paris Texas; meanwhile aligning the label with New Zealand hip hop culture and an emerging Tāmaki-Makaurau/Pasifika/Aotearoa/Indigeni cultural identity.

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  • At The Wake

    25 November – 6 December. Written by Victor Rodger.
    Robbie Magasiva (Wentworth), Lisa Harrow (Step Dave), and Taofia Pelesasa (Black Faggot) star in At the Wake, a deliciously inappropriate black comedy coming to Auckland for the first time.
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  • Wayfinding: Discourse Art Exhibition

    24 November – 29 November. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Written by Iaheto Ah Hi, Directed by Leilani Clarke. Includes Allen Vili (Onesian), Tom Natoealofa, Martin Leung-Wai, Lava Fifita. A unique theatrical experience. The inter-arts performance will use real-time motion capture technology and audience interaction.

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  • Afakasi

    23 November. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Written by Antonia Stehlin directed by Nastassia Wolfgramm. A traumatic experience births Leilani Etuale’s hatred towards her father’s culture. She struggles to identify herself with the Samoan culture she so desperately wants to be a part of.
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  • PEQUOD

    21 November – 21 December. Hopkinson Mossman Gallery.
    Fiona Amundsen, Peter Robinson, Luke Willis Thompson. Affect is dormant or not quite, at least not exactly activated by the sensitive. Rather, it lies in wait, like something present under the surface, beyond the immediately recognisable.
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  • Urban Drift

    21 November – 17 January. Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland.
    As part of Urbanesia 2014. Curated by Ane Tonga includes Leafa Wilson and John Vea. Urban Drift is a group exhibition which is intended to reflect the shifting experiences of people migrating from rural to urban areas, often known as the ‘urban drift’.

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  • Cult Couture: Fabrik Navigators

    21 November – 22 November. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Held over two days, the Māngere Arts Centre will erupt with an exclusive feature Pacific couture multi-media show by international designer Lindah Lepou, a fashion market, a fashion competition, and a textile and adornment exhibition.

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  • SaVAge K’lub

    20 November. Māngere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    The SaVAge K’lub presents 21st South Sea SaVAgery influencing art and culture through the interfacing of time and space, deploying weavers of words, rare anecdotalists, myth makers, hip shakers, navigators, red faces, fabricators, actiVAtors, installators.
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  • Dead Pigs Don’t Grow On Trees

    15 November – 19 December. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Rosanna Raymond. Exploring Polynesian art and the body Rosanna Raymond is exhibiting a mix of fabrications, installation and acti.VA.tions. She works with people, spaces and things to activate relationships between them, to realise and reshape the ta-va.

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  • Poly Typical

    14 November – 10 January. Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland.
    Unpacking the visual narratives used to generalise the identities of urban Pacific youth, Poly-Typical digitises the collective Pacific experience through performance, photography and moving image.
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  • Du ngatu à soi

    13 November – 25 November. Galerie Winkler, Papeete.
    Including Dagmar Dyck. Festival du Tapa Tahiti.

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  • Cook Island Mamas

    13 November. Otara Town Centre Stage, Auckland.
    Cook Island Mamas. Local Cook Island traditional arts community groups will fill the air with the sounds of their songs, music and laughter while their hands create wondrous works of Cook Island cultural art works.
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  • PACIFICA LIVING ARTS FESTIVAL

    11 November – 14 November. Pacifica Arts Centre, Auckland.
    A Celebration of Pacific culture! The Pacifica Living Arts Festival is back for another year of vibrant colour and excitement. Featuring arts and crafts, traditional food, performances by school groups as part of the West Auckland Multi-Cultural Schools stage.
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  • Making Visible

    8 November – 17 January. Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith. Paul Klee once stated “Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible”. Though he was referring to the capacity of painting to capture the intangible, his comment could also be applied to the work in this exhibition.
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  • Pollywood Twelve 2014

    2 and 29 November. Various locations in Auckland.
    Pollywood Twelve 2014 boasts nine films that will screen in Pollywood for the first time. This 90 minute multi-genre visual feast has something for everyone – all ages are welcome to enjoy the filmic menu.
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  • Xmas Verses

    29 October – 9 November. Hamilton and Auckland.
    Neil Ieremia and Black Grace. Xmas Verses is a collection of original dance works laced with humour, full of invention and choreographed by one of our most celebrated artists, Neil Ieremia. Take a break from the gift wrapping, iron your favourite t-shirt.

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  • IMPressive V – Wansolwara: Print here and now

    28 October-30 November. Nathan Homestead, Auckland.
    Every inked image participates in a migration like shift from its start point, be that a plate, block, screen or file, to place(s) where it will be seen. The printed image sits on a new ground, always in the here and now, separated from yet connected to its origins.
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  • The Way Home

    28 October – 12 December. Calder & Lawson Gallery, Hamilton.
    Margaret Aull draws upon tensions between divergent cultures and fused heritage. Aull confronts tradition and what it means to be indigenous – being in and from different places – and creates a space to question and subvert cultural authority.
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  • Rhythms from New Zealand

    26 October. Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh.
    Grace Taylor and Tusiata Avia. Aoteorea, with its north and south islands, marks the furthest destinations of the Pacific voyagers. Today, poets and storytellers, just like our guests Grace Taylor and Tusiata Avia reach out from New Zealand across the oceans.

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  • Goosh

    24 October – 30 November. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Claudia Jowitt. Claudia Jowitt’s distinctive abstract paintings are inspired by questions around the potential of painting as an object – an object that suggests a history of its method of construction.
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  • Black Faggot

    24 October – 25 October. The Suter Theatre, Nelson.
    Written by Victor Rodger. Meet the undercover brother desperate to prove he’s straight, an island mama whose beloved son turns out to be queer, a pious teenager trying to ‘pray the gay away’ and a tough Samoan homo who’s out, proud and in your face.
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  • New Ground

    21 October – 25 October. Chambers 241, Christchurch.
    Joshua Bashford. Josh investigates mark making and its ability to portray themes such as faith, family and landscape. Exploring his Samoan heritage has allowed him to take Pacific art themes to new levels and show very contemporary facets of the culture.

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  • Pacific Heritage Artists Project: Artists from Niue

    19 October. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland.
    In association with Creative New Zealand, the Museum celebrates the 40th anniversary of Niue Constitution Day and the last day of Niue Language Week, with visiting senior heritage artists from Niue.
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  • Hauora Garden

    18 October. Studio One, Auckland.
    Includes Claudia Jowitt and H.E.P.T. Learn about Rongoa Maori, and medicinal, edible and endangered plants. Make a pot for a plant with the Wednesday Night Pottery group, enjoy delicious food from The Little Caterer, a performance by H.E.P.T.

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  • #Islandtime

    18 October – 2 November. Mangere and Otara Town Centres.
    Curated by Lana Lopesi. Artists are Louisa Afoa, Sione Faletau, Atapana Meleisia, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Janet Lilo, Caleb Satele, Salome Tanuvasa, Cora Allan Wickliffe. #ISLANDTIME breaks down the gap between Pacific time based art a Pacific audience.
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  • Braveheart Art Exhibition

    16 October. Pavilion 6, ASB Showgrounds, Auckland.
    Artists include Dagmar Dyck and Lorene Taurerewa. includes live music, wine, canapés, free parking, and the first viewing of a remarkable and diverse range of quality and affordable art by contemporary New Zealand artists.
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  • Offstage6

    17 October. The Plantation, Auckland.
    Offstage is Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust’s annual moving image and live performance event. The one-night-only exhibition will feature four videos and three performances from local Pacific artists, who have each responded to the unique space.
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  • Yours Truly

    16 October – 19 October. Various locations in Avondale, Auckland.
    Lana Lopesi curated by Transit Projects. This collection is in many ways an heirloom of personal histories, for myself, my family and the people who once used the stamps. Bigger than that it is way of tracking the colonial history of this island homeland.
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  • Whau Arts Festival

    16 October – 19 October. Various locations in Avondale.
    Whau The People. This festival is focused on showcasing, celebrating and activating the creative diversity that exists within the Whau local board area. Including an array of workshops, exhibitions, performances, talks and family-focused events.
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  • Nelson Arts Festival

    16 October – 27 October. Various venues in Nelson.
    Includes Victor Rodger, The Roots. This year we celebrate our 20th year. with over 150 artists and guests from around New Zealand and across the globe, we are delighted to share this carefully selected line up with you all.

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  • Sons

    16 October – 25 October. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Written by Victor Rodger. He sees a photograph of his half-siblings, whom he always knew existed but has never met. Ignoring the advice of his mother and grandmother, he delves into his Samoan heritage with explosive consequences.

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  • O lā āitu lāitiiti | Those small spirits

    15 October – 1 November. Rubicon ARI, Melbourne.
    Matthew Bray, Léuli Eshraghi, Grace Vanilau. Kulin Biik/Melbourne-based artists offer new works interrogating received notions of remembrance, cultural memory, native Oceanian/Pacific spirituality.

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  • The Pasifika Years: Guided walk with Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua

    12 October. Studio One Toi Tū. Auckland.
    The Pasifika Years: Guided walk with Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua as a part of the Auckland heritage festival. Relive a different time in Ponsonby’s past with an entertaining guided walk along Ponsonby Road with ex-gang worker and poet Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua.
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  • If These Walls Could Talk

    12 October – 14 October. Imperial Lane, Auckland.
    Includes Benjamin Work. This event marks the launch of the mini-documentary series If These Walls Could Talk. Funded by NZ On Air, this series takes a closer look at the people and practice within New Zealand’s street art community.
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  • A Tale of Three Cities

    11 October. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    All the poets are performing in support of the festival aiming to raise awareness on NZ Social Justice week with proceeds going to Hagar International, an organisation dedicated to rehabilitating victims of human trafficking.
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  • Making Connections

    11 October. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland.
    VOU Dance Company. As part of Fiji Language Week, dancers from the dance company VOU have collaborated in a workshop with local Auckland Fijian youth. See their responses in dance in which they express their culture and urban identity today.
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  • Rungan Kiribati: Kiribati Day

    11 October. Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland.
    Throughout the course of a day you will experience live performances, art demonstrations and engaging discussions on Kiribati culture. Rungan Kiribati: Kiribati Day has been curated in collaboration with the local Kiribati community.
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  • Tau Tupua: The Spirits

    10 October – 19 October. Britomart, Auckland.
    Robert George, Vela Manusaute and Toa Tahi Taihia. In 1915, 149 young Niuean men were recruited into the Maori Contingent to serve in the First World War. This little known history was the starting point for Tau Tupua: The Spirits.
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  • Artweek

    10 October – 19 October. Various locations in Auckland.
    Includes Benjamin Work, John Pule, Robert George, Toa Tahi Taihia, Vela Manusaute, Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Nathan Suniula, Erik Lopeti, Salesa Pepe. Whau Festival. Expanding the visual arts audience through discovery and discussion.
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  • Community Practices

    10 October – 11 October. Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin.
    Lead by Amiria Puia-Taylor. Community Practices: A workshop exploring, connecting and localising the art making process.
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  • Sei ‘O Fafine

    10 October. Aurora Centre, Christchurch.
    A passionate, engaging and deeply vibrant inside peek into the gendered world of Tongan society and family. Told through Tongan contemporary dance, dramatic dialogue, monologue and song in a close family setting.

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  • 3 Chords and the Truth

    11 October. Omiha Hall, Waiheke Island.
    Includes guest speaker Selina Tusitala Marsh. As a part of The Waiheke Book Festival, join the Adulterators, poets Cliff Fell and John Newton, as they explore the musical traditions which have shaped their work.

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  • Louder – The Serigraph Pop-Up Exhibition

    10 October. Studio 40, Auckland.
    Artists include Benjamin Work. All serigraph pop-up exhibition for one night. The featured artists will be exhibiting an extremely limited edition print run each, with all profits going towards Hagar International and their fight against human trafficking.
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  • Double Derelicts

    9 October. Q Theatre, Auckland.
    Choreographed by Justin Haiu, performers include Tupua Tigafua. Share the joy and tomfoolery of the award winning White Face Crew in a superbly choreographed show, involving couch leaping, shoe stealing, and good old fashioned clowning around.

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  • Singular Visions

    8 October – 12 October. The Cellar, Corbans Estate Arts Centre.
    Includes Lesieli Finau. A showcase of photography and moving image by artists whose work engages with mental health issues, drawing upon personal experience or their connection with others.
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  • Mataqali Drift

    8 October. Q Theatre, Auckland.
    VOU Dance Company. Having performed all over the world they now come to Auckland to debut their latest work Mataqali Drift. No white sand beaches and island madens, this is the real Fiji. Raw, Urban and Real.

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  • Fair Play

    6 October – 12 October. The Pearce Gallery, Auckland.
    Includes Nathan Suniula, Erik Lopeti, Salesa Pepe.
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  • 3:15

    6 October – 17 October. Northart Gallery, Auckland.
    Westlake Girls and Westlake Boys ex/current students and teachers including Lily Laita.
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  • Walking the wall

    3 October – 31 October. Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne.
    Angela Tiatia. ‘Walking the Wall’, is part of an ongoing series, ‘An Inventory of Gestures’, exploring the tensions that operate between mass global culture and minority culture, with particular focus on the norms and rules placed upon femininity.

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  • Selected Work

    3 October – 31 October. Paul Nache Gallery, Gisborne.
    The narratives of her work are centered on the dualities of God and evolution; the eternal versus the ever-changing; love and free will versus determinism; the conscious versus the subconscious. Creating of characters she composes into unique allegories.

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  • Spiritus Aitu

    3 October. NASDA Theatre, Christchurch.
    Playful and Vicious an ancient belief system calls into question our nature. Inspired by the Polynesian belief in Aitu (Spirits) as sacred guardians and enforcers of all things taboo, Aitu are watchful of shifts and imbalances within the natural world.

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  • One Night Stand

    2 October. Fuzzy Vibes, Auckland.
    Curated by Lana Lopesi, including Sione Faletau. One Night Stand is a single night of performance, on the door step, Karangahape Road. As well as it being a night of curated public performance, the works will enter discussions of our social political landscape.
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  • Ebbing Tagaloa

    1 October – 25 October. Enjoy Gallery, Wellington.
    Paula Schaafhausen. Ebbing Tagaloa features a series of Tagaloa figures that reference the nineteen beaches and bays of Wellington. Moulded from coconut oil and sand, the figures will melt and harden with fluctuations in room temperature throughout. Read More

  • Back to Black: The Landscape of Unease in Aotearoa

    29 September – 7 December. Whangarei Art Museum, Whangarei.
    Includes Ioane Ioane and Julian Hooper. This exhibition is notable for showcasing some of the most rarely seen artworks in New Zealand many of them coming from private collections from Northland.

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  • Music and Me

    25 September – 27 September. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Written and directed by Victoria Schmidt. Set in South Auckland, Music and Me is a slice of urban kiwiana that gives insight into the gritty world of the Manurewa nightlife. The growing phenomenon of street prostitution has emerged on the streets of Manurewa.Read More

  • Tatau 1978 – 2005

    9 September – 2 October. Ilam Campus Gallery, Christchurch.
    Mark Adams. Paulo Sulu’ape was the pre-eminent Samoan tattooist of his generation. Mark Adams met him in 1978 and photographed his practice and that of his brothers and cousins. After Sulu’ape’s death in 1999 Adams produced a new series.
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  • Moana ’14

    25 September – 30 September. TAPAC, Auckland.
    Pacific Dance New Zealand. Moana ’14 is a celebration of Auckland as a Pacific City. Moana is a forum in which to present works which express a range of specifically Pacific voices in the form of dance. Experience their journey of heritage, modernity and urban flux.Read More

  • Velvet Dreams

    27 September – 22 October. Milford Galleries, Dunedin.
    Shigeyuki Kihara is one of New Zealand’s leading interdisciplinary artists whose work engages in a variety of social, political and cultural issues.
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  • Gentle Foundations: extrapolations of The Whare in the Bush

    24 September – 28 September. St Paul St Gallery 3, Auckland.
    Includes Elisapeta Heta. This exhibition draws upon the narrative, memory and moments of the project from the perspective of two members of the team, Rebecca and Elisapeta, through a series of mixed media installations.
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  • DNA Deadly Nui Art

    16 September – 5 October. Blakdot Gallery. Melbourne.
    Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Lily Aitui Laita, Mariaa Randall, Damien Shen, Frances Tapueluelu, Tony Tia, Chanel Winarti. Blak Dot Gallery is exploring the concept of DNA as a hereditary self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms.

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  • Api

    16 September – 22 September. The Gallows, Unitec, Auckland.
    David Vaea, Danielle Dooley and Diana Aiono Gordon, Api is an exploration around the theme of identity drawing from individual experiences, the artists have come together to present a show that illustrates the diversity of identity found in Aotearoa.
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  • The Bond of Time

    13th September. Titirangi War Memorial Hall, Auckland.
    The Bond of Time has been recently republished with an introductory essay by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. Pule is a powerful voice, in both the visual and literary arts of the Pacific. In reading and conversation the wellsprings of this voice will be explored.Read More

  • Daegu Biennale

    11 September – 31 October. Daegu Culture and Arts Centre, South Korea.
    Shigeyuki Kihara.

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  • From the Islands: Dreams, Fragrance & Extinction

    12 September – 19 October. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland.
    John Pule. From the Islands: Dreams, Fragrance & Extinction. features eighteen new handwritten poems by John Pule. The blue inked poems are a reflection on Pule’s extensive travel in the Pacific.

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  • Tukutuku Kafa Mei Lotomoana: Survey Part Two

    6 September – 2 November. Mangere Arts Centre, Auckland.
    Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi.Part Two showcases his recent works in diverse materials. Tohi’s artwork is based on the patterns and traditions of lalava, the ancient Pacific art form used for binding materials together
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  • Welcome

    5 September – 4 October. ARTSPACE, Auckland.
    D.A.N.C.E Art Club, Single Brown Female (Leilani Heather and Talia Smith), John Vea. W e l c o m e curated by Ahilapalapa Rands initiates conversations between and beyond six new projects, which will occur within and outside of the gallery.
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  • Papercuts

    3 September – 21 September. Lake House Arts, Auckland.
    Includes Lily Laita. The Annual Auckland Secondary Art Teachers’ Association exhibition celebrates the “teacher-artist” and the show is always innovative, engaging and thought-provoking. Paper is the starting point, or the end point and anywhere in between.
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  • Beauty and the Bro

    2 September – 4 October. Various venues around Southland.
    Includes James Nokise. Take an acclaimed folk singer and a celebrated Samoan/Welsh comic, and be rewarded with an evening of music and comedy like no other.
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  • Respect Fa’aaloalo

    30 August – 23 September. Vanya Taule’alo, Apia.
    Three Samoan Usos, three different styles, present artworks about Respect: Fa’aaloalo.
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  • New Paintings

    30 August – 24 September. Milford Galleries, Dunedin.
    Solitary characters on an empty stage inhabit the strangely beautiful world in this exhibtion of Lorene Taurerewa’s new paintings. Disembodied faces emerge from indistinct backgrounds and a collection of incongruous props accompany the players.Read More

  • Tauhi Vā

    29 August – 4 October. No’o Fakataha and guests, Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland. Tauhi Vā is the latest group exhibition of Auckland-based Tongan artist’s collective No’o Fakataha.
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  • Between the Line, Crossing the Lines, Over the Line

    25 August – 10 September. Northart Gallery, Auckland.
    An exhibition by three artists, Dagmar Dyck, Emily Mafile’o and Vea Mafile’o who explore the personal, family and environmental identity and history
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  • Dream Speak

    25 August – 10 September. Northart Gallery, Auckland.
    Of Kiribati and American heritage, his paintings are shaped by his Pacific/Western upbringing, infusing dreams, story-telling, chants and rituals and incorporating American pop culture and folk tradition in whimsical and highly imaginative ways.

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  • SLEIGHT OF HAND

    16th August – 16th November. Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
    Includes Graham Fletcher. This exhibition explores detailed elements within both the works themselves and the diverse artistic practices including; a strong attention to detail, illusion, theatricality and transformation.
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