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Recent exhibitions

Gentle Current, 2025, Unique Gel Plate Monotype

Rekindled Memories

Hamish Macaulay
24 January–1 March 2026

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Aukati ki te Whaiao


12 December 2025 – 15 February 2026 Bottle Creek

Whenua Made-Photo by Nikki Parlane

Whenua Made

Creative sustainabilityfrom Aotearoa artists
15 November 2025–19 January 2026 Toi Gallery

Mana Arts Society-2025

Haerenga Whakapakari: A Journey through our landscape

Mana Arts Society
24 October–7 December 2025

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Transplant

Heather Kremen
12 Sept–9 Nov 2025

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Not One More Acre: Remembering the 1975 Land March


16 August – 19 October 2025 Bottle Creek Gallery

Winter Warmth_Jo Reeve

Woven: Tantalising Textiles

Port Nicholson Handweavers
1st August – 7 September 2025 Toi Gallery

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Festival of Wood 2025

The Wellington Guild of Woodworkers
28 June–10 August 2025 Bottle Creek Gallery

70s Dames group photo-group

The 70s Dames

Anneke Borren, Jenny Shearer, Pamella Annsouth
21 June–27 July 2025 Toi Gallery

Jasmine Togo-Brisby, It is Not a Place, 2024_01

Jasmine Togo-Brisby: ungeographic


26 July–9 November 2025

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Leafiness – living shapes us all

Rhona Orr
9 May—15 June Toi Gallery

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Kei runga, kei raro: As above, so below

Mitchell Manuel
28 March–4 May 2025

Imagination Engine-web

Arca Arcade“Round One”

Preston Khan McNeil
12 April–22 June 2025

Janet Mazenier and Sarah Treadwell -web

Transient encounters & transformational shifts

Janet Mazenier & Sarah Treadwell
14 February–23 March Toi Gallery

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Lovers &Castaways


29 March–6 July 2025 Front Gallery, West Gallery

Matarau 44, Photo Cheska Brown

Waiora

Hemi Macgregor
29 March–6 July 2025 Daylight Gallery

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Toloa Tales

Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai
29 March–6 July 2025

Kim Ireland and Java Bentley

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Kim Ireland and Java Bentley
1 February – 6 April Bottle Creek

student artwork Porirua East School, Mandala 2024 copy

Toi Rama

Inspiring Tamariki Through Art
15 November 2024 – 9 February 2025 Toi Gallery

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Points of No Return– Liana Leiataua


9 November 2024 – 26 January 2025 Bottle Creek

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Jack Kirifi

Tokelau tā tatau – Tokelau tattoo: A re-connection to Tokelau cultural identity
27 September – 10 November

E sab amma log ke sapna hai hum - Seema Singh

Katha:

Stories of the Girmit Women of Fiji
20 September – 3 November 2024 Bottle Creek

Child’s boro noragi-Ca1920s -1930s

Boro – Timeworn Textiles of Japan


14 December 2024–9 March 2025

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Rangirua


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Taku Hoe


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Diane Prince: Activist Artist


2 November 2024–9 March 2025

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Birgit Moffatt: Reimagining Geometry


9 August – 22 September 2024

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The Friends of Pātaka Art Awards


26 July-15 September 2024

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Mauri Oho

Ka mua ka muri: Reflecting on our past to inform our futures
31 May – Sunday 21 July 2024

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Matt Overend: Views from my Chair


3 May–16 June 2024

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