Exhibition Archive 2024
14 December, 2024 - 4 May, 2025
Treasures in the Landscape is a sculpture exhibition not to be missed with sculptures on show from The Arts House Trust collection.
The sculpture Waitakaruru by the late Paul Dibble will be included alongside works by Brett Graham, Greer Twiss and Terry Stringer to name a few.
28 November 2024 - 9 March 2025
Ground Floor Galleries
Pushing Parallels is a celebration of re-learning and questioning traditional art practices. Showcasing a diverse group of multidisciplinary artists from Aotearoa, they are encouraged to experiment, pushing the limits of their mediums to create a playground of colour and form. Curated by Abbie La Rooy, Kiki Hall, and Michael Prosee, the exhibition features works from The Arts House Trust collection alongside invited artists who, although formally trained in one discipline, have ventured into new artistic territories.
8 November 2024 - 16 February 2025
Upstairs Galleries
HANDSHAKE is an arts mentorship programme in New Zealand established for independent jewellery artists. It is designed to nurture individual practices through resources, guidance and inspiration, to create unique and meaningful pieces that reflect artistic styles and perspectives.
8 November 2024 - 16 February 2025
AV Galleries
Io opens a portal to our ancestral realm and territories beyond, acting as a vessel for introspection.
16 October 2024 - 16 February 2025
Little Gallery
小さな命が囁いている(whispers) explores the delicacies of the smaller moments we may miss in our day to day lives. Take a moment of respite and indulge in the art of seeing, long forgotten from our childhood.
By quietly approaching the gallery space, artist Kiki Hall works to reignite the viewers sense of wonder in her first solo show.
20 September - 3 November 2024
First Floor Galleries
Touring Exhibition from NZ Portrait Gallery
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages emerging Māori artists to create portraits of their tūpuna (ancestors) in any medium. Administered by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia.
12 September - 24 November 2024
Ground Floor Galleries
Featuring contemporary collage by George Hajian, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Teresa HR Lane, Peter Madden, Kenneth Merrick, Tracey Tawhiao
Now in its 12th year, the annual event recognises and celebrates emerging artistic talent in New Zealand. The awards are a fantastic way to explore your artistic potential, challenge yourself, and take your passion for art to the next level.
Year 11, 12 or 13 students submit one artwork via The Arts House Trust website. Finalists will be selected by The Arts House Trust team and will be exhibited at the Pah Homestead.
4 September - 1 December
Morrinsville Gallery
Light From Near and Far brings together many works from the Arts House Trust Collection and works by Audrey Goggin, Sophia Malota, Bridget Pahl, Angus Collis and Shan James, to explore how artists utilise a sensitive depiction of light to convey emotion and intimacy. Whether portraying distant landscapes or close domestic scenes, each work communicates a distinct lightness through the artist’s use of colour, texture, or their treatment of space.
15 August – 15 September 2024
Opening Night: Wednesday 14 August 6pm
Curator Talk and Walk Through: TBA
First Floor Galleries
This annual exhibition showcases and awards the outstanding pottery and ceramics of members of Auckland Studio Potters (ASP). ASP will shortly announce the selector and judge this year.
24 July– 15 September 2024
Opening Night: Wednesday 14 August, 6pm
AV Gallery
THE SEA INSIDE HER is an exhibition of paintings and a short film. Utilising performers, puppets, household objects and paint, the immersive experience is about the fragility of staying in control of oneself. Each piece depicts an older woman’s response to a wild animal encroaching on her domestic space.
5 July – 8 September 2024
Ceramics
Jaime Jenkins & Janna van Hasselt
This exhibition brings together the practices of Jaime Jenkins and Janna van Hasselt, to broaden our thinking of ceramics beyond domestic functionality. These artists construct sculptural work from clay lead by other influences including architecture, nature, industry, and Fine Arts.
30 May – 21 July, 2024
AV Gallery
Matariki Exhibition
On 23rd March 2020, just days before the Level 4 lockdown was announced, artist Tanya Ruka asked her mother to perform a karakia on the point overlooking the gannet colony at Muriwai. Presenting a dawn karakia with Whaea Jane Mihingarangi Ruka, Ngāti Pakau, Ngāpuhi, Waitaha.
30 May - 11 August 2024
Opening Event: Thursday 30 May 4-6pm
Artist Talk: Friday 31 May 11am-12pm
First Floor Galleries and Foyer
An exploration of Staged Photography with works by Andrea Gardner and from The Arts House Trust Collection. Subjects are presented in forms of disguise and explore identity, selfhood, and the psychological tension found in female experience.
Presented in association with the Auckland Festival of Photography 2024.
26 April - 26 May, 2024
Opening Event: Saturday 27 April, 1.30-3.30pm
First Floor Galleries
Curated by Kiki Hall and Lexi Kerr
Buttercup and Lavender presents the idea of the sweetness of awe, the space is transformed into a scene of whimsy, celebration and memory. Curated by and composed of female artists, the space draws inspiration from curator Peter Shaw’s house at the edge of Pirongia.
26 April - 26 May, 2024
Opening Event: Saturday 27 April, 1.30-3.30pm
Boardroom Gallery
Hyphen brings together artists of Asian descent into the Back Room to reflect on their existence as workers and creatives in the world. The reality of being an artist is to constantly play a game of tug of war between one's practice and the costs of sustaining a livelihood.
6 March – 30 June (extended date), 2024
Ground Floor Galleries
Slow Art Day: Saturday 13 April
Lovers & Castaways explores the decade in which Aotearoa experienced a shift in its social, political and economic landscape – the 1980s – through artworks drawn from our collection.
Presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival.
22 February – 21 April, 2024
Artist Talk with Matilda Gold (R18): Thursday 22 February, 10am
AV Gallery
More Than Just unfolds as a celebration of resilience, individuality, and the right to self-expression. This exhibition encapsulates the myriad roles sex workers play in their daily lives — creators, thinkers, and agents of change. It challenges the viewer to see beyond the surface, encouraging a deeper understanding of the human behind the label.
22 February – 21 April, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 28 February, 6pm
Panel Discussion: Wednesday 20 March, 6pm
First Floor Galleries
Ululau Ama and Sarah Holten have both lived with their own personal challenges. Art has been the common language through which they could express themselves. This exhibition through Māpura Studios celebrates their recognition by Creative New Zealand as outstanding artists.
1 December 2023 – 3 March 2024
Curator Talk: Wednesday 6 December, 11am
Artist Talk with Finn Ferrier: Sunday 11 February, 10am
Ground Floor Galleries
If you’re a yachtie and you’re “luffing”, your sail is flapping – you’ve gone too far easing out the sheet, and you’re no longer harnessing the wind – out on the water, an encounter with this term is familiar, known, and informative. Here in the gallery, the word comes across unexpectedly, cute, and perhaps with a hint of intrigue. The idea of the four seasons served as a guide in our summer major exhibition.
23 November 2023 – 18 February 2024
Little Gallery & Boardroom
Clouds reign over us in the sky. They seem too far from our reach when in fact, they may be much closer to us than we think. In this exhibition, artist Orimi explores the relationship between our emotions and the clouds. Reflect deeply on your true emotions and feelings that you may have hidden amongst the clouds.
3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6-8pm
AV Gallery
As a city awakens, early morning hues colour an increasingly busy scene. The dawn chorus, having just completed their concert, is now busy foraging. Animalia, human, are also beginning the day. Ensconced in moving metal cages, they follow each other in a ritual resembling ants.
In this delicate dance of survival, it is essentially a human decision determining where these spaces converge, forcing other species to adapt or perish. Morning Commute offers a view where the seemingly opposing worlds of urban and natural environments collide.
3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6-8pm
Master Bedroom Gallery
Deceased Estate (2023) invites us to “move into” a space not entirely our own; vacated family homes, mysterious rental properties, storied shared flats, or one’s first home. These works speak to the precarity of an object’s value, and how legacies can persist unseen in the “stuff” we inherit.
Dillon Gamble is the 2023 recipient of The Arts House Trust & Jan Warburton Graduate Exhibition Scholarship.
3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6pm
Curator Talk with Richard Penn: Saturday 17 February, 10.30am
Photography Gallery
AiR2 is Auckland Studio Potters’ second Artist in Residence exhibition. This year, it showcases the work of the seven ASP residents during 2023. Established in 2019, the resident programme welcomes applications from national and international potters to spend up to three months in one of ASP’s two pod studios. The artists include young graduates, PhD candidates, traditional artisan master craftsmen through to contemporary exhibiting artists and modern table and homeware specialists.