‘Shining Lights’ Glow in the Dark Pop Up Exhibition

Come and celebrate glowing talent from our tamariki and rangatahi afterschool classes! This is a one week pop up show which will run across our gallery spaces, our Teen group will have an installation in the main space, and a ‘black out room’ is set up for the glow in the dark walk through experience.

We welcome you to the opening event Friday 13th March 5-6:30pm. The show is on 11th – 14th March.

Giant Wheke

For one week only our ‘Giant Wheke’ soft sculpture squid created by ‘Project Teen’ is on display in our Main Gallery. Please come check out the wonderful sculpture made possible thanks to Rodney Youth funding, and do some art in our creative spaces. On for the School Holiday’s until January 31st

Te Awaroa

‘Te Awaroa’

An exhibition by group artists celebrating the Kiapara River and our local region Te Awaroa.  

Please join us this Friday February 13th for our first exhibition opening of the year! 
To celebrate and offer a fun night out for the community, we have live music, drinks and nibbles and of course, amazing art by local and visiting artists! 

Musicians Tony Johns and Tony Blomfield will be gracing us with their talent, both have a wide expanse of musical experience and most importantly, know how to put on a fun night! 

 
Tony Johns is a New Zealand–based musician and songwriter with a career spanning several decades. He first emerged in the 1980s as a member of National Anthem, who released an EP, multiple singles, and the album One Day Different. Alongside his work as a recording artist, Tony has written professionally for commercials and documentaries. He is currently a member of Mecuzine, who have recently released their third album, Wait Till It’s Finished, and continues to focus on original, experience-driven songwriting. Tony Blomfield played classical piano since he was 6 and played guitar as well as keyboard in many Bands. Ray Woolf and the Avengers, Dallas Four, Bob D five and backed Gray Bartlett to name a few. He also mentors up and coming vocalists. They think a good name is ‘Two Tone’ (two Tony’s 😉

Exhibition dates 4-28th February
Opening night 13th February 5-7pm

Cash and Carry 2025

Our Christmas Cash and Carry Exhibition is on now until we finish up for the year on 20th December!
Come grab a unique gift for someone this year, or treat yourself to your own taonga!

Our opening night is this Friday 5th December 5-7pm, where we will be celebrating the artists and the art of this year! Come celebrate with us for drinks and nibbles, and a bit of laughter, cheer, art conversations and perhaps a spot of Michael Bublé for an added Christmassy touch 😉

See you then!

Cash and Carry entry form 2025

Earth Fire Smoke

An exhibition by ceramicist and mixed media painter Janet McLeod for our Arts in the Ville event. 

Janet will be in the gallery each day during the event ‘playing with clay’ and letting visitors give it a go. Arts in the Ville is our annual art trail and this year is it’s 10th year celebration! we are thrilled to have such a substantial show by Janet over this special event weekend.

October 25th, 26th and 27th 10-4pm

‘Something Perfect and Something Unfinished’, Because

 

Exhibition dates 24th September – 18th October, opening event Friday 26th October 5-7pm all welcome

There’s a lot of chance in his work – paintings start off with him following wood grain patterns in plywood surface (Jeff Thomson)

South Head artist Because focuses on the beauty in imperfections. While the arbitrary execution of paint and colour pose as ‘unfinished’, this act of making is purposeful in the content of the work.

‘There is something so perfect in flawlessness’ (Because). As a self-taught artist, Because in his later life draws inspiration from remembering ‘colouring book’ activities as a child; the trust, naivety and confidence in a young mind approaching art is an attribute nurtured by Because in his personal art practice.

‘Real Bodies’ Jo Dixey

Jo Dixey, former well known and loved Helensville resident is exhibiting her significant selection of work themed ‘Real Bodies’.

During the exhibition Jo will be taking a ‘pendant making’ workshop, visit our workshop page for details and booking.

Dates for the exhibition 29th October – 22nd November, opening event Friday 31st October 5-7pm all welcome.

We Read Auckland ‘Speakeasy’

Our upcoming exhibition for We Read Auckland in collaboration with the Helensville Library, will be holding an ‘open mic’ night. Artists, poets, writers and script readers are invited to come and ‘share their word’.
 
Exhibition dates are 29th July – 23rd August displaying a vast range of ‘text in art’ using a variety of medias and visual methods.
 
Come to our ‘Speakeasy’ opening event Friday 8th August 5-7pm and celebrate this unique show with us!

‘Cups’ Members exhibition

Members exhibition ‘Cups’

27th August – 20th September

Opening event Friday 29th August 5-7pm all welcome

What does a ‘cup’ symbol to you? It can represent many things, daily comfort, sustenance, provisions, creative importance (I have many fabulous cups that are ornamental not functional) – or perhaps the traditional representation of the actual ‘cup’ in painting or ceramic domestic ware!

Come and view a diverse variety of the general and abstract version of ‘Cups’

 

Still Here / Todavía Aquí

Still Here / Todavía Aquí
 
Opening event Saturday 5th July 11-1pm morning tea all welcome.
 
During an artist residency in northern Chile, Auckland-based artist Milvia Romici visited one of the largest fast-fashion waste sites in the Atacama Desert. Among mountains of discarded clothing, some still bearing tags, the overwhelming scale of abandonment struck her. Much of this waste will never break down. Synthetic fibers leach toxins into the soil and air, endangering local communities.
This exhibition combines fabric fragments mostly denim and fast fashion remnants salvaged from the desert and sewn by hand. Working closely with local artists and residents, Romici recorded reflections on what it means to live alongside this material saturation. Their voices are part of the installation, including prints, sculpture and video to reflect about the sticky, enduring bonds between waste and place, industry and ecological consequence.
Waste doesn’t disappear it clings, seeps, settles. But within these remnants lies the possibility of attention, connection, and change. This is a tactile archive not only of grief and complicity but of care, resilience, and a form of quiet resistance against forgetting,
against disposability.