Come along to the opening event of ‘Meat and Three Veg’ this Friday 9th August 5-7pm!!
Thank you to River Valley Meats who have sponsored us sausages, and Liberty Brewing some beers. Come on down for a good ol’ Kiwiana night out and celebrate the opening of this exhibition with us.
What began as an inspirational idea from one of our artists Murray Silverstone and his ‘concrete’ fruit sculptures, has now grown into a group exhibition responding to the theme ‘meat and 3 veg,’ a kiwi classic.
Murray Silverstone has a passion for growing food and is a volunteer with Kaipara Good Food. He works in the community gardens to grow vegetables to put into the Kai packs that are distributed to the community. This has been his inspiration to make concrete sculptures of fruit and vegetables for the Meat and 3 veg exhibition.
50% of all Murray’s sculpture sales will be donated to Kaipara Good Food to further help with their food distribution. So come on down and support local and put back into the good work of our community!
Artists Tracey Roberts, Jeffrey Thomson and group artists who participated in our ‘Meat and 3 Veg’ painting course are also part of this group exhibition
Join us for the opening celebration of Susannah Connolly’s exhibition ‘Nature is Calling,’ with guest artists Alexis Waterhouse and Shannon Mawdsley Friday 12th July 5-7pm.
There will be creative art, poetry and story. The opening event will be a unique experience and one not to miss!
Exhibition dates are 10th July – 3rd August
Tilly and Yoshi are students at Helensville Primary School. This exhibition was orchestrated by the two friends who have been inspired by recently exhibiting at the Art Centre.
Their work, individually and combined, are a reflection and response to our natural environment, the pieces humble and magical take you into their individuation, each piece being uniquely driven.
You are warmly invited to their opening Friday 12 July 5-7pm
f/30 and other locals
We welcome Festival Of Photography 2024, theme ‘Believe’.
This year we will be exhibiting an outstanding range of imagery by Kaipara College students who are studying towards NCEA Photography at Level 2 and 3, alongside established and upcoming photographers in the Helensville region.
Works in this exhibition seek to explore themes such as; constructed realities and identity through portraiture, still life and landscape photography.
This exhibition offers a glimpse into the rich experiences and perspectives of our rangatahi within this community, and local photographers from our Helensville community whose belief in the captured image have led them to share their own unique viewpoint through this medium. Like any community, voices are diverse and contrasting, making this a show not to be missed!
Exhibition dates 29 May – 15 June
Opening evening Friday 31 May 5-7pm all welcome
We welcome this years Matariki with the whakatauki ‘adorn the bird with feathers so it can soar’.
This year we embrace ‘enabling’, which is an important role for us as a community art centre. We endeavor to enable artists to create, to be encouraged to participate in a gallery experience, and most importantly to feel safe in the space we offer.
This May we have Helensville Art Trail exhibiting. Dates are 1 – 25th May, opening event Saturday 4th May 4-6pm all welcome.
HAT is a group of 12 Helensville artists who hold open studios on the third Sunday of each month. This May they combine their practices to hold a joint exhibition uniting diverse medias and materials.
Come join us in celebrating our members exhibition ‘New Works’ this April.
Exhibition dates are 3rd – 27th April, opening event Friday 5th April 5-7pm!
Exhibited is a wide range of diverse media, from sculpture to glass, painting to installation works. The multiplicities make for an exciting visual feast you will not want to miss!
28th February – 28th March
opening event Saturday 2nd March 3pm
Emma and Shona will be taking an artists run workshop, Saturday 16th March 11-1pm $25 per person.
For more details email manager@artcentrehelensville.org.nz
Kaipara Awa – A River That Connects Us
31st January – 24th February 2024, opening night 2nd February 5-7
The Kaipara River, which winds its way through our town, preceding the settlement of Helensville, and at times defining it, is as much a symbol as a physical body of water. This new year at the Art Centre, we will be hosting an exhibition which reflects what our awa means to us.
