12 November – 8 December
AV Gallery

From the first word written on an empty page, an inspired laugh to a paint-splattered studio – The Wallace Arts Channel Video Series shifts the lens to celebrate various artists, performers, writers and musicians that the James Wallace Arts Trust has supported over the years.

6 November – 8 December
Photography Gallery and Master Bedroom

Fire & Clay 2019 showcases and awards the outstanding pottery and ceramics of members of the Auckland Studio Potters (ASP). Our selector this year is Dunedin artist Jim Cooper.

23 October – 1 December
Long Gallery

Five emerging artists from the Wallace Arts Trust
Naomi Allan, Craig Cook, Poppy Hewison, Zheng Viola Lin, Vivienne Worn

15 October – 8 December
Boardroom

At My Desk is an intimate and compelling exhibition of Small Drawings curated from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection.

17 September – 3 November
Photography gallery

A Fragile Ecosystem is a photographic tribute to Aotearoa’s kauri, focusing on how photography can strengthen human connections with the indigenous flora of Aotearoa. This project asks how photographs can be used to establish a deeper reflective connection between humans and plants, thereby promoting a more caring and responsible relationship with Aotearoa’s endangered whenua.

17 September – 3 November
Master Bedroom

The Trust stages exhibitions of recent acquisitions on a regular basis throughout the year. These demonstrate the support we give the visual arts through our ongoing, active and widespread acquisition programme.

17 September – 3 November
Little Gallery and foyer

Māpura Studios provide professional, person-centred, visual arts classes and art therapy programmes for adults, youth and children of all abilities. The Pah Homestead is proud to showcase works by the artists who attend the studio in Fowlds Park, St Lukes, and satellite locations around Auckland.

17 September – 13 October
Boardroom

The winners for 2019 have been announced!

In the spirit of the Wallace Art Awards, the Wallace Secondary School Art Awards recognise and celebrate emerging artistic talent in New Zealand. These are the young artists to look out for in the future. Artworks in the mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture make up the works on show.

3 September – 20 October 2019
Long Gallery

In this year’s Salon des Refusés you can view the works that nearly made the finalists travelling show of the 28th Annual Wallace Art Awards.

3 September – 10 November
Ground floor galleries

See all the Winners for 2019

The annual Wallace Art Awards profile outstanding examples of contemporary New Zealand art. The aim of these important awards, with $275,000 in prizes, is to foster, honour and support the practices of visual artists.

24 July – 15 September
Boardroom and Little Gallery

Geometry of Thought presents an assemblage of artists who utilise geometric aesthetics to channel their senses, producing compelling and unique artworks that complicate the relationship between experience and reality.

24 July – 15 September
Master Bedroom

Drawing on the detritus of his surroundings, Campbell Patterson engages in conscious acts of repetition to document the banality and absurdity of everyday life – causing the ordinary to become abstract. Through the language of film, painting, sculpture, printmaking and text, he translates common materials, or habits, into formalist exercises that meditate on boredom as an aesthetic device.

23 July – 15 September
Photography gallery

In these short animated works, Digital Design students in the School of Art & Design at AUT explore the documentary genre, using the medium of animation.

23 July – 1 September
AV gallery

This exhibition showcases work by Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Art & Design students exploring experimental 3D animation and digital motion capture.

17 July – 1 September
Ground floor galleries

Moonage Daydream presents a large-scale exhibition of New Zealand artist Andrea du Chatenier. With a career spanning twenty-plus years, du Chatenier’s work is in sum contemporary sculpture with a myriad of materials, techniques and themes. This exhibition draws on two threads of her practice – figurative sculpture and ceramics.

Presented as part of the second annual Matariki Māori Film Week, this is an exhibition of moving image and photographic works of master Māori cinematographer Fred Renata. Fred Renata was camera crew on Merata Mita’s seminal work Mauri, and has been cinematographer for numerous feature films (Fracture, Mt Zion, Poi E), documentaries (Let My Whakapapa Speak) and short films (Ahi Kā and Baby Steps). Curated by Leo Koziol of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, this retrospective exhibition provides a comprehensive survey of the cinematic vision of Fred Renata – Te Ao Mai Ngā Whatu Māori.

The Trust stages exhibitions of recent acquisitions on a regular basis throughout the year. These demonstrate the support we give the visual arts through our ongoing, active and widespread acquisition programme.

A key aspect of this activity is the assistance given to emerging artists and artists as they develop. This results in a growing “diary” collection which now amounts to over 9,000 works.

Portraits by a group of artists who met regularly to draw friends, this is a collection of likenesses that were made thirty years ago. As well as the chance to line up the images to recreate the circle of vantage points around the subject, these drawings also sit the person back down in the room with us. The drawings presented are by Mary McIntyre, Glenda Randerson, Jo Smith and Terry Stringer.