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AWHI
Ten Last Strokes Collective 23rd September - 25th October 2025 Main Gallery and Pip Gallery Opening Saturday 27th September. 2 - 3:30 pm Step into a powerful celebration of care, connection, and creativity with Awhi—an evocative new exhibition by the Ten Last Strokes Collective. Inspired by the life and legacy of iconic New Zealand artist Allie Eagle, this diverse group of artists came together through Allie’s expressive drawing and painting sessions at Corban Estate Arts Centre. The Ten Last Strokes artists: Fiona Barrett Jane Davies Kathrine Fraser Lynda Kerr Brenda Liddiard Mary Ann Manchego Jo Marshall Natalie McAndrews Trisha McCormick Gaël Rowntree Jillian Sole Ana Ter Huurne Maggie Wanty |
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Growth Segments
Leah Hartley 19th August - 20th September 2025 Pip Gallery Opening Friday 22nd. 5-7pm "Growth Segments is a series of low temperature ceramic works inspired by collected plant debris. I liked how the found forms I used recorded responses to things like sunlight, wind, nutrition, the presence of neighbours etc. The twists and turns and branching diversions mirror, in ways, my own lived experience." LH |
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‘GET INKED’ Printmaking Exhibition
A Kumeū Arts Members Exhibition 19th August - 20th September 2025 Pod Gallery Opening Friday 22nd. 5-7pm Printmaking in all its forms are welcomed into this show - from mono printing and relief to etching, Get Inked showcases the diversity and creativity of print-based practices. |
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‘GET FIRED’ Ceramic Exhibition
A Kumeū Arts Members Exhibition Accompanied by GROUNDED, a series of paintings by Steve Tollestrup 19th August - 20th September 2025 Main Gallery Opening Friday 22nd. 5-7pm Our ever-popular ceramics exhibition Get Fired is back — celebrating the depth, diversity, and creativity of ceramic artistry. This year, the show is joined by Grounded, a compelling painting series by Steve Tollestrup. Created with hand-ground earth pigments and a muted palette, these oil sketches offer “a painterly approach to the tactile presence of ceramics". |
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Quiescentual Longing
Lisa Watkins 22nd July - 16th August Pod Gallery Opening : Friday 25th July 5- 8 pm "Quiescentual Longing: Definition (creative adaptation): Quiescentual (adj.) — a poetic blend of “quiescent” and “sensual,” describing a state of quiet yearning, dormant energy, and still resistance. It evokes the hush before motion, the ache before release. As the world tilts toward chaos, Quiescentual Longing offers a still, defiant counterpoint. These sculptural and mixed media works — crafted from repurposed community-sourced materials — pulse with texture, bold color, and unruly form. Beneath their surface hums a steady resilience: longing not just for calm, but for the strength to remain wild and whole." LW Website: www.myshinymadness.com |
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BLACK + WHITE
A Kumeū Arts Members Exhibition 22nd July - 16th August Main Gallery + Pip Gallery Opening: Friday 25th July 5- 8 pm - Black + White dress up party with live music. This is a themed members exhibition. With 78 artworks made by 39 different artists who have made work in a variety of different ways, including: Charcoal, ink, clay, photography, sculpture, painting and ceramics. |
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MATARIKI 2025
A Kumeū Arts Members Exhibition 24th June – 19th July Opening: Friday 27th June 5- 7 pm Pod Gallery A collection of reflections on the themes of the Māori New Year. This show included work by thirteen of our members - including one young artist. A range of thoughtful and sensitive pieces were displayed. |
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CONNECTION
A Creative Connections Podcast Group Show (previously Creative Matters) 23rd June – 19th July Opening : Friday 27th June 5- 8 pm Main Gallery & Pip Gallery Creative Connections Podcast (previously Creative Matters) celebrates the stories of artists and arts practitioners of Aotearoa: their personal journeys; their perspectives; their art practices and their unique creative processes - with a goal to inspire, educate, encourage creativity, document and archive a part of Aotearoa NZ's social history. Host and founder, Mandy Jakich (pictured) has recorded over 150 interviews. Now, for the first time over 60 of the artists she has interviewed will bring their work together for this exciting exhibition. The Pip Gallery features sculptures by Levi Hawken. With a live Podcast recorded in the Gallery - Saturday 5th July - 2-4pm Listen to the Podcasts below www.creativematters.co.nz/podcast |
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The Auckland Festival of Photography
27th May – 21st June Opening : Friday 30th May 5- 7 pm Visual Brain Shake by Annie (Jong) Park - Pod & Pip Galleries Annie (Jong) Park invites you to experience her photography collection, where creative perspectives transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. This exhibition takes you on a visual journey, prompting interpretation and discovery. Through abstractions of both natural and man-made forms, textures and details emerge. Combining traditional and modern techniques, black-and-white and vivid colour, minimalism and complexity, this sequence explores contradictions and showcases her passion for photography and artistic experimentation. |
Annie Park - Planets in Motion
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The Auckland Festival of Photography
27th May – 21st June Opening : Friday 30th May 5- 7 pm Kumeū in Focus Kumeū Arts Members and the Kumeū Photography Group will display a range of subject matter and style in their annual exhibition ‘Kumeū in Focus’. A section will be given to the 2025 Auckland Festival of Photography theme inviting interpretations of ‘Sustain’ [tautīnei] |
Jago Neal -Fisheye at Piha
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THE KAA WINNERS EXHIBITION
30th April – 24th May Opening : Friday 2nd May 5- 7 pm Pod Gallery This exhibition will feature the work of the prize winners from the Kumeū Arts Awards 2024, including youth winners and the People's Choice: Duncan Moore Fiona Newton Natalie Gelder Rachel Cullen Darlene Te Young Misty Lynn Lily Pye Kyra Alkamil Nico Harrison Kyra Barker Kim Randall |
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Class of Amber Emm
29th April – 24th May Opening: Friday 2nd May 5- 7 pm Main Gallery & Pip Gallery Works in oil, acrylic, watercolour and pastel produced by participants in Amber's weekly classes held here at Kumeū Arts. View Amber Emm's work here https://www.amberemm-art.com/ Entry Forms available from Kumeū Arts reception Amber (current students of Amber Emm). |
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Myth & Shadow - The power of landscape and place
Darlene Te Young Pod Gallery 1st - 26th April 2025 Opening – Friday, 4th April. 5 pm With live music from Darlene & friends & poetry by Arthur Amon. "An investigation of mood, melancholy, and transcendence within landscape by blurring boundaries between known place and imagination. Acknowledging the significance of place to our identity and how perception of shared landscape is shaped by individual experience and memory. My interest in this has come about by my return after two decades to live in Whangaparāoa, the place of my childhood. A familiar landscape now seen with different eyes." |
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Where Have All The Apples Gone: Book Launch & Exhibition
Chris Smellie & Guy Wishart Main Gallery and Pip Window Gallery 2nd – 26th April 2025 Opening & Book Launch: Saturday 5th April. 5:30-8 pm "Food is the first of the great pleasures we experience and the last to leave us. This book (and exhibition) is about a particular group of New Zealand food producers for whom the taste experience is significant – orchardists and growers. For author Chris Smellie, this has been a passion project for many years. Chris says, “It began as a record of the fruit growing district of Huapai, which remains still central to the book, but as I wrote and researched I was drawn ever further into many aspects of fruit (and food) production in New Zealand. I reached back to the beginning of the Fruitgrowers Federation and further back again and again until I found the wonderful painting by Hawaiian Herbert Kawainui Kane of an ocean-going waka, Kupe Discovers New Zealand, reproduced early in the text.” The exhibition at Kumeū Arts will include a display of fascinating historical advertising, paintings, and photographs featured in the book. A selection of limited edition prints will be available to purchase through the gallery, as well as signed copies of Where Have All the Apples Gone?. |
Guy Wishart, who has supported the book and exhibition, says that because of “the huge amount of research and data collection he (Chris) needed, it seemed like a forever project, and it did take many years. Now complete, Chris and the small team of editor and artists have produced something quite special.” Don’t miss this opportunity to come along, explore this significant collection, learn about many aspects of our region, the people that shaped and worked the land, and to purchase your copy of this important record." |
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Fa'amoemoe – Hope
Joy Le Mamea Pod Gallery 5th-29th March 2025 Opening – Friday, 7th March. 5-7pm "Grief is a deeply personal and complex journey for many individuals. Lamentation serves as a heartfelt expression of sorrow, free from any timeline, echoing the profound impact of loss. Death leaves an indelible mark, altering us in ways both visible and hidden. Fa'amoemoe is a significant body of work that explores the delicate process of letting go as a pathway to healing. It draws inspiration from Siapo, the intricate traditional Samoan bark cloth, and the transformative therapeutic art practice of "taking it to the wall," to unpack the complexities of grief. Through a reimagined approach to Siapo, the artworks create a space to contemplate the sometimes-abrasive changes that arise from loss, bridging the past, present, and future. Rich in symbolism and incorporating gathering rituals, the marks and motifs in the work reflect links to both Orcadian and Samoan heritage. The innovative use of everyday items for mark-making, derived from traditional Siapo patterns, transforms domestic household items into tools for releasing sorrow. Ultimately these artworks serve as a powerful invitation- a call to witness a journey from despair to hope. They weave together artistic methods, spiritual rituals, and cultural practices, as mediums for healing and introspection. Each piece stands as a lasting legacy preserving family stories that inspire future generations with encouragement and hope." |
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The Force of Women
Margie Phillips and Madelaine Abey-Koch Main Gallery and Pip Window Gallery 5th – 29th March 2025 Opening: Saturday 8th March. 2-4pm (celebrating International Women's Day) "Our collection of ceramics explores the unwavering spirit and determination of women throughout history, from the sophisticated societies of the distant past to our present day existence. The women of early groups of humans were partners in the struggle for survival in extremely adverse conditions as well as being revered for their life giving capabilities. Fables and myths, honored the multidimensional aspects of being female. Shape changing goddesses were symbolic of fertility and the unity of the life/ death cycle, and were appealed to in sacred rites. Resilience, sacrifice and transformation have shaped the lives of women in every era. In a world often defined by patriarchal values, women have had to fight for justice, equality and respect and even for their existence. These pieces are our personal tributes to the lives of women of all societies, reflecting also, our own experiences. Much like the development of a woman, our medium clay is soft when being formed, hardens in air, and is transformed in fire." |
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Unpacking
by Arwen Flowers Pip Window Gallery (on rotation) 24th Jan – 26th Feb 2025 "Boxes are designed to keep the contents safe. Yet, while sorting through family belongings stored in various boxes made from cardboard, I noticed each one had deteriorated, endangering the items inside. The damaged packaging jeopardised the preservation of objects representing my family history and, subsequently, my sense of self. I made these artworks using methods and materials that capture my feelings of concern in this context." Read More - link below kumeu_arts_pip_window.pdf Image shown - Miscellania, © Arwen Flowers, 2024. Paint and mediums on board, 800 mm x 1220 mm. $1600 |
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Our Aotearoa 2025
Jan 24th to Feb 26th Opening: Friday 24th January 5pm-7pm Kumeū Arts Members Exhibition ‘A summer exhibition celebrating Aotearoa’s natural environment and beauty - Focusing on the things and places we love’. 76 entries from 33 artists, exhibiting a range of different styles and mediums. |
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