We welcome all Gallery Members to attend the preview of Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art on Saturday 5 December. If you are not a Member, but would like to join us for this event, click here to find out how to sign up today.
Former Indigenous Curator, Māori Art and Guest Curator of The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand, Ngahiraka Mason conducts a tour of this exhibition on opening weekend.
Last chance to see! Learn more about Gottfried Lindauer and the subjects of his portrait paintings on one of these tours, let by our specially trained guides.
Last chance to see! Learn more about Gottfried Lindauer and the subjects of his portrait paintings on one of these tours, let by our specially trained guides.
Celebrate the life and work of New Zealand’s most prolific professional colonial painter. With over 120 portraits, a dozen genre paintings, accompanying photographs and artefacts, this is show is a must-see for anyone with an interest in early New Zealand art and history.
Join us for a tour led by professional Audio Describer Nicola Owen as she offers visual descriptions of some of the works and layout of major exhibition The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand.
Enjoy a season of Māori and indigenous film across Tāmaki Makaurau, including Kia Ora Shorts, Te Reo Māori Film Day and kōrero with guest film makers. The programme is curated by Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipāka), director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
Do not miss this opportunity to participate in a special workshop with one of New Zealand’s most respected figures in contemporary Māori clay art making, Wi Taepa.
Join us for the first ever Matariki Seven Fires Cinema Showcase, an international indigenous cinematic showcase with films and experimental works from Aotearoa, Samoa, USA, Canada and Australia.
Don’t miss this opportunity to join Auckland Art Gallery's Curator of Māori Art, Nigel Borell, as he conducts a final tour through Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits.
Create art together with the whole family during these free sessions inspired by exhibitions currently on display. Join us any time between 1–3pm and stay for as long – or as short – as you want.
As part of this year's Auckland Pride Festival, we're presenting a selection of LBGT short films selected by Leo Koziol (Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Rakaipaaka) of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
In this wayfinding tour, you will be introduced to the Gallery’s layout, iconic artworks and the key sites in our award-winning building, including the Members lounge.
Do not miss this opportunity to participate in a special workshop with one of New Zealand’s most respected figures in contemporary Māori clay art making, Wi Taepa
Honoa ki te hono tawhiti ka kitea ai ki nga ringatoi Māori o enei rā. | Connect to the ancient past and see it through contemporary Māori artists. Journey with the artist, Shane Cotton and Senior Curator of International Art, Sophie Matthiesson as they explore the significance of vessels like the one central to the exhibition design, Te Puawai (pictured). During their midday conversation, they’ll explore the curatorial thinking behind Te Haerenga | The Passage.
Start your day with food for thought, coffee and actual food at this parakuihi with the artists Ayesha Green and Jasmine Te Hira. Here, the artists will discuss their practice and mahi toi featured in Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art.
Join artist and maker Rangi Kipa (Te Ātiawa) and Curator Māori Art Nigel Borell for a discussion on the adornment practices found in Gottfried Lindauer’s Māori portraits.
Curator, Māori Art, Nigel Borell is joined by artist and Kaihautu Toi Māori – Director of Māori Arts Massey University Ngatai Taepa for a tour of new exhibition Wi Taepa: A Retrospective.
Join Curator, Māori Art, Nigel Borell for a Matariki-themed walkthrough of the Gallery’s current exhibitions. Nigel will look at the work of Wi Taepa, and the recent installation of works by Māori sculptors and painters in Radical Beginnings.
New Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator and tā moko artist Rangi Kipa (Taranaki, Te Atiawa Nui Tonu, Ngāti Maniapoto) will demonstrate the art of Māori tattoo or tā moko.
New Zealand sculptor, carver, illustrator and tā moko artist Rangi Kipa (Taranaki, Te Atiawa Nui Tonu, Ngāti Maniapoto) will demonstrate the art of Māori tattoo or tā moko.
Photographer Raymond Sagapolutele discusses his photographic project Out of Context which focusses on his generation of Polynesians born to migrant Pacific Island parents as well as urban Māori.
Using paint, photography and collage participants will experiment with creating portraits inspired by the exhibition The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand.
Join Guest Curator of The Māori Portraits Ngahiraka Mason in conversation with Aleš Filip and Roman Musil, two of the curators of Gottfried Lindauer (1839–1926): Pilsen Painter of the New Zealand Māori, held at the Gallery of West Bohemia, Czech Republic in 2015.
Using paint, photography and collage participants will experiment with creating portraits inspired by the exhibition The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand.
Join us for a short film screening to celebrate Matariki – Māori and indigenous films curated by Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
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