Find out what Exhibitions are on in Hawke's Bay
The naming of a new apple cultivar Billy Apple® fulfils a long-held ambition for the artist and is the natural culmination of his 1962 self-branding exercise.
Billy Apple® A Brand Looking for a Product 1962—2020 looks back to Apple’s name change and the way Apple created artworks that...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Silver, valued for its rarity and attractive lustre, has for centuries been mined and formed into an extensive range of domestic, personal, religious, and ceremonial objects.
Silver is one of the most versatile and singular precious metals: it is malleable and ductile and has a relatively low...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of a New Zealand Women’s Institute (WI) at Rissington, Hawke’s Bay, on 27 February 1921. The founder was Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer (1872–1955), who lived and worked in Hawke’s Bay for most of her life. The aim of...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Waka kōrero Māori: waka carrying the taonga, te reo
The Waka Kōrero Māori exhibition encourages learning the Māori alphabet by pronouncing the names of the kaharehe animal treasures on display.
Bring your whanau to MTG – it’s free!
Kō Waka Kōrero Māori hei whakaaturanga kia...
Date: Monday 20 September to Friday 24 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A Bloody Business: the history of five Hawke’s Bay freezing works explores the effect the frozen meat processing industry had on the socio-economics of the Hawke’s Bay region using as illustration five significant meat works: Tomoana (1884), Hawke’s Bay & North British (1887), Thomas...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition shows a history of people and places of Ngāti Kahungunu, telling stories of their time and the events that shaped Te Matau-a-Māui into the region of Hawke’s Bay, events that also helped to shape Aotearoa into New Zealand.
Kahungunu was a peaceful man, a producer, provider,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 2 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
New dates confirmed! 10.09.21 - 23.09.21
The Hawke’s Bay Art Guide Exhibition is an annual event highlighting the beautiful artworks from artists featured in our local Art Guide brochure, published as a joint venture between Creative Arts Napier and Arts Inc. Heretaunga, to promote regional...
Date: Monday 20 September to Thursday 23 September
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition has been extended until September 23rd.
In line with current Level 2 restrictions, please wear a mask and use your COVID Tracer app when entering Creative Arts Napier. 2 metre distancing is observed in all of our galleries.
Exhibition by Dennis Green and Clayton...
Date: Monday 20 September to Thursday 23 September
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
An unselected, travelling exhibition of 118 postcard sized fine art prints by artist members of Print Council Aotearoa NZ (PCANZ) in collaboration with Australian printmakers. Members’ prints are exhibited around the country, while raising awareness of printmaking and PCANZ.
Members of PCANZ...
Date: Monday 20 September to Thursday 23 September
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us on Friday 3 September for the Gala Opening of this year's Hawke's Bay Art Review. It will be a fabulous night with light, where our Guest Selector and Curator Tyson Campbell will award the Gordon Harris Premier Award of $1000 plus six Highly Commended Awards.
The Hawke’s Bay Art Review...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 29 September
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition has been extended through to the end of September due to lockdown restrictions.
In line with current Level 2 restrictions, please wear a mask and use your COVID Tracer app when entering Creative Arts Napier. 2 metre distancing is observed in all of our galleries.
‘Images of...
Date: Monday 20 September to Thursday 30 September
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ashton Lexie Jamieson and Sharleen Gamble: Young Art | Foyer Gallery
7 August – 24 October 2021
The contemporary concept of young art is work not defined by the age of the creator, but by the stage the artist is at in their career.
This exhibition brings together the work of two...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 24 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Larisse Hall: Of the Essence | Alcove Gallery
31 July - 14 November 2021
We wake and sleep to the rhythm of light. It is the basis of existence. Our most primal time tool, light directs routine and daily ritual.
Larisse Hall explores the value of time within an everyday context....
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 14 November
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ayesha Green: To the best of my Knowledge
14 August – 28 November 2021 | Holt Gallery
Over the last six months Ayesha Green has been developing a body of work specifically for the Holt Gallery. This exhibition looks at the visual language and history of Native Schooling[1] in New Zealand...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 28 November
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Thanks to the assistance of Iwi Toi Kahungunu - Maori Artists, the CHB Museum presents an art exhibition showcasing local contemporary indigenous art supporting the importance of Maori Arts and honouring Te Tiriti of Waitangi.
Maori Culture generates assets contributing to the social,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 2 October
Where: Central Hawke's Bay Settlers Museum, Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay
In line with current Level 2 restrictions, please wear a mask and use your COVID Tracer app when entering Creative Arts Napier. 2-metre distancing is observed in all of our galleries.
The Shape of Water is an exploration using natural acids on copper to create works that convey water in various...
Date: Friday 24 September to Thursday 7 October
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Out of the Shadows: a print journey with Carole Shepheard and friends
September 25 – 5 December 2021 | Main Gallery
Carole Shepheard is a well-known figure in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2002 appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the...
Date: Saturday 25 September to Sunday 5 December
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The naming of a new apple cultivar Billy Apple® fulfils a long-held ambition for the artist and is the natural culmination of his 1962 self-branding exercise.
Billy Apple® A Brand Looking for a Product 1962—2020 looks back to Apple’s name change and the way Apple created artworks that...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Silver, valued for its rarity and attractive lustre, has for centuries been mined and formed into an extensive range of domestic, personal, religious, and ceremonial objects.
Silver is one of the most versatile and singular precious metals: it is malleable and ductile and has a relatively low...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of a New Zealand Women’s Institute (WI) at Rissington, Hawke’s Bay, on 27 February 1921. The founder was Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer (1872–1955), who lived and worked in Hawke’s Bay for most of her life. The aim of...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Waka kōrero Māori: waka carrying the taonga, te reo
The Waka Kōrero Māori exhibition encourages learning the Māori alphabet by pronouncing the names of the kaharehe animal treasures on display.
Bring your whanau to MTG – it’s free!
Kō Waka Kōrero Māori hei whakaaturanga kia...
Date: Monday 20 September to Friday 24 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A Bloody Business: the history of five Hawke’s Bay freezing works explores the effect the frozen meat processing industry had on the socio-economics of the Hawke’s Bay region using as illustration five significant meat works: Tomoana (1884), Hawke’s Bay & North British (1887), Thomas...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition shows a history of people and places of Ngāti Kahungunu, telling stories of their time and the events that shaped Te Matau-a-Māui into the region of Hawke’s Bay, events that also helped to shape Aotearoa into New Zealand.
Kahungunu was a peaceful man, a producer, provider,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 2 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
In line with current Level 2 restrictions, please wear a mask and use your COVID Tracer app when entering Creative Arts Napier. 2-metre distancing is observed in all of our galleries.
The Shape of Water is an exploration using natural acids on copper to create works that convey water in various...
Date: Friday 24 September to Thursday 7 October
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ashton Lexie Jamieson and Sharleen Gamble: Young Art | Foyer Gallery
7 August – 24 October 2021
The contemporary concept of young art is work not defined by the age of the creator, but by the stage the artist is at in their career.
This exhibition brings together the work of two...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 24 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Larisse Hall: Of the Essence | Alcove Gallery
31 July - 14 November 2021
We wake and sleep to the rhythm of light. It is the basis of existence. Our most primal time tool, light directs routine and daily ritual.
Larisse Hall explores the value of time within an everyday context....
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 14 November
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ayesha Green: To the best of my Knowledge
14 August – 28 November 2021 | Holt Gallery
Over the last six months Ayesha Green has been developing a body of work specifically for the Holt Gallery. This exhibition looks at the visual language and history of Native Schooling[1] in New Zealand...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 28 November
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Out of the Shadows: a print journey with Carole Shepheard and friends
September 25 – 5 December 2021 | Main Gallery
Carole Shepheard is a well-known figure in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2002 appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the...
Date: Saturday 25 September to Sunday 5 December
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Thanks to the assistance of Iwi Toi Kahungunu - Maori Artists, the CHB Museum presents an art exhibition showcasing local contemporary indigenous art supporting the importance of Maori Arts and honouring Te Tiriti of Waitangi.
Maori Culture generates assets contributing to the social,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 2 October
Where: Central Hawke's Bay Settlers Museum, Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay
Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid
Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid Cancelled due to covid
Cancelled due to...
Date: Saturday 2 October
Where: Army Drill Hall, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hear Ashton Lexie Jamieson and Sharleen Gamble talk about their exhibition Young Art.
Both recent graduates from EIT, Ashton Jamieson and Sharleen Gamble strive in their work to create an awareness of the quality and diversity of contemporary female artists at work in the Hawke’s...
Date: Saturday 2 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Fun tutor Holi Shannon has a week jam-packed full of fun kids workshops, over the upcoming October school holidays!
Book in for just the morning, afternoon session or the whole day!
Morning sessions: 9 - 11.30am
Afternoon sessions: 12.30 - 3pm
Or stay the full day, with a lunch break in...
Date: Monday 4 October to Friday 8 October
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Remembering Roy
Tribute Exhibition
Exhibition runs October 4th - 30th
Mon - Fri 9.30am - 4pm
Sat 10am - 2pm
Roy Dunningham, the well-known arts advocate and critic, who passed away in April this year, had a lifetime involvement in the visual arts during which he taught, mentored and...
Date: Monday 4 October
Where: Hastings Community Arts Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Discover the artistic, beachside community of Pōrangahau when Flotsam and Jetsam team up with talented local artists for a showcase of arts, crafts and kai on the lawn at Flotsam and Jetsam. Celebrate talented local artists, browse beautiful crafts and enjoy delicious kai before meandering along...
Date: Saturday 23 October
Where: Flotsam and Jetsam & Pōrangahau Town Hall, Porangahau, Central Hawke's Bay
Join our Hastings City Art Gallery guide for a fascinating tour of the much loved public art of Hastings. This tour is organised as part of Hawke's Bay Art Trail 2021 over Labour Weekend.
Hawke’s Bay Art Trail showcases the HB Art Guide participants and will include studio visits, workshops...
Date: Saturday 23 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Waka kōrero Māori: waka carrying the taonga, te reo
The Waka Kōrero Māori exhibition encourages learning the Māori alphabet by pronouncing the names of the kaharehe animal treasures on display.
Bring your whanau to MTG – it’s free!
Kō Waka Kōrero Māori hei whakaaturanga kia...
Date: Monday 20 September to Friday 24 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A Bloody Business: the history of five Hawke’s Bay freezing works explores the effect the frozen meat processing industry had on the socio-economics of the Hawke’s Bay region using as illustration five significant meat works: Tomoana (1884), Hawke’s Bay & North British (1887), Thomas...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition shows a history of people and places of Ngāti Kahungunu, telling stories of their time and the events that shaped Te Matau-a-Māui into the region of Hawke’s Bay, events that also helped to shape Aotearoa into New Zealand.
Kahungunu was a peaceful man, a producer, provider,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 2 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Larisse Hall: Of the Essence | Alcove Gallery
31 July - 14 November 2021
We wake and sleep to the rhythm of light. It is the basis of existence. Our most primal time tool, light directs routine and daily ritual.
Larisse Hall explores the value of time within an everyday context....
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 14 November
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ayesha Green: To the best of my Knowledge
14 August – 28 November 2021 | Holt Gallery
Over the last six months Ayesha Green has been developing a body of work specifically for the Holt Gallery. This exhibition looks at the visual language and history of Native Schooling[1] in New Zealand...
Date: Monday 20 September to Sunday 28 November
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Out of the Shadows: a print journey with Carole Shepheard and friends
September 25 – 5 December 2021 | Main Gallery
Carole Shepheard is a well-known figure in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2002 appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the...
Date: Saturday 25 September to Sunday 5 December
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Waka kōrero Māori: waka carrying the taonga, te reo
The Waka Kōrero Māori exhibition encourages learning the Māori alphabet by pronouncing the names of the kaharehe animal treasures on display.
Bring your whanau to MTG – it’s free!
Kō Waka Kōrero Māori hei whakaaturanga kia...
Date: Monday 20 September to Friday 24 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A Bloody Business: the history of five Hawke’s Bay freezing works explores the effect the frozen meat processing industry had on the socio-economics of the Hawke’s Bay region using as illustration five significant meat works: Tomoana (1884), Hawke’s Bay & North British (1887), Thomas...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition shows a history of people and places of Ngāti Kahungunu, telling stories of their time and the events that shaped Te Matau-a-Māui into the region of Hawke’s Bay, events that also helped to shape Aotearoa into New Zealand.
Kahungunu was a peaceful man, a producer, provider,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 2 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Out of the Shadows: a print journey with Carole Shepheard and friends
September 25 – 5 December 2021 | Main Gallery
Carole Shepheard is a well-known figure in the arts landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2002 appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to the...
Date: Saturday 25 September to Sunday 5 December
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Lewis Evans was born in Birmingham, 1878, the second eldest in a family of eleven children. At the age of nine, Lewis contracted poliomyelitis (polio) a muscle-wasting illness. His lower body paralysed, he was for the rest of his life dependent on a bath chair, (similar to a wheel chair) for...
Date: Friday 31 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A Bloody Business: the history of five Hawke’s Bay freezing works explores the effect the frozen meat processing industry had on the socio-economics of the Hawke’s Bay region using as illustration five significant meat works: Tomoana (1884), Hawke’s Bay & North British (1887), Thomas...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition shows a history of people and places of Ngāti Kahungunu, telling stories of their time and the events that shaped Te Matau-a-Māui into the region of Hawke’s Bay, events that also helped to shape Aotearoa into New Zealand.
Kahungunu was a peaceful man, a producer, provider,...
Date: Monday 20 September to Saturday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 2 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Monday 20 September to Wednesday 2 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Phone +64 6 8341911
Freephone 0800 847488
Email info@napiernz.com
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on Instagram
100 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier 4110
Open every day from 9.00am to 5.00pm
Napier i-SITE Visitor
Information Centre
Disclaimers and Copyright
While every endeavour has been taken by the to ensure that the information on this website is
accurate and up to date, shall not be liable for any loss suffered through the use, directly or indirectly, of information on this website. Information contained has been assembled in good faith.
Some of the information available in this site is from the New Zealand Public domain and supplied by relevant
government agencies. cannot accept any liability for its accuracy or content.
Portions of the information and material on this site, including data, pages, documents, online
graphics and images are protected by copyright, unless specifically notified to the contrary. Externally sourced
information or material is copyright to the respective provider.
© - https://www.napiernz.com/ / +64 0800 847 488 / info@napiernz.com
