Find out what Exhibitions are on in Hawke's Bay
MTG Hawke’s Bay, Tai Ahuriri’s latest exhibition is by Russ Flatt. Te ahua, te wa, te atea (2022) is a video installation that gives us a hawk-eye view of significant sites in Te Matau a Māui.
Otatara Pā, Te Awarua o Porirua, Pākowhai, Roto a Tara and Ōmārunui are wāhi tapu and...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 28 August
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Georgina Burne Hetley, an early botanical artist used her talent to capture both the beauty and scientific details of New Zealand’s flora.
Ever adventurous, Georgina was able to travel throughout New Zealand revelling, not only in the wonderfully diverse botanical treasures discovered, but in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 16 October
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: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 24 July
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The relationship between humankind and nature has long provided an aesthetic and philosophical context for art making. Nowadays, this relationship is often addressed in view of the urgency of climate change and the environmental crisis where humankind is seen as in conflict with the natural...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 20 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hard-edged paintings with startling precision and dramatic shapes, is how Hawke’s Bay artist Leanne Morrison’s artworks have been described. Commissioned by MTG Hawke’s Bay, Leanne has created a large-scale painting directly on MTG’s foyer wall.
Since graduating with a Masters in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Saturday 12 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Friday 30 September
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Averil was artistic from a very young age. She is self-taught and prefers to use oil or acrylics.
She paints a variety of scenes; - landscapes, buildings, animals, and portraits. Averil is now venturing into painting with lots of colour which she finds fun, and enjoys experimenting in this new...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 31 July
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A collaborative exhibition of some of our favourite artists.
At Creative Arts Napier our mission is to enhance the creative spirit of Napier by providing accessible and affordable arts opportunities. Entry is free, and we open 7 days a week. CAN is a registered charity, so donations are...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 7 July
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With these paintings, Kim Cleverton is showing the softer side of her work.
They are imagined landscapes which let the viewer see whatever they want, all the while still incorporating her love of clouds.
Kim hopes this exhibition brings the viewer some quiet contemplation.
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 31 July
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Paul Soanes is a self-taught local artist who has been painting for more than 11 years. From a creative family of visual artists and musicians, he says it must be in his genes!
At Creative Arts Napier our mission is to enhance the creative spirit of Napier by providing accessible and affordable...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 31 July
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
From an early age, texture, colour and the play of light intrigued and fascinated Pam de Frere. Growing up on a Hawke’s Bay orchard allowed Pam’s creativity to flourish amongst a playground of trees, birds and open spaces. Pam’s parents recognised her creative abilities, and when Pam was...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 7 July
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 23 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
'We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ - Marcus Chown
For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist Elizabeth Thomson has been drawn to areas of scientific knowledge such as botany, micro-biology, oceanography and...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Wednesday 7 September
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Te Pō Uriuri is an immersive experience retelling the pūrakau/legend of Uru, the eldest child of Ranginui and Papatūānuku. This installation embodies the safe haven, Te Kahutuanui-a-Rangi, the cloak of Uri’s father, where he fled, seeking refuge as he withdrew from his whānau. Uru sits here...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 28 August
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Monday 4 July to Monday 24 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Julie McAndrew has an interest in custom vehicles, particularly cars and motorbikes. She was drawn to the incredible airbrush art she saw on some of these vehicles so she undertook a beginners course 9 years ago.
Since then Julie has undertaken courses run by some of the world’s best...
Date: Friday 8 July to Thursday 21 July
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
HĀUKATI
KEZIA WHAKAMOE & HĀ COLLECTIVE
July 8, 2022 – July 31, 2022 at Ahuriri Contemporary
Through HĀUKATI, Kezia Wakamoe confronts the individualism of colonial art by weaving the experiential collectiveness of ngā toi Māori (Māori art) into a space. This work is an extension of...
Date: Friday 8 July to Sunday 31 July
Where: Ahuriri Contemporary, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Explore Māori Legends in Nature / He Kōrero Ngā Tai these school holidays at the National Aquarium.
Be engrossed in beautiful narratives about nature and the atua (gods) that represent our world during your visit with some much-loved Aotearoa New Zealand classics on display.
Take part in...
Date: Saturday 9 July to Sunday 24 July
Where: National Aquarium of New Zealand, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us to hear a conversation between two of Aotearoa’s leading contemporary artists, Elizabeth Thomson and Dame Robin White, and celebrated writer, poet and art curator, Gregory O'Brien, about Elizabeth’s exhibition Cellular Memory.
Born in Auckland in 1955, Liz is one of Aotearoa New...
Date: Sunday 24 July
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
MTG Hawke’s Bay, Tai Ahuriri’s latest exhibition is by Russ Flatt. Te ahua, te wa, te atea (2022) is a video installation that gives us a hawk-eye view of significant sites in Te Matau a Māui.
Otatara Pā, Te Awarua o Porirua, Pākowhai, Roto a Tara and Ōmārunui are wāhi tapu and...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 28 August
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Georgina Burne Hetley, an early botanical artist used her talent to capture both the beauty and scientific details of New Zealand’s flora.
Ever adventurous, Georgina was able to travel throughout New Zealand revelling, not only in the wonderfully diverse botanical treasures discovered, but in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 16 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The relationship between humankind and nature has long provided an aesthetic and philosophical context for art making. Nowadays, this relationship is often addressed in view of the urgency of climate change and the environmental crisis where humankind is seen as in conflict with the natural...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 20 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hard-edged paintings with startling precision and dramatic shapes, is how Hawke’s Bay artist Leanne Morrison’s artworks have been described. Commissioned by MTG Hawke’s Bay, Leanne has created a large-scale painting directly on MTG’s foyer wall.
Since graduating with a Masters in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Saturday 12 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Friday 30 September
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
'We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ - Marcus Chown
For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist Elizabeth Thomson has been drawn to areas of scientific knowledge such as botany, micro-biology, oceanography and...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Wednesday 7 September
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Te Pō Uriuri is an immersive experience retelling the pūrakau/legend of Uru, the eldest child of Ranginui and Papatūānuku. This installation embodies the safe haven, Te Kahutuanui-a-Rangi, the cloak of Uri’s father, where he fled, seeking refuge as he withdrew from his whānau. Uru sits here...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 28 August
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
As a hobby artist, Denise McDonald started using oils doing many workshops with various tutors. More recently she has turned to acrylics and again has done various workshops and classes. Denise is now a member of the Board Shed Art Group, the members of which offer inspiration and...
Date: Monday 1 August to Wednesday 31 August
Where: Creative Arts Napier, Community Arts Centre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Monday 4 July to Monday 24 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 23 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come and enjoy a range of lovely quilts created by the talented Keirunga Quilters, based in Havelock North.
Have a go at winning either a beautiful quilt or a box of goodies in our raffle.
Lots of hand-made goods on sale, ideal for little gifts for your friends and family.
Entry to the...
Date: Saturday 6 August to Saturday 13 August
Where: Havelock North Function Centre, Havelock North, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Georgina Burne Hetley, an early botanical artist used her talent to capture both the beauty and scientific details of New Zealand’s flora.
Ever adventurous, Georgina was able to travel throughout New Zealand revelling, not only in the wonderfully diverse botanical treasures discovered, but in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 16 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The relationship between humankind and nature has long provided an aesthetic and philosophical context for art making. Nowadays, this relationship is often addressed in view of the urgency of climate change and the environmental crisis where humankind is seen as in conflict with the natural...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 20 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hard-edged paintings with startling precision and dramatic shapes, is how Hawke’s Bay artist Leanne Morrison’s artworks have been described. Commissioned by MTG Hawke’s Bay, Leanne has created a large-scale painting directly on MTG’s foyer wall.
Since graduating with a Masters in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Saturday 12 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Friday 30 September
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
'We are each made up of one hundred million million cells, none of which have any idea who we are.’ - Marcus Chown
For over 30 years, Wellington-based sculptor/installation artist Elizabeth Thomson has been drawn to areas of scientific knowledge such as botany, micro-biology, oceanography and...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Wednesday 7 September
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Monday 4 July to Monday 24 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 23 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
FOTOFEST 2022 is launching into Hastings, Hawke's Bay on Friday 30th September.
Hastings City will host this event for all ages, from exhibitions, workshops and competitions throughout the city with something for everyone to enjoy and get involved in (with or without a camera).
A special...
Date: Friday 30 September to Friday 7 October
Where: Hastings CBD, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
FOTOFEST 2022 is launching into Hastings, Hawke's Bay on Friday 30th September.
Hastings City will host this event for all ages, from exhibitions, workshops and competitions throughout the city with something for everyone to enjoy and get involved in (with or without a camera).
A special...
Date: Friday 30 September to Friday 7 October
Where: Hastings CBD, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Georgina Burne Hetley, an early botanical artist used her talent to capture both the beauty and scientific details of New Zealand’s flora.
Ever adventurous, Georgina was able to travel throughout New Zealand revelling, not only in the wonderfully diverse botanical treasures discovered, but in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 16 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The relationship between humankind and nature has long provided an aesthetic and philosophical context for art making. Nowadays, this relationship is often addressed in view of the urgency of climate change and the environmental crisis where humankind is seen as in conflict with the natural...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 20 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hard-edged paintings with startling precision and dramatic shapes, is how Hawke’s Bay artist Leanne Morrison’s artworks have been described. Commissioned by MTG Hawke’s Bay, Leanne has created a large-scale painting directly on MTG’s foyer wall.
Since graduating with a Masters in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Saturday 12 November
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 23 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
With their pioneering use of virtual reality, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have created a mysterious universe of alien architecture populated by humanoid clones and cryptic symbols, traversed via a network of travellators and gateways.
Johnson and Ward’s collaboration is unique....
Date: Monday 4 July to Monday 24 October
Where: Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The relationship between humankind and nature has long provided an aesthetic and philosophical context for art making. Nowadays, this relationship is often addressed in view of the urgency of climate change and the environmental crisis where humankind is seen as in conflict with the natural...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Sunday 20 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hard-edged paintings with startling precision and dramatic shapes, is how Hawke’s Bay artist Leanne Morrison’s artworks have been described. Commissioned by MTG Hawke’s Bay, Leanne has created a large-scale painting directly on MTG’s foyer wall.
Since graduating with a Masters in...
Date: Sunday 3 July to Saturday 12 November
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
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: Sunday 3 July to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Wine Country Quilts are excited to stage our 2023 exhibition at Toitoi, Hawkes Bay Arts and Event Centre. The exhibition showcases the work of quiltmakers up and down the East Coast from Hicks Bay to Cape Palliser.
An icon in the quilt exhibition calendar in New Zealand. it includes work from...
Date: Friday 31 March to Sunday 2 April
Where: Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Wine Country Quilts are excited to stage our 2023 exhibition at Toitoi, Hawkes Bay Arts and Event Centre. The exhibition showcases the work of quiltmakers up and down the East Coast from Hicks Bay to Cape Palliser.
An icon in the quilt exhibition calendar in New Zealand. it includes work from...
Date: Friday 31 March to Sunday 2 April
Where: Toitoi - Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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