Toi Pōneke Gallery - Exhibitions

The Value of Vandalism

Natalie Ellen-Eliza's first solo exhibition uses video, street postering and sculpture to examine the issues of gender inequalities, asset sales and unemployment.

Her work suggests that our land of plenty has existed under a facade of equal rights for too long.

Body of Work; Athena

Body of Work: Athena is a performance and installation. The performances explore the embodiment of three women's identities, leaving behind a growing installation of video art, design and physical materials.

• Performance 1:
  Friday 28 October, 'Te Uhi a Mataora', Mabelle Dennison
• Performance 2:
  Saturday 5 November, 'Extended Roots', Melissa Phillips
• Performance 3:
  Saturday 12 November, 'Etch Me Out', Ban Abdul

Artwork from Te Toi Ora

Te Toi Ora explores Māori narratives merged with innovative technologies.

Designers David Hakaraia, Earl Stewart and Luke Mills transform the gallery into a hybrid space. Marae meets inner city lounge as elements are drawn from both.

The three designers use digital technologies and fabrication techniques to create functional art pieces for use in our everyday living.

Porangahau Fishing Club results board

A photography exhibition featuring five hundred images by a variety of different, anonymous artists - the show seems to be about nothing at all while, paradoxically, being about many things.

Photo of sideboard in a collage

Using hundreds of images to portray a photo-collage of the artist's living room, Vanessa Crowe effectively 'wallpapers' the gallery's floating walls and pillars in this exhibition which reveals the order and chaos of everyday life.

Trace exhibition poster

A photographic journey into the complexities of light, dark and the space between.

Emerging photographers Emma Anderson and Kate Adolph create hauntingly beautiful works that explore the trace of shadows as fleeting holes in light.

Miranda Harcourt

Dance photographer Stephen A'Court has turned his lens towards theatre practitioners, both on stage and backstage.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, A'Court has taken a series of intimate portraits of selected alumni who have shaped the recent history of the stage and screen in New Zealand and beyond.

Over 20 beautiful photographs, set in locations important to each sitter, give the audience a rarely-seen insight into these interesting personalities.

Artwork by Kerry Ann Lee

This exhibition is New Zealand's first showcase of Lee's work while artist-in-residence in Shanghai. Toi Pōneke Gallery is transformed into a 'deconstruction site', making us think about culture, scale and monuments - big dreams built on top of shifting terrain.

News Release - 14.04.11

Susanne Kerr, 'Mittens', acrylic on paper, 2010

An exhibition that explores how humans can display animal-like behaviour in the rituals and routines of daily life, and the irony of commonly-used expressions such as 'stag night' and 'pecking order'.

Untitled by Adi Brown, 2008

The tomato is also known as the 'love apple' - a singularly beautiful, bright red and orange fruit-bearing plant. It grows easily wild or cultivated.

This group of artists, working inside and outside the art world in ways both wild and cultivated, brings together connections where there were none before and bears singular fruit.

Light and Truth

A collection from three Wellington photographers who use pinhole cameras to respond to nostalgia, history and childhood.