He Whare Ātaahua at Hastings Art Gallery is JADE TOWNSEND’s first site-specific installation and her first exhibition in Heretaunga Hastings, in Ngāti Kahungunu territory. Strings of shells are painted onto the gallery’s walls, encircling framed works and coiling around the trusses of the vaulted ceiling. Nearby, at Te Aute College, similar forms decorate the ceiling of the wharekai, painted there in the 1980s by a group of students led by Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Porou artist John Hovell (1937–2014).
10 April 2024
Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Visitor Host, Theo Coles writes in response to Louise Menzies’ works in group exhibition, Vital Machinery. Nearly four years since the first nationwide announcement declaring COVID-19 a national emergency, Coles describes how Menzies' work transports them back to a time comparable to no other.
10 March 2024
Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck and Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi’s art explore a lineage of traditional Tongan artforms. Hastings Art Gallery manager and curator Sophie Davis describes how these threads align in their exhibition, ‘Amui ‘i Mu'a – Ancient Futures.
2 October 2023
Brook Konia responds to Hemi Macgregor’s Waiora, which presented artworks that discuss the interplay between the environment and our relationship to it as humans.
10 November 2023
What is home? And where is home? These are the questions Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Salome Tanuvasa explores regularly in her work. Questions which, for many of us who live in Aotearoa New Zealand, are at once both physical and philosophical, migratory and meaningful. Rosie Dawson-Hewes talks to Tanuvasa to find out more.
14 May 2023
Ayesha Green (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Kahungunu) has made a name for herself painting flattened, cartoon portraits and botanical scenes in a firmly illustrative style. Her new exhibition, To the best of my knowledge, examines the role of the Native Schools’ Act in early colonial Māori educational settings, specifically through Hukarere Māori Girls’ School. This body of work continues Ayesha’s kaupapa of examining systems of knowledge and what it means to be wahine Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand.
16 August 2021
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