Now Showing
La Fiesta Festival Exhibition: SELFIE
Angela Tier, Andrea Gardner, Nick Ray, Vivian Yuan, Jillaine Murray, Gerry le Roux, Catherine Macdonald, Pamela Lilburn, Amanda Burgess, Sandy de Kock, Melanie Fleet, Carol Teutscher
Opening: February 19, 2025
Viewing: February 18, 2025 until March 8, 2025
A group exhibition celebrating the ‘selfie’ – a seemingly modern phenomenon rooted in art history & the ultimate form of self-expression.
Under the Big Sky
Anna Layzell
Opening: February 19, 2025
Viewing: February 18, 2025 until March 8, 2025
Exploring expansive views and big skies after a recent relocation to the Wairarapa.
Vibrant Sights
Kalia Court
Opening: February 19, 2025
Viewing: February 19, 2025 until March 8, 2025
Vibrant Sights is a bright, colourful series, depicting some of Whanagnui’s iconic sites.
Coming Soon
Ko Au Te Awa; I Am the River
Manu Bennett
Opening: March 12 5:30 pm
Viewing: March 11, 2025 until March 23, 2025
E rere kau mai te awanui
Mai te kāhui maunga ki Tangaroa
Ko Au te Awa; Ko te Awa ko Au.
The river flows from the mountains to the sea
I Am the River; The River is Me.
Nga Tamariki O Tane Mahuta raua Ko Tangaroa
Rob Barrington
Opening: March 12 5:30 pm
Viewing: March 11, 2025 until March 23, 2025
digital – art – installation
Between Then and Now
Mica Kerridge
Opening: March 12 5:30 pm
Viewing: March 12, 2025 until March 23, 2025
Between Then and Now reflects on the way places remain vivid in our minds, even as they fade, transform, or disappear in reality. These works explore the tension between nostalgia and time, capturing the shifting nature of landscapes that exist both as they were and as we remember them.
Past Exhibitions
The Shortest Day – Glen Hutchins
January 2025
By using the surrounding landscape and ocean as a starting point, it is my intention to create a sense of space and investigate notions of colour, materiality, and space within painting.
Echoes of Tomorrow – Mark Antony Smith
January 2025
Echoes of Tomorrow unveils brutalist dreams dissolving into the wild, a meditation on memory and futures lost—crafted with uncanny assistance from GPT-inspired dialogue.
Al Rihla - The Journey – Catherine Sleyer
January 2025
A montage of Moroccan scenes; raw and reinvented realities in photographic compositions, capturing the contrasts of the regions.
Space Studio & Gallery Summer Closure –
December 2024
Thank-you for your support in 2024 – we’ve had a wonderful year with many great highlights!
We are closing for our Summer Break between Sunday the 22nd December through to Monday the 27th January.
Starting Tuesday 28th January 2025, we are delighted to announce an extension to our open hours to:
Tuesday – Saturday: 10am-3pm.
Mum’s Garden – Susan Keates
December 2024
In 2020 I went to live with my Mother back in the UK as she was declining with dementia. Whilst being there I set up a workshop in a shed at the bottom of her garden in which to work on my jewellery. Every day, with camera at hand, I was inspired to capture the beauty which she had created, as I walked through it to the workshop.
The space she made was peaceful and dreamy, and I found that a lot of my photographs reflected this feeling. I also bought enamel powders which matched as closely as possible to the colours around me and started to work on vitreous enamel jewellery designs.
When she passed in December 2023 it occurred to me that one way to honour her life and creativity would be to exhibit this work, which I see as a collaboration between the two of us.
MIXTAPE – Group Exhibition
December 2024
Classic hits from Whanganui’s Finest!
Little Forest – Stacey Hildreth
December 2024
Exploring my fascination with lichen…
GRAPHICS’24 – Anthony Davies
November 2024
A series of prints exploring: Cyclone Gabrielle, the Wellington Demonstrations and Biker Gangs.
Threads – Lewis Batchelar + Madeline Prowd
November 2024
As makers Batchelar and Prowd’s focus is the vessel. Each aim to create aesthetically and technically driven works that pay respects to the traditions and craftsmanship of glass as a material. Both are heavily influenced by traditional Italian glassblowing techniques and the technical proficiency inherent in the process of making. Form, proportion and repetition are essential elements in all the work they create, each strive to incorporate an element of the handmade.
Second Spring – Leigh Anderton-Hall
November 2024
Inspired by nature and Katherine May’s Wintering, these ceramic vessels embody a quiet renewal.
Born to Create: Catalyst for Change – Lucie Blaze
October 2024
Born to Create: Catalyst for Change” is not only an exhibition but a transformative journey into the stories of resilient women who defied societal norms. Through a series of vibrant portraits the exhibition showcases influential women who challenged societal norms, shifting paradigms in society.
in rivers – Jenn Dickie, Jill Stegmann, Fiona McGowan, Catherine Macdonald and Lindsay Marsh
October 2024
Exploring the physical, emotional and metaphorical aspects of flowing water.
Moving Between Landscapes – Duncan Foord
October 2024
It’s about future and past landmarks. Where I thought I’d be at this age and where I really am. Taking stock. The abscission of previous landmarks and reorientation towards others.
Winter Creations – Craig Williams
October 2024
Slip cast pottery I made during winter, to keep sane.
That Glimmer of Red – Sandy de Kock
October 2024
It is in a sometimes-dreamlike strangeness that images connected to memory reveal their power and presence.
Colour creates an expanse, gives memory weight, makes it solid.
Sometimes it slides towards abstraction in form but never in mood, which always remains.
Cool Change – Samantha Matthews
October 2024
A new collection of photographs of Whanganui by Samantha Matthews.
SEMAPHORE from the fifth floor – Rachael Garland
September 2024
The word SEMAPHORE describes the use of an apparatus to create a visual signal transmitted over a distance. A semaphore can be performed with devices such as fire, lights, flags, sunlight, and moving arms to communicate a message.
ARTERIAL ROOTS – Alex Low
September 2024
Superchromatic Sonambulist studies of Snaking pathways, Shoots and Squiggles. Of Sinew, Synapse, Sap and Spirit.
Paintings, Studies and other Possibilities – Patrick Gregg
August 2024
Works of the imagination with a psychological undercurrent.
Vantage Point – Kylie Wardlaw
August 2024
A collection of colourful expressive works inspired by the natural world.