Now Showing
Beyond the Surface
Students of St George's School
Opening: August 27, 2025
Viewing: August 26, 2025 until September 13, 2025
Exploring identity through sculpture, print, and wearable art—St George’s students discover where form, culture, and imagination collide.
Through our Eyes
Opening: August 27, 2025
Viewing: August 26, 2025 until September 13, 2025
Whanganui Collegiate Year 12 and 13 Art Students reveal their perspectives through photography, printmaking, and painting in this vibrant showcase of student art.
The Linear Nature of Time is a Myth
Marcus Tesar
Opening: August 27, 2025
Viewing: August 26, 2025 until September 13, 2025
Small studies in watercolor, ink, and charcoal, created daily, accompanied by poetic reflections.
Coming Soon
Cyclone Gabrielle
Anthony Davies
Opening: September 17 5:30 pm
Viewing: September 16, 2025 until October 4, 2025
In early 2023 within a period of 24 hours ‘Cyclone Gabrielle’ travelled over the Northern Island of New Zealand causing colossal damage in the Hawke’s Bay area…
Black Mark III
Chris Lambert
Opening: September 17 5:30 pm
Viewing: September 16, 2025 until October 4, 2025
Black Mark III is my third Solo showing at Space Studio & Gallery.
in a time between; a journey of thanks
Paul Jacobson
Opening: September 17 5:30 pm
Viewing: September 16, 2025 until October 4, 2025
Poetic and photographic musings by Paul Jacobson.
Past Exhibitions
The Canonization of Sister Josephine Bhakita – Sandy de Kock
August 2025
Saint Josephine Margaret Bhakita was born in Darfur, Sudan in 1869.
This body of work is my interpretation of her spirituality, and it highlights, for me, the incredible strength of African women.
EMBER – Kalia Court, Zenica Mann, Selina Reid, Susan Keates, Elaine Mayer, Carol Teutscher, Anna Nordstrom, Miho, Steve Leurink, Wouna le Roux, Kate Sellar, Mark Rayner, Carmen Simmonds, Patrick Gregg, Brendon Sellar, Maggie Duff & Gerry le Roux
August 2025
An ember holds potential. An ember, if fed, can grow into a consuming flame or fade into ash. Fanned to flame it must be contained to feel safe. Fire is a symbol of creation, connection and transformation.
In this group exhibition, fire is explored as both subject and/or medium. Artworks span all forms and disciplines—from those reflecting on the impact or meaning of fire or works forged, burned, or shaped by flame or heat.
Treedom – Fiona McGowan
August 2025
Ceramics and Forests of Aotearoa merge.
The degrees to which we are absent or present – Sarah Pearson
July 2025
SPACE INVADERS – Graham Hall, Lee Morgan, Glen Hutchins & Jason Dufty
July 2025
Space Invaders explores themes of intrusion, occupation, and boundaries — physical, cultural, and imagined. From playful disruption to serious commentary, these artists challenge the notion of who controls space and how we might choose to navigate it.
Collective – Catherine Burrell McKnight, Marina G Belsito, Piper Look & Kendra Apperley
June 2025
UCOL Whanganui mid-year graduates present diverse artworks exploring memory, transformation, place, and materiality.
Proliferate – Jessica Galias
June 2025
This is a series of paintings that explores the fascinating world of mushroom and Fungi and its different species.
C L U S T E R – Steve Leurink
June 2025
A collection of paintings that articulate connections between the past and the present.
PUANGA in SPACE –
June 2025
An exceptional exhibition of Puanga-inspired art produced by rangatahi from Whanganui schools, spanning all three galleries of Space Studio & Gallery.
Image: Carrie Bullmore WHS
Essence of There – Amanda Smart
May 2025
Painted hanging works exploring place, pattern, and presence through movement, colour, and sensory abstraction.
The Very Lively Ones – Adele Dubarry
May 2025
A celebration of prancing ponies and dancing ears of wheat: the magic of Iron Age gold coins in Britain.
random acts of perspective – Ursula Macfarlane
May 2025
The intriguing nature of infinite points of view when trying to explain art. These are photo composite stories.
MULTIPLIED – Kaye Coombs, Jo Giddens, Mark Rayner, Mike Marsh, Katherine Claypole, Rachel Stockley, Patrick Gregg, Jillaine Murray (The Black Pixie), Sandy de Kock, Duncan Foord & Rachael Garland
April 2025
A group exhibition that explores the aesthetic and power of multiplication.
Midnight Honey – Amanda Panda Ceramics
April 2025
Vibrant, heartwarming ceramic art for your table, home and soul.
The Black Lake – Patrick Gregg
April 2025
A series of ‘Pastels’ inspired by a Tea Tree stained Dunal lake in Australia.
Communication Tower – Stuart Morris
April 2025
A visual exploration of abstraction and monumentality.
CREATING SPACE – Katrina Langdon
April 2025
As an artist my journey is always to transcend that which indisputably exists, to tug gently at consciousness and offer a glimpse of something more, to usher ever-forward the limits of imagination.
I am forever and always dwelling in the ‘spaces between’ not quite in this space or that – something more intangible…
New Faces – Mark Rayner
April 2025
New faces…and a few familiar ones too. Dogs and devils and other crazy creatures come together for this exhibition of new works by Mark Rayner.
Whanga (Harbour) – Melanie Rodriga
March 2025
‘Whanga’ (Harbour), a place of safety and shelter. Atmospheric landscapes of an imagined natural world.
Entropia – Chris Lambert
March 2025
I’m interested in the flowering of life, the blossoming of death, and the wonder of spontaneous creation.