Now Showing
Daughters of Defiance
Sandra Douglas
Opening: October 8, 2025
Viewing: October 7, 2025 until October 25, 2025
We walk in the footprints of those who fought before us.
Sea Change
David Taylor
Opening: October 8, 2025
Viewing: October 7, 2025 until October 25, 2025
Work inspired by the ever-changing coastal landforms and structures.
Coming Soon
Cultural Awards Exhibition – Whanganui Highschool
Opening: October 24 10:00 am
Viewing: October 24, 2025 until October 25, 2025
Whanganui High School is proud to announce a special exhibition showcasing the exceptional talent of its Year 12 and 13 students, as part of the 2025 Cultural Awards.
The exhibition, originally an invite-only celebration on Thursday 23rd October (and part of the awards ceremony hosted by the Royal Whanganui Opera House), has been extended to give the public an opportunity to experience the impressive portfolios created by students across Photography, Painting, and Design.
Stitched Realities
Inge Flinte & Natalie Holland
Opening: October 29 5:30 pm
Viewing: October 29, 2025 until November 15, 2025
Reimagined traditional techniques and motifs that celebrate cultural heritage and explore the evolving nature of identity and belonging.
Spaciousness
Kylie Wardlaw
Opening: October 29 5:30 pm
Viewing: October 29, 2025 until November 15, 2025
Exploring the emotional resonance of the landscape though colour and movement.
Coexist
Joel Hart
Opening: October 29 5:30 pm
Viewing: October 29, 2025 until November 15, 2025
Urban contemporary portraits layered with collage and imagery that explore how we coexist with thoughts, dreams, and moments in life – a reflection of our inner worlds.
Past Exhibitions
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.
City Mission Fundraiser – Wendy Watson
March 2025
When the going gets tough, volunteers step up.
Between Then and Now – Mica Kerridge
March 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.
Ko Au Te Awa; I Am the River – Manu Bennett
March 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
March 2025
digital – art – installation
Vibrant Sights – Kalia Court
February 2025
Vibrant Sights is a bright, colourful series, depicting some of Whanagnui’s iconic sites.
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
February 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
February 2025
Exploring expansive views and big skies after a recent relocation to the Wairarapa.
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.
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.
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.
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…