Now Showing
Proliferate
Jessica Galias
Opening: June 25, 2025
Viewing: June 24, 2025 until July 5, 2025
This is a series of paintings that explores the fascinating world of mushroom and Fungi and its different species.
Collective
Catherine Burrell McKnight, Marina G Belsito, Piper Look & Kendra Apperley
Opening: June 25, 2025
Viewing: June 24, 2025 until July 5, 2025
UCOL Whanganui mid-year graduates present diverse artworks exploring memory, transformation, place, and materiality.
C L U S T E R
Steve Leurink
Opening: June 25, 2025
Viewing: June 24, 2025 until July 5, 2025
A collection of paintings that articulate connections between the past and the present.
Coming Soon
Mid-Year Programme Break
Opening: July 6 10:00 am
Viewing: July 6, 2025 until July 14, 2025
Thank you for your support during the first half of our art programme!
We’ll be closed from the 6th until the 14th of July, but don’t worry — we’ll be back on the 15th July with more arty goodness and a stellar line-up of exhibitions to round out 2025.
SPACE INVADERS
Graham Hall, Lee Morgan, Glen Hutchins & Jason Dufty
Opening: July 16 5:30 pm
Viewing: July 15, 2025 until August 2, 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.
Past Exhibitions
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.
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.
Winter Creations – Craig Williams
October 2024
Slip cast pottery I made during winter, to keep sane.
ARTERIAL ROOTS – Alex Low
September 2024
Superchromatic Sonambulist studies of Snaking pathways, Shoots and Squiggles. Of Sinew, Synapse, Sap and Spirit.
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.
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.
Whispers of Time – Mica Kerridge
August 2024
Through layered wax and pigment, her encaustic works capture the fragmented and often overlooked remnants of cityscapes.