Open daily: 10.30 – 16.30
Except Christmas and Good Friday
FREE ENTRY
Shed 11, Queens Wharf
Wellington Waterfront
Star Gossage’s paintings show people as interconnected; inseparable from wairua (spirit), whenua (land), whakapapa (ancestry) or whanuau (family).
Image: Star Gossage, Pa Girls, 2013, oil on board, Private collection, Auckland
This exhibition asks: how are portraits utilised as tools of state and institutional power? and, how can portraiture be used in ways that undermine or subvert systems of power?
Image: Liz Maw, Elizabeth, 1999, Oil on board, Private collection
This collection of works by the eminent painter and war artist Peter McIntyre (1910 - 1995) and his daughter, photographer Sara McIntyre provides an engaging portrait of the small central north island village of Kākahi through a unique pairing of their works.
Learn the versatile technique of wire looping! In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to learn the technique of croqueting wire, called ‘looping’. Follow artist Birgit Moffatt as she teaches you how to delicately loop thin wire around sturdy natural objects, creating personal petit taonga that you can take home with you.
Learn how to draw and paint like Star Gossage!
Grant Hall, curator of Star Gossage: He Tangata The People, friend of the artist and artist himself, will lead you through an insightful and fun workshop where you will be able to learn the artistic and stylistic techniques Star Gossage uses in her own artistic practice.
