Entry is free.
The Gallery is open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm.
Exhibitions in our two gallery spaces change three or four times a year and feature artworks on loan and from our collection.
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 exhibition celebrates the ongoing relevance and standing of the Alexander Turnbull Library, 100 years after it first opened.
Image: Gottfried Lindauer, Mrs. Ngahui Rangitakaiwaho of Wairarapa, Dec 21st 180 (ATL ref.G- 515) courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
Works that defy the conventions of traditional portraiture and explore ways of communicating diverse identities through portraiture.
Curated by Georgie Keyse
Image: Frances Hodgkins, Still life: Self-portrait c.1935, oil on panel, collection of the Museum of Te Papa Tongarewa
Poutokomanawa features portraits and stories of the transgender women of Carmen’s generation including Chrissy Witoko, Georgina Beyer and Dana de Milo, celebrating their role as poutokomanawa for the community.
Image: Nicolette Page, Carmen 2012, oil on canvas, collection of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. Gift of the Artist. Photograph: Jess O’Brien
Co-curated by Chanel Hati, Talei Langley and Georgie Keyse
A multimedia exhibition showing portraits of creative women and their work.
Curators: Peter Derksen and Nicola Caldwell
Eye contact is often fleeting – we look away from our most familiar friends, share only passing glances with strangers on the street. But if you were to really gaze into someone’s eyes, how would this change your perception of them?
Direct and uncompromising, the portraits in Eye to Eye explore the dynamics of looking shared between artist and subject, subject and viewer.
A Deane Gallery exhibition featuring works from the NZPG collection.
Curators: Nicola Caldwell & Peter Derksen
