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Te Pūkenga Whakaata
 

OPEN DAILY: 10:00am – 4:30pm
Except Christmas Day and Good Friday

FREE ENTRY
Shed 11, 60 Lady Elizabeth Lane
Wellington Waterfront 6011

 
Exhibitions
Julia B. Lynch: A Dedicated Life
Jun 19
Julia B. Lynch: A Dedicated Life

This exhibition will focus on three aspects of Lynch’s artistic career: portraits painted for competitions (for instance she entered the famous Australian Archibald Portrait Prize four times), controversial portraits (her portrait of Mayor Percy Dowse, Lower Hutt was taken down at the Dowse but in 1984 the director was told to reinstate it against his dislike for it) and portraits of her students, of which there are many.

Image: Julia Lynch, Self-portrait, c.1924, private collection.

Me: Artists Paint Themselves
Aug 28
Me: Artists Paint Themselves

Delving into the complicated multiplicities of self-perception and identity, this exhibition presents a selection of innovative painted self-portraits by modern and contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Image: Sacha Lees, Sometimes an Outline Coloured In, 2020. Collection New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata, winner of the Adam Portraiture Award 2020.

Public Programmes
Monthly Life Drawing
Aug 30
Monthly Life Drawing

Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our koha monthly life drawing sessions.

A Day in the Life
Sep 6
A Day in the Life

Have you ever wondered what daily life might have looked like for Sister Lawrence (Julia B. Lynch)? Or the difference between a sister and a nun?  Or how the lives of women within the Sisters of Mercy have evolved from the 1900s to today?  Join Sister Natalie as she shares stories and insights into the life of a sister and helps us envision what an average day may have been like for Julia B. Lynch—Sister Lawrence. 

Image: Julia Lynch, Self-portrait, c.1924, private collection.

Whānau Day!
Sep 20
Whānau Day!

Kick off the school holidays with a bang!
Join us for a fun-filled family day inspired by our exhibition Me: Artists Paint Themselves.

Get creative with hands-on activities like collage, painting, and drawing as we explore poses, emotions, and colour. You’ll get to make your own unique artwork to take home!

And don’t miss the FREE face painting (10am-12pm) – what or who could you become!?

 
Touring Exhibitions
He Riri Awatea: Filming the New Zealand Wars - Canterbury Museum
May 9
Canterbury Museum Pop-Up
He Riri Awatea: Filming the New Zealand Wars - Canterbury Museum
Canterbury Museum Pop-Up

A fresh take on stories of Ngā Pākanga o Aotearoa, the New Zealand Wars, as portrayed in film. This exhibition shows the making and remaking of our history as interpreted through various films, television series, and digital storytelling formats.

Image: Anzac Wallace stars in the 1983 film Utu.

Canterbury Museum Pop-Up
Robyn Kahukiwa: Tohunga Mahi Toi - Waikato Museum, Hamilton
May 16
Waikato Museum
Robyn Kahukiwa: Tohunga Mahi Toi - Waikato Museum, Hamilton
Waikato Museum

Robyn Kahukiwa’s artworks have made a difference to Māori. They have provided not only beauty and strength but inroads into our mātauranga, and the multi-layered, inter-generational and ever-evolving stories that are part of our cultural landscape. Her work has become an alternate visual rendering of Aotearoa’s history, through the lens of a Māori woman.

Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Portrait of a Woman, 1986, Private collection, Wellington

Waikato Museum