Tag: Arts
Celebrating creativity during Matariki
Creativity sparkled this Matariki, with several art-based happenings around the motu. Over the last couple of weeks, groups of Waiheke school children have been...
Capturing the flit and flash of Waiheke’s magnificent manu
Perched high above Blackpool Beach overlooking mudflats, sea and bush, Mark Lapwood NZCS ACS, cinematographer, independent film-maker, photographer and bird-lover quietly sits and waits....
A salute to our natural world
A powerful new exhibition is currently gracing Waiheke Community Art Gallery Te Whare Taonga o Waiheke, showcasing two leading contemporary Māori artists. Waiheke’s Anton...
Waka on Waiheke
Waiheke sculptor Anton Forde has completed his carvings on a 16-metre waka sculpture that now sits proud above the Pūtiki inlet where Polynesian voyagers first...
A gift to the people of Christchurch
Waiheke-based artist Kazu Nakagawa was standing under his giant origami-inspired sculpture at 2019’s Sculpture on the Gulf when he learned of the Christchurch mosque...
Ko au te whenua, Ko te whenua ko au / ...
Opening at the Waiheke Community Gallery / Te Whare Taonga o Waiheke last Friday, alongside The Reckoning, sculptural works by 2023’s Artist in Residence...
Celebrating the winners of the Waiheke Youth Art Awards
The Waiheke Youth Art Awards were recently celebrated in a prizegiving at Waiheke Adult Learning Centre. The evening was a heart-warming acknowledgement of Waiheke’s...
Mountains Crumble to the Sea at the Red Shed
Mountains Crumble to the Sea is a new exhibition by Paul John Rhind, currently showing at the Red Shed Arts Collective in Palm Beach...
A bubbly acrylic workshop at Goldie Estate
Lovers of crafts, art and good wine have a workshop specially designed for them at Goldie Estate. Next Saturday 1 July at 1.30pm, the...
‘This is my happy place’
Sandie O’Brien has been hard at work on a new series of striking abstract paintings for a good cause. The artist has teamed up...
