Bringing together standout works and emerging voices from across the city’s best spaces.
CURATED BY —
LUCY KENNEDY
Melanie Roger Gallery
Tūhononga
Shane Cotton, Nikau Hindin, Rangi Kipa,
Reuben Paterson, Lisa Reihana
1-25 July
Tūhononga brings together five leading contemporary Māori artists whose practices traverse painting, sculpture, installation, digital media, and customary arts. While distinct in approach, their works share a commitment to exploring the complexities of identity, whakapapa, memory, and cultural continuity within contemporary Aotearoa and beyond.
Part of Matariki celebrations on Karangahape Road
Anna Miles Gallery
WFH Working From Home
Isobel Thom, Ellen Thom, Tess Macdonald
20 June – 25 July
WFH Working From Home explores three generations of making within one Tāmaki Makaurau family. Ceramic artist Isobel Thom was raised in a family of practical makers and engineers in Howick. In this exhibition, Thom’s intricately inlaid teapots are presented on ceramic shelves alongside striped knitted blankets by her mother, Ellen Thom, and paintings by her niece, Tess Macdonald, whose works depict Thom’s teapots. Together, these works reveal a shared culture of making, care, and observation across three generations of the same family.
10/30 Upper Queen Street
Sanderson Gallery
MOTHERMOTHER
Group Exhibition
23 July – 23 August
Sanderson are delighted to present MOTHERMOTHER – a major exhibition that investigates mother-centred frameworks and matriarchal futures; reflecting on the intricate, joyful, and vital systems on which society depends. The artists gathered in this exhibition explore this through an expansive array of themes. MOTHERMOTHER brings together a vast and nourishing ecosystem, showcasing the work of over 40 practitioners. This exhibition is in partnership with the mothermother collective.
2-4 Kent Street
Studio One Toi Tū
He Taonga Ānō te Hau: Treasures That Still Breathe
Siniva Mokaraka
25 June – 23 July
Working through a Māori and Pasifika lens, Mokaraka reimagines still life to honour taonga as living carriers of mauri, memory, and spirit. Each fine art digital print is composed from taonga of personal significance, printed on archival Hahnemühle paper, and framed in handcarved rimu. Created for Matariki, the works speak to remembrance, renewal, and ancestral connection, encouraging reflection on the taonga, stories, and relationships that continue to shape whānau and whakapapa.
1 Ponsonby Road
