Bringing together standout works and emerging voices from across the city’s best spaces.
CURATED BY —
LUCY KENNEDY
Sanderson Gallery
Honey drawing
Kate van der Drift
11 November – 6 December
Honey drawing considers how rituals of care and making can offer solace amid uncertainty. Working with honey, candle smoke, pūriri leaves and withered flowers, van der Drift continues her practice of embracing the unpredictable collaboration between materials and photographic emulsion, light and time. Drawing inspiration from the fleeting life of the pūriri moth, these delicate works reflect on cycles of life, death and renewal, revealing the quiet beauty and tenderness found in moments of transformation.
2-4 Kent Street
Turura Gallery
Turura Tiny Show
Group Show
20-24 November
One of the most anticipated exhibitions each year, Turua Tiny Show returns on Friday 20 November, from 5pm, and everyone is welcome. It’s the most wonderful collection of 200mm x 200mm works from the majority of their artists, and each year the exhibition see’s queues waiting for the doors to open for the four-day show. Opening night falls on the same evening as the St Heliers Christmas Twilight Night with markets, live music, Santa and more.
10A Turua Street
Melanie Roger Gallery
The Terrible Boredom of Paradise
Derek Henderson
25 November – 19 December
The Terrible Boredom of Paradise emerged from a 13,000km journey Derek Henderson made around Aotearoa during the summer of 2003–04 with a 4×5 field camera. The series traces an intensely personal geography: provincial streets, roadside motels, marae, weatherboard houses, empty intersections, parked cars, fading signage and landscapes suspended somewhere between familiarity and estrangement. What Henderson offers is not the mythic New Zealand of tourism campaigns or nationalist nostalgia. Instead, these photographs dwell in quieter territory – in pauses, edges and intervals.
444 Karangahape Road
Gow Langsford Gallery
Spring Catalogue 2026
Group Show
24 October – 21 November
A cornerstone of the gallery’s programme since the mid-1990s, the Spring Catalogue has long showcased exceptional works by some of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant artists. Reimagined for Onehunga, this latest iteration continues that legacy with a carefully curated selection of highly accomplished paintings, sculpture and works on paper from leading figures such as Colin McCahon, Ralph Hotere, Gretchen Albrecht, Patrick Hanly and Gordon Walters, alongside works by prominent Australian artists Dale Frank and Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori.
4 Princes Street, Onehunga
Studio One Toi Tū
Taking Shape
Nina Bulgakova
12 November – 10 December
In this new body of work, Nina Bulgakova explores how personal boundaries shift through the process of adaptation. The works combine sand-textured reliefs with paint, built up in layers over time. The flowing, shifting forms become a metaphor for adapting to a new environment, while the sand offers a way of grounding through material, acting as a physical anchor amid change. The meditative nature of the process is reflected in the resulting forms: quiet, layered, changing, and reaching for balance.
1 Ponsonby Road
