To celebrate pride this year join guest speaker Edward Cowley and exhibition curator Maddie Brooks Gillespie to hear stories from the life and times of Carmen Rupe, and gain a window into her legacy and the fabulous worlds she created.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join Gavin Hurley and New Zealand Portrait Gallery Director Jaenine Parkinson for a free-form discussion on Gavin Hurley: Growing up.
Gavin Hurley, Boy with Grey’s Beard, 2024, collection of the artist.
Join Liz Stringer Curatorial intern Maddie Brooks Gillespie, Chevron Hassett (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Rongomaiwahine) and Ehsan Hazaveh for a panel discussion on the importance of place in their photography practice and the place of portraiture in the arts landscape of Aotearoa today.
Image of Background Matters exhibition, Jess O'Brien
A twist on our usual Saturday Sittings!
Join Inverlochy Art School teacher Denise Durkin for a FREE creative event inspired by the beautiful work of Toss Woollaston, drawing expressive portraits in ink.
Artwork by Denise Durkin
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join Philip Woollaston and curator Dr Jane Davidson-Ladd to discuss the portraits of Toss Woollaston, New Zealand's first modernist portrait painter.
M T Woollaston, Figures from Life, 1936. Oil and charcoal (627 x 478 mm). Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Colin McCahon, 1954
Experience A Migrant's Path, a thought-provoking and deeply moving exhibition, through the eyes of the artist, Abhi Chinniah. Enjoy an intimate tour of the artwork followed by a relaxed discussion over cake and coffee.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join Migrant Maharanis for a free, two-hour Zine Making Workshop inspired by Abhi Chinniah's A Migrant’s Path.
With support from Migrant Maharanis and in partnership with Wellington Zine Festival, this workshop will guide you in creating your own collage using thought-provoking prompts to reflect on migrant experiences in Aotearoa. Participants at the end of the workshop will also be invited to submit their work for a community zine.
Open to all ages, with materials provided by the Gallery.
This is a FREE workshop; reserve your spot online or at the Gallery Store.
Poster designed by Migrant Maharanis
Our Robyn Kahukiwa Panel Discussion brings together Brooke Pou (Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Te Rangi), Tehani Buchanan (Ngāti Rupe Makea, Aitutaki, Mitiaro, Mangaia, Kōtirana), Nikau Hindin, (Ngai Tūpoto, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) and Israel Randell (Rarotonga, Tainui, Ngāti Kahungunu), to reflect on the impact Robyn Kahukiwa’s work has had on their sense of selves, her contribution to te ao Māori and what it means for a new generation to grow up with the works of Robyn Kahukiwa.
Robyn Kahukiwa, Mahuika, c.1983, Private collection, Wellington
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join artist Telly Tuita for a mask-making workshop, and create your own mask that connects to your identity, culture or alter ego!
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join Curator Roma Pōtiki, Gallerist Francis McWhannell and Gallery Director Jaenine Parkinson for an engaging discussion about the curatorial process of this exceptional exhibition, sourcing the works from homes and institutions across Aotearoa and the Pacific, and the mana in the Wāhine Toa series uniting again for a new generation.
Image: Robyn Kahukiwa, Hinetītama, 1980, Te Manawa Art Society & Te Manawa Museums Trust Collections, Palmerston North
Join internationally renowned artist Telly Tuita in conversation with Dowse Art Museum director Karl Chitham for a free ranging talk about themes in Tuita’s current exhibition TONGPOP ARCHETYPES.
Together they will discuss the topics that weave through Tuita’s practice including atua, popular culture and stories related to his life and career from Tonga, to Australia and now in Aotearoa.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Larry Abreño, After a very long day at work, Painted with Coffee & Watercolour. 2024
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join us for a kōrero on the Adam Portraiture Award 2024 exhibition.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join us for a Q+A with bestselling author Alison Jones. Alison will speak about her intellectual and emotional grappling with New Zealand's colonial past and what it means for our present and future in Aotearoa.
Join us in the Gallery for a kōrero between Liz Stringer Curatorial Intern, Karis Evans, and Otago University Professor of History, Angela Wanhalla.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join artist Richard Lewer in his exhibition ‘What they didn’t teach me at school: Richard Lewer - The Waikato Wars’ at the Gallery.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join us in the Gallery for a curator’s kōrero between Curator Christ Corson- Scott and our Gallery Director Jaenine Parkinson.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join us in the Gallery, with Ksherta Collective artist, and founder of Indian Ink theatre company Jacob Rajan.
Join us in the Gallery for a panel discussion featuring all seven artists from the Kshetra collective:
Sarah Dutt, Rafik Patel, Jacob Rajan, Mandrika Rupa, Mandy Rupa-Reid, Tiffany Singh and Shruti Yatri.
Haere mai! Come into the Gallery and be first to hear who the community has voted as our Forsyth Barr People’s Choice Winner for The Kingii Tuheitia Portraiture Award 2023!
Saturday Sittings is cancelled for July and August. We will be back in September in the Gallery as usual.
Sorry, and than you for your patience.
Join us in the Gallery with 4 of our Kingii Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalists, Ngāwini Keelan, Tia Barrett, Ngaroma Riley and Stevei Houkamau.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join Euan Macleod and Greg O'Brien in the Gallery to hear the artist and the face of Euan’s portraits discuss the works in the exhibition ‘Facing Time”.
Do you secretly write poetry on your phone, in your journal, on the bus? Do the words writer or poet make you recoil, but in-secret, you want to say, "I'm a writer" ? This workshop is for you.
Join us in the Gallery surrounded by the beautiful collection of mahi toi in the Kingii Tuheitia exhibition to discuss being Tangata whenua working and creating in the Aotearoa arts industry.
Join us as our Judges, Steve Gibbs (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata, Rongomaiwahine) Graham Hoete aka "Mr G" (Ngati Awa, Ngai Te Rangi, Ngati Ranginui) and Lisa Reihana (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Hine, Ngāi Tūteauru, Ngāi Tupoto) discuss their prize-winning choices and the process of judging the Award.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join three Pōneke based poets in a discussion about aesthetics and authorship.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Join curator of In the Round: Portraits by Women Sculptors Milly Mitchell-Anyon in the Gallery where she will be speaking to the selection of works individually and the overall curatorial intention of her wonderful exhibition.
On the last weekend of the exhibition Selwyn Muru: A Life’s Work, Te Pūkenga Whakaata The New Zealand Portrait Gallery hosts a seminar in the gallery to be lead by curator Dr Moana Nepia with presentations from guests Emeritus Professor Ngāhuia Te Awekotuku, artist Dr Brett Graham, Curator Taonga Māori at MTG Gallery Napier Te Hira Henderson, and former Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand.
Image: Curator Moana Nepia, photograph by Natalie Robertson
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Attend in the Gallery or online via Zoom.
Join Moana Nepia Curator of Selwyn Muru: A Life’s Work to learn more about Selwyn Muru’s diverse and multidimensional creative practice.
Join us in the Gallery for Frances McWhannell’s kōrero about the Fletcher Trust Collection and the current exhibition Gathered Voices.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Attend in the Gallery or online via Zoom.
A special ‘live cinema’ event to mark Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara – our national day of commemoration of the NZ Land Wars. The Te Kooti Trail (1927) will be accompanied with live taonga pūoro interpretation by Jerome Kavanagh Poutomo and pianist Deakin Palmer.
New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata is delighted to co-present this screening and live taonga pūoro performance with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in support of the exhibition He Riri Awatea: Filming the New Zealand Wars and the National Library E Oho! Waitangi 2022 series.
New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata is delighted to co-present this screening of Utu Redux with Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in support of the exhibition He Riri Awatea: Filming the New Zealand Wars . This screening will be introduced by cinematographer Graeme Cowley and filmmaker Dame Gaylene Preston.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision have partnered with us to present a screening of the behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of legendary 1983 film Utu inspired by the New Zealand Wars.
Stay on for a kōrero with director Dame Gaylene Preston and Annabel Cooper.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Attend in the Gallery or online via Zoom.
Lecture by Judge Arthur Tompkins on the persistent myth of highly skilled gentleman art thieves who steal Old Masters for their private enjoyment, followed by a cocktail reception .
Filmmakers approach history in many ways - feature film, and short film formats of various kinds, fiction and non-fiction. All must deal with the fact that they are telling stories that concern real people and real histories, even if sometimes in fictional form. In this session the speakers tell some of their own stories and address some of the perspectives they bring to the larger questions of how to make screen histories.
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata is hosting panel of speakers to share their knowledge of the New Zealand Wars; and to discuss how to deliver this historical content in a respectful, intersectional way that cares for and empowers Tangata whenua, Mātauranga Māori, Pākehā and Tau iwi.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Attend in the Gallery or online via Zoom.
Join Curators Annabel Cooper and Ariana Tīkao in their exhibition He Riri Awatea: Filming the New Zealand wars.
Come into the Gallery and be first to hear who the community has voted as our People’s Choice Winner for 2022!
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Attend in the Gallery or online via Zoom.
Haere mai, come and listen to the inspirational Wāhine toa Rosie Edwards in kōrero with artist and Adam Portraiture Award Runner up Gwyn Hughes.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Attend in the Gallery or online via Zoom.
Click here to watch the full video of the opening speeches.
Haere mai and visit while these two extremely talented Adam Portrait Award finalists paint a life model in the Gallery. This is a great opportunity to observe the artist’s techniques and of course see them in action.
Have a go at portraiture in a relaxed setting with our free monthly drawing sessions.
Judges Linda Tyler and Karl Maughan discuss the judging process and their selections for the Award.
During this artist talk you will walk through the Gallery with David and Wiremu while they continue their conversation from the pages of the book Jellicoe & Bledisloe in the exhibition.
Image: Jellicoe & Bledisloe Book by David Cook. Photo by Sam Fraser 2022
Here you can watch Linda Tylers lively and informative talk on expatriate artist Raymond McIntyre. Linda has written about McIntyre for the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and Te Ara, the online Encyclopledia of New Zealand. She is currently Convenor of Museums and Cultural Heritage at the University of Auckland.
Enjoy as she generously shares her research surrounded by McIntyre’s paintings in the Gallery. .
Saturday Sittings are back in the Gallery and online via zoom.
Booking is required for those attending in the Gallery to keep track of numbers.
Have you ever wondered what the Māori creation stories of the Pōneke (Wellington) area are? Have you wanted to learn but haven’t known where to look or who or how to ask?
Then nau mai haere mai, this event is perfect for you!
Te Pūkenga Whakaata, The New Zealand Portrait Gallery invites you to listen and learn some pūrākau (stories) of Te Whanganui a Tara. Ani Morris, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Kahungunu me Rangitāne is generously sharing some sacred stories of the whenua that have been passed on to her with those who attend this kōrero.
Join artist Pippa Sanderson for a watercolour painting workshop, inspired by her current Equivalent Exchange works in our Unfinished Portraits exhibition. Pippa will do a live demonstration, sharing how she creates her portraits, while participants will be provided with all the materials and guidance they need to create their own watercolour portrait.
Join our monthly Saturday sittings Portraiture Sessions, online under Level 2, and in person under Level 1.
What do you stand for? Head into the gallery to create your own protest sign.
Join our monthly Saturday sittings Portraiture Sessions, online under Level 2, and in person under Level 1.
Join NZ Portrait Gallery Audience Engagement Coordinator Brianah Lee, and Inverlochy Art School tutor Stephanie Turgoose, on this four hour tour and printmaking workshop
Auckland based artist Jo Bragg will speak to their work and artist thesis (Monash University), then uncover what 'Autonomy' looks like to themselves, and to those across the spectrum of Aotearoa's LGBTQIA+ arts communities.
Dr Kirsty Baker traces a genealogy of women-only exhibitions in Aotearoa over the past 5 decades, engaging with the work of many of the artists included in Autonomous Bodies
'Women painting Have you heard of Artemesia? on Matariki Mural, 1981' (top to bottom: Anna Keir, Marian Evans, Marg Leniston, Fiona Lovatt, Susie Jungersen, Bridie Lonie)
Artist Holly Walker on her artistic practice and unpacking the relationship between the treatment of the earth & women.
Curator and artist Gina Matchitt will be presenting a walk through floor talk providing insight unto her exhibition, Autonomous Bodies:: Figurative portraits by New Zealand women, wāhine, transgender and non-binary artists
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Waiāio Ngā Mōrehu Elkington at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on their mahi toi.
Waiāio Ngā Mōrehu Elkington, Huirohutu Meha Elkington, 2021.
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Regan Balzer at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on their mahi toi.
Regan Balzer, 'Guide Susan: A Matriarch (Not a Maiden)', 2021.
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Jamie Berry at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on their mahi toi.
Join The New Zealand Portrait Gallery in collaboration with Inverlochy Art School for a fun day full of portraiture, collage and creating!
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Suzanne Tamaki at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on the mahi behind their selected work, Cultural Preservation, 2021.
Join artist Ron Te Kawa at the NZ Portrait Gallery to create an upcycled original textile Matariki artwork.
See Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Shannon Clamp at work on their latest mahi toi.
Join Artist and Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Tessa Williams for our whanau focused creative workshop.
Warren Maxwell will be performing at the NZ Portrait Gallery a solo loop set as part of the Face to Face Portrait Festival 2021.
Join Acting Direction Brian Wood and Audience Engagement Coordinator Brianah Lee on a tour of the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.
11am and 3pm sessions available.
Free.
Hear the inaugural winner of the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award in conversation with Lisa Reihana
Join Acting Direction Brian Wood and Audience Engagement Coordinator Brianah Lee on a tour of the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.
11am and 3pm sessions available.
Free.
Join Splendid’s Sean Aickin on our smartphone photo workshop and walking tour! Open to all levels, you will engage with Sara's photos on a hands-on technical level, then have the opportunity to create your own as part of a walking tour around the waterfront!
Registration is essential, so sign up today to secure your place!
Artist and author Sara McIntyre will be in conversation with Greg Donson, Curator and Public Programmes Manager for Sarjeant Gallery Wanganui.
Image: Sara McIntyre, pictured by Babiche Martens.
Come on down to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery for an free portraiture drawing session on the last Saturday of each month 1 - 3pm
Get creative this Autumn by capturing a portrait of your neighbourhood and sharing it on Instagram with the #nzpgplacesportraits for the chance to win a signed copy of Sara McIntyre's Observations of a rural nurse publication.
Liz Stringer Intern and PhD candidate at Harvard University, Paul Johnston, will be speaking to his exhibition Portraits of Power / Portraits as Power, at the opening on 17 December.
The biennial Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
Take an online tour of the exhibition with guest curator Maria Brown
Image: Greengrocers were a very family business, 1920s. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington: 1/2–037502–G
Image: Dr Bronwyn Labrum is the Head of New Zealand and Pacific Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Image: Drinking Couple: Fraser Analysing my Words, 1977, Oil on board,The University of Auckland Art Collection.
Image: Margaret Tolland: Artist, Illustrator and Artist in Residence at Samuel Marsden Colliagte
The time that John Walsh created his 20-metre-long mural was a period of intense creativity and Māori renaissance in New Zealand. What memories, issues, controversies and supports did creatives from this time have to work through?
Join us for this fascinating hour of talk between a group of people who were there at the creative coal face in 1980.
Angus Trumble, judge of the 2018 Adam Portraiture Award, talks with winner Logan Moffat about the Adam, art, process and art school.
