A new commission, Kūreitanga II IV, by Taranaki artist WharehokaSmith (Taranaki, Te Ātiawa, Ngā Ruahine) is reflective of designs used by Māori to decorate wharenui (ceremonial communal houses), clothing, objects and architectural spaces.

Triple Vita Nestings brings together diverse works from the past decade, including video essays, anthropomorphic sculpture, audio work, and a venetian blind installation, alongside additional works produced for local audiences.

In Flat-Pack Whakapapa, Maureen Lander has created four installations that explore the connections between whakapapa and raranga (Māori weaving), including a new installation made in collaboration with local weavers.

Inspired by microscopic marine life, Elley’s biomorphic light drawings emanate from a dark and unseen world that reflects both the nature and the man-made detritus polluting the environment.

Working from memory and crafting in clay, Maloy recreates others’ work, translating experience and memory into a new form capturing the subjectivity of experience.

Within the park setting, the hand-sculpted glittering tree appears to be conjured up through the re-telling of a magical yet ancient legend.
 

The well-known Rotating Harmonic leads the way as the quintessential Len Lye sculpture – one of the purest expressions of Lye’s kinetic vision – accompanied by the popular Zebra, one of the Len Lye Centre’s most popular and thrilling works.

This exhibition charts the early years of Lye’s career, observing his childhood in Aotearoa New Zealand and first steps as an artist in Wellington before an offshore departure that took the artist to Australia, Samoa and on to the United Kingdom.