Home News News Menu ↑ BlogMedia ReleasesPodcastOur Favourites 8 Sep 2021 COVID-19: The Dowse is open at Alert Level 2 The Dowse is open (Tuesday to Sunday) during Alert Level 2. Read More 24 Aug 2021 Dr Bronwyn Lloyd announced as Blumhardt Curator 2021 The Dowse is excited to announce Dr Bronwyn Lloyd as its 2021 Blumhardt Curator, as part of a new programme developed by the Blumhardt Foundation in partnership with ... Read More 2 Aug 2021 The Dowse x TMD Crew: Street Art Mentoring Programme A group of Lower Hutt rangatahi learned from world-renowned street artists to create murals around their communities as part a year-long street art mentoring programme hosted by The ... Read More 24 Jul 2021 Fiona Pardington, The Golden Huia: ‘Spectacular’ new commission for The Dowse The Golden Huia, a major new artwork by leading Aotearoa photographer Fiona Pardington, was unveiled tonight (Friday 23 July) at a glittering event to celebrate The Dowse Art ... Read More 6 Jul 2021 Homecoming for Shane Cotton Major exhibition of new work by renowned artist Shane Cotton at The Dowse, 17 July Read More 6 Jul 2021 Breaking the Bronze Ceiling opens From bronze and ceramics to duct tape and wool, a new exhibition at The Dowse celebrates five decades of female sculptural practice in Aotearoa. Read More 21 Jun 2021 [WATCH] The Most Dedicated: Street Art Festival takes over Lower Hutt, 2021 In March 2021, The Most Dedicated: Street Art Festival turned Lower Hutt CBD into an outdoor art gallery with internationally acclaimed street art collective TMD Crew. Read More 14 May 2021 Fun and friction played in Mother-Daughter portraiture From surfing to tennis to golf, sports become a playful metaphor for exploring the challenging emotional terrain of the mother-daughter relationship in There’s No I In Team, a ... Read More 9 May 2021 Top Art comes to The Dowse Some of New Zealand’s best secondary school artwork will be on display at The Dowse from 10 - 14 May 2021, as part of the Top Art exhibition. Read More 11 Apr 2021 Not today... Can you decolonise an art gallery? Join Nigel Borell, former curator Māori at Auckland Art Gallery, Puawai Cairns, Director Audience and Insight at Te Papa and Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi), The Dowse ... Read More 31 Mar 2021 Gorge on a visual feast of the sickeningly sweet Lollies exploding out of faces, candy-coloured corporate dystopia and disaster-inflected dessert commercials feature in the pick ‘n mix of artworks by contemporary international and Aotearoa-based artists in Candy ... Read More 25 Mar 2021 Showcasing Aotearoa's urban art scene - from the streets to the gallery The Most Dedicated: An Aotearoa Graffiti Story and the TMD Street Art Festival The first major public museum display of street art collective, TMD Crew, The Dowse Art ... Read More Load More
