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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 ...

Rachel Maclean, Feed Me, 2015, video still. Courtesy of the artist.

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 ...

Adict, Rimoni, DYLE52 aka SAVES, Phat1, Lady Diva, Berst & AskewOne. Photo by Raymond Sagapolutele.

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 ...

Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, Terminus (install view) at The Dowse. Photo by Hagen Hopkins.

21 Mar 2021

Terminus: Artist Talk

Visual artist Jess Johnson & video-maker and animator Simon Ward in conversation with curator and Dowse director Karl Chitham about their unique collaborative relationship and the process of ...

8 Mar 2021

Decolonising your Puku: indigenous food sovereignty

How do our food systems impact our lands, waters and whānau wellbeing? Jared Hiakita, Kelly Marie Francis and Dr Jessica Hutchings with facilitator Kaye Maree Dunn, discusses approaches ...

Jane Dodd, Modern Artist, 2016. Courtesy Guy Muir collection.

19 Feb 2021

The Dowse launches first survey exhibition of Jane Dodd jewellery

The Dowse Art Museum presents the first major survey of contemporary jeweller Jane Dodd in a new exhibition titled Wild Domain: The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery.

Pauline Bern, Scrubber, 2000. Collection of The Dowse, 2000.

1 Feb 2021

Digging for gold - The Dowse celebrates its 50th year with new exhibition Fool’s Gold

The Dowse Art Museum will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year starting off with a new exhibition, Fool’s Gold, opening on 2 February, featuring the golden, yellow and ...

Angela Singer, Second Sight 2020 at The Dowse (install view). Photo by Mark Tantrum.

19 Jan 2021

Angela Singer: Second Sight artist talk

Dr Chelsea Nicholls chats to artist Angela Singer about her most recent exhibition, Second Sight. Singer discusses her practice and shares stories behind the ghost birds, floating snouts, ...

18 Dec 2020

Our top 5 unique Christmas gift ideas – For something a little bit different

It’s time to cut through the Christmas chaos, and fill in the blanks on your gifting to-do list. Lucky for you, we have a great selection of gifts ...

Reuben Paterson, Black Matter 2020 (install view) at The Dowse. Photo by Hagen Hopkins.

15 Dec 2020

New opening times from 2021

From January 4th 2021 The Dowse Art Museum will be closed on Mondays.

BC Collective, Following the herd, 2020, at The Dowse (install view). Photo by Ted Whitaker.

1 Dec 2020

BC Collective in Conversation

BC Collective, Cora-Allan Wickliffe (Ngāpuhi, Taniui, Niue) and Daniel Twiss (Lakota Sioux, Rosebud Reservation) was in conversation with curator Grace Ryder about Following the herd, their new installation ...

Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror, Making like a Forest 2020 (install view) at The Dowse. Photo by Ted Whitaker.

30 Nov 2020

Making Like a Forest: Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror

In Making Like a Forest, artist Xin Cheng and designer Adam Ben-Dror explore how kindness and care is embodied within two local communities: Common Unity Project Aotearoa and ...