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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 ...

Fiona Pardington, Te kuia whitinga o te pō (the shining lady of the night) – the golden huia, 2021. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum, commissioned by The Dowse Foundation 2021.

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 ...

Shane Cotton, Morning Star, 2021. Courtesy of the artist

6 Jul 2021

Homecoming for Shane Cotton

Major exhibition of new work by renowned artist Shane Cotton at The Dowse, 17 July

Kate Newby, And I'm not going to waste this, 2012. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum, purchased 2012

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.

Claudia Kogachi, There's No I In Team, 2021, The Dowse. Photo by Mark Tantrum

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 ...

Isla Ashby (Top Subject Scholar for Painting 2020), Heretaunga College

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ceramics from The Dowse Collection (including some by Dame Doreen Blumhardt), From the Ground Up (install view). At The Dowse, 2020. Photo by Ted Whitaker

20 Nov 2020

The Dowse receives the newly established Blumhardt Fund

The Dowse Art Museum is delighted to announce it is one of the first recipients of the newly established Blumhardt Fund. The Blumhardt Fund provides a dollar for ...