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Leonie Arnold, Bird Fetish & Cat Fetish, Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Featuring an artwork for each letter of the alphabet. Alphabet Street is a curious neighbourhood where you'll find an acrobatic trickster, red roofs and hidden neighbours.

SPACES brings architecture, the background to our lives, to the forefront with works influenced and inspired by architectural spaces. Featuring artists such as Andrew Barber, Zac Langdon-Pole, Gavin Hurley, Kate Newby, Patrick Lundberg, Fiona Connor

Detail of Waiting for Le Ma'oma'o (2012). Photo by John Lake. Bringing together diverse works from public and private collections throughout New Zealand, Black Bird is the first major survey of 17 years of Lonnie Hutchinson's rich and varied practice

Lauren Lysaght, Gauguin's Lei (Detail), 1995. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Purchased 2001. "If you take the time to stop and notice you’ll soon discover not just one but all the blues in the sky and the seas. The hues of green in the

Tui Emma Gillies, Daughter of a Lost Dynasty, 2012. Courtesy of the artist. Inspired by Nuku Tewhatewha, this exhibition explores the concept of mana. Capable of so much more than cultural pride, mana is a ‘creative and dynamic force that

Lisa Walker, Necklace, 2005. Collection of The Dowse Art Museum. Stand-out necklaces from The Dowse's rich collections will shine in The Bold and the Beautiful. Featuring some of the stars of The Dowse Art Museum’s collection, The Bold and the

Solo is a biennial exhibition presented by The Dowse that showcases and supports local Wellington artists by actively commissioning and presenting new work. The series aims to present contemporary art work across a range of media and provides a

Areta Wilkinson, Hine-Āhua & Huirei (Toggle), 2013. Courtesy of the Artist. Whakapaipai means to ‘make beautiful, to adorn’. Whakapai, meaning to revise, to improve, to bless, to set as in a table and strengthens these ideas to a core Māori

The Opening of Rangimatua, 11 April 2015. Photo by Mark Tantrum. Blending customary whakairo (carving) and contemporary art, Reweti Arapere will build a giant pou representing a tiki out of cardboard for one of our galleries. Inspired by

Bronwynne Cornish, Baa Birds (Detail), 2013. Courtesy of The Artist. Mudlark is a major survey exhibition by Bronwynne Cornish, one of New Zealand’s most celebrated ceramic artists. Cornish was born in Lower Hutt and has held close relationships

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Alphabet Street

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Lonnie Hutchinson: Black Bird

Nuku: Symbols of Mana

The Bold and the Beautiful

Solo 2014: Five Wellington Artists

Areta Wilkinson: Whakapaipai—Jewellery as Pepeha

Reweti Arapere: Rangimatua

Mudlark: Bronwynne Cornish, Ceramics 1982–2013