After winning back to back awards at the biggest tattoo event in the world, Aotearoa’s very own, Matt Jordan, brings you his biggest achievement to date. “A Body of Work” blurs the lines between tattooing and fine art and will change the way you look at the medium forever

A playful workshop series incorporating visual arts, drama, movement & mindfulness to explore expression & wellbeing

Dive into a deep blue world teeming with life in Ngā Huhua: Abundance, an immersive exhibition celebrating the lifeforce of Te Moana-nui-a-Toi, the outer Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, just beyond Auckland’s shores. Meet the surprising and spectacular creatures that call this place home, from tohorā (whales) to honu (turtle

Open Studios Kaipātiki: New Art Trail launches on Auckland’s North Shore This November

Join Prairie Hatchard-McGill in crafting a fabric collage, inspired by Louise Bourgeois’s work with textiles and her efforts to process difficult emotions through the act of stitching.

The Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award 2025 is proudly sponsored by Walker & Hall in association with the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. 

Keen to practice your sketching and observation skills in a relaxed environment? Be inspired by a life model in an open drawing encounter, every Friday lunchtime.

The Portage Ceramic Awards is an annual celebration of contemporary ceramics in Aotearoa.

Entries for the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards 2026 are open! Enter now at wsa.org.nz. Entries close December 10, 2025.

Australasia’s largest lightwall, The Lightship, is set to launch its 2025–26 season next month, illuminating Auckland’s waterfront with its contemporary art platform and a bold new series of works commissioned from six emerging and established artists from Aotearoa and Australia.

Hannah Ireland, a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist of Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi descent, paints portraits in the broadest, loosest sense, capturing the essence of faces and emotions. Her paintings feature faces that appear distorted, as if pressed against the glass plate of a photocopier.

Louise Bourgeois: In Private View is the first solo exhibition in Aotearoa New Zealand of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), one of the most intriguing and influential artists of the last century.