Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Call for entries
The Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award is a competition that encourages young Maaori artists to create portraits of their tupuna (ancestors) in any medium. The Award is hosted and administered by Te Pūkenga Whakaata the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in honour of the late Maaori King, Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowher
Abhi Chinniah: A Migrant’s Path
This exhibition documents the journey one takes when settling in Aotearoa from elsewhere, away from the notion of home and in search of belonging.
Toss Woollaston: Figures from Life Discussion
Join Philip Woollaston and curator Dr Jane Davidson-Ladd to discuss the portraits of Toss Woollaston, New Zealand's first modernist portrait painter.
Toss Woollaston: Figures from Life
From the early 1930s Toss Woollaston’s approach to portrait painting was radical, resulting in what Jill Trevelyan calls “New Zealand’s first modernist portrait”, Figures from Life, 1936.
Winner of the 2018 Adam Portraiture Award Announced
THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM: FORMER FINALIST WINS ADAM PORTRAITURE AWARD
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Announces Major Art Award Finalists
50 artworks have been shortlisted for the 2018 Adam Portraiture Award - New Zealand’s premier portrait painting prize - with a first prize of $20,000. The winner will be announced on 28 February.
Strangely Familiar: Portraits by Wayne Youle
Strangely Familiar showcases bold, compelling portraits of New Zealand art-world personalities including musicians, poets, writers and artists such as Colin McCahon, Rita Angus.
Bringing art to life | Bensemann's 'Caroline' - Performance Painting
Artist Julia Holden will bring to life a portrait in Leo Bensemann & Friends using her signature 'body painted' process.
Adam Portraiture Award 2016, Entries open NOW
28 SEPTEMBER 2015 Press release from the New Zealand Portrait Gallery ADAM PORTRAITURE AWARD 2016 – Call for Entries! Pick up your brushes and get painting! Entries are now open for the biannua
