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Wellington
Art Galleries & Museums
A List of Websites
See also: New
Zealand Artists New
Zealand Art Galleries New
Zealand Museums
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Adam
Art Gallery, Victoria University.
This is a purpose-built
university gallery located at Victoria University of Wellington. The Adam
Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi offers a broad programme of exhibitions and events
that foster national and international visual art and culture. Exhibitions
represent the visual arts, craft, architecture, design and music and involve
areas beyond the humanities. The Victoria University of Wellington Art
Collection comprises over 240 works by New Zealand artists and is on permanent
display throughout the University campus.
Arts
and Culture, Sights and Activities in Wellington.
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Artrium Gallery
Artrium Gallery is dedicated to discovering and promoting early career
and emerging artists, bringing quality art to everyone. They have new
exhibitions and a new line up of talent every 4 - 6 weeks.
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Bartley and Company Art
Bartley and Company Art showcases art in all media: art that is
contemporary, interesting and fun – art that engages, seduces, provokes
and amuses.
Ghuznee Street
Bowen
Galleries, Wellington.
Contemporary art from New Zealand.
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City
Gallery Wellington.
Established in 1980, City Gallery
Wellington was the first significant non-collecting exhibition based
public gallery in New Zealand.
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deNada
A multifaceted space incorporating art with fashion, music and a coffee lounge.
Dowse
Art Museum, Hutt Valley.
Just
a 15 minute drive from downtown Wellington, The Dowse is a nationally
significant contemporary art museum as well as the public art
gallery
for Lower Hutt city. Opened in 1971, The Dowse forged a reputation for
presenting quality exhibitions and events with a special focus on craft
and design. Today,
The Dowse's programming is diverse and exciting, presenting works by
local and international artists to a range of audiences.
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Efildoog
Garden of Art
Enjoy
An artist space with individual shows and a Summer Residency from January
to mid February. The gallery facilitates contemporary art projects and,
liberated from commercial constraints, is able to actively promote critical
dialogue. Cuba Street, Wellington.
Expressions Arts and Entertainment Centre,
an art gallery (as well as a centre for
wider community use - theatre, cafe, etc), Upper Hutt, Wellington.
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Ferner
Galleries, Wellington and Auckland.
Flickr. Wellington art photo tags.
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Gilberd Marriott Photography Gallery
GMG represents artists working in visual fields other than photography.
It dovetails with Photospace Gallery and operates from the same
address, offering gallery visitors fine artworks in a range of mediums.
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Hutt Valley Community Arts
Hutt Valley Community Arts facilitates community art activities that
enable the people of Hutt City to express and enjoy themselves, working
to create a vibrant and beautiful city which reflects the culture of
those who live here.
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Kiwi Art House Gallery
The Kiwi Art House showcases Wellington artists and paintings
with Wellington themes. They also represent a number of top artists
from around New Zealand and several international artists currently
resident in Wellington.
Kura
Gallery
Established in 2001 - Kura Gallery, Wellington, exhibits
quality contemporary New Zealand art. Artworks
are distinctly crafted and share a wairua (spirit) that is undeniably of
these islands.
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Mark
Hutchins Gallery
A gallery of contemporary New Zealand art, representing
Gretchen Albrecht, Melvin Day, Tony Lane, James Ross, Elizabeth Thomson.
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New Dowse Gallery
A gallery showing everything from art and design to hip hop, fashion,
science and business. it is dedicated to showcasing innovations in
creativity that drive human progress and understanding at all levels:
culturally, socially, spiritually, and economically.
The New
Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (Academy Galleries)
The gallery is a versatile space with three separate gallery spaces and
an annexe off Gallery Two, so exhibitions of any size can be catered
for.
Several of the walls are moveable to create a variety of layouts and interesting spaces.
There is also a small meeting area and members lounge which includes a small library of art books and magazines.
New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington.
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery, administered from Wellington, is a
national organisation promoting the display of New Zealanders through
the perceptive eyes of painters, sculptors, caricaturists and
photographers.
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Pablos
Art Gallery
An art studio and gallery for people who use mental
heath services.
Pataka
Museum, Porirua, Wellington.
Maori, Pacific Islands and New Zealand
art.
Photospace
Wellington's
gallery dedicated exclusively to photography.
Prospect
Concentrating on contemporary art and the New Zealand artists producing
some of the most thought provoking work today, Prospect returns to City
Gallery Wellington and warmly welcomes a new suite of artists and their
projects for the occasion.
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Robert Heald Gallery
Contemporary New Zealand art.
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Suite Suite
Gallery has been established to represent New Zealand and European
contemporary artists who feature in significant public and private
collections. Suite has two galleries in Wellington located at Level 2,
147 Cuba Street, and 108 Oriental Parade.
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Te
Papa
Te Papa is New Zealand's official national museum.
Toi Pōneke Hub
is a Wellington focal point for arts information, networking and
discussion. The Hub is interactive – consisting of both physical and
online space designed so anyone can access and contribute information
on arts development and participation.
Toi Pōneke Gallery, Art Centre
A contemporary art gallery supportive of emerging
artists, new work by established artists, and experimental and
collaborative work.
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