Exhibitions on Tuesday 24 November

James Charlton: Thrown

Testing the limits of interactive art, James Charlton’s THROWN is a major new installation to experience at Te Uru this spring. A series of free-standing mechanical structures will populate the gallery like strange sporting equipment, programmed and loaded with hundreds of tennis balls, ready to be released into the air and collected by a team of voluntary agents.

3 October - 29 November  |  See event detail

Wayne Youle: Elevation

Te Uru presents an exhibition of new work by Wayne Youle, made during his studio residency at McCahon House in 2019. Spilling out from the Learning Centre Gallery into Te Uru’s stairwell, Elevation is anchored by a large sculpture that cuts across the centre of the gallery. This is based on the famously open-air children’s bunkroom underneath the McCahon cottage and brings an imagined section of McCahon House into the gallery. Throughout this exhibition, Youle mixes history with design and sculpture, demonstrating a deep engagement with the McCahon legacy.

26 September - 29 November  |  See event detail

About walking

About walking is a series of performative and participatory walks that travel across Auckland with Te Hau ā Uru – the West Wind.

The walks are artworks – guided experiences leading audiences and participants across Auckland – created by twelve artists and one writer: Rodney Bell, Suzanne Cowan, Vanessa Crofskey, Christina Houghton, Melissa Laing, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Lana Lopesi, Andrew McMillan, Richard Orjis, val smith, Pīta Turei, Layne Waerea and Becca Wood.

22 September - 30 November  |  See event detail

Coming up soon

Robert McLeod: Jimmi gets nostalgic

Painter Rob McLeod continues to push the traditional boundaries of painting with this new body of work that challenges his nostalgia for Scotland.

12 December - 21 February  |  See event detail

Louie Bretaña: Tumingala sa Tinitingala na mga Tala

Auckland based Filipino artist Louie Bretaña expands on the role of stars as guides to both navigation and to life with a series of new suspended sculptures.

12 December - 21 February  |  See event detail

Finn Ferrier: Soft garniture

The new and recent works on display in Ferrier’s new exhibition Soft Garniture use materiality to reveal the tension between the maker and the nature of the object.

5 December - 14 February  |  See event detail

Portage 20/20

2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the Portage Ceramics Awards, which have become Aotearoa’s premier showcase for ceramic practice, organised annually by Te Uru.

28 November - 28 February  |  See event detail

Peter Selwyn (1935-2019)

Te Uru is proud to present a window display of selected works by the late Peter Selwyn, local potter who held strong creative links to Titirangi, especially through his membership with the Titirangi Potters Club.

28 November - 1 February  |  See event detail

Bruce Connew: A Vocabulary

Over several recent years, photographer and artist Bruce Connew has roamed the many memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars to seek out the texts on these testaments to folly.

5 December - 14 February  |  See event detail

Star Waka

Star Waka acknowledges past, present and future voyaging to and from Aotearoa in all directions, with the stars reflecting navigation patterns over time and space.

12 December - 14 February  |  See event detail

NUku

NUku offers a ceramic journey from an indigenous perspective, bringing together both emergent and established artists as well as members of the Māori clay artist collective, Ngā Kaihanga Uku

28 November - 28 February  |  See event detail