Exhibitions on Friday 29 January

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

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

Rob 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

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 - 28 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

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

Coming up soon

AMBRICO window display

Te Toi Uku, Crown Lynn & Clayworks Museum presents a special display from their AMBRICO vase collection in Te Uru's street-front window space. The works are from the early period of what is now known as the Ambrico style, which formed the beginnings of Crown Lynn.

6 February - 31 March  |  See event detail

Katerina Teaiwa: Project Banaba

The untold mining history in Banaba Ocean Island

Project Banaba by Banaban scholar and artist Katerina Teaiwa is a traveling multimedia installation that commemorates the history of Banaba, also known as Ocean Island in the Moana Pacific. 

11 December - 20 February  |  See event detail