From Monday ‘Chaos to Symmetry’ by Garry Osborn in the gallery! Originally set to exhibit in August, the exhibition was cancelled due to the Level 4 lockdown, but now we can cancel the disappointment as ‘Chaos to Symmetry’ opens on Monday 4th October for one week only! Make a plan to visit as you don’t…
With unexpected circumstances comes many hidden opportunities… As level 4 puts everything on hold (or semi-hold) for the Carlton Gallery, the time is ripe for a bit of an update — Two in fact! Most important first… The Arts Junction that holds the Carlton Gallery is closed until level 2. So our first artist Garry…
By Michaela Ehetere Pearse Exhibition open 5th July – 18th July HINE; Girl NGARO; Lost TAHA; Facet/Side HINENGARO; Mind/Mentality TAHA HINENGARO; Mental and emotional wellbeing. Hine•Ngaro is a series of paintings that illustrate a reclamation of health in the mental and emotional dimension of hauora (wellbeing). Expressed through the narrative of Hine, a Māori Girl…
Katikati Open Air Art held their AGM on the 24th May and President Steve Graveson presented his report summing up the past year. Here is the report. President’s Report 2021 This president’s report coincides with the last few months of Katikati Open Air Art’s 30th year of operations. A momentous and special event, especially…
Katikati Festival of Arts celebrates all things Art during October 2021 as we light up the town with lights, art, theatre, music and film. We invite you to visit our lively little community during October to enjoy an art experience designed to thrill, inspire and to light up your day. Our diverse range of events…
The latest Carlton Gallery exhibition features Lisa M Passmore using Harakeke/Native NZ Flax as a medium to explore and develop traditional and contemporary techniques of Maori weaving, raranga and whatu, with a focus on more sculptural forms of known vessels. She has recently started incorporating other global traditional techniques of weaving into her pieces, namely…
Carol Bisset is a Tauranga based artist and teacher with a studio at the Incubator in the Historic Village; she has exhibited extensively across New Zealand and Australia. Ongoing recent events connected to the pandemic outbreak have tested our resolve to stay connected physically and emotionally. For many of us it has made us examine…
The latest exhibition from 18th January – 31st January 2021 features painters and printmakers from the Eastern Coromandel. Artists include: Liz Hart, Jane Parson, Paula McNeill, Susan Dunster, Joanne Mahoney, Colleen Waite, Kay deBlaauw, Tina Carey, Verena Tagmann, Leanne Litherland. They’re a group of enthusiastic, like minded, emerging and established artists working together as printmakers and painters who develop and explore the unlimited opportunities offered to the artist through various mixed media processes as seen in this…
(Highlights of the Katikati Open Air Art President, Steve Graveson’s AGM Report) 2020 has been one of the most eventful years in not only our history, but our nations and the worlds for quite a while. The world we currently live in is so different from the world of a year ago. Who would have…
If you’re wandering around town and come across a mural or sculpture and want to know more about it – check out the Katikati Mural Map on Google maps! You’ll find all 78 murals and sculptures on the map. Find the map on our website here.