Exhibitions
The Millennium Public Art Gallery presents a programme of regularly changing, curated art exhibitions and events. The exhibitions and programmes feature New Zealand and international artists in both nationally touring and locally curated exhibitions. Many exhibitions are based on works in the Gallery's permanent collection. Community-focused exhibitions are developed in conjunction with other local events and organisations, and present the work of Marlborough artists, iwi and school children. These art projects take place both at the Gallery and in other locations.
Art displayed at the Gallery ranges from paintings, photography and sculpture to a variety of forms of applied arts and craft. Exhibitions are accompanied by public programmes such as artist and curator talks and educational workshops and school holiday events.
The Gallery is also a popular venue for arts sector, community and business events.
A not for profit organisation, governed by a Charitable Trust and professionally managed, the Gallery's operation is supported by an extensive network of volunteers. The Gallery is partly funded by the Marlborough District Council and to generate additional funds to support the Gallery's programmes; annual fundraising events are held and books, cards, local art and jewellery are available to purchase in the gallery shop.
Current Exhibitions
Various
Contemporaries
This exhibition features a selection of works from the Marlborough Art Gallery collection by New Zealand artists who were contemporaries of Rita Angus. These artists exhibited with Rita Angus; were her tutors or published with her.
AA Deans, Ursula Bullard, Peter McIntyre, Archibald Nicoll, Juliet Peter, Olivia Spencer-Bower, Cedric Savage, Mervyn Taylor, Sydney Lough Thompson, Toss Woollaston.
17 Feb - 21 April 24
Rita Angus
Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa
Te Papa touring exhibition Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist brings together works by one of New Zealand’s most iconic 20th-century artists, Rita Angus (1908–1970). She was fundamental to the establishment of a distinctive, modern school of art in New Zealand. Over a period of 40 years, Angus produced a remarkable body of work.
The works on display span Angus’s life and career as an artist, drawing out the themes of pacifism, feminism and nature, which shaped much of her work. The exhibition includes many of Angus’s most important works, including Rutu (1951), Cleopatra (1938), and Central Otago (1953-56/1969).
Developed and presented by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
Image: Rita Angus, Detail of Cleopatra, 1938, oil on canvas. Purchased 1998 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. © Reproduced courtesy of the Estate of Rita Angus. Te Papa (1998-0028-2)
17 Feb - 14 April 24
Various
Coming soon - Folio
Folio is the 2024 Marlborough Youth Art Exhibition. An initiative of the Marlborough Youth Council and a partnership between the Marlborough Art Gallery, Marlborough colleges and the Marlborough District Council; it’s a major presentation of NCEA folio artwork by Marlborough students. The gallery will be full of glorious youth folios.
20 April – 9 June 2024
Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
2021
Various
Rare and unrivalled beauty - landscape paintings from the Kelliher Art Trust Collection
The first showing of the South Island touring exhibition of landscape paintings from the collection of the Kelliher Art Trust.
11 December 2021 - 20 February 2022
Ursula Bullard
An antipodean voyage - a retrospective
Ursula Bullard was a New Zealand artist who worked with a number of media including oils, water colours, lithographs, charcoal on paper, pen and ink on paper and sculptures.
9 October - 5 December 2021
Steven La Plante
Tools - Our Connection to the Garden
A new series of photographs by Steve La Plante, 'Tools - Our Connection to the Garden', features photographic portraits of well-used, historic garden tools belonging to gardeners from some of the Marlborough region's significant gardens.
9 October - 5 December 2021
Robyn Bardas, Miranda Joseph and Sue Pearce
New Landscape
Each artist has taken a species-specific approach to their response to the landscape.
7 August - 3 October 2021
Blue Black
Lost & Found / Flotsam & Jetsam
Colourful freestanding and wall-based sculptures which are constructed from ceramic forms and a range of found materials will be on show.
5 August - 3 October 2021
Various
Nga Haerenga - Journeys
Image: Michel Tuffery, Tangaroa Sanctuary, Mana Island, screenprint (2013)
Gift of the National Whale Centre Development Trust, 2021
17 June – 25 July 2021
Sally Burton
Pale History
Burton draws our attention to history as an unfixed story. Some events are lost to time, motivations are often unknowable.
17 June - 25 July 2021
Various
Koha 2021 - Recent Acquisitions
An exhibition featuring recent gifts to the Gallery's permanent art collection.
8 May - 10 June 2021
Glenn Jowitt and Andrew Matautia
Faka Tokelau - Living with Change
This thought-provoking photographic exhibition explores Tokelau’s unique way of life through the lenses of two New Zealand photographers, Glenn Jowitt and Andrew Matautia.
27 March - 2 May 2021
Various
Thinking / Unfolding
This touring exhibition from the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) sees printmakers from throughout Aotearoa New Zealand expand and explore the idea of the artist book by taking the concept of a book further, creating art objects inspired by the form and/or function of a book.
27 March - 2 May 2021
Joanna Dudson Scott
Waipunarangi
A series of large-scale landscape paintings by Marlborough artist Joanna Dudson Scott are informed by Matariki’s rising in 2020 – the emergence of the mid-winter star cluster signalling the Maori New Year - and historical narratives from the Marlborough Sounds.
9 February - 21 March 2021
Kevin Judd
Travel Snaps
Kevin Judd is one of Marlborough’s pioneer winemakers whose career is intrinsically linked with the global profile of New Zealand Wine.
9 February - 21 March 2021
2020
Various
Adam Portraiture Award 2020
The Award culminates in The Adam Portraiture Award exhibition in which all the finalists and the winners are shown at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery.
19 December 2020 - 31 January 2021
Euan Macleod and Gregory O'Brien
Local Knowledge
Euan Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1956. He was awarded a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) by the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, in 1979, before moving to Sydney in 1981.
31 October - 13 December 2020
Gregory O’Brien
The Wading Birds of Drybread
Gregory O’Brien was born in Matamata in 1961. As well as writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he has exhibited widely as a painter and printmaker.
31 October - 13 December 2020
Various
Folio - Marlborough Youth Art Exhibition 2020
Folio features a range of NCEA fine art subjects with work by students from Queen Charlotte College, Picton, and Marlborough Boys’ and Marlborough Girls’ Colleges, Blenheim.
1 August - 13 September 2020
Various
Koha
A major collection exhibition celebrating the gift of the Johnson Collection to the Millennium Public Art Gallery.
30 June - 26 July 2020
Various
Paradise Lost: Daniel Solander’s Legacy
This exhibition sheds light on Solander’s role in New Zealand’s botanical, political and cultural histories, with each artist’s works in the collection exploring a unique aspect of his work and influence.
20 May 2020 - 28 June 2020
Various
Te Moananui A Kiwa
Works from the Gallery’s permanent collection that bring together diverse perspectives on the ocean that surrounds us.
20 May 2020 - 21 June 2020
Elizabeth Thomson
Cellular Memory
Cellular Memory presents some of the most seductive and lyrical, yet often perplexing, works produced in For over three decades, Elizabeth Thomson’s art has engaged with issues to do with science, imagination, culture, and increasingly, what it means to live in the South Pacific region in the 21st century.
1 February - 8 March 2020
2019
Various
Te Pokohiwi O Kupe - Revisiting Past Voyages
An evolving exhibition focusing on significant voyages, featuring works created by local iwi artists and those held in public collections.
16 November 2019 - 23 February 2020
Various
Time Travellers - Tuia Te Muka Tangata Ki Uta: Shared Futures
Tuia 250 Encounters Marlborough Children's Art Exhibition.
16 November 2019 - 26 January 2020
Nicola Jackson
The Bloggs
The Bloggs – a title that refers to the British colloquialism ‘Joe Bloggs’, to denote the typical everyday man – considers what it is that makes us human.
28 September - 10 November 2019
Gavin Bishop
Cooks' Cook - The Cook Who Cooked for Captain Cook
Through real recipes from the ship’s mess, events on board and the places the ship travelled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories.
29 June - 18 August 2019
Harry Culy, Tash Hopkins, Thomas Hoyle, Clayton Morgan, Thomas Slade, Sam Curtin
FourXFiveXSix
An exhibition of large format photography
11 May - 23 June 2019
Auguste Rodin
Remembering Rodin
French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the world’s most famous artists whose work had a huge influence on modern art, setting the scene for 20th-century modernism.
11 May - 23 June 2019
Bridget Bidwill, Bronwynne Cornish, Tony Lane, and Denys Watkins
The Long Way Around
The Long Way Around is a group exhibition featuring work by ceramic sculptor, Bronwynne Cornish, and painters; Bridget Bidwill, Tony Lane, and Denys Watkins.
23 March - 5 May 2019
Mike O'Kane
Just Playing
O’Kane asks us to examine where the boundary lies between real and artificial.
23 March - 5 May 2019
Jason McCormick
Far Too Close
A solo exhibition from Nelson-based artist, Jason McCormick, Far Too Close... is a multi-media exhibition that explores the thought that globalisation centred on corporate power, is a universal cause of unease.
2 February - 17 March 2019
J G Keulemans and John Buchanan
Buller's Birds - The Art of Keulemans and Buchanan
A History of the Birds of New Zealand combined the passion and knowledge of ornithologist Walter Buller with the talents of artist J G Keulemans.
2 February - 17 March 2019
2018
Various
2018 Adam Portraiture Award Touring Selection
A selection of finalists’ portraits from the 2018 Adam Portraiture Award exhibition at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington.
19 December 2018 - January 2019
Various
Inside/Outside
Our annual fundraising exhibition features a stunning range of work by both established and emerging artists, with a broad theme of inside/outside.
3 November - 9 December 2018
Various
Botanical Art Worldwide Ngāi Tipu Taketake – Indigenous Flora
An international event took place this May, with twenty-five countries including New Zealand simultaneously highlighting their unique indigenous flora in exhibitions.
3 November - 9 December 2018
Nigel Brown
I AM / WE ARE
Nigel Brown: I AM / WE ARE provides an engaging overview of Nigel Brown’s oeuvre to date.
22 September - 28 October 2018
Various
New Perspectives on Landscape
New Perspectives is a group exhibition of five recent Masters of Fine Arts graduates from the Dunedin School of Art: Fiona Van Oyen, Sue Pearce, Robyn Bardas, Miranda Joseph and Hannah Joynt.
11 August - 16 September 2018
Various
Remembering the Kurahaupo Settlement
Remembering the Kurahaupo Settlement: Nga Pakiaka Morehu O Te Whenua presents a series of photographs with some paintings and taonga.
28 June - 5 August 2018
Various
Folio - Marlborough Youth Art 2018
An initiative of the Marlborough Youth Council and a partnership between the public art gallery, colleges and Marlborough District Council; Folio is the first exhibition of its kind since 2013.
12 May - 20 June 2018
Meredith Marsone
Arbitrary Dreams
Arbitrary Dreams, a solo exhibition of paintings by Meredith Marsone was originally shown at Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, in February/March 2017.
12 May - 17 June 2018
Various
Kiwi in the Kitchen
Aotearoa New Zealand – the land of beautiful birds. In a country lacking big (and scary) animals, birds have become New Zealand’s special sense of pride and joy of difference.
24 March - 6 May 2018
2017
Jim Tannock and Danny Knox
Digital Undergrowth and the Auction of Acceptance
The concerning issue of narcissistic voyeurism on the internet manifesting in real life is explored in a series of subtle and analytical works by Marlborough-based artists Jim Tannock and Danny Knox.
3 February - 19 March 2017
Various
Farewell Zealandia: Forgotten Kiwi Songs of WW1
Farewell Zealandia is an exhibition developed by David Dell of the Musical Heritage New Zealand Trust and Tony Rasmussen of Te Manawa.
3 February - 19 March 2017
Whites Aviation
Above the Long White Cloud
In 1945 Leo White combined his love of photography and flying to establish Whites Aviation, a company that went on to change the way many New Zealanders saw the land in which they lived.
25 March - 7 May 2017
Various
Disenchanted Prophets
A landmark photography exhibition of Waitangi protest by recognised New Zealand artists Mark Adams, Bruce Connew, Gil Hanly, John Miller, and Ans Westra.
13 May - 25 June 2017
Various
Public and Private: Photographs of People
Public and Private depicts people. The private photographs are those we commission or take ourselves – the studio portraits or snapshots that we share only with our family and friends.
1 July - 1 October 2017
Various
Picture This!
Picture This! features work by the finalists of the prestigious Storylines Gavin Bishop Award for emerging Illustrators, 2017, with work by celebrated illustrator, Fifi Colston.
1 July - 13 August 2017
Various
47° South - Rakiura - Five Artists on Stewart Island
A touring exhibition of works created by five New Zealand artists inspired by an artist residency project on Stewart Island.
16 August - 1 October 2017
Nicolas Dillon
Observing Nature - the touring version
Based on Nicolas Dillon’s major 2015 survey exhibition, Observing Nature, the Millennium Public Art Gallery has developed a smaller, touring exhibition which will travel to public art galleries and museums in other regions after being shown here.
14 October - 10 December 2017
Various
Shades of Nature
Shades of Nature is our 2017 themed fundraising exhibition featuring a group of artists whose work explores Shades of Nature in a range of media.
14 October - 3 December 2017
JS Parker
The Poetry of Surfaces
An exhibition of paintings and drawings from late Marlborough artist J.S. Parker themed around the poems he wrote from 1963-2017.
9 December 2017 - 11 March 2018
2016
Various
Adam Portraiture Award Touring Exhibition
The Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s premier portrait prize.
19 December 2016 - 29 January 2017
Various
Consider + Create + Collect
2016 mixed media, fundraising exhibition
28 October - 11 December 2016
Various
Collection
A selection of works from the Millennium Public Art Gallery’s permanent collection; historical and contemporary, including new acquisitions.
24 September - 11 December 2016
James Robinson
Strange Attractor
Persistent questioning of life, existence and meaning are addressed by James Robinson.
24 September - 24 October 2016
Various
Painted Stories 2016 Exhibition
A colourful, informative and entertaining exhibition featuring the work of twenty of New Zealand’s best known illustrators with one of their current books.
25 June - 31 July 2016
Sheyne Tuffery
Paper Architecture
New Zealand Samoan artist, Sheyne Tuffery describes his first Marlborough exhibition, Paper Architecture, as “a corker of a show” – a mixture of wall sculpture, works on paper, mixed media on board and a stereoscopic motion graphic.
25 June - 31 July 2016
Craig Bluett & Wendy Murphy
When the Lighthouse Fails
Our joint exhibition was inspired by a moving & poignant account, The High Way, by Picton writer Margaret Bremner, about the experiences of men from remote parts of the Marlborough Sounds enlisting to serve in World War One.
7 May - 19 June 2016
Stanley Palmer
Shall Be My Bother: Gallipoli Remembered
In 2014 Stanley Palmer was one of a group of esteemed New Zealand and Australian artists, filmmakers and historians who travelled to the Gallipoli Peninsula to make work towards the exhibition entitled "Your Friend the Enemy".
7 May - 19 June 2016
Various
Selling the Dream - The Art of Early New Zealand Tourism
Before television and colour photography, poster art was the most popular advertising mechanism.
7 February - 20 March 2016
2015
Various
Our Land
An exhibition of historical and contemporary art that considers Marlborough’s landscape.
18 December 2015 - 31 January 2016
Lisa Chandler
China Dream
Beijing comes to Marlborough - China Dream - from hútòng to highrise
18 December 2015 - 31 January 2016
Various
Flora & Fauna 2015
The Millennium Public Art Gallery's 2015 themed, mixed media, fundraising exhibition.
25 October - 6 December 2015
Nicolas Dillon
Observing Nature
From preparatory field sketches and early drawings to substantial paintings, Observing Nature, is a comprehensive survey of more than three decades of work by Nicolas Dillon, a leading New Zealand wildlife painter who lives and works in Marlborough.
25 October - 6 December 2015
Barry Cleavin
The Exact Enigma
The Exact Enigma showcases a significant donation of art works by renowned printmaker, Barry Cleavin, gifted by Ann and John Hercus in 2014 to The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū, Nelson.
12 September - 18 October 2015
Val Griffith Jones
Wicked Stitch
Val Griffith-Jones is a multi-media artist whose work is rich with colour, humour, clever observation and narrative.
12 September - 18 October 2015
Kerry Hines
Young Country
Young Country is a fresh and engaging exhibition that brings together nineteenth-century photography and contemporary poetry to offer a new and often surprising view of New Zealand’s past.
1 August - 6 September 2015
Brian Brake
Lens on China and Japan
Brian Brake is widely regarded as New Zealand’s most successful international photographer.
1 August - 6 September 2015
Joy Cowley, Gecko Press
Painted Stories
Painted Stories is an exhibition that continues our annual series of collaborations with the Christchurch-based national children’s literature trust, Painted Stories (formerly Te Tai Tamariki).
20 June - 27 July 2015
Various
Collection
A selection of works from the Millennium Public Art Gallery’s permanent collection; historical and contemporary, including new acquisitions.
2 May - 26 July 2015
Joanna Zellmer
forged
The Millennium Public Art Gallery is the first venue for the national tour of forged, Johanna Zellmer’s fascinating exhibition of two interconnected bodies of contemporary jewellery work.
2 May - 14 June 2015
Ruth Cleland, Gary McMillan, David Woodings
New Urban Realists
New Urban Realists explores aspects of everyday urban life.
21 March - 27 April 2015
2014
Kermadec
Lines in the Ocean
In May 2011 the Kermadec Initiative of the Pew Environment Group invited nine artists and broadcaster Marcus Lush to join them on a voyage through the Kermadec region of New Zealand to Tonga.
6 December 2014 - January 2015
J.S. Parker
This Painter's Song
To celebrate the Millennium Public Art Gallery’s fifteenth birthday we are compiling a major exhibition of works by one of our greatest supporters, leading New Zealand abstract painter, Marlborough-based, J S Parker.
25 October - 30 November 2014
Various
Canterbury Plains Florilegium Exhibition
The Canterbury Plains Florilegium Exhibition, which opened the new Christchurch Botanic Gardens visitor centre, was the result of a three-year project involving some of the country’s leading botanical artists.
25 October to 30 November 2014
RNZ, Weta Workshop
Sounds Like Us
In 2007 Radio New Zealand introduced a new and fresh print and television campaign focusing on iconic and traditional New Zealand images.
13 September - 19 October 2014
Israel Birch, Shane Cotton and Robert Jahnke
Whakawhiti Aria: Transmission
New works from three of New Zealand’s leading contemporary Maori artists - Israel Birch, Shane Cotton and Robert Jahnke.
2 August - 7 September 2014
Various
Light Side Dark Side
Light Side/ Dark Side is a group exhibition of work by established New Zealand artists from diverse backgrounds and practices.
21 June - 27 July 2014
Various
Serious Fun, The Art of Picture Books
This exhibition features Illustrations by best-selling, entertaining illustrator, Donovan Bixley, with works by the finalists of the most recent Gavin Bishop Award for emerging illustrators.
21 June - 27 July 2014
Various
Speed & Colour, British linocuts from the 1920s and 30s
Bringing the roaring 1920s and '30s to life in linocut prints Speed and Colour showcases 30 prints (1922 to 1936) from the Grosvenor School linocuts in the Te Papa collection that were gifted by Rex Nan Kivell in 1951.
10 May - 15 June 2014
Various
Another View - Millennium Public Art Gallery Collection
Another View features a selection of works from the Millennium Public Art Gallery’s permanent collection.
29 March - 15 June 2014
The ND5 Group
At the Edge of the Light
The ND5 group are Tony Hewitt, Peter Eastway, Christian Fletcher, Dr Les Walkling and Michael Fletcher.
22 March - 4 May 2014
Brian Badcock
Marlborough Plein Air Painter
Brian Badcock is a well-known New Zealand painter who has earned national and international recognition.
1 February - 16 March 2014
Various
Art + Wine + Festival
A photography-based exhibition celebrating 30 years of the Marlborough Wine Festival.
1 February - 16 March 2014
2013
Joanna Dudson Scott
Passages
Passages represents years of work and expands upon the artistic vision and the concepts which earned Marlborough-based artist, Joanna Dudson-Scott, a place in the finals of the 2009 Wallace Art Awards.
7 December 2013 - 26 January 2014
Gavin Chilcott
The Portmanteau Years
The Portmanteau Years is a survey of two decades of Gavin Chilcott's paintings on paper bags.
26 October - 1 December 2013
Various
Places
A group exhibition by acclaimed New Zealand printmakers whose work is concerned with landscape and the environment.
26 October - 1 December 2013
Various
Now & Then, four decades of N Z fine art photography
Now & Then traverses the past four decades of fine art photography in Aotearoa New Zealand.
3 August - 8 September 2013
Various
Toi Ora, Marlborough Youth Art Exhibition
Toi Ora: Marlborough Youth Art Exhibition 2013 is a showcase of outstanding artwork by Marlborough college students.
22 June - 28 July 2013
Various
Negotiating this World
This exhibition brings together a selection of work by contemporary New Zealand artists from Marlborough and elsewhere who will contribute works that respond to the world they line in and are influenced by.
3 May - 16 June 2013
Kobi Bosshard
Objectspace Masters of Craft Series
The Millennium Art Gallery is privileged to be one of only three public art galleries to be showing the touring exhibition, Kobi Bosshard: An Exhibition from the Objectspace Masters of Craft Series, curated by Dr Damian Skinner, New Zealand's foremost contemporary jewellery commentator.
3 May - 16 June 2013
Mary Macpherson
Old New World
New Zealand society, seen in small towns throughout the North and South Islands, is the subject of Wellington-based photographer, Mary Macpherson’s Old New World photographic book and touring exhibition, developed by Lopdell House Gallery in Auckland.
23 March - 28 April 2013
Various
New Zealand Art Icons from the Stevenson Collection
A stunning and diverse range of iconic New Zealand art loaned from The Stevenson Collection, Marlborough.
2 February - 17 March 2013
Bev Short
All Woman
Some of the faces are instantly recognisable, some aren't - but all the women featured in All Woman have a unique story to tell.
2 February - 17 March 2013
2012
Various
2012 Adam Portraiture Award
The Millennium Public Art Gallery is delighted to continue our association with the National Portrait Gallery in Wellington by presenting the nationally touring selection of 45 portraits from the biennial Adam Portraiture Awards.
15 December 2012 - 27 January 2013
Steven la Plante
Monuments
Monuments - an exhibition of black & white photographs by Steven la Plante
5 November - 4 December 2012
Simon Edwards
Mountain Pass
Born in Christchurch in 1975, Simon Edwards graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1997.
3 November - 9 December 2012
Jo Ogier
Woodcuts and Drawings
Jo Ogier was born in Nelson in 1967 and now works and lives in Sumner, Christchurch.
3 November - 9 December 2012
Janet Green, Fran Maguire and Sara Schotanus
Three - Green, Maguire, Schotanus
New ceramic work by Janet Green, Fran Maguire and Sara Schotanus Three individual exhibitions in one gallery.
15 September - 29 October 2012
Mirek Smisek
60 years 60 pots
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1925, Mirek Smíšek (OBE) has forged a career as a remarkable New Zealand artist since arriving here in 1951.
15 September - 29 October 2012
Various
People, Places & Things
A themed fundraising exhibition including works by established and emerging artists. All works will be for sale.
4 August - 9 September 2012
Marian Maguire
Titokowaru's Dilemna
Renowned artist Marian Maguire contrived a first meeting between ancient Greeks and New Zealand Maori in her series The Odyssey of Captain Cook, in which the Greeks arrived in Aotearoa aboard Cook’s Endeavour.
23 June - 29 July 2012
Various
Taking a View - collection exhibition
A selection of works from the Millennium Art Gallery’s permanent collection, both historical and contemporary, which feature the landscape.
23 June - 29 July 2012
Don Binney
Ocean's Edge
Don Binney's exhibition, Ocean's Edge, is an evolution from the touring exhibition Drawing the Waitakere Coast which was presented at public art galleries in Nelson and Gore.
5 May - 17 June 2012
Various
The Stevenson Collection, Contemporary NZ Paintings
A varied selection of contemporary New Zealand paintings from Marlborough's The Stevenson Collection.
5 May - 17 June 2012
Various
Creative Fibre, National Exhibition
Creative Fibre is the New Zealand organisation for all fibre crafts. It brings together spinners, weavers, knitters, dyers, flax workers, felters, crocheters, free form fibre artists and all other people involved in the use of fibre.
24 March - 29 April 2012
2011
Pat Hanly, the Painter and his Protests
Blast!
A generation ago in 1987, New Zealand passed legislation to make the country nuclear free. To celebrate this wonderful achievement, writer, Trish Gribben, and Lopdell House Gallery, have published a children's book featuring Pat Hanly's anti-nuclear paintings and Gil Hanly's documentary photographs.
10 December 2011 - January 2012
Joanna Fieldes & Fran Maguire
Claim to Clay II
Maori weapons, tea cups, doilies and jugs are a few aspects of the second take on Claim to Clay - a joint exhibition by Auckland based painter Joanna Fieldes and Marlborough ceramic artist Fran Maguire that was originally presented at the Auckland Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre in 2010.
5 November - 4 December 2011
Various
Art Marlborough, Toi Wairau
Sourced from Marlborough collections, Art Marlborough - Toi Wairau runs for six weeks at Marlborough's public art gallery in the centre of Blenheim, and is a unique opportunity for locals and visitors to learn the stories of Marlborough's people, places and events through a wide range of art.
8 September - 30 October 2011
Graham Percy
The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy
Developed in partnership between City Gallery Wellington, and Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, this major touring exhibition showcases the charming and immensely entertaining artwork of ex-pat New Zealand illustrator, designer and typographer Graham Percy (1938-2008).
22 July - 28 August 2011
Various
Impressions, Marlborough Youth Art 2011
An art-focused youth development project featuring an exhibition of art by Marlborough youth.
18 June - 17 July 2011
Various
Local Figures, portraits and figurative works
Local Figures is an exhibition of portraits and figurative works on loan from Marlborough collections.
18 June - 17 July 2011
Various
From Land and Sea
Following our extremely successful themed exhibition, Flora & Fauna last October, we have compiled another fun, group exhibition of outstanding art by artists from throughout New Zealand.
7 May - 12 June 2011
Sir Mountford T Woollaston KB
Woollaston 101
Woollaston 101 is a historically important exhibition curated by staff at Nelson's public art gallery, The Suter.
19 March - 1 May 2011
Various
The Silver Page, NZ Picture Book Icons
The Silver Page - NZ Picture Book Icons is a very special exhibition that will feature the original art work of five multi-award winning senior New Zealand illustrators from a selection of their famous books.
5 February - 13 March 2011
Various
A New Page, New Illustrators
A New Page features the work of nine talented illustrators at the beginning of their careers.
5 February - 13 March 2011
2010
Various
Adam Portraiture Awards Exhibition 2010
The very popular Adam Portraiture Awards exhibition, sponsored by the Adam Foundation and presented by the Portrait Gallery of New Zealand in Wellington, is a wonderfully colourful celebration of New Zealand culture.
19 December 2010 - 30 January 2011
Jim Tannock
Bogan Honesty
"I've been in love with photography since my early 20s when I moved to Nelson from Wellington after a brief and uneventful flirtation with office culture.
13 November - 12 December 2010
Jason Hall, Alan Preston, Lisa Walker
NZ Jewellers
1839 Exchanges: Jewellery by Jason Hall
Unwearable: Lisa Walker
From Between Tides: Jewellery by Alan Preston
13 November - 12 December 2010
Various
Flora & Fauna
Flora & Fauna is a group exhibition curated by our Gallery team, which features a fabulous range of works with animal and plant references by artists from Marlborough and other places throughout New Zealand.
9 October - 7 November 2010
Aotearoa Felters
Earthwaulks
The Aotearoa Felters or Feltsisters hail from the islands of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand [their chosen common ground] and held their first collective exhibition at the Millennium Public Art Gallery 2008.
28 August - 3 October 2010
Frank Barnes
A Shepherd and his Ships
A Shepherd and his Ships is an exhibition developed from the collection of the Museum of Wellington City & Sea that showcases over 28 oil paintings by naïve artist Frank Barnes.
28 August - 3 October 2010
Peter Bush
Hard on the Heels: Peter Bush Capturing the All Blacks
New Zealand's leading rugby photographer, Peter Bush, describes capturing an All Black game as "a total workout".
His powerful photographs are hard-won: the result of chasing the game up and down the field, while others set up their cameras and wait for the game to come to them.
17 July - 22 August 2010
Various
Impressions - Marlborough Youth Art 2010
This annual project is collaboration between the Gallery, the Marlborough District Council and Marlborough youth.
5 June - 11 July 2010
Various
Marlborough Children as Artists Exhibition
The Marlborough Children As Artists exhibition is a formal recognition and a celebration of children's work from the 2010 Marlborough Children as Artists programme.
5 June - 11 July 2010
Various
Province
Province is an exhibition of significant art works from public and private Marlborough collections.
1 May - 30 May 2010
Nigel Buxton
Appropriation and Interference
The artist's drawn copy of a portrait by Picasso, paintings by Henri Matisse and ladies lifted from Antoine Watteau pictures are some of the elements that play a part in these recent works by Nigel Buxton.
19 March - 25 April 2010
Michael Hight
Recent Paintings
Michael Hight is a highly skilled, self-taught artist who usually works with oil on canvas. His work considers the notion of the beehive as a metaphor for transformation.
6 February - 14 March 2010
2009
J.S. Parker
Plain Song
November 2009 saw the opening of a major retrospective exhibition on the work of one of New Zealand's important abstract painters, JS Parker, and the launch of a much-awaited book on his work by art historian and curator Dr Damian Skinner, at the Millennium Public Art Gallery in Blenheim.
20 November 2009 - 4 February 2010
Inge Doesburg
Chatham Islands
Inge Doesburg's large and layered prints and oil paintings explore the open, rugged, wind-swept landscapes of mainland New Zealand and the Chatham Islands.
10 October - 8 November 2009
Various
Garden Objets d'Art, Hunter's Garden Marlborough 2009 Auction
An annual exhibition of locally created art objects for the garden which will be auctioned at the Hunter's Garden Marlborough cocktail party on Saturday 10 October.
This year's theme is Garden Objets d'Art.
10 October - 8 November 2009
Various
MUKA Youth Prints
The best to make young people acquainted with contemporary art is to get real works of art in their hands.
Muka youth prints is a national touring exhibition that offers this opportunity.
21 September 2009
Fran Maguire
Morphing
Fran Maguire is a Marlborough-based ceramic artist who has reached a level of excellence in her domestic ware and is currently creating stunning light-chambered sculptures that reflect her journey as an artist.
5 September - 4 October 2009
Ans Westra
The Crescent Moon
In the making of 'The Crescent Moon' renowned photographer Ans Westra and writer Adrienne Jansen travelled through the country, catching up with people in their everyday lives.
5 September - 4 October 2009
Various
Diaspora - Six contemporary NZ Artists
Pluralism and singularity in six New Zealand artists.
Gretchen Albrecht, Tony Lane, Richard Lewer, Denis O'Connor, Fiona Pardington, James Ross.
1 August - 30 August 2009
Niki Hastings-McFall
Polynisation
This exhibition consists of three separate works linked by a common material - synthetic lei flowers.
13 June - 26 July 2009
Various
Light & Space
Light & Space is an exhibition of significant contemporary and historical works by major artists.
12 June - 16 July 2009
Various
Marlborough Children as Artists
The Marlborough Children As Artists exhibition is a formal recognition and a celebration of children's work from the 2009 Marlborough Children as Artists programme.
13 May - 8 June 2009
Various
Impressions, Marlborough Youth Art 2009
This annual project is collaboration between the Gallery, the Marlborough District Council and Marlborough youth.
2 May - 8 June 2009
Various
Auction exhibition - Art, Wine & Things
An exhibition of art works that will be auctioned at the Millennium Art Gallery's fundraising event, ART, WINE & THINGS on Saturday 9 May.
2 - 9 May 2009
2008
Rudolf Boelee
Exiles
Charles Brasch, Robin Hyde, Dan Davin, Rewi Alley, James Bertram, Geoffrey Cox, John Mulgan.
Not all of these seven New Zealanders are widely known; their individualism and idealism sometimes put them at the fringes of colonial culture.
20 December 2008 - 1 February 2009
Lucien Rizos
New Zealand Photographs 1979-1981
In 1979 Lucien Rizos set out to photographically document New Zealand.
Working in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Rizos toured the country, carrying his camera and making images of the people and culture that he encountered along the way.
20 December 2008 - 1 February 2009
Marian Maguire
The Labours of Herakles
Having arrived via the Endeavour during Maguire's popular series, The Odyssey of Captain Cook, shown at the Gallery in 2006, the ancient Greeks in The Labours of Herakles resolve to settle the New Land.
15 November - 14 December 2008
Hamish Tocher
Unknown Renaissance Portraits
Hamish Tocher's exhibition, Unknown Renaissance Portraits, places together the fashion world and the art world, revealing some intriguing similarities.
15 November - 14 December 2008
Clarry Neame
Getting to the point: a survey of paintings
Popular Marlborough painter, Clarry Neame, describes himself as an impressionist painter of light.
11 October - 9 November 2008