In 2014, the inaugural Whau Arts Festival exploded onto Auckland’s creative scene with involvement from over 120 artists, 30 businesses, and thousands of audience members over four days of intense artistic activity in Avondale. Driven and curated by multi-disciplinary arts group Whau the People, the 2015 Festival is set to meet the 2014 bar, if […]
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Saturday 17 – Sunday 18 October 2015Exhibition Hours: 10 am – 5 pmArtist Floor Talks: 1 – 2 pm each dayArt Workshops: 11 am – 1 pm, Saturday 17 October ArtWest 2015 is a public exhibition of West Auckland artists organised and hosted by Kelston Girls College. First established in 2009 this is the third
Flying Paua Origin occupied empty shops in the Merchant Quarter Building for 6 hours on Thursday 13 August. A pop up exhibition of UV light responsive images with sound curated by psyanta and live music by Ionosphere, Origin lit up the bus station and shops for one night. Realised with support from Infratil and Purflex
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Sit with me, tell me something… 12 Totara Avenue, New Lynn, is an installation project aimed at providing an opportunity for local residents in the Whau are to share their lived experiences of living in a rapidly evolving urban centre. Residents are invited to sit and record their experiences or create an expression of their
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12 Totara Avenue,New LynnThursday 25 June, 20156pm – 8pm The News(prints) is a collection of current works by members of the Aotearoa-New Zealand arm of The News Network. Established by Melbourne based artist and academic Marian Crawford, The News Network was initiated as a series of ‘Trans-Tasman research project and artist residencies’ occurring in Australia
Four artists have been invited to create posters that respond to how they experience their local area in the Whau. The first poster series by José Barbosa, Ladies of Great North Road, went up in shops along Great North Road in May 2015. Bepen Bhana’s poster, responding to the history of his family as fruit
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Frances Hansen’s Salute to the Stream is a celebration of Oakley Creek, the stream that runs along the eastern border of the Whau local area. You will be able to see Frances’ works in the Avondale Shoes gallery through April, and learn how to make odes to your local stream at the EcoWest Festival’s Eco
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