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Explore The Radical Portraiture Of New Zealand’s Modern Master Toss Woollaston
Monday, 11 November 2024, 11:20 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
While renowned for his landscapes, Toss Woollaston is also one of New Zealand’s foremost portraitists. His 1936 painting Figures from Life is heralded by art historian Jill Trevelyan as “arguably New Zealand’s first modernist portrait,” marking ... More >>
FacingTime: Portraits Of Geoff By Euan Macleod Opens At New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Monday, 19 June 2023, 12:18 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
An exhibition centred around isolation, loss, technology and most importantly friendship created during the Covid-19 lockdown, has opened at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2306/1482a51712f3513f8e85.jpeg" ... More >>
Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award – Deadline For Submission Extended Due To Cyclone Gabrielle
Monday, 13 March 2023, 10:10 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Organisers of the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award have extended the deadline for entry submissions to 30 March due to the nationwide impact of Cyclone Gabrielle. New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata together with The Office of the ... More >>
18-year-old Self-Portrait Wins 2022 Adam Portraiture Award
Thursday, 26 May 2022, 6:14 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Jessica Gurnsey from Auckland has been announced the winner of the 2022 Adam Portraiture Award and a $20,000 cash prize. Jessica’s work Lady Day, acrylic on canvas, was chosen as the winner from an impressive 351 entries nationwide and 45 finalists at ... More >>
Portraiture Exhibition Pays Homage To Distinguished Expatriate Painter
Wednesday, 9 March 2022, 11:53 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
An exhibition featuring works from one of New Zealand’s most distinguished expatriate painters is opening this month at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2203/139dab4e50aae02d9c07.jpeg" ... More >>
Adam Portraiture Award 2022: Call For Entries
Wednesday, 12 January 2022, 10:18 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Artists from around New Zealand are being invited to enter their works for one of the country’s most prestigious portraiture prize, The Adam Portraiture Award. The award, generously sponsored by The Adam Foundation and presented by The New Zealand ... More >>
Curatorial Internship Recipient To Explore The Unfinished Portrait
Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 2:14 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Lizzie Errington from Northland has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Liz Stringer Curatorial Internship at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. The internship provides the recipient with hands on curatorial skills across a wide ... More >>
Finalists announced for 2020 Adam Portraiture Award
Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 12:44 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Portraits featuring real hair, cats and LGBTQ pride are just some of the interesting works shortlisted in the prestigious 2020 Adam Portraiture Award. More >>
Curatorial Internship recipient to challenge traditions
Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 7:30 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Georgie Keyse from Invercargill, has been named as the recipient of the 2019 Liz Stringer Curatorial Internship at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. More >>
Adam Portraiture Award 2020: Call for Entries
Friday, 17 May 2019, 10:00 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Entries for New Zealand’s most prestigious portraiture competition, The Adam Portraiture Award are now invited. Artists are encouraged to get out their brushes, find their subjects and start painting! More >>
Last chance for artists to win $20,000 portrait award
Monday, 16 November 2015, 10:30 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Artists have just over three weeks left to enter next year’s $20,000 Adam Award, the country’s most prestigious portrait prize, run by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. More >>
Wellington artist commissioned to paint Celia Lashlie
Sunday, 19 July 2015, 11:19 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Wellington artist Heather Main has been commissioned to paint a picture of social justice campaigner Celia Lashlie, runaway winner of a public poll to find the most deserving person to fill a space in the New Zealand Portrait Gallery’s national ... More >>
Sash Huber exhibits at NZ Portrait Gallery
Monday, 22 June 2015, 11:59 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Swiss-Haitian artist Sasha Huber, an artist who fires an air-powered industrial staple gun into wooden boards to create extraordinary images of people who have been assassinated, will give a talk at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery on Friday (June 26, 1pm). More >>
Gallery seeks portrait artist for poll winner
Sunday, 21 June 2015, 10:09 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
The New Zealand Portrait Gallery is looking for an artist to paint a picture of the late Celia Lashlie who won a poll in which members of the public were asked “Who’s missing? from the national collection held on the Wellington waterfront. More >>
Celia Lashlie Wins Portrait Gallery Vote
Monday, 8 June 2015, 9:41 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Celia Lashlie, social justice campaigner who achieved worldwide fame for telling mothers how to handle their teenage sons, is the people’s choice to fill the Who’s Missing? gap on the walls of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. More >>
Just over a week left to view controversial exhibition
Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 3:36 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Tranquillity Disturb’d: A contemporary look at historical New Zealand which has been making waves at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. More >>
More Women to be Featured at NZ Portrait Gallery
Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 11:25 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
People want to see the faces of more women featured in the national collection held by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. That has become clear from a Who’s Missing? popular vote to name New Zealanders whose pictures should be included on the walls ... More >>
Captain Cook as Never Seen Before at Portrait Gallery
Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 10:01 am | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
A painting of Captain Cook as you have never seen him – with his underpants down and relieving himself in the bushes – will be featured in an exhibition at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery next month. “This is about as far from an official ... More >>
Young director to head Portrait Gallery
Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 2:48 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
Gaelen Macdonald, 35, has been named as Director of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, on the Wellington waterfront, from December 1. More >>
Summer exhibition on the Wellington waterfront
Monday, 10 November 2014, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Portrait Gallery
A collection of some of the finest modern portraits by New Zealand’s most celebrated artists, including Rita Angus, Frances Hodgkins and Toss Woollaston, goes on display at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, on the Wellington waterfront, on Thursday (Nov ... More >>
