We are pleased to congratulate Min Kim as the winner of the Supreme Award at Watercolour New Zealand’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition. In addition, the same painting won the Winsor & Newton 'Watercolour New Zealand' online competition. Keep Reading
From 30 May Christchurch based Min Kim and Wellington based Pavithra Devadatta will be the new artists participating in the collaboration between DoubleTree by Hilton Wellington and the Academy to present original artworks by contemporary New Zealand artists to visitors to the hotel. Keep Reading
The popular World Press Photo Exhibition returns to Wellington later this year, bringing the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography from around the globe to the capital. Keep Reading
Wellington Art Show - Lisa Call named Wellington Regional Winner The first of the finalists in The STUFF Art Aotearoa Gold Awards for 2025 was announced at the opening of The Wellington Art Show at Tākina on Friday 28 February. The four artists in contention were Zoe Cromwell for ‘Verge (What we Hold)’, Shona Mackenzie for... Keep Reading
Well-known Kapiti Coast artist Hamish Macaulay will represent the Academy of Fine Arts at the Wellington Art Show this year. As well as supporting the STUFF Art Aotearoa Gold Award. Keep Reading
The Wellington City Council opened consultations in October on extensive proposals for redevelopment of the Civic Square precinct - Te Ngākau. Keep Reading
A Fellow of the NZAFA will have achieved a significant contribution to the fine arts in the wider community of Aotearoa New Zealand. Keep Reading
As we move to a firm programme of exhibitions in the main gallery, LightSpace Gallery becomes our venue for smaller exhibitions, individual artist hires and solo shows. We are offering 12-day hires giving two weekends – Wednesday through Sunday of the following week – at $140 per day. Shared between two artists, $70 per day... Keep Reading
Water World -Clouds, streams, rivers, sea and ice The President’s Prize of $1500 has been awarded to Joe Zhou’s ‘Wellington Harbour’, a representation of the inner harbour in oils that reveals the inspiration of Russian and French impressionists in its approach to its subject by the Wellington-based artist. The Curator’s Prize of... Keep Reading
Invited guest artist, Danny Forrest, won the people’s choice award in our “Fantastic Beasts – fins, fangs, feathers and fur” exhibition with her polymer clay on plywood work, “Our Friendly Neighbour”. Danny is a self-taught artist who has developed her own sculpting technique to create unique, detailed art pieces out of polymer... Keep Reading
NZ Academy of Fine Arts takes galleries off market, promises radical change. The NZ Academy of Fine Arts has taken its waterfront galleries in Wellington off the market, promising to radically transform its commercial operations so the public has confidence it’s open for business - for good. While it put the three ground-floor commercial... Keep Reading
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