Shigemitsu Ohashi from Osaka, Japan, presents ceramic works made during his time as summer Resident Artist, The Kilns at Te Horo.
Beyond the sky and at hand, Shigemitsu Ohashi
4 April–2 August, 2026
Ringa Toi | Artists’ Gallery
Current exhibitions
Brent Wong: Paintings from the artist’s collection
For more than fifty years, Brent Wong has been one of New Zealand’s most distinctive and enduring artists. This selection of paintings, drawn from the artist’s...
2 May–30 August, 2026
Taonga Tuku Iho | Heritage Gallery
art and poetry
‘I don’t draw or paint, so much as play’ says Kāpiti artist Tim Roberts. Art and poetry have helped to ease his symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
28 May–16 August, 2026
Waipuna Toi | Community Space
Land, Women and Rangatiratanga
Nei ka whakanuia a Kahe Te Rau o te Rangi rāua ko Te Rangitopeora, ngā tapairu o Kāpiti i tāmoko i te Tiriti hei whakapūmau i...
4 July–1 November, 2026
Te Manawa Toi | Coastlands Gallery
Upcoming exhibitions
Ngai-kore-tua-mao, she ditches, she floods, Louie Zalk-Neale
Louie Zalk-Neale draws on the inherited ability of Tī Kōuka, the cabbage tree, to thrive in different climates — a fertile symbol of climate resilience, belonging...
1 August–29 November, 2026
Ringa Toi | Artists’ Gallery
The Expatriates: Frances Hodgkins, Peter Campbell, Graham Percy
It is not surprising given New Zealand’s isolation that from the late 19th century onwards, many artists went abroad. They went to study, to encounter art...
5 September, 2026–10 January, 2027
Taonga Tuku Iho | Heritage Gallery
Toi MAHARA Young Artists Exhibition
The biennial Toi MAHARA Young Artists Exhibition celebrates young and emerging artists from the Kāpiti Coast. We are calling for submissions to the second Toi MAHARA...
14 November, 2026–7 February, 2027
Te Manawa Toi | Coastlands Gallery
Past exhibitions
2026
Lotus Rising, Te Ara Korowai: 27 February–24 May, 2026
Fluid Bodies, Charlotte Crichton: 14 February–14 June, 2026
2025
Kāpiti: The land and the people, Kāpiti Coast Photographic Society: 29 November, 2025–22 February, 2026
Daily Kāpiti, Joanna Margaret Paul: 22 November, 2025–22 March, 2026
Arotake Toi | Mahara Arts Review: 1 November, 2025–1 February, 2026
Further revelation: Frances Hodgkins and British modernism 1920–1935: 18 October, 2025–26 April, 2026
Te Ngahere, Waikanae School children's creations: 23 August–23 November, 2025
Portraits: 20 August–21 September, 2025
Stories about living in houses, Kath Foster: 26 July–16 November, 2025
Marking Time: 12 July–12 October, 2025
Ko Māui, Steve and Maia Gibbs: 4 July–19 October, 2025
Hinepūtehue, Raukura Weavers Collective: 4 July–19 October, 2025
He Rā Mokopuna, Pip Devonshire: 4 July–19 October, 2025
Hineteiwaiwa, Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa: 7–29 June, 2025
The Holtom’s Art Studios: 12 April–17 August, 2025
A Vocabulary, Bruce Connew: 5 April–6 July, 2025
falling over tall rocks, Thomas Baker: 5 April–20 July, 2025
!Nature in Amami Ōshima!, Yukihito Kanai: 15 February–1 June, 2025
2024
A story of a lake through time, Gerda Leenards: 14 December, 2024–30 March, 2025
Sue Soo, a tribute show: 14 December, 2024–6 April, 2025
Toi MAHARA Young Artists Exhibition: 2 November, 2024–9 February, 2025
Selections from the Field Collection: 4 October, 2024–30 March, 2025
Faces & Flowers, Patricia France & Dinah Hawken: 20 September–8 December, 2024
Kei ’ea te kōmako e kō?: 30 August–8 December, 2024
Ira Wahine: Portraits by Hariata Ropata-Tangahoe: 16 August–27 October, 2024
Thirteen Months of Memories, Huhana Smith, Ciaran Banks: 5 July–15 September, 2024
Ngā Ngārara, Kapakapanui School Children's Creations: 5 July–23 August, 2024
He kete, he whiri, he tangata: 1 June–11 August, 2024
Rua Pōtae, John Baxter: 1 June–11 August, 2024
Women of Ōtaki: photographs 1860s–1970s: 3 May–29 September, 2024
Elemental, Adrienne Riseley: 3 May–30 June, 2024
The Saturday Artists, Waikanae Arts and Crafts Society: 3 April–30 June, 2024
Toiora: Ki te Pō ki te Ao, The Art of Wellbeing: Through Light and Shadow: 3 February–26 May, 2024
The Kilns Project, Elisabeth Vullings: 27 January–30 April, 2024
Ineffable, The Shed Project: 26 January–31 March, 2024
2023
Whiriwhiria: Tukua ki te Ao: 28 October, 2023–21 January, 2024
Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho, Treasures of Kāpiti: 28 October, 2023–28 April, 2024
Wai Ora, Water Life: 28 October, 2023–22 January, 2024
Robin Rogerson: A Tribute, Robin Rogerson: 13 April–26 May, 2023
Beckoning Land, John Foster: 23 February–6 April, 2023
Lost Objects, Kath Foster: 22 February–6 April, 2023
2022
Pranam, Sophie Saunders: 1 December, 2022–17 February, 2023
From Dark to Light: 5 November–17 December, 2022
Tūmatakahuki: 19 September–28 October, 2022
Star Relations, Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa: 18 July–9 September, 2022
Safe Space, Birgit Moffatt: 12 May–18 July, 2022
recent work, Mizuho Nishioka: 18 March–6 May, 2022
2021
Asemica, Paul Thompson: 27 July–18 September, 2021
ĀTĀROA, ‘the long shadow’ of the New Zealand Land Wars, Rangihīroa Panoho: 27 July–18 September, 2021
Jim takes a line for a walk: works by Jim Gorman: 4 May–5 June, 2021
Toitū Te Whenua, Toitū Te Moana, Toitū Te Tangata, Hemi Macgregor: 23 February–24 April, 2021
an observational practice, Gerda Leenards, Frances Jill Studd, Sophie Saunders, Janet Bayly : 23 February–24 April, 2021
2020
The Lockdown Alphabet, Joe Buchanan: 8 September–31 October, 2020
Frances Hodgkins & the Field Collection: 5 September–31 October, 2020
Let’s NOT celebrate Cook, Robyn Kahukiwa: 21 February–12 April, 2020
2019
Girls; Boys, Robyn Kahukiwa: 21 September–27 October, 2019
Frances Hodgkins, from Dunedin to Waikanae: 28 April–16 June, 2019
2018
Frances Hodgkins, 3 works, 3 decades: 27 October–9 December, 2018
Frances Hodgkins—Family & Friends: 15 April–3 June, 2018
2017
An emerging talent, early works by Frances Hodgkins: 9 April–4 June, 2017
2016
Frances Hodgkins and Girolamo P. Nerli: Early years: 26 August–9 October, 2016
Frances Hodgkins & Petrus van der Velden in the Field Collection: 26 February–3 April, 2016
2015
Focus on Frances Hodgkins: 7 November, 2015–17 January, 2016
A Winter Sampling: Frances Hodgkins and the Field Collection: 30 August–27 September, 2015
A Micronaut in the Wide World, The Imaginative Life and Times of Graham Percy: 28 March–7 June, 2015
2014
Summer Classics: Frances Hodgkins, D. K. Richmond, Petrus Van der Velden, Girolamo P. Nerli: 21 December, 2014–1 February, 2015
Frances Hodgkins in Kāpiti: The Field Collection: 1 March–20 April, 2014
2013
Frances Hodgkins and the Field Collection in Kāpiti: Selected Works 5: 30 November, 2013–23 February, 2014
Frances Hodgkins and the Field Collection in Kāpiti: Selected Works 4: 8 September–24 November, 2013
Frances Hodgkins and the Field Collection in Kāpiti: Selected Works 3: 7 July–1 September, 2013
Frances Hodgkins and the Field Collection in Kāpiti: Selected Works 2: 12 May–30 June, 2013
Frances Hodgkins and the Field Collection in Kāpiti: Selected Works 1: 28 April, 2013
Towards the Precipice: Propaganda posters collected by W.B. Sutch: 3 February–24 March, 2013
2011
2010
More than a craze: 1 December, 2010
Still Love the ’50s: watercolours and drawings, Gerald Barnett: 29 August–3 October, 2010
The Charm of Sue Soo: 10 July–22 August, 2010
Frances Hodgkins: Kāpiti Treasures: 28 February–2 May, 2010
2008
Frances Hodgkins—Her idea of heaven: Selected Paintings, 1895–1921: 1–30 March, 2008