The Friends ‘Special to Me’ event brought three special guests together to share a story that art has played in their lives. They were Judy Turner, former...
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Toi MAHARA award-winning artist explores the nature of truth
When she’s painting, Waikanae artist Morag Stokes looks for subject matter in what is in her hands. In her Toi MAHARA award-winning work, the outcome is...
Barrie Lord: Paintings
Barrie Lord started painting eight years ago when his daughter asked him to “do me a painting” for her 50th birthday. This was because she had...
Celebrating local culture and heritage
Toi MAHARA celebrates local culture and heritage. We partner with eight Kāpiti museums to participate each year in Wellington Heritage Festival (18 October–9 November) and Kāpiti...
Graham Percy works on show in the stairwell
Two works by New Zealand artist Graham Percy (1938–2008): Two Kiwis in Paris and A Kiwi in Venice are on show in our stairwell. Percy was...
‘Te Ngahere’, an invitation into the forest and the community
There is something special that happens when a forest is brought into a gallery space. Like much good art, the current exhibition Te Ngahere transforms the...
Open Letter to Hon. Erica Stanford, Minister of Education: Why Art History Matters
We write as representatives of Aotearoa New Zealand’s arts and cultural sector to express our shared concern about the suggested removal of Art History from the...
First dementia-friendly art show at Toi MAHARA
Toi MAHARA is hosting Portraits, an exhibition of work by participants from the second dementia-friendly art programme initiated by architect and artist Hester Paul. Paul approached...
Children present shoebox forest view in Toi MAHARA exhibition
Sixty children from Waikanae School, with the help of the same number of shoeboxes, have turned a walk in the forest at Ngā Manu Nature Reserve...
2025 Council Elections and Toi MAHARA – Funding Facts
Council funding support for Toi MAHARA has become an issue in the campaign being run by the group Concerned Ratepayers of Kāpiti. The Mahara Gallery Trust...
‘Kia Emiemi’ blends tradition, storytelling and artistry
Article by Sinead Overbye, published in The Post, Friday 19 July 2025
Te Rakauoteora Te Maipi
Honouring Koro Don Te Maipi The Board, staff and Friends of Toi MAHARA are greatly saddened by the passing of Te Rakauoteora Te Maipi (Koro Don...