Distinguished contemporary Māori artist and arts administrator Darcy Nicholas, who recently received the Tauranga Moana Award for enduring artistic contribution, has accepted an invitation to become...
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Nationally-significant art collection moves to new Toi MAHARA
The catalyst for the redevelopment of Mahara Gallery in Waikanae, the nationally-recognised Field Collection of art works, has been moved into the new gallery after more...
Introducing our new Toi MAHARA identity
MAHARA, is introducing a new visual identity to coincide with the redevelopment of the gallery building. Mahara Gallery Trust Board Chairman Gordon Shroff says the Gallery...
Board focuses on Gallery opening while constructive funding talks continue
Mahara Gallery Trust Board Chairman Gordon Shroff says that adequate operational funding for the new Gallery is in place for the coming financial year while the...
Blessing marks end of Gallery construction phase
A blessing ceremony has marked the completion of the construction phase of the new Mahara Gallery and opened the way for Gallery staff re-occupy the building...
Last pop-up exhibition a tribute to MAHARA founding artist
One of the artists who combined to establish Mahara Gallery in the mid-1990s, the late Robin Rogerson, is the subject of a tribute exhibition in the...
Father and daughter exhibition at MAHARA
Prints by mural painter, the late John Foster along with photographs taken by his daughter Kath, feature in Mahara Gallery’s current MAHARA iti exhibition. Beckoning Land...
Live Art @ Mahara
Mahara Gallery is staging a three-month programme of free events in Mahara Place, Waikanae, that will include everything from live concerts and art works on display...
Pilgrimage of colour and light in new Sophie Saunders exhibition
The use of simple geometric shapes has been a career-long characteristic of work by accomplished Waikanae artist Sophie Saunders. In her new MAHARA iti exhibition, Pranam,...
Wananga weavers share the ‘sacred stitch’
Māori Arts Degree student weavers from the Palmerston North campus of Te Wananga o Aotearoa have invoked the ‘sacred stitch’ used in woven panels to showcase...
MAHARA Pops Up at Seagrass
Seagrass Gallery, new to Ōtaki Beach, will open on every Saturday in October from 10am to 5pm with an exhibition to raise funds for the re-development...
‘National treasure’ brings whakapapa quilts to MAHARA
Fabric artist and educator, Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa—described at his exhibition opening as a ‘national treasure’—has returned to MAHARA with a selection of his whakapapa quilts...