Saturday Gallery Club

If you were to share the story of how your family came to live in Aotearoa, what would that look like? Inspired by the work of current exhibiting artist Guy Howard-Smith, this workshop is focused on sharing your own unique family stories. Using mixed media techniques of illustration, you will be led in creating a tapestry like work on paper using colour and line to depict your whakapapa.

Hosted by our resident glass artist Sofia Athineou, you will be taught how to make a relief scene made from plaster by pressing natural and found objects into clay. The next step is to pour plaster into your clay cavity where your scene them becomes 3 dimensional. This kids workshop is an introduction to developing your understanding about positive and negative spaces.

Learn about Bena Jackson and Max Fleury’s exhibition Blue Nylon with the curator and join in on a paper mosaic activity using recycled materials at the end. Perfect for all ages, however adult supervision of Tamariki is required.

Join us for a workshop creating your own wonderful, quirky and fabulous imaginary creatures inspired by exhibiting artist Georgia Arnold's recent exhibition.

Join Kate Stevens West (Kāi Tahu) in a drop-in session to make a painting of a family taoka.

Bring an item of clothing from home that you would like to transform with a patch of woolly wonderfulness!

Learn to crochet or knit a simple chain stitch without hooks or needles.

Join us for a children’s watercolour painting workshop inspired by 'All-at-once-ness', an exhibition by Jana Wood.

Join us for a children’s abstract painting workshop inspired by 'BLUE DUCK', an exhibition by Christian Dimick and Ruby Wilkinson.

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In time for Matariki; inspired by conversation and whakatauki about gratitude, children will design their own visual Pukapuka Whakawhetai (gratitude journal) to take home and add to over the coming year.

Join us for a children's upcycling session inspired by the kaupapa of EcoFest. Bring along a container from your recycling bin to repurpose into a useful vase or pen holder.

Children are invited to join us in the Homestead Galleries to make their own hand-formed vessels using airdry clay.

Inspired by a r a p e t a’s exhibition Kei whea te Aute, join us in the Homestead Galleries for a mark-making session on Aute/Tapa cloth, using natural pigments from plants, soil and clay.

Make your own sculpture inspired by resident artist, Kevin Osmond.

Inspired by the group exhibition Her heirlooms in my garden, join us to design and create your own miniature terracotta pot, all ready for a plant in your garden or on your windowsill.

Inspired by the vibrant landscape paintings in Dr Leonie Ngahuia Mansbridge’s new exhibition, join us to create your own colourful assemblage artwork within a gilded gold frame.

Inspired by Nature’s Gentleman’s works in 'Forgotten Vessels – Waiting for the Early Dawn', join us in the Homestead Galleries where we will be forming our own hue-shaped vessels from clay.

Join us in the Homestead Galleries to create collage art with handmade paper inspired by our current exhibition, In Return.

Inspired by the group exhibition Bodies of Woven Code, join artist Trixi Rosa to create your own set of knucklebones (jacks) from recycled and found materials.

A free children’s workshop creating a cardboard Manutukutuku featuring designs that reflect the child's wishes and hopes for the Māori New Year to Hiwa i te Rangi.

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary as an Arts Centre, come along to make your own stained glass window using cellophane and templates inspired by the grape-designs in the windows of the Homestead.

Inspired by Yeonjae Choi’s exhibition 인사 Greeting, come along and spend some time using your hands to build a unique clay figure of your own.

Join us in the Homestead Galleries to make your own roll of printed wrapping paper inspired by the current exhibition.

Drawing on her works in Someplace Else: A Travel Archive, artist Louise Stevenson will guide kids and caregivers in the making of a series of small collage works on paper that tell a story about travelling.

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 lockdown guidelines* Inspired by her exhibition Thought-Forms, join artist Paula Friis to create a whimsical textured card collage using Paula’s ‘library of shapes’ and your imagination.

Join us to create your own textile wall hanging using wool and traditional weaving techniques, inspired by the group exhibition What we do with our hands.

Join artist Penny Howard to create your own vibrant bird silhouette filled with wishes using black paper and pastel to fly to Hiwa over the new year.

Taking our cue from the Give a Kid a Blanket exhibition and social art project, kids are invited to come and learn to knit a woollen square which will later be added to a quilt. The end result will be donated to GaKaB.

Inspired by her exhibition Blossom, Bloom, Blooming, come along and spend some time with Debbie Harris using your hands and fingers in clay to build a unique blooming flower of your own.

Inspired by the installations in her exhibition Cats, Dogs and Madonna, join artist Aasha-Samra Nimo to create your own animal finger-puppet to take home, using felt and embroidery.

With her latest exhibition in mind, come and create your very own portrait alongside Edith, who is well-known for her creative portraiture.

Inspired by the work of Louise Keen, create your own recycled material collages and tell a story about your whānau and friends.

In this SGC, we will be creating small postcard paintings using make shift non-toxic paints with colours from the back yard.

*Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions* Using collage we will be creating bunting that help to share what you are passionate about, it might be your culture, your love for nature or even animals. Create beautiful bunting to hang up in your home.

Come join the artists as they share their love of crochet and teach you how to create a small object using crochet techniques.

Using the textile works of Vicki Bradley and Margaret Chapman as a starting point, participants are welcome to come and learn about the wonder of hand-stitching through simple and effective techniques.

Inspired by the photography of Edith Amituanai and George Crummer, our young participants will be creating a collaged photograph scene that represents their own home and identity.

Choose an object to upcycle as we re-imagine it into a sculpture inspired by Cat Fooks.

Create a surprise for someone to find in a local park or outside area. Leaving messages of kindness and support for others to find has become a popular activity for families. Join us to create, seek and hide rocks.

Inspired by our current exhibitions, learn how to create a stamp of your favourite alphabet letter as well as simple printing techniques on paper.

Exhibiting artist Laura Williams paints imaginary spaces in her latest work. We invite you to create a collage of your own imaginary universe using magazines and brightly coloured paper.

Create your own beautiful printed textile piece, inspired by our current exhibitions.

The last Saturday of every month we will be exploring our latest exhibitions with a free 1 hour drawing club for adults.

Learn how you can help to protect our local Kauri. Come and create a seed bomb that you can use to grow something special in your garden.

Come and learn about the upcoming Matariki season and create your own star wall hanging in celebration of the special Seven sisters star formation.

Inspired by artist Sena Park’s residency in Mongolia, come and explore the current sculptural installation and then create your own responsive 3D dreamscape of Mongolia.

We all have a voice and sometimes this voice can be heard through short but effective quotes! Come and create your very own badge to share your thoughts on living in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Learn about Masi (Fijian bark cloth) and traditional patterns with artist Railala Gade. Under her guidance you will create a piece to take home.

Drop-in activities for children (and their families)

Ages: 4+

Free, all welcome

As our final Saturday Gallery club activity for the year we are visited by guest artists from Tonga. Join in and learn about a variety of drawing techniques from Seleka Club members Tevita Latu and Taniela Petelo.

Come along to our monthly art making workshop, inspired by Ōtautahi artist Caitlin Clarke. Learn how to make pinch pots out of clay and materials collected from around our site.

Join us for a free Artweek activity. Using found materials and objects we create pieces of wearable art inspired by the artists in the Handshake 4 exhibition.

An open-ended creative workshop for children to assemble their own still-life work using collage/paper cut-outs inspired by the floral works in the exhibition.

Come and learn how to make soft sculptures that you can put in your home, as we take inspiration from the Give me Space artists who have created work to fit specifically in the gallery spaces. Make you own site-specific sculpture for your home!

Working with archival images from Linda T.’s collection, we will be making postcards. Using black and white photographs, these postcards will capture life around the wider Auckland region from the 1980s to 2018.

Held by Stars, our latest Matariki exhibition, celebrates the lives of those who have passed. In celebration of new life, come and learn about Ipu whenua, a traditional process of Māori people which includes burying whenua (placenta of newborns) in a special place.

This workshop explores Geisha and Koi imagery, inspired by the works of artist Dominique Baker, an artist in our major group exhibition #UPDATE.

Looking at the current exhibition by Toi Te Rito Maihi, we will be weaving bright strips of coloured paper to explore pattern and symmetry.

This workshop is inspired by the painting style of artist Ayesha Green, where we will use simplified forms and images from the landscape in Aotearoa, to create postcards for friends and whanau.

For the first Saturday Gallery Club event of 2018, we will be creating a fun collage inspired by some of the artists in current exhibition 15 Years on The Estate, which celebrates our 15th year as an arts centre.

Come and immerse yourself in a colourful exhibition that celebrates the beauty of the Pacific, whilst learning how to make something precious for yourself or a friend.

Learn how to up-cycle old ceramics with artist Niki Gribble, and create a special masterpiece to take home at the end of the workshop.

This workshop, inspired by our exhibition of the same name, is one where kids will learn about performance art as it is today and what it means to use your body as the basis for an artwork.

Join artist Louisa Afoa as she runs a workshop that explores identity through printing and collage on wrapping paper.

In the spirit of our latest exhibition, come and make your own sign or object of 'Protest' to share your views and opinions on a current news story.

Make creative portraits with props and objects as we learn about the Seven Stars of Matariki. A family-focused gallery activity, suitable for children 4+. Free, no booking required.