Teachers’ Professional Development
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Teachers: 18+
Learn skills and techniques employed in our specialised method of art education to help your team build valuable creative solutions for teaching in various ways.
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Exhibition
Idle Window
Darryl Chin
25 April - 13 June 2026
Idle Window by Darryl Chin traces the private rituals of his digital life. A multi-channel installation drawn from screen recordings and camera roll fragments. Rabbit holes, open tabs, distraction and play when no one else is watching.
Image courtesy of the artist
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Opening Preview
Friday 24 April, 6-8pm
Idle Window: Show & Tell (Digital Habits Hangout)
Saturday 16 May, 11am-12pm
Curator Tour
Friday 5 June, 11am-12pm
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About the artist
Darryl Chin is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, of Singaporean Hakka Chinese descent. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Auckland. His practice spans moving image, installation, and performance, exploring how digital processes, and systems materialise in space through projection, objects, and time-based media.
www.darrylchin.art
@niu_wave
Upcoming Activities
Ceramic Studio: Uku Trunk Vases
Available Term 2 2026
Mon 20 Apr - Fri 3 Jul
Primary: Y0 - Y8
In this clay sculpting workshop students will learn the fundamentals of hand shaping clay, combining pinch pot and coiling techniques to build a tree trunk vase structure.
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Pakiwaitara - Taniwha Tales
Available Term 2 & 3 2026
Mon 20 Apr - Fri 25 Sep
Primary: Y0 - Y8
The second in our popular series of pakiwaitara focusing on local histories and place. Pakiwaitara are traditional stories that serve to share knowledge, teach lessons, explain phenomena, and establish social or cultural practices. Taniwha Tales follows Tāmaki taniwha across our local landscape, and Waitematā and Manukau harbours.
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