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Glorious Things

Dr Helen Rufus-Ward will trace the fascinating story of the Byzantine Empire, which flourished for over a thousand years, through the art of the period. Mosaics, ivory carvings, enamels, holy relics, silverware and icons are just some of the ‘glorious things' to be examined and discussed.

$10.00 – $20.00

Bolton Street Cemetery

Commemorative art is the focus of our tour through the Bolton Street Cemetery. This is Wellington’s oldest cemetery dating from 1840. To the Victorians, memorial symbolism was important and you will see interesting examples of this form of art.

$15.00

A special insight into the exhibition

We will begin our tour at the heart of the exhibition, in the oldest surviving carved meeting house in the world, Te Hau ki Tūranga, a high point of Rongowhakaata creative expression.

$18.00 – $25.00

Friends’ Preview of Toi Art

Toi Art is the new home of New Zealand’s national art collection. Spanning two floors, the newly built gallery offers an additional 35% more floor space and will feature four major exhibitions as well as commissions from leading New Zealand artists.

NZ Impressionists and an Italian masterpiece

Join us on the bus to Expressions for tours of a 'salon' hang of the entire Pumpkin Cottage collection, and "The Secrets of Mona Lisa", an exhibition that combines art, history and science to shed light on a very old painting.

$35.00 – $45.00

Tudor and Jacobean portraits

This lecture is a feast for the eyes! It describes the oil painting materials and techniques of the portrait painters of the Tudor and Jacobean courts in 16th and early 17th century England. Presented by Sarah Cove, one of Britain’s foremost Technical Art Historians and consultant to international museums, salerooms and collectors.

Free – $20.00

Modernist murals of E Mervyn Taylor

Author Bronwyn Holloway-Smith will take us on a detective hunt to find some of this country's most important and beautiful murals.

$15.00 – $25.00

Studio Tour – Jack Trolove

Join us and meet artist Jack Trolove for a visit to his studio. Since gaining an MFA with distinction from Massey University, Jack has been a finalist in the 2016 and 2017 Wallace Art Awards, winner of the People’s Choice Award, and twice short-listed for London’s BP Portrait Award.

$15.00 – $20.00

Melvin Day’s Stabat Mater suite of paintings

The 13th century poem Stabat Mater Dolorosa has been an important source of inspiration for many artists and musicians for over 700 years.  Art Curator Mark Hutchins will talk about the artist, the works, and the inspiration...

$15.00

Cuba Quarter gallery walkabout

Please join us at Bartley + Company Art to meet artists Bruce Foster and Kate Woods who are featured in the exhibition “Wai”.  A short stroll will then take us to Robert Heald Gallery to meet Andrew McLeod, whose exhibition will have opened just the day before.

$15.00