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Newmarket is home to many bright, bold and beautiful murals and sculptures as well as modern galleries and art stores. From commissioned murals, to long-standing sculptures and everything in between, each piece is significant and treasured. In celebration of Art in Newmarket Take part in a special art tour by Street Artearoa, enjoy exhibition openings and exclusive Q&A sessions with artists across Newmarket.
To view a map of Newmarket's many works, click here.
Street Artearoa is Auckland’s premier street art company, created by local street artists, to provide unique learning experiences through tours and workshops, and professional mural art services. Book tickets to Street Artearoa's Walking Art Tour of Newmarket, showcasing the wonderful outdoor art, galleries, commissioned sculptures and large scale murals throughout the precinct. There will be three different tour types, with a focus on Newmarket's Sculptures, Newmarket's Street Art, and a tour of the many works inside Westfield Newmarket.
Art tours will be held on the 12th, 13th, 19th & 20th from 12:30pm-2:30pm.
Tickets are free, but spaces are limited so make sure you reserve your spot on the walking tour to avoid missing out.
Saturday 12th October - Walking Tour - Gallery & Sculpture Tour - Click here to reserve your spot.
Sunday 13th October - Walking Tour - Gallery & Street Art Tour - Click here to reserve your spot.
Saturday 19th October - Walking Tour - Gallery & Street Art Tour - Click here to reserve your spot.
Sunday 20th October - Walking Tour - Westfield Art Tour - Tickets available soon.
Outside In by Kirsty Nixon
Where better to gather your thoughts, to find peace, to cry, to discover, to get your hands dirty, to kiss, to meditate, to meet, to eat, to breathe out… than a garden.
Throughout art week, visitors will receive a complimentary 2025 The Poi Room Artist calendar.
17 Osborne Street
Delve - 3 Painters | 3 Practices | 3 Processes by Karen Covic, Ruth Phipps and Jo Dalgety
This exhibition features works from Karen Covic, Ruth Phipps and Jo Dalgety. These three artists share a connection through their association with Railway Street Gallery and first-year study in the Whitecliffe School of Fine Arts Master of Arts programme. Together, as individual artists, they explore their internal motivations in mark-making.
12th of October: Attend an exclusive Q&A session with the three artists from 3pm-5pm.
8 Railway Street
Nohoaka toi ki Puketeraki by Simon Kaan & Wi Taepa
The exhibition will present a series of new work produced by the artists that were made over the course of a residency in August 2024 in the village of Karitane, just north of Dunedin. The exhibition includes an ink-on-fibre glass series by Kaan, a collection of hand-printed ceramic works by Taepa, and ink and kōkōwai art on cotton rag prints.
12th October: Attend an exclusive coffee and croissant morning from 10am-12pm at Sanderson. View the exhibition and enjoy complimentary coffee and croissants by Candyshop.
Perpetual by Yoshiko & Shintaro Nakahara
This exhibition features work from Japanese-born husband and wife duo, who were both formally trained in separate art schools in Tokyo – Shinataro at Tama Art University and Yoshiko at Musashino Art University. Their practices are concerned with precision and planning and they share an intuitivec approach to mark making. Shintaro uses pure aesthetic forms that mimic calligraphy; using bright, solid colour and rigidly controlled lines that suggest gestural actions. Yoshiko works over this, often exclusively with black ink, with painstakingly built and small-scale individual strokes and washes. The artist uses this mark-making process to create multiple levels of patterns which often result in natural forms. This complex process reveals the unusual collaboration between the artists and the unique contemplative nature of their work.
19th October: Attend an exclusive coffee and croissant morning from 10am-12pm at Sanderson. View the exhibition and enjoy complimentary coffee and croissants by Candyshop.
Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street
Mother & Son by Judy & Oliver Curnow
This exhibition highlights a joint mother & son exhibition. Judy offers wonderful impressions of a perfect garden & Oliver skillfully navigates the interplay of light and shade, revelling in the art of juxtaposition and contrast.
20th October: Hear from Ngaire Stone, curator and art historian, on creating an art collection in these uncertain economic times and the value of a collection to the artist and the collector.
19A Osborne Street
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