Four Concurent Exhibitions

- Lifelines: Jo Hardy - A survey :
Much like Rita Angus, the celebrated artist Jo Hardy moved North just as the centre of gravity for creative culture was moving from Christchurch to Auckland and beyond in the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike Angus who sojourned only for a few years, Hardy stayed on and is regarded primarily as a well-established Northland artist.

Despite her relocation to the North, her artistic connections to Christchurch continue to distinguish her art practice in style and content. Following the lineage of Angus and Younghusband, she is a cerebral and figurative symbolist painter while simultaneously interrogating social and personal issues with a wry wit not often seen in her predecessors.

- Sojourn in the North: A Contextual Exhibition of Rita Angus and her circle.

- Adele Younghusband: A Brief selected survey.

- Selwyn Ngareatua Wilson, Ngati Manu (1927-2002): Memorial Collection Exhibition (13 June – 31 July 2011):
Now returned from extensive conservation and framing, these 14 Selwyn Wilson paintings now showing are originally from his Elam 1951 National Art Gallery Scholarship exhibition. Selwyn Wilson is historically notable as the first ever Maori Graduate from art school in New Zealand.

These works, in private hands for decades, were discovered in poor and dilapidated condition. They are of immense significance in the development of a maori renaissance in the art world at large. Included in the exhibition is a splendid portrait of Selwyn Wilson by his fellow art student Garth Tapper, from the same period. All of these works (including the Tapper portrait) were purchased for the art museum collection over the past 18 months and are now shown publicly for the first time since the exhibition they were created for at the National Art Gallery, Wellington in 1951.

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