Studio One Toi Tū

Studio One Toi Tū Community arts centre in the city fringe Studio One Toi Tū offers more ways for all people to meet and share ideas, skills and practices.

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🎨 TEEN ARTWORK starts next Thursday!This 5-week course invites teens to explore painting, drawing, ceramics and mixed me...
28/05/2026

🎨 TEEN ARTWORK starts next Thursday!

This 5-week course invites teens to explore painting, drawing, ceramics and mixed media as they develop their own creative style in a fully equipped studio with professional-grade materials. Perfect for all skill levels, the course encourages experimentation, confidence, and creative growth! Led by artist and tutor Tanja Nola.

🔸Ages : 13 – 17
🔸When : Thurs, 4 – 6PM
🔸Starts : 4 June
🔸 Length : 5 weeks
🔸 Cost : $300 + booking fees
✨ All materials + ceramic firings included

Only 2 spaces left - book in today!

Our call for exhibition proposals opens next week!Got a strong idea for an exhibition? Looking for a centrally located g...
25/05/2026

Our call for exhibition proposals opens next week!

Got a strong idea for an exhibition? Looking for a centrally located gallery to showcase your work? Have a group show ready to go and just need the space? We want to hear from you! We’re welcoming proposals for the gallery spaces at 1 Ponsonby Road, with exhibitions scheduled to run between January and December 2027.

We especially encourage applications from Māori and Pasifika artists and collectives. Studio One Toi Tū is committed to providing space for Māori and Pacific arts and culture within our exhibition programme.

🗓 Applications open 1 June and close midnight 28 June.
🎨 Talismans | Group Show | Aliyah Hazel Edwards, Destiny Tesese, Freya Jean & Rachel Anne

Get in quick! One spot has opened in this weekend's 'Marbled Clay on the Wheel' with Iza Lozano.🏺This is the lucky last ...
22/05/2026

Get in quick! One spot has opened in this weekend's 'Marbled Clay on the Wheel' with Iza Lozano.🏺This is the lucky last spot, as her June weekend workshop is already fully booked!

📅 When : Sat 23 & Sun 24 May, 10AM – 1PM
💵 Cost : $160 + booking fee
🎟️ Enrol : studioone.org.nz/courses/

ℹ️ More Info :
Create mesmerizing marbled ceramic vases and cups by combining contrasting coloured clay and shaping it on the potters wheel.

In this hands-on weekend workshop, you’ll learn the basics of agateware: from mixing pigmented clay to wheel-throwing on day one, and trimming your works to reveal a swirl of vibrant patterns on day two.

Whether you're new to pottery or looking to add a new technique to your skill set, this workshop will leave you inspired and with beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces to take home. Finished works will be fired and ready for collection once completed.

Kia ora koutou, Winter is just around the corner and we’re definitely starting to feel the chill! Despite the cooler wea...
21/05/2026

Kia ora koutou, Winter is just around the corner and we’re definitely starting to feel the chill! Despite the cooler weather, a huge thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate with us this Wednesday ✨

Alongside our exhibiting artists on the ground floor, our Artist in Residence, Yin-chi Lee and Draunikau Hawthorn .shaped.heart also showcased their work upstairs. Our Cell Block studio artist Faye Norman exhibited alongside artist Jenny Tomlin in the Cell Block studio as well. It was wonderful to see full activation around the building !

Tōfā Mamao | Taute Vaai
Letter’s Home | Fa’amele Etuale
Gaps of Silence | Melissa Gilbert

📅 16 Apr - 14 May
📍 1 Ponsonby Road, Grey Lynn

White Blood | Yin-Chi Lee
Enactment | Draunikau Hawthorn .shaped.heart

📆 21 May - 3 Jun
📍 Room 10

🕯️ OPENING SOON 🕯️-Enactment | Draunikau Hawthorn-Ritualists are those who hold their hand closest to the fire, those th...
18/05/2026

🕯️ OPENING SOON 🕯️
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Enactment | Draunikau Hawthorn
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Ritualists are those who hold their hand closest to the fire, those that perform a sacred duty to be the connection between worlds, as our eyes can only settle upon the humanoid. The chosen volunteers that bear the understanding of a language never spoken. To see a message of truth in the stars above or earth below, a power that flows unaffected by time or threats of oblivion. Dedicated to those who take the plunge, who evoke and light the candles. Taking part in the act of creation. These are not artefacts of the past but blueprints for a liveable future.

📍 Room 10
📆 21 May - 3 Jun
🎉 Opening Event: Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm

👤 OPENING SOON 👤-White Blood | Yin-Chi Lee -White Blood is a multi-channel installation exploring the intimate legacies ...
17/05/2026

👤 OPENING SOON 👤
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White Blood | Yin-Chi Lee
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White Blood is a multi-channel installation exploring the intimate legacies of migrant labourers within imperial structures. Weaving together diasporic memories of rubber plantations in Malaysia, camphor extraction in Taiwan and the history of Manila H**p in the Philippines, the work reflects on migratory labour, colonial economies, and the inherited systems that shape bodies and memory. Through everyday objects, White Blood examines how imperial power operates beyond territorial conquest, embedding itself in domestic and bodily rituals, manifesting in routine acts of surveillance.

📍 Room 10
📆 21 May - 3 Jun
🎉 Opening Event: Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm

💫OPENING SOON💫-Gaps of Silence | Melissa Gilbert-Gaps of Silence moves through the liminal spaces between reverence and ...
16/05/2026

💫OPENING SOON💫
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Gaps of Silence | Melissa Gilbert
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Gaps of Silence moves through the liminal spaces between reverence and forgetting, tracing the presence of the old gods of Oceania and the echoes left by colonisation's silencing. These works listen to what lingers in the hush between worship and erasure, where the divine waits to be remembered. Through gesture, colour, and form, art becomes both invocation and archive, a space where ancestral voices are remembered, not as myth, but as enduring presence. In this silence, memory transforms into ceremony; absence into knowing.

📍 Gallery 4 & Sidewalk
📆 21 May - 18 Jun
🎉 Opening Event: Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm

✉️ OPENING SOON ✉️-Letter’s Home | Fa’amele Etuale-This exhibition explores the quiet, intimate act of writing letters t...
15/05/2026

✉️ OPENING SOON ✉️
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Letter’s Home | Fa’amele Etuale
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This exhibition explores the quiet, intimate act of writing letters to the people we love. Sitting down with a pen in hand, we express what we often struggle to say aloud; how much we miss someone, when we hope to see them again, or simply how life is unfolding.

Fa’amele invites you to consider when the last time was you wrote a letter to someone, or even to yourself. During the show, you are welcome to write your own letter and place it in a pre‑paid envelope to be posted at the end of the exhibition.

📍 Gallery 3
📆 21 May - 18 Jun
🎉 Opening Event: Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm

Our call for exhibition proposals opens 1 June!Got a strong idea for an exhibition? Looking for a centrally located gall...
15/05/2026

Our call for exhibition proposals opens 1 June!

Got a strong idea for an exhibition? Looking for a centrally located gallery to showcase your work? Have a group show ready to go and just need the space? We want to hear from you!

We’re welcoming proposals for the gallery spaces at 1 Ponsonby Road, with exhibitions scheduled to run between January and December 2027.

We especially encourage applications from Māori and Pasifika artists and collectives. Studio One Toi Tū is committed to providing space for Māori and Pacific arts and culture within our exhibition programme.

🗓 Applications open 1 June and close midnight 28 June.
🎨 Homebound | Amrit Kaur

🌊 OPENING SOON 🌊-Tōfā Mamao | Taute Vaai-Tōfā Mamao explores the intricate landscape of diaspora grief, focusing on how...
14/05/2026

🌊 OPENING SOON 🌊
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Tōfā Mamao | Taute Vaai
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Tōfā Mamao explores the intricate landscape of diaspora grief, focusing on how Samoans in Aotearoa navigate loss within a modern urban context. The work examines the tension between demanding cultural traditions, which often consume the immediate period of mourning, and the pressure to quickly return to daily life. Through large-format photographic portraits, video, and evocative poetry and music, the exhibition captures the resilience of those whose farewells must travel across oceans. Drawing from personal experience and community dialogue, the artists reflect on how heritage both anchors and complicates healing when there is little space to truly grieve.

📍 Gallery 1&2
📆 21 May - 18 Jun
🎉 Opening Event: Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm

Address

1 Ponsonby Road
Auckland
1021

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

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