Objectspace

08/10/2026

JEWELLERS & MAKERS: This is your reminder to apply for inclusion in SCHMUCK münchen and TALENTE münchen, two international craft and design exhibitions/competitions held annually during the International Handwerksmesse in Munich, Germany.

Established in 1959, SCHMUCK münchen is an annual jewellery exhibition taking place at the International Handwerksmesse. Three contributors to SCHMUCK will be awarded the Herbert Hofmann Prize. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2026.

Works accepted into the international competition TALENTE münchen – Masters of the Future will also exhibit at the 2027 International Handwerksmesse in Munich, with an international jury selecting the winners of the TALENTE prize. This opportunity is geared towards emerging makers working in the ‘applied arts’. The deadline for applications is 19 October 2026.

Find more info and to apply: https://www.hwk-expo.de/ #/expoOverview

Objectspace plays a support role for successful applicants into these opportunities. If you have any questions ahead of applying, email us: [email protected]

24/07/2026

Remember Bladerunner? The chair’s maker Gary Hunt, alongside Carin Wilson and Tony van Raat, will be speaking at the gallery next Sunday 2 August during a special ‘Craft Curriculum’ Coffee & Croissants conversation – discussing cross-disciplinary practice from the 1970s to now.

Get your $10 tickets to join us with a coffee and croissant in hand thanks to Allpress and Daily Bread.

10.30am coffee pouring, 11am talk begins.
2 August at 13 Rose Road, Ponsonby.

Details and tickets here: https://www.objectspace.org.nz/events/coffee-croissants-x-craft-curriculum-cross/

Introducing your speakers:

Gary Hunt is, in his own words, ‘a self-taught breaker, fixer and maker’ – a designer, steel fabricator and craft maker who has worked in his various creative disciplines for more than four decades. We got to know Gary through our 2023 exhibition and book The Chair.

Tony van Raat has spent most of his life as an architect. For 15 years he was head of school at Unitec, he served five years on the Registration Board and two years as chair of NZIA - Auckland Branch – he also founded the NZ Architectural Publications Trust and was NZ Commissioner for the 2014 and 2016 Venice Architecture Biennales.

Carin Wilson was a leader in the country’s craft movement in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and has become a pivotal figure in New Zealand’s creative landscape, particularly advocating for Māori participation in design and urban development. This talk is planned to accompany his retrospective exhibition He maramara tupu aranga, currently showing at Objectspace.

09/06/2026

We have made it to target! $80k raised as part of our Boosted NZ campaign 50/50 — For Makers and Objectspace.

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has donated and shared this campaign. We are so grateful for all the love and support that you, our community, continue to show for Objectspace. Thank you.

And now, our eyes are set on a $90k stretch goal – every donation over and above our initial target will go directly towards our ambitious plans for the future, for makers and Objectspace!

Give now: https://www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/projects/50-50-for-makers-and-objectspace?tab=updates

15/05/2026

Our biggest fundraiser ever is live! 50/50 — For Makers and Objectspace.

We're fundraising with Boosted NZ to support both our ambitious programming and the spaces that hold it. With all gifts doubled up to our $80k target (thanks to generous match-givers), there has never been a better time to support Objectspace. We need to raise it by 15 June (all or nothing) so now is the time to give – whatever you can! ❤️

https://www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/projects/50-50-for-makers-and-objectspace

12/01/2026

We're back to usual opening hours from tomorrow in Tāmaki Makaurau, showing Warwick Freeman: Hook Hand Heart Star.

Tue – Fri, 10am–5pm
Sat & Sun, 10am–4pm
Objectspace, 13 Rose Road, Ponsonby

Our Ōtautahi Christchurch space remains closed until 9 February, when a week-long pond-side event series commences. More info coming soon.

Warwick Freeman’s emblematic jewellery pursues meaning. Across five decades the New Zealand jeweller has built a lexicon of signs: from the cultural symbolism of the hook and the star to the heart redrawn in the volcanic scoria of Rangitoto island. When worn, his jewellery communicates somethi...

16/12/2025

We’re thrilled to announce our 2026 programme begins with a major solo exhibition of new work by London-based Italian designer Martino Gamper OBE.

This new commission is made possible with the support of Exhibition Patrons Tony Kerridge and Micheal Do and our Strategic Partner ECC New Zealand, with accompanying public programmes supported by British Council New Zealand.

This international project includes a new body of work created for Objectspace’s main Ockham Gallery, and an accompanying exhibition and publication conceived in collaboration between Gamper and designers James Goggin and Shan James of Practise, to be set within our Chartwell Gallery. An edit of the exhibition will travel south to Sir Miles Warren Gallery, our satellite space in Ōtautahi Christchurch, to open in mid-2026.

We look forward to sharing further exhibition details and public programming plans in the new year, and extend our gratitude to the collaborators and supporters backing this milestone project.

Pictured is a chair by Martino Gamper for the exhibition Sitzung at Haus der Kunst, 2023, photograph by Frank Stolle.

Read more here: https://www.objectspace.org.nz/journal/objectspace-commissions-major-new-exhibition/

17/11/2025

We’re back! After a somewhat harrowing 48 hours of being hacked, we’re securely back running our original Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/objectspace/

Persistence and a stroke of luck got us here – it’s a massive relief and a reminder of the risks of our digital social lives. Be safe out there, and maybe be old school and sign-up to our mailing list via our website. In that spirit, here’s Old Brain by Warwick Freeman.

https://www.objectspace.org.nz

14/11/2025

UPDATE: We may have 🤞 got our Instagram account back (which was hacked on Wednesday). Keep an eye on our page, and we will update you when the dust settles over on Insta.

Ngā mihi to everyone who shared and reported. 1,000 followers on our new account in 24hrs was a real morale boost, thank you! And to the friends and experts who helped us fight back – we dedicate this Helping Hand to you, made by jewellery legend Warwick Freeman.

13/11/2025

UPDATE: We may have 🤞 got our Instagram account back. Keep an eye on our page, and we will update you when the dust settles over on Insta.

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Our Instagram page was hacked last night💔so we’re starting anew! Please follow us at and spread the word – together we’ll be back to 25k followers in no time.

https://www.instagram.com/objectspace_aotearoa/

We’ll let you know if we get our original profile back, and want to say an enormous thank you to all the people who have offered their advice and time today as we worked out the way forward.

Whoever took our account has renamed it .coach_gracee – if you’re following, please report it and unfollow.

Ngā mihi nui from the Objectspace team

05/11/2025

A rare opportunity to own a piece of an important architecture archive. Four gone, four remain. Photographs of Pacific architecture uncovered in the archives of Dr Mike Austin for the 2022 exhibition Oceanic Architectural Routes.

Framed in oak at 360 x 520mm, and $550 each. Get yours as part of our 2025 Weekly Objects Limited Edition Fundraiser: objectspace.org.nz/limited-editions/

“Something a little different this week folks, eight image artefacts from the quietly acclaimed Dr Mike Austin. Documents from a life spent dreaming of the sea, and in pursuit of making meaning of how people live and dwell across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.

An architecture teacher, writer and a deep and thoughtful thinker. These images played a small and potent role in widening our view outwards. Mike’s veracious curiosity for the ocean that he lives within underpinned his belief that there is a great deal this place and its people could teach us.”– Kim Paton