Autistic Arts & Culture Aotearoa

18/05/2026

18/05/2026

Fantastic !! Claire Rye - visual artist 🐧

16/05/2026

🌿 We are excited to now open registrations for this.

If you would like to come along please register in the link below.

Limited numbers so be sure to register.

https://ferncollectivenz.myflodesk.com/sensory-group-plunket

04/05/2026

Lazy Sunday

The Mosgiel Abilities Resource Centre (MARC) is a community-focused organisation supporting adults with intellectual and/or physical disabilities to gain skills and foster social relationships with on-site and community-based programs.

Their music groups have recently been involved in the songwriting process for an original piece being released during May’s New Zealand Music Month, alongside New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Week (4–10 May). The song, Lazy Sunday, has been professionally recorded, and participants have been working on creating a music video, incorporating elements of NZSL they have learned to bring the performance to life.

The participants are excited to share this original song and video with the wider community at this special release being held at Toitū - celebrating music, inclusion and collaboration.

If you’d like to learn the song beforehand, check out the link to the tutorial video: Lazy Sunday https://youtu.be/zEpjL4xAfIA?si=GSGP-zLWe2LhMBZt

10.15am, Wednesday 6 May
Toitū Auditorium
Free

30/04/2026

Eli is a fantastic artist
🖼️ Eli Underwater 🌊 🩵

17/03/2026

Did you know….. 🦓

02/03/2026

26/02/2026

🚲✨ All Abilities Wheels Afternoon ✨🚲
Join us for an inclusive afternoon of riding, games and good vibes! Bring your own wheels or try out a tandem bike, trike or hand cycle — all available to use.
🗓 Friday 6 March
⏰ 4PM–6PM
📍 Logan Park High School
Enjoy guided group rides, backyard games and BYO picnic fun. Everyone welcome! 💛

23/02/2026

Via Dunedin School of Art
2026 Research Seminar Series – Semester 1

Tēna koutou,

We warmly welcome all members of the Visual Studies Network to our 2026 Research Seminar Series.

This semester, we are delighted to present three research seminars that explore perspectives in visual studies, through engagement with 3 women artists and photographers, both from New Zealand and overseas. These sessions provide an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and deepen our shared interests in visual culture, theory, and practice.

https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/visualstudies/?fbclid=IwdGRleAQJjiJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe9Vrt6txcAeXs8HtDNu68-M7OSij8r1vNr-GB8nvC5Iu6moctq_pHIJGk0lE_aem_BzHY_olzqA22-enoZImzlg

Coming up: Wednesday, March 11, 2026
The first in this year's DSA, Cultures, Histories, Identities in Visual Studies Research Network Seminar series:
Angela Gunn, of Waimate, Ed Hanfling

Angela Gunn (1961–1995) was a photographer and painter who studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, and subsequently lived in Waimate, South Canterbury. She had dealer gallery representation in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and exhibited paintings that most frequently depicted her garden; she evidently devoted a considerable amount of time to both the paintings and the garden. The paintings are evidence of the artist’s facility for turning closely observed phenomena into lyrical abstract patterns. Gunn was far from being a household name during her life, and since her untimely death her work has not gained further public exposure. This seminar offers an introduction to a small number of paintings encountered, and information gleaned, at the beginning of a research project that, it is hoped, will culminate in an exhibition and catalogue.

Ed Hanfling is an art historian, critic and occasional curator, who writes regularly for Art New Zealand and has contributed articles to international journals, including the Burlington Magazine and Third Text. He is co-author (with Gil Docking and Michael Dunn) of 250 Years of New Zealand Painting (Bateman, 2021) and his book provisionally titled Art is Good: A Critic’s History of Contemporary New Zealand Art is scheduled for publication by Bateman later this year. Ed is Postgraduate Coordinator at the Dunedin School of Art and is co-chair of the Otago Polytechnic Research Ethics Committee. He is the editor of two journals, Scope: Art & Design and Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue.

Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic | Te Kura Matatini ki Otago
Forth Street, Dunedin
5:00 pm refreshments; start 5:30 – 7:00 pm

21/02/2026

🏆 Excellent work Tūhura Otago Museum

What Tūhura Otago Museum may lack in size and resources, it makes up for in passion, creativity and drive. Those characteristics have just led the...