RAMP Gallery

26/08/2026

So lucky to have our artist in residence Lisa Benson giving a mid install talk for our tauira Wintec School of Media Arts. See you Friday for the opening.

25/08/2026

Lisa Benson
Stellar Garden
Exhibition Preview this Friday

Stellar Garden is an open-ended experiment in perception, exploring the possibility of a unified field in which consciousness, matter and energy are interconnected. Through camera-less photography, light-gathering processes and playful experiments with perception and place, the project considers how the cosmological might be encountered through the local, and how we might orient ourselves toward coherence through contemplation, embodiment and co-creation.

The works invite attention to the movement of light, the traces of time, and the relationships between bodies and their surroundings.

Rather than offering answers, Stellar Garden creates space to pause and attune, allowing memory and desire to meet through imagination, and offering a possibility for practising the futures we want to inhabit.

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Exhibition Preview
Date: Friday 28 August
Time: 4pm to 6pm Wintec School of Media Arts Wintec Lisa Benson

24/06/2026

05/03/2026

We look forward to welcoming you to Whatua He Whiringa Takatāpui - an exhibition that brings together five takatāpui kaiwhatu from across Aotearoa to weave together q***r and Māori communities.
Takatāpui is a term that embodies whakapapa Māori AND diverse genders and sexualities. Our existence demands the Indigenous sovereign right to define ourselves on our own terms. The central aho that joins us carries tīpuna messages across generations and with this tīpuna guidance we create Māori futurisms in which all Māori are free.
In the face of transphobic hate in Aotearoa and globally, we affirm mana takatāpui from the (harakeke) roots here in Kirikiriroa.

24/02/2026

Aka Kumara - Research in Progress

Dates: 24 Feb – 4 March 2026
By appointment
Celebration / Event: Tuesday 3rd March 12-1pm
All Welcome, Snacks Provided

For the last year, the kaiako (teachers) in Contemporary Art and Design at Wintec have been meeting and working together to discuss our guiding principles in creative practice. Prompted by Te Pou Ahurei, a programme designed by Toni Herangi, our collective question has been how we might apply principles and ideas from Te Ao Māori to frame our own creative practices. Our hypothesis is to understand, through our experience, how aakonga (students) might benefit from a values-based approach to arts education. This group exhibition is an opportunity for us to share our research in progress.

Artists: Toni Herangi, Tamsin Green, Mason Holloway, Jordan Foster, Dani Foster, Gareth William, Tim Croucher, Tony Nicholls.

08/02/2026

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24/11/2025

.by.hiiria

18/11/2025

Curatorial Assistant at work .mycelium

17/11/2025

Join us from 4pm on the Thursday the 20th of November for the opening of our Creative Showcase. Ramp will feature a curated selection of works from our third year aakonga (students) curated by .mycelium featuring .by.hiiria and many more

10/11/2025

Hollie Tawhiao .didnt.do.it
Portrait of a lake as a dying man (2025)
Perspex, water, wooden frame
Now showing at Critical Mass

This perspex frame was designed to hold 3.14 litres of water. It currently holds 1.51 litres, the amount of remaining water in Lake Taupō there would be today if equated to AI water consumption since 2012. AI could consume this remainder in only 4.28 years due to accelerated use. A dramatic acceleration.

The perspex bows under pressure, distorting the water level. It has the potential to seep intentionally. These physical effects reflect the illusion of control in the face of climate uncertainty.

This work is designed to create tension and uncertainty, not just for the viewer, but for the gallery space itself. It challenges the expectation that art should be clean, contained, and controlled. Climate change is not tidy. It is disruptive, uncomfortable, and unpredictable. So too is this work.

📷 Geoff Ridder