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The Adam Portraiture Award is now showing in Queenstown!
03/09/2026

The Adam Portraiture Award is now showing in Queenstown!

Join us this Saturday 5 September at 11am for a floor talk with 'Portraits from the Parkin Collection' curator Anna Rigg...
30/08/2026

Join us this Saturday 5 September at 11am for a floor talk with 'Portraits from the Parkin Collection' curator Anna Rigg and collector Chris Parkin.

Image: John Walsh, Marakihau the Messenger, 2024. Oil on gold on board.

This is the last wiki to come and see 'Life in Forms: Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury' which closes Sunday 6 September. Life ...
30/08/2026

This is the last wiki to come and see 'Life in Forms: Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury' which closes Sunday 6 September.

Life in forms is a focused survey of the work of trailblazing Ngāpuhi artist Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury (1928-1977). It charts the artist’s practice over four decades, from her early works in the 1940s to her final pieces in the 1970s.

Image: Install shots with works from 'Life in Forms: Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury' pictured. Photographer: Catherine Adam .nz

Join us this Saturday 29 August for our themed life drawing session. This month our model will take on the role of a pai...
26/08/2026

Join us this Saturday 29 August for our themed life drawing session. This month our model will take on the role of a painter, posing with an easel and artist’s materials. Arrive early to get a seat and set up! Session will run 2pm-4pm.

Ngā mihi nui to for providing tasty inu (drinks) for our sessions.

Image: Beverley Shore Bennett, Self Remembering Betty Rhind & F.V Ellis, 1983. Oil on board. Collection of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. Gift of the artist Beverley Shore Bennett

Tomorrow we open 'Portraits from the Parkin Collection', this new exhibition explores artworks from the collection of We...
19/08/2026

Tomorrow we open 'Portraits from the Parkin Collection', this new exhibition explores artworks from the collection of Wellington icons Sir Chris and Kathy Parkin. Featured are old favourites, new additions, and artworks not usually on public view, including works by Rita Angus, Nigel Brown, John Walsh and Fiona Pardington.

Open to the public from Thursday 20 August, 10am.

Image: Rita Angus, Portrait of a Friend, Kate Coolahan, Oil on Canvas. Image courtesy of Art+Object.

The full auction list for our upcoming An Evening of Opera and Art fundraiser concert is now live! From a Toss Woollasto...
17/08/2026

The full auction list for our upcoming An Evening of Opera and Art fundraiser concert is now live! From a Toss Woollaston watercolour to an Escape to Melbourne, there are some incredible items up for auction.

Browse the full auction list and secure your ticket here: https://www.nzportraitgallery.org.nz/opera-auction-list

Tickets are nearly sold out, so don't miss out!

Currently on display in the gallery entrance is Susan Wilson's 2014 portrait, Witi Ihimaera. This is one of the works fr...
14/08/2026

Currently on display in the gallery entrance is Susan Wilson's 2014 portrait, Witi Ihimaera. This is one of the works from our collection that our Museum and Heritage Practice intern, Abi Lapthorn, chose to research and write about. Scroll through to read Abi's piece or read on our website via the link: https://www.nzportraitgallery.org.nz/our-collection

The Adam Portraiture Award 2026 is currently getting packed up to head on tour around the motu. Check out the tour locat...
10/08/2026

The Adam Portraiture Award 2026 is currently getting packed up to head on tour around the motu. Check out the tour locations and see if it's coming to a town near you!

Image: Duncan Pepe Long, Solomon Tāmehana, 2026, oil on wood. Winner of the $30,000 Adam Portraiture Award.

Give a huge round of applause to the 2026 Adam Portraiture Award People's Choice Winner - Stephen Lawrie with his work '...
07/08/2026

Give a huge round of applause to the 2026 Adam Portraiture Award People's Choice Winner - Stephen Lawrie with his work 'Fishermen - The painter and his sons'. Congratulations Stephen!

Head down to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery this weekend to see Stephen's work alongside the other 43 finalists in the Adam Portraiture Award exhibition. The exhibition closes at 4.30pm on Sunday 9 August before heading on tour around the motu.

Voting for the People's Choice Award closes this Friday 7 August at 4.30pm and the winner of this years $2,500 prize wil...
03/08/2026

Voting for the People's Choice Award closes this Friday 7 August at 4.30pm and the winner of this years $2,500 prize will be announced at 5pm. Head down to the Wellington Waterfront to cast your vote!

Images from left to right:
Benjamin Dellabarca, George, 2026. Oil paint.
Jasmine Middlebrook, Right Here and Now, 2026. Oil On Canvas.
Sam Tyson, Cousins, 2026. Oil.
Belinda Wilson, Portrait of Christopher, 2024. Oil on canvas
Nicholas Fields, I am Memorial, 2026. Oil Paint.
Emma Hercus, Home, 2026. Acrylic and oil on wood panel.
Kylie King-Hazel, She is witness and vessel, archive and ancestor, 2026. Oil.
Sacha Lees, Maid-to-Measure, 2026. Oils on woven tape measures.

All images have been cropped.

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Shed 11, 60 Lady Elizabeth Lane
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Tuesday 10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 4:30pm
Thursday 10am - 4:30pm
Friday 10am - 4:30pm
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Sunday 10am - 4:30pm

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