Art Gallery - What's On?
Bookings
Space in the gallery can be booked and is highly sought after, to enquire please contact Alicia Taylor
Kate Agnelli
January 30th - March 09th 2025
This exhibition celebrates the remarkable partnership of Kate and Luigi Agnelli—two hands, two minds, and two souls united in creative harmony on a single piece of paper. Each intricate artwork is meticulously crafted on a 100x70cm sheet of cotton paper, combining fine-liner ink pens with delicate pencil coloring. These artworks, which take between three and six months to complete, explore a range of subjects: from pure fantasy and vibrant cityscapes, nature in all its forms, metaphors of life, and stories of real people.
Kate will be in residence in our gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
Indigo
13 March - 16 April
Indigo is an informal collaboration of eight Central Otago artists who mount group exhibitions of their work. They curate these exhibitions in order to stimulate varied conversations between their works. Indigo presents a model of a group of artists with diverse practices working together. These practices encompass a range of media including ceramics, painting, sculpture and mixed media.
Artists: Nigel Wilson, Luke Anthony, Lynee Wilson, Shaun Burdon, Judy Cockeram, Jilian Porteous, Megan Huffadine, and Rachel Hirabayashi.
Arrowtown Autumn Festival Exhibition
25th April - 18th May
Applications for the Arrowtown Autumn Festival Exhibition are OPEN
Please follow the link below to apply. Physical forms are also available at the museum reception
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12zagOqI8lMdMigUxa2BEB72b7cmy-ra8VmRkyND2x0Q/edit
ARTWORK ELIGIBILITY AND SELECTION PROCESS
Artworks must be NO LARGER than 1000mm x1000mm including frame.
Artworks must be dry, ready to hang and be professionally presented.
- Wall hung artworks must be framed (stretched canvas with painted edges is acceptable).
- We have plinths available for sculptures, ceramics, jewellery or any other mediums that are not wall hung.
Artworks must be original and not previously exhibited at the Lakes District Museum & Gallery (LDM).
Selection of artworks is carried out by the museum's selection committee. The Autumn Festival Exhibition receives overwhelming numbers of entries and our gallery space is limited. Pre-selection does not absolutely guarantee that your artwork will be hung.
The decision of the selection committee is final.
'Seriously Valuable Art'
22nd May - 15th June
Seriously Valuable Art argues that art needn’t be expensive to be beautiful, important and life-enhancing – Artists can be generous souls; and market forces aren’t always kind to historical ones. Nothing in this exhibition cost the Collector – who has kindly lent a large number of his treasures – a huge amount of money.
Mischievously though, there is an artwork included that is worth more than anything else put together; but ignore the vulgar monetary aspect and enjoy the sophistication, charm and beauty of these works and the stories they tell. You’ll be in for a wonderful surprise.