A Life Lived Intensely explores the relationship between Expressionist painter, Alan Pearson, his subjects and the individual experiences that lie behind each sitting.

Image: Alan Pearson, Time Waits for No One, 2005-6, Oil, Private collection

This exhibition commemorates the city’s 150th anniversary as the capital, with a unique and entertaining look at the city and its people from 1840 to the present, through the medium of portraiture.

Image: Carmen Rupe at the Purple Onion Photograph by Ans Westra

A unique view of the impact of English navigator Captain James Cook’s three visits to New Zealand and the wider Pacific region in the late 18th century by three well-established New Zealand artists – Nigel Brown, Lisa Reihana and Gavin Hurley.