The Gallery runs a programme of regular and special events, often related to the exhibitions throughout the year.
Most events are free of charge and open to all ages unless otherwise indicated.
This lecture looks at the role of busts, statues, and bas-relief in the wider field of portraiture and contemporary art, and the differences between 2D and 3D portraiture.
Join our monthly Saturday sittings Portraiture Sessions, online under Level 2, and in person under Level 1.
What do you stand for? Head into the gallery to create your own protest sign.
Join our monthly Saturday sittings Portraiture Sessions, online under Level 2, and in person under Level 1.
Join NZ Portrait Gallery Audience Engagement Coordinator Brianah Lee, and Inverlochy Art School tutor Stephanie Turgoose, on this four hour tour and printmaking workshop
Auckland based artist Jo Bragg will speak to their work and artist thesis (Monash University), then uncover what 'Autonomy' looks like to themselves, and to those across the spectrum of Aotearoa's LGBTQIA+ arts communities.
Dr Kirsty Baker traces a genealogy of women-only exhibitions in Aotearoa over the past 5 decades, engaging with the work of many of the artists included in Autonomous Bodies
'Women painting Have you heard of Artemesia? on Matariki Mural, 1981' (top to bottom: Anna Keir, Marian Evans, Marg Leniston, Fiona Lovatt, Susie Jungersen, Bridie Lonie)
Artist Holly Walker on her artistic practice and unpacking the relationship between the treatment of the earth & women.
Join us for our monthly Saturday Sittings’ sessions!
Curator and artist Gina Matchitt will be presenting a walk through floor talk providing insight unto her exhibition, Autonomous Bodies:: Figurative portraits by New Zealand women, wāhine, transgender and non-binary artists
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Waiāio Ngā Mōrehu Elkington at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on their mahi toi.
Waiāio Ngā Mōrehu Elkington, Huirohutu Meha Elkington, 2021.
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Regan Balzer at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on their mahi toi.
Regan Balzer, 'Guide Susan: A Matriarch (Not a Maiden)', 2021.
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Jamie Berry at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on their mahi toi.
Join The New Zealand Portrait Gallery in collaboration with Inverlochy Art School for a fun day full of portraiture, collage and creating!
Join Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Suzanne Tamaki at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery to hear their kōrero on the mahi behind their selected work, Cultural Preservation, 2021.
Join artist Ron Te Kawa at the NZ Portrait Gallery to create an upcycled original textile Matariki artwork.
See Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Shannon Clamp at work on their latest mahi toi.
Join us for our monthly Saturday Sittings’ sessions!
Join Artist and Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award Finalist Tessa Williams for our whanau focused creative workshop.
Warren Maxwell will be performing at the NZ Portrait Gallery a solo loop set as part of the Face to Face Portrait Festival 2021.
Join Acting Direction Brian Wood and Audience Engagement Coordinator Brianah Lee on a tour of the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.
11am and 3pm sessions available.
Free.
Hear the inaugural winner of the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award in conversation with Lisa Reihana
Join Acting Direction Brian Wood and Audience Engagement Coordinator Brianah Lee on a tour of the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award.
11am and 3pm sessions available.
Free.
Join us for our monthly Saturday Sittings’ sessions!
Join Splendid’s Sean Aickin on our smartphone photo workshop and walking tour! Open to all levels, you will engage with Sara's photos on a hands-on technical level, then have the opportunity to create your own as part of a walking tour around the waterfront!
Registration is essential, so sign up today to secure your place!
Artist and author Sara McIntyre will be in conversation with Greg Donson, Curator and Public Programmes Manager for Sarjeant Gallery Wanganui.
Image: Sara McIntyre, pictured by Babiche Martens.
Come on down to the New Zealand Portrait Gallery for an free portraiture drawing session on the last Saturday of each month 1 - 3pm
Get your copy of Sara McIntyre’s Observations of a Rural Nurse signed!
Get creative this Autumn by capturing a portrait of your neighbourhood and sharing it on Instagram with the #nzpgplacesportraits for the chance to win a signed copy of Sara McIntyre's Observations of a rural nurse publication.
How NZPG is celebrating the Chinese New Year!
