Join our Curator, Director or a special guest for our monthly floor talk discussing our current exhibitions.

Join Suter Curator Sarah McClintock for a special tour of the exhibition Seeing is Believing

Join our Curator, Director or a special guest for our monthly in-depth discussion where we highlight a single artwork.

Ceramics NZ presents an intimate round table discussion with LA based artist and 2018 Portage Ceramic Awards judge Bari Ziperstein. Bari will take small discussion groups though her successful business model, covering how she got from A-B professionally in both her exhibiting practice and commercial design work. This is a unique professional development opportunity for anyone interested in art and ceramics.

This is a theatre show reflecting on rape culture in our communities.

The premiere live performance of the music created for the Ngā Hau Ngākau collaborative exhibition.

This is a theatre show reflecting on rape culture in our communities.

Join artists Robin Slow, Brian Flintoff and Bob Bickerton as they discuss their breath-taking exhibition Ngā Hau Ngākau.

This is a story about my best friends. Ok, no, this is actually mostly a story about me.

This is a story about my best friends. Ok, no, this is actually mostly a story about me.

Join our Curator, Director or a special guest for our monthly guided tour.

Following the sold-out success of Promise and Promiscuity, Penny Ashton swaps Austen for Dickens and brings orphaned hero Olive, and a squalid gaggle of hilarious Victorians, to crusty life.

Following the sold-out success of Promise and Promiscuity, Penny Ashton swaps Austen for Dickens and brings orphaned hero Olive, and a squalid gaggle of hilarious Victorians, to crusty life.

Stories that have been told and retold over breakfast tables, barbeques, campfires, and drunken dinner parties. You know the ones. Epic and incredible family stories.

Stories that have been told and retold over breakfast tables, barbeques, campfires, and drunken dinner parties. You know the ones. Epic and incredible family stories.

David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache present strange and eerie ghost stories from the gold rush, digging up bits of our past to thrill, chill and delight.

Spray and Wipe are two cleaners who have been hired for their most exciting job ever, cleaning a magician’s house! But when they accidentally let the magic out of its box, everything is turned topsy-turvy…

David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache present strange and eerie ghost stories from the gold rush, digging up bits of our past to thrill, chill and delight.

Spray and Wipe are two cleaners who have been hired for their most exciting job ever, cleaning a magician’s house! But when they accidentally let the magic out of its box, everything is turned topsy-turvy…

Join exhibition curator Greg Donson as he discusses Wendy Fairclough’s remarkable exhibition of finely crafted glass still-lives.

Architects from Stevens Lawson Architects, RTA Studio, Arthouse Architects and Studio Nord come together for Urban Awakening, a discussion about inner-city living in Nelson and what urban densification could mean for the city. 

Join artists Caroline McQuarrie and Shaun Matthews as they discuss their exhibition Prospects Fearful.

Join us for our monthly family-friendly art talk for mums, dads and caregivers.

Join award winning New Zealand filmmaker and artist Vincent Ward as he discusses his exhibition ‘Palimpsest / Landscapes’ and his work in the upcoming Light Nelson.

The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū invites you an artist talk with Richard Stratton.

Join Gabby O'Connor as she discusses her work The Unseen.

Join artist Billy Apple and architect Bill McKay as they discuss Apple's exhibition 'The Politics of Space'

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Join the artists and curators of the exhibition (Un)conditional II for a discussion about their work and collaboration.