An exhibition of Fairclough’s poetic, beautiful and finely crafted glass still-lives which explore what we all have in common – the basic need of food, warmth, shelter and connection.

A multidisciplinary exploration of the expedition led by Thomas Brunner from Nelson into the West Coast and back again from December 1846 – June 1848.

Weaving together painting, carving, and sound Ngā Hau Ngākau is an exhibition that explores the collective creation of narratives through a multisensory experience.

In association with the Nelson Embroiderers’ Guild and the Association of New Zealand Embroiderers’ Guilds The Centre of Things Ngā Puna Raranga showcases the work of embroidery and textile artists from across New Zealand.       

The Colour Red is the common denominator in the selection of works from The Suter's collection. 

In Living History, Wellington artist Richard Stratton presents a series of new work that continues his interest in bringing together ceramic decoration and production techniques, art histories and social narratives.

In Palimpsest/Landscape Vincent Ward considers painting, drawing, the human body and landscape through a series of evocative and elemental films.

The Politics of Space explores Apple’s practice of intervening and altering various spaces, including The Suter Art Gallery.

This exhibition is a partnership between The Suter and The Physics Room, Christchurch. (Un)conditional II is part of The Physics Room’s itinerant exhibition programme in 2018.

The Suter Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū has invited ceramic artists from the top of the South Island to enter works into Fire & Earth, Body & Bone: Contemporary Ceramics from the Top of the South, an exhibition that highlights the best ceramicists in the region.

Drawing from the Suter’s significant collection of British Modernist paintings and some star loans The Cornish Connection examines the creative links between Cornwall and New Zealand.

Nelson artist Sally Burton presents a poignant installation that examines the complex history of the 1843 Wairau Incident. 

Digital Primitive is an ongoing exploration of art history, technology, authorship, collaboration and authenticity. 

See what I can see: Discovering New Zealand Photography is a celebration of the camera in New Zealand - the artists; the people; the place.

In winter 2014 and summer 2015, DOC took 26 artists to Tamatea/Dusky Sound to experience and learn about the restoration project. The exhibition, Tamatea - Art and Conservation in Dusky Sound, is the result of these visits.

The result of months spent engaging with the eccentricities of The Suter collection Josephine Cachemaille’s  Us, Us, Us  animates that which is so often hidden.

Exploring portraiture and gender in The Suter collection Behold exposes the coded visual language used by artists when creating figurative art.

A major solo exhibition of Nelson born sculptor Andrew Drummond in which reworked artworks will sit alongside new large scale pieces that explore our senses and environment. 

Highlighting the gallery's impressive collection of Mervyn William's works From Afar brings together artworks from The Suter's collection that play with illusion, materials and isolation.  

Revealing the ways in which our understanding of the world is imagined and constructed this exhibition features work by emerging and leading contemporary New Zealand artists.

The artists in Exodus are performing an ‘exodus’ or departure from the Nationalist and Regionalist modes of creation. Their work confronts the viewer with anxious, disturbing, fascinating and hypnotic insights into our world.  

Promised Land exposes an artistic whakapapa (genealogy) of art in Nelson. Acting as a window to some of Nelson’s most significant artists and artworks Promised Land highlights the effects of British art, achievements of expatriates, and generational connections, as central to the development of art in the region

Depicting Nineteenth Century emigration to Nelson, landforms unique to the top of the South Island, regional industries, and our bicultural history, Milk and Honey spans over two hundred years of New Zealand artworks and offers a glimpse of the creative endeavours this distinctive area has inspired.