Don Binney: Flight Path
Explore the stunning paintings and drawings of Don Binney, a celebrated New Zealand artist and ornithologist, at this exhibition curated by Gregory O’Brien.
Explore the stunning paintings and drawings of Don Binney, a celebrated New Zealand artist and ornithologist, at this exhibition curated by Gregory O’Brien.
Explore the art of still life from different perspectives and mediums in this exhibition that challenges the conventional view of the genre. See paintings, sculptures, photographs, and more, including three-dimensional recreations of still lifes.
Discover the fascinating world of portraits, from the past to the present. See Sally Burton’s Wreck of The Delaware, featuring Huria Matenga.
Embark on a journey through time and creativity at The Suter Art Gallery’s ARTrageous exhibition. This unique showcase celebrates over 125 years of artistic accumulation, presenting an eclectic array of pieces from our esteemed collection.
Discover the immersive world of contemporary artist Jen Alexandra at The Suter Art Gallery. Alexandra, recipient of the 2024 Olivia Spencer Bower Award, invites visitors to explore sacred nature traditions through an installation that transforms the historic gallery space into a contemplative zone
I’mPulse is a captivating installation that explores the connection between the human body and the natural world.
This exhibition reflects on what home means in Aotearoa. A broad range of artists, mostly from the late twentieth century to the present, have explored notions of what ‘Home’, housing, and shelter offer as a subject, some producing these during a housing crisis, both national and global.
Discover the amazing world of clay art at The Suter Art Gallery’s biennale exhibition, Fire & Earth: Contemporary Ceramics from the Top of The South.
A showcase of abstraction from The Suter’s permanent collection, the fourth in a series of exhibitions looking at different approaches to abstraction.
Step into the rich legacy of Moko kanohi (facial markings), a cherished tradition carried proudly by Māori through the ages.
Developed in collaboration with the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Fletcher Trust Collection
Kāryn Taylor uses light, colour and geometry to express the hidden workings of the universe.
Top Art is an annual exhibition featuring some of New Zealand's top secondary school Visual Art portfolios, toured by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
Experience the elemental forces of fire and ice in this captivating exhibition featuring works by renowned artists including Euan Macleod, David Ryan, Neil Frazer, and Craig Potton, as well as ceramics by Christine Boswijk, Len Castle, and Raewyn Atkinson.
The collection exhibition Night Life, which features some loaned artworks, celebrates some of the diverse interpretations and treatments of the night.
In Memento Moa, an exhibition of all-new work, Gary Baseman creates a mythical land of hybrid creatures—exploring themes of migration, memory, and mortality.
Featuring an eclectic mix of pieces drawn from The Suter's collection and long-term loans, this display is bound to intrigue with its strange, macabre, and peculiar qualities. Don't miss your chance to experience these unique and fascinating items for yourself!
Eight makers from Naarm/Melbourne and Aotearoa exploring materiality through contemporary jewellery/body adornment/object - Claire McArdle, Cara Johnson, Inari Kiuru, Kelly McDonald, Victoria McIntosh, Neke Moa, Rowan Panther, and Lisa Waup.
This is one of our continuing series of Nelson/Tasman regions’ leading ceramic artists’ survey exhibitions.
A unique sound sculpture installation by Motueka-based sculptor Nicholas Duval-Smith.
Contemporary artists who use reduction and repetition in their work, through which meanings and histories emerge. This exhibition brings together the work of Lonnie Hutchinson, Craig McIntosh, Shaun Waugh, and Areta Wilkinson.
This exhibition plays with the usually understood definitions of ‘placeholder’ through a selection of artworks from The Suter’s collection referencing our place, the Nelson /Tasman region. Artists such as John Gully, Toss Woollaston and Irvine Major with their distinctive approaches to depicting this region, can become the lens through which we begin to see and appreciate features of our environment, and become the place holders in our minds’ eyes.
During November 2022 public art galleries throughout New Zealand will be showing art works by celebrated expatriate artist Douglas MacDiarmid to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth in November 1922.
Selected works from Te Papa’s summer exhibition - Rita Angus: New Zealand Modernist | He Ringatoi Hou o Aotearoa - brings together 20 works by one of New Zealand’s most iconic 20th- century artists, Rita Angus (1908–1970).
Foote’s use of a gridded structure aligns her with a rich lineage of artists who have turned to the principles of geometry to guide their approach to the canvas.
Top Art is an annual exhibition featuring some of New Zealand's top secondary school Visual Art portfolios, toured by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
In this series of works, Stevei Houkāmau affirms whakapapa as the centre of her uku practice. Stretching through and beyond her personal biography, the works in this exhibition connect with legacies of Māori making, migration from te Moana nui a kiwa, and kinship ties with Atua.
Kōkōrangi ki kōkōwai showcases Nikau’s knowledge and commitment to contemporary art through indigenous genealogy and revitalisation practices, specifically in aute and documenting the movement of celestial bodies.
Curated by Ed Hanfling, this is the third in a series of exhibitions highlighting the strength of The Suter’s collection of abstract art.
David Ryan’s project examines the ambiguities of what defines the line between the interaction with landscape as journey, and the recording of the landscape as fragmented works that sift through many references, narratives, analogies and unsuspected correspondences.
A touring exhibition of landscape paintings from the collection of the Kelliher Art Trust. Curated by Christopher Johnstone.
Marti Friedlander (1928–2016) - one of New Zealand’s most outstanding and influential photographers - made portraits of artists, writers, potters, actors, film-makers and musicians from 1959 to 2015. Curated by Leonard Bell and toured by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery
The 9th Suter Contemporary Art Project, Kiss me Hardy! (but not like that) examines the ways in which absurdity is used as a tool in art during times of crisis.
A biennial exhibition that highlights the best ceramicists in the region.
New acquisitions that build on the strengths of the 122 year old Suter collection.
OPEN 7 DAYS
Mon to Sun 9:30am – 4:30pm
Closed December 25-26, January 1-2, Good Friday & Easter Monday.
Free admission.
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Nelson 7010
New Zealand
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OPEN 7 DAYS
Mon to Sun 8am – 3.00pm
Closed December 25-26, January 1-2, Good Friday, Easter Monday and Labour Day.
208 Bridge Street
Nelson 7010
New Zealand
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