Trust Waikato Gallery - Te Puna o Waikato
Through the generous contribution from Trust Waikato, Waikato Museum is able to offer this gallery dedicated to exhibiting a rich blend of Trust Waikato artworks and the museum’s own collection.
The trust’s active collection of Waikato relevant artworks and historical documents will often be displayed with some relevance to other museum exhibitions or significant events in the Waikato cultural calendar. Most of the works will have some link to Tainui tangata whenua, the land, the river, representations of the colonial past and the rich history of the Waikato region.
Fearless: Celebrating the Art of Joan Fear 27th April - 11 November 2012
Nz condition: framing of the nation
Guest curator: Karl Chitham, Collection Curator, University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ.
Opens to the public 9 October 2011 - mid April 2012 in the Trust Waikato Gallery (opposite entry doors at Waikato Museum)
The Trust Waikato Collection is based upon the indigenous and historical interface that occurred within the Waikato, existing to amass and gather a visually rich history belonging specifically to the Waikato and Tainui. The interactions in the Waikato between the tangata whenua (indigenous people) and the colonial forces are still being negotiated and examined today.
Karl Chitham was invited as guest curator by the Waikato Museum to open up this conversation a little more in depth, using works from the Trust Waikato Collection to create avenues into the forming of nation-hood in Aotearoa New Zealand today.
NZArt Torque: The Hamilton Motor Cycle Club Collection
until 31 July 2011
Art Torque celebrates a milestone in the history of the Waikato; Hamilton Motor Cycle Clubs' 90th Anniversary. All the works in this exhibition were purchased by funds raised and donated by the H.M.C.C. in the mid 1970s to the early 1980s for the benefit of Hamilton City’s art collection.
NEWCOMERS: TRUST WAIKATO/BARRY HOPKINS/WAIKATO MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS:2007-2009
7 MAY - 7 NOVEMBER 2010
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The Waikato Museum’s fine art collection started from the philanthropic generosity of the Historical Society. Geoffrey Roche, was a founding member, and through them came the genesis of Hamilton City’s collections that we enjoy today.
Newcomers is an exhibition introducing you to the more recent acquisitions from the Trust Waikato, Barry Hopkins, Waikato Museum and private collections that have found a home here.
We are privileged to 19th, 20th and 21st century offering us snapshots of the land, cultural, political and even spiritual climate of the times we live in.
Acknowledgements:
The director and staff of the museum would like to thank the Trust Waikato Puna o Waikato, Stuart Stubbs, Barry Hopkins and The Friends of the Museum.
River/Road an ecological journey by David Cook
2 October 2009 - 18 April 2010
Photograph by David Cook
Photograph by David Cook
Between 2007 and 2009 David Cook chose to explore River Road and the Waikato River on their parallel journeys from Hamilton City through to Ngaruawahia. With his radar turned to the ecology of these spaces he paused at 600m intervals to make one photograph of the river and one of the road.
You can retrace the journey on the gallery walls, or read stories about these ecological encounters on the computer station.
A Conversation Between Friends
8 November 2008 onwards
Mary McIntyre and Louise Henderson works from the collections
Nothing beats a chat with a close friend.
This small collection exhibition is just that - a conversation between friends.
Dame Louise Henderson passed away in 1994. Her good friend for over 35 years, Mary McIntyre, captured portraits of her on paper which serve as wonderful hints to her personality. These works belie the intelligent and forthright person that Henderson was, and the respect that McIntyre had for her.
Though Henderson’s work never really influenced the young McIntyre, their practice as artists served as another bond in their strong friendship.
These works, like their makers, sit happily in quietude with one another. There are points where their works talk to one another and others where there is a respectful and knowing silence. You are welcomed to ‘listen in’.
Acknowledgements/ Nga Mihi Atu
The Waikato Museum would like to thank Mary McIntyre for her generosity and the Waikato Bequest Trust for contributing the portraits of Dame Louise Henderson to our collection. Waikato Museum would also like to thank Trust Waikato for the constancy of their support to the Waikato Museum through this gallery.
Friends We Trust
The Trust Waikato Collection and works gifted by the Friends of the Museum
16 February Onwards
Trust is a word that is synonymous with the word friend. The title of this exhibition makes reference to the collections that are owned by Trust Waikato and also to the works purchased for the Waikato Museum Fine Arts Collection by the Friends of the Museum.
This show honours the contributions of the Friends of the Museum and Trust Waikato in the amassing of art works that describe Waikato people, waterways and our relationship with the world through art.
Acknowledgements
Waikato Museum director Kate Vusoniwailala thanks Trust Waikato Te Puna Waikato and The Friends of the Museum for their loyal and unwavering commitment to the collection of fine art and taonga over the years.
The art of Chinese self defense by Louie Galloway, Acrylic on canvas, 2005, Gift of the Friends currently on display in the Trust Waikato Gallery. The Trust Waikato Gallery will undergo many conservation changes in a year, find out more about the reasons for frequent changes in the Trust Waikato Gallery by clicking on the question below.
