Sixteen talented sculptors spent 10 days creating beautiful new sculptures, as part of the 2018 Rotorua Sculpture Symposium. The new sculptures, relating to the symposium theme Ngā Wai o Rotorua – The Waters of Rotorua, will join specially selected artworks from previous Sculpture Symposiums to become...
Following ten days of sculpting, Rory McDougall (Hokitika) was awarded the top prize at the 2018 Rotorua Sculpture Symposium closing ceremony (Sunday 25 November 2018). His work, entitled Waters of Rotorua depicts a map of the Rotorua region. Made from Taranaki andesite stone, the grooves and...
Following the latest Rotorua Creative Communities Scheme funding round, a total of $27,500 was awarded to 20 arts projects across the Rotorua district. Creative Communities Rotorua Assessment Committee Chair Diana Beattie says the successful projects included story-telling, music events, visual arts, cultural arts, music and performing...
The 2018 Rotorua Sculpture Symposium begins this Friday (16 November 2018) as sculptors from all over New Zealand converge on Rotorua. Located outside The Arts Village (1240 Hinemaru Street) sixteen talented sculptors will spend ten days carving and sculpting pieces relating to this year’s symposium theme...
ArtsMad is a visual presentation evening that takes place four times a year, where people from the wider arts community talk about what they do alongside a rolling show reel of interesting images. The evening takes place at The Monarch Room at Prince’s Gate Hotel and explores...
Fish Out of Water – an arts trail celebrating Rotorua’s magnificent lakes and fishery from December 2018 to February 2019. Fish Out of Water Art Trail is an annual summer art event which Rotorua Lakes Council initiated 14 years ago as a creative way for local...
Featuring artwork from Toi Ohomai Bachelor of Creative Technologies Students....
Come and view this special exhibition of photographs of the Redwoods Children’s Day in Rotorua Lakes Council Galleria. On display from 2 November 2018 until 24 January 2019, these beautiful images showcase the forest celebrations since its inception more than 18 years ago. The Travelling Tuataras were...
ArtsMad is a visual presentation evening that takes place four times a year, where people from the wider arts community talk about what they do alongside a rolling show reel of interesting images. The evening takes place at The Monarch Room at Prince’s Gate Hotel and...
Stepping inside, the black large table was what you saw first: uncluttered, just a large appointments book, some stationery and owner Ngawara Gordon already rising to offer you coffee. Outside was the bridge to Whakarewarewa and the excitement of steam and sulphur, inside there was music...