Dunedin School of Art

15/09/2026

Flickr gallery of last week's postgrad exhibition: Faye Powell-Moore | Sacred, Invisible, Other - 7-11 September, Dunedin School of Art Gallery. ENJOY.

Faye Powell-Moore Sacred, Invisible, Other Postgraduate Exhibition 7-11 September, 2026 Dunedin School of Art Gallery Dunedin

14/09/2026

Not one, but TWO lunchtime seminars this week! Please see below for details of seminars on Thursday 17 Sept AND Friday 18 Sept, 12.00-1.00pm, P152.*

Thurs 17 Sept: Deb Donnelly | Between Dreams 1.5

Deb Donnelly locates her arts practice in between Eurasian cultural heritage stories to reflect and revisit both tradition and innovation. The diversity of conversations shared from past exhibitions have kept the exploration of the "artifact as muse" alive both for Deb and others, particularly immigrant artists who bring new awareness of materials and processes.

Deb Donnelly was born, raised and trained in Wellington Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa as a textile designer, visual artist and educator. Based on the Kapiti Coast since 2009, she is an artist, teacher, traveller and curator who has built a visual arts practice that represents communities in both New Zealand and Japan. Her intention is to locate and build cultural art bridges, capturing dual perspectives of fibre, materials, process and sustainability of whakapapa, and locating evolving art practices.

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Areta Wilkinson

Whakawhanake: From Contemporary Jewellery to Sculpture

The creative practice of Dr Areta Wilkinson (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Irakehu) is a continuous exploration of the values and narratives that have shaped both her identity and her artwork. Over recent years Areta’s focus on Māori personal adornment has developed into sculptures adorning the public realm thanks to three significant commissions, namely: Toro Atua at Rolleston Town Centre, Te Waiatatanga Mai o Te Atua at Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, and Te Mauri o te Puna at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

In this artist talk, Areta will share project insights including elevating mātauranga Māori, the delight of transferable skills, design team learnings, juggling control and collaboration, project compromises and those times to hold one’s ground.

*Lunchtime seminars can be accessed online via this link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/41438579971362?p=vzLFlNpaB3Ly9Bf7sR

14/09/2026

This week's Public Seminar, Thursday 17 September, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, P152 Lecture Theatre: Deb Donnelly -- Between Dreams 1.5.

Deb Donnelly is the DSA Artist in Residence.

Deb locates her arts practice in between Eurasian cultural heritage stories to reflect and revisit both tradition and innovation. The diversity of conversations shared from past exhibitions have kept the exploration of the ‘artifact as muse’ alive both for Deb and others, particularly immigrant artists who bring new awareness of materials and processes.

Deb Donnelly was born, raised and trained in Wellington Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa as a textile designer, visual artist and educator. Based on the Kapiti Coast since 2009, she is an artist, teacher, traveller and curator who has built a visual arts practice that represents communities in both New Zealand and Japan. Her intention is to locate and build cultural art bridges, capturing dual perspectives of fibre, materials, process and sustainability of whakapapa, and locating evolving art practices.

This seminar can also be accessed online. Please email Ed Hanfling for more information [email protected]

Dunedin School of Art Public Seminar: Deb Donnelly, Between Dreams

14/09/2026

COMING UP NEXT IN THE DSA GALLERY: Eva During (Eva Ding)'s contemporary interpretation of traditional Chinese shanshui painting, where movement reshapes the landscape and your sense of distance.
Monday 21 to 25 September, Dunedin School of Art Gallery.

Public exhibition: Experience Eva During (Eva Ding)'s contemporary interpretation of traditional Chinese shanshui painting

09/09/2026

NIGHT CLASSES :: Term 4 starts next week, on September 14th.

Kia ora koutou Nightclass Students, to enrol in term 4, and for a list of all 18 weekly Nightclasses please go to www.op.ac.nz

The classes below still have some spaces in them (at the time of printing):

Tuesday – Screen Printing, Painting, Photography.

Wednesday – Morning Printmaking, Morning Jewellery, Evening Printmaking, Watercolour Painting.

Thursday – Life Drawing.
Image credit: Mitsuko McQueen, Copper and brass, Jewellery Night Class

07/09/2026

Exhibition on now.

Coming up. Faye Powell-Moore: Sacred, Invisible, Other. in the DSA Gallery.
EXHIBITION DATES : 7 - 11 September 2026
GALLERY HOURS: Mon - Thur 10am - 4pm
Fri* 12:30pm- 4pm -- *Closed Friday AM for exam
CLOSING EVENT: 5 - 7:00pm Friday 11 September

07/09/2026

This week's lunchtime seminar, Thursday 10 September, 12.00-1.00pm, P152.* A poster is also attached.

Joanna Osborne: An Illustrated Exhibition Talk: Documenting Spiral Collectives' 50th Anniversary Celebrations

Spanning the visual arts and literary fields, this talk is about an exhibition developed for Spiral Collectives’ 50th celebrations (1975-2025). Co-ordinated for Spiral by Joanna Osborne in collaboration with Marian Evans, the exhibition features 19 cherished artists and writers associated with Spiral, who lived sometime between 1929 and 2024 and whose lives and work are represented in Spiral’s anniversary publications, Spiral 8 and Some Stories— Jacquie (J.C.) Sturm, Renée, Arapera Blank, Gladys Gurney (Saj), Frances Cherry, Marilynn Webb, Heather McPherson, Keri Kaa, Rosemary Johnson, Pauline Neale, Miriama Evans, Joanna Margaret Paul, Juanita Ketchel, Irihapeti Ramsden, Keri Hulme, Sharon Alston, Hilary Baxter, Allie Eagle, Lynne Ciochetto. Versions of the exhibition have been hosted by the Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa in Tāmaki Makaurau, St Gerard's Monastery (now secularised) in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and Kā Kete Wānaka o Ōtepoti Dunedin Public Libraries for July-October 2026.

Joanna Osborne is an independent researcher in art history with interests in studies of religion and spirituality and women's art histories. She has a PhD from the University of Otago, and was the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2020 Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Curatorial Intern. She has published on the work of Allie Eagle (1949–2022) and Joanna Margaret Paul (1945–2003), and researched early twentieth-century “spirit drawing” in Aotearoa New Zealand. Joanna is a current Spiral Collectives trustee (Spiral Collectives is a small, artist-led charity (CC62215): they educate, awhi & embrace, tautoko & support the practice & legacies of creative work by women & nonbinary people in Aotearoa New Zealand (https://www.spiralcollectives.org/).

*Lunchtime seminars can be accessed online via this link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/41438579971362?p=vzLFlNpaB3Ly9Bf7sR

06/09/2026

Hocken Collections Project | The exhibition, I te Kōrero was recently held at the Dunedin School of Art, where students created works in repsonse to art & ephemera held in the Hocken Library collections. DSA Students Hilary, Louie, Kristian & Teagan talk about their thoughtful & amazing creations ✨https://www.instagram.com/reels/Dc1aBVyGxBN/

31/08/2026

Coming up Labour Weekend: The Rekindle Resourceful Crafting Ōtepoti Tour. See Event and website for details.

31/08/2026

This week's Thursday Public Seminar is by Octavia Cook who reflects on her collaborative survey exhibition, Cook & Company, shown at Objectspace, Auckland in 2023.

Octavia Cook is jewellery lecturer at DSA. She studied jewellery under Pauline Bern at Unitec, Auckland, graduating in 1999, and was part of the jewellery cooperative, Workshop 6, in Kingsland. The early part of her career as a contemporary artist yielded an extensive body of work under the guise of a fictional lux jewellery brand, Cook & Co. By 2012 she had closed the firm and moved to Dunedin. She has continued to exhibit locally and internationally, is represented by Anna Miles Gallery in Auckland and has jewellery in private and institutional collections globally.

This seminar can also be accessed online. Please email Ed Hanfling for more information [email protected]

Dunedin School of Art Public Seminar: Octavia Cook, Cook & Company