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  • Home Front Heroines

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Until recently, the unsung heroes of Aotearoa New Zealand’s WWII home front efforts went largely unrecognised. ‘Land girls’ of the Women’s Land Service, an organisation formed under the Women’s War Service Auxiliary in 1942, played a vital role in the country’s agricultural and food production industries while large numbers of men served in the armed…

  • ANZAC day kōrero | ‘Manpowering’ women

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us for a special ANZAC Day talk on Thursday 25 April at 2pm to celebrate our new exhibition Home Front Heroines. From January 1942 the New Zealand Government was able to direct women to work in essential industries. This saw many women working in jobs which prior to the war had been seen as…

  • Opening | Legacy Issues, Tuitui Tangata, and Altar, Beautifying Understanding

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us on Friday 26 April at 6.30pm to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions! Legacy Issues brings together contemporary photographic artists Mitchell Bright, Conor Clarke, Ella Hickford, Moana Lee, Mike O’Kane, Tim J. Veling, and Hannah Watkinson, and presents the diverse ways they have pictured our region. This selection of photographs aims to provide…

  • Whakatere Heritage Collections Online

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us in celebrating the official launch of our new online collections website at the Ashburton Museum & Historical Society’s upcoming bi-monthly meeting. Over 1000 photographs and records (with more to come) from the AM&HS community archives will be made available to researchers for the first time, ensuring that people across Aotearoa and the world…

  • Caught in the Moment: Guardian photographs of 1974

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Which moments in time did the Ashburton Guardian photographers capture around Hakatere Ashburton throughout 1974? A selection of photographs from our large collection of negatives will take visitors on a journey across various aspects of life in our district 50 years ago. Although some of these images were published in the daily paper, most weren't and won't have been seen before. Many of the photographs…

  • Artist Talk | Ynes Guevara

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us for our upcoming artist talk with Ynes Guevara on Sunday 19 May at 2pm. At this talk, Ynes Guevara will be in conversation with curator James Hope to discuss her new exhibition Altar, Beautifying Understanding. In this new suite of paintings, Ynes looks to feminine archetypes to explore the magical and imaginary. Her…

  • Artist Talk | Legacy Issues

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us for our upcoming talk with artists from Legacy Issues on Sunday 09 June at 2pm. At this talk, artist and curator Hannah Watkinson will lead a panel discussion with the artists included in our new exhibition Legacy Issues. In addition, featured artist Moana Lee will also give a live demonstration of the anthotype…

  • Through the Guardian Lens | Talk with Daryl Holden

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Join us for a special talk with Daryl Holden, the managing editor and co-owner of the Ashburton Guardian, to celebrate our new exhibition Caught in the Moment: Guardian photographs of 1974. Daryl will explore the rich history and significant role of the Guardian newspaper over its 145 years in the district. This talk will focus…

  • Dianne Bardsley | The Land Girls | Historical Talk

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    To celebrate the closing of our exhibition Home Front Heroines, join us for a special talk with Dianne Bardsley about land girls in Aotearoa. Throughout the 1990s Dianne Bardsley travelled across Aotearoa to trace and interview women who served in the Women’s Land Service during World War Two. Although she had found meagre official records…

  • Puaka Matariki Workshop | Whetū Seed Bomb Making

    Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum 329 West Street, Ashburton, New Zealand

    Come join us this Puaka Matariki weekend to celebrate the Māori New Year with our whānau-friendly workshop. Make whetū (star) native seed bombs while learning more about the significance of Puaka and each star in the Matariki cluster. As the lone star Puaka and Matariki cluster reappear in our midwinter skies, it’s a time for coming together - to learn, share…

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