EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT exhibitions:
Aotearoa Jewellery: Unmapping & Remarking brings together a group of NZ artists whose practices traverse the conceptual and wearable dimensions of jewellery. Positioned on the periphery of the 25th Sydney Biennial, the exhibition offers a poetic counterpoint—one that unsettles inherited geographies and inscribes new meanings through material, form, and gesture.
In dialogue with the Biennial’s theme Rememory, artists are invited to engage with ideas of location, connection, and cultural mapping. Whether the memory is personal, ancestral, or collective, this exhibition holds space for jewellery as a site of resistance, resonance, and renewal.
The exhibition will run from April 16 to May 2, 2026, at Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney.
Participating Artists:
- Fran Allison
- Vanessa Arthur
- Andrea Daly
- Shane Hartdegen
- Brendon Monson
- Renée Pearson
- Moniek Schrijer
- Caroline Thomas
The Second Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial (2025-26):
A Stone, an Echo, a Sign: Aotearoa Jewellery Triennial
Curated by Sian van Dyk will take place at:
1) The Suter Art Gallery, Whakatu Nelson (8 March – 8 June 2025)
2) Te Manawa Art Gallery, Papaioea Palmerston North (23 August 2025 – 1 March 2026)
3) Waikato Museum, Kirikiriro Hamilton (20 March – 20 July 2026)
Featured work from: Andrea Daly, Areta Wilkinson, Chris Charteris, Grace Yu Piper, Jane Dodd, Jen Laracy, Joe Sheehan, Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, Matthew McIntyre Wilson, Octavia Cook, Renee Bevan, Sione Monu, Victoria McIntosh and Warwick Freeman (see image-l).
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Past exhibitions:
a jewellery and fashion collaboration between Aotearoa New Zealand and the Modeschule München.
Modeschule München. Roßmarkt 15, 80331 München, Germany
during Munich Jewellery Week 2025.
14 and 15 March 2025, 10 – 5pm, opening event: Friday 14 March, 11am-1pm
Curated by Karl Fritsch in collaboration with Lisa Walker, Peter Deckers, M101, with the support of Caroline Billing from the National.
GOODNESS exhibition at ATELIER Gallery/Studio, Nelson during Nelson Jewellery Week, April 2025. Opening event Th 10 April 2025
ATELIER, Level 1, 284 Trafalgar Street, Nelson, NZ
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The Arts House Trust
Pah Homestead, 72 Hillsborough Road, Hillsborough,
Auckland, New Zealand
(NJW)
The Refinery, Hardy Street
Nelson, New Zealand
MATERIALISE by HANDSHAKE 8
the process of transforming artistic ideas into physical form
Denise Callan, Fiona Frew, Fran Carter, Genie Lee, Grace Yu Piper, Lisa van Hulst, Louise Hill, Nellie Peoples, Rachael Chapman, Rose Pickernell, Tūī Diprose
Pah Homestead
8 November 2024 – 16 February 2025
Upstairs Galleries
MATERIALISE marks the culmination of a two-year journey for HANDSHAKE 8 artists at The Arts House Trust, Pah Homestead, Auckland. Through masterclasses, mentorships, and creative exploration, participants honed their practices and developed a shared vision of leadership while achieving their individual artistic goals.
The exhibition reflects diverse material and conceptual approaches, embodying HANDSHAKE’s ethos of experimentation and innovation. Established by M101, HANDSHAKE is an arts mentorship programme supporting independent Aotearoa jewellery artists. Over 13 years and eight iterations, it has provided emerging artists with professional development, fostering curatorial growth, artistic excellence, and global opportunities—including exhibitions in London and Munich.
The HS8 group will reunite for their first independent exhibition at Nelson Jewellery Week in April 2025, continuing the legacy of collaboration and artistic advancement.
Denise Callan Fran Carter Rachael Chapman Tui Diprose Fiona Frew Louise Hill Lisa Van Hulst Genie Lee Nellie Peoples
6720 days, 2276 full moons since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi…who’s counting?
April 10 – May 4, 2024
Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney
Becky Bliss, Nadene Carr, Aphra Cheesman, Nina van Duijnhoven, Neke Moa, Mia Straka, Caroline Thomas, Sarah Walker-Holt, Raewyn Walsh
Spotlight on New Zealand
selected jewellery artists from New Zealand are represented by Gallery Door at high profile European art fairs:
KunstRai, Amsterdam, 13 – 18 April 2022
Sieraad Fair, Amsterdam 26 – 29 May 2022
Munich Jewellery Week, Munich, 2022 4 – 10 July 2022
the New Zealand Jewellery Triennial
Objectspace, Auckland, 10 September – 20 November 2022
Curated by Emma Ng
artists: Becky Bliss, Raewyn Walsh, Neke Moa, Rowan Panther, Shelley Norton, Moniek Schrijer
CHAINreaction
CHAINreaction, an exhibition at Refinery ArtSpace in Nelson from 27 March – 17 April 2021 celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Handshake Project and the various makers, artists and jewellers who have made Handshake the force it is today.
What links the chains in CHAINreaction is an understanding of connection that is central to the Handshake project.
The only requirement given to the 49 artists was that their chain measures at least 1.2 metres. Each piece, from the intimate to the insane, was then joined together in a singular chain. The connections were both sympathetic and jarring. An important distinction is that these are not described as a series of necklaces, but instead chains. Chains bring with them complicated meanings – they bind, restrain, support, and connect………
Jewellery from Aotearoa New Zealand
7 November 2021 to 16 January 2022 extended until 1 March 2022
Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Marie-Jose van Hout selected 16 NZ jewellers.
the HANDSHAKE project
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