Got Your Back
Janet Hughes
10 October - 7 November 2026
A solo show in the catalogue, a group show on the walls. Got Your Back brings together a lively gathering of figures, each reflecting Janet's enduring fascination with the human form and the creative communities that have shaped her work.
Featuring a vast array of original works, Got Your Back brings together two creative passions that have shaped Janet's artistic journey: monoprinting and life drawing. The exhibition celebrates the human form, particularly the often-overlooked beauty of the back, while reflecting the friendships, connections and sense of community that have sustained her practice.
"Monoprinting hooked me completely," says Janet. "You paint ink onto a plate, press paper onto it, and then comes that magical moment when you peel the paper away to reveal the image. The marks are unlike anything you can achieve through direct painting." After retiring to Auckland, Janet immersed herself in drawing, finding inspiration and community through online art groups during lockdowns. The resulting exhibition is both a celebration of artistic exploration and a tribute to the creative communities that encourage us to take risks, embrace challenges and keep learning.
Convergence
Sally Greer, Jordan Hadlee, Janet Lilo, Courtney Sina Meredith, Danielle Meredith, Laura Shallcrass and Lisa E. Wong
22nd October - early December 2026
At a moment when Tāmaki Makaurau is being experienced in new ways, Convergence invites us to look beyond the journey itself. Bringing together seven artists, the exhibition explores the visible and invisible threads that connect people, communities and places. Through stories of memory, migration, landscape and human relationship, the works reveal how our lives intersect, overlap and leave traces in one another. Together, they encourage fresh ways of seeing the familiar and recognising what may have previously gone unseen.
Thanks to Make Space
Traces of Aotearoa
Sat Oct 3 2026
2pm - 4pm
Launch of Traces of Aotearoa, an anthology edited by Courtney Sina Meredith and Kim Meredith, published by Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Council Libraries.
Courtney Sina Meredith
Selina Tusitala Marsh (Commonwealth Poet Laureate)
Janet Lilo
Ayesha Green
Tui Emma Gillies
Sulieti Fieme'a Burrows
Penny Howard
Sally Greer
Alex Scott
Fa'amele Etuale
Kim Meredith
Jane Lowe
Shannon Huse-Caldwell
An anthology of multidisciplinary works, Traces of Aotearoa explores contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand. It captures the lives of female writers and visual artists at the most southern tip of the Pacific – Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Philip Tse
Let Me Play Among The Stars
Hong Kong born multimedia artist and curator Philip Tse produced his celestial collection Let Me Play Among the Stars, curated by Kim Meredith. Tse’s intrigue with celestial bodies and the world at large has produced his stunning 2024 collection through photography, painting, and film.
Tse’s stunning works are available to purchase.
Danielle Akenese Meredith
New paintings by DAM traverse the abyss of grief, navigating the vā between worlds, and finding refuge in the sacred connections of the collective.
Season II, ceramics by CSM
Courtney Sina MeredithI know a place where only reinvented women go
July 22 - Sept 2, 2023
Making Season II
‘My daughter the Endometriosis warrior’ by Kim Meredith
Janet Lilo - Remind Me Tomorrow
Riffing the domestic and the divine, Tāmaki Makaurau based Lilo brings her family into the exhibition through vinyl ‘socks’ riveted into lei-like forms.
Her meticulous hand-drawn geometrics across Apple packaging and the crowning centre work reclaim digital potential with analogue deliverance.
The Red Square, pulsing with Lilo’s mauri is made up of carefully hand-cut layered vinyl. This implosive ode resonates the peak of Whakakoro, Lilo’s maunga in the Far North of Whangape.
Lilo pierces the membrane of what can exist in the world we claim as ‘art’ in the va we are born from and return to: the awful beauty of te kore.
Courtney Sina Meredith curator.
May 24 - July 8, 2023