A Warm invitation to a closing celebration.
Our offerings at Refinery ArtSpace in April are abundant and the space is a hive of activity.
Āwhiowhio Hikoi is a powerful exhibition featuring a towering tornado woven from harakeke by Missy Broughton symbolizing collective voices and movement. Created in response to Hīkoi Toitū Te Tiriti, it gathers and reflects participants’ impressions, weaving their experiences into a dynamic, living form. The swirling harakeke embodies resilience, unity, and the ongoing dialogue of Te Tiriti; it may represent the elephant in the room with both it’s negative and positive energies, depending on the eye of the beholder. Holding centre stage and depicting the hurly burly of this debate or the unity of aroha.
This is an evolving exhibition with those who took part in gatherings in support of the Hikoi being given the oppotunity to respond. Creating a room of poetry/artworks/photography/drawings/signs. You can contribute too, this doesn’t have to be perfect artwork this is about storytelling, reflection and celebration. Using Art to share our communities response against the Treaty Principles Bill.
Missy Broughton Kairaranga
Donna McLeod poet,
Ashia Te Moananui graphics,
Lee Woodman installation.
Throughout this exhibition you are invited to participate and lend your voice.
Closing celebration from 5pm Friday 4th April.
Curators talk with Donna Mcleod and artists 11am Saturday 5th April.
Linked Creatives present A.I.R. – Artists In Residence 6 artists, 6 projects, 1 shared space.
The public have witnessing the creative process first hand: joining a group of local artists as they have transformed the white cube into an open studio to work on projects exploring a range of ideas in their chosen media.
Many conversations have been had about the journey from idea to finished piece, there is still time to participate in shared activities and workshops. Are you a fellow creative? Come by for a quick chat or a solid discussion about your own process and interests in a safe and supportive space.
You are warmly invited to a closing celebration when we will return to the White Space and AIR will be on display.
Kathaleen Bartha
Rosa Coutts
Reuben Derrick
Eva Kerer
Stef Naldi
Shelby Rusbatch
Closing Celebration Friday 4th April. 5pm onwards.
CONDITIONING CENTRE – Solidarity Service | Hamish Pettengell
Conditioning Centre – Solidarity Service is a parafictional installation that immerses viewers in a pseudo-scientific world blending contemporary truths with a fictional cult. Through data interpretation, unreliable narration, and future identity speculations, it explores human belief systems and a future where science becomes faith, offering transcendence.
Blurring fact and imagination, it reflects cultural fragmentation and the tension between science and spirituality. Inspired by Huxley’s Brave New World, it questions science’s trajectory, genetic engineering, and behavioral conditioning, prompting contemplation on humanity’s evolution, transcendence, and the pursuit of an uncertain future.
Join us to raise a glass and help Hamish celebrate this remarkable exhibition in closing.
Friday 4th April 5pm onwards.
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