Cat Auburn is an artist from Aotearoa based in Argyll, Scotland. Cat’s art practice (sculpture, textile, film, event, and writing) focuses on how cultural heritage is constructed, reinforced, and strategically employed.

Christine Borland is an artist based in Argyll, Scotland who has pioneered cross-disciplinary collaborations at the intersection of ecologies of practice. Christine’s works are built on co-production with; communities of growers and makers, institutions of science and medicine, museums, collections and archives.

a palmful of water is a group exhibition by The Handmade Darkroom, curated by Lily Dowd and Belinda Whitta, showcasing sustainable and alternative analogue photography. The kaupapa of this exhibition is centered around the theme of water as a form of connection to place, people, knowledge, memory, and earth.

Anonymouz is a NZ born Samoan composer and creative producer artist whose explorations involving sound design, music production and video composition can be found across a wide range of industries, with award-winning projects in recorded music, theatre, orchestral, dance, urban, film, tv, radio and new media.

Jessica Hinerangi Thompson Carr is of Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine, Ngāpuhi and Pākehā descent. Born in Ōtepoti, she has a degree in English and art history with a masters in Māori ekphrastic poetry. She is a poet, journalist and illustrator, working primarily on Instagram under the name @maori_mermaid. Her previous work has appeared in Landfall, Starling, The Big Idea and The Pantograph Punch.

Arihia Latham (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha) Is a writer, creative, and rongoā practitioner.

Te Whare Hēra is excited to welcome Yasmine Attoumane, a French artist from Reunion Island, to our residency from February to April of 2024.

Te Whare Hēra hosted award winning Māori musician THEIA as the artist residency from December 2023 to January 2024.

Te Whare Hēra is excited to welcome José Roca to the artist residency between the 17th of September until the 12th of November

José Roca is a Colombian curator. He was the Artistic Director of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022).

Julieth Morales (Cauca, Colombia, 1992) currently living in her hometown in Cauca Colombia, she defines herself as a Misak artist by birth and mestiza by context. Her work challenges the traditional representations of what it means to be indigenous in Colombia, and all the preconceptions which are still present in the imaginations of most Colombians about the cultures of the ancestral peoples, the role of women in their societies and their connection to the land.

Producer of global arts collective, Shared Lines Collaborative, Wellington’s Ōtari Raranga Weavers and co-producer of Urban Dream Brokerage, artist, Linda Lee (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Huia, Ngāti Kuri,Te Aopōuri, Te Rarawa) has been granted the Te Whare Hēra Artist Residency from the 3rd -24th August 2023, for Te Karanga ki ngā Taniwha. The free to the public programme will be open between 12-22 August with a wide variety on offer, and suitable for all ages. 

Ani O’Neill is an artist of Cook Island Maori (Ngati Makea, Ngati Te Tika) and Irish descent. Her art practice is rooted in techniques and perspectives from both her traditional homeland of Rarotonga and her birthplace within the Pacific Diaspora of Auckland, New Zealand.

Te Whare Hēra Artists Residency in collaboration with Herbert Bartley, Creative Director Pacific Te Ranga Tai Kura at Toi Rauwhārangi - College of Creative Arts Massey University are proud to announce the next artist in residence, Taupuruariki (Ariki) Whakataka Brightwell, an indigenous artist of Maori, Tahitian and Rarotongan descent, born in Turanga Nui a Kiwa.

The residency provides a shared space for artists to work together, share ideas, and collaborate on new projects. This collaborative environment fosters creativity and innovation, and helps artists develop their skills and expand their networks.

During his time in Aotearoa, Vincent has traced the movements of cetaceans found stranded on Te Waipounamu back in 1905 and which are currently preserved and stored in the zoological museum of Strasbourg.

During his three-part residency, Delaney Davidson has experimented with a multidisciplinary practice, whilst establishing collaborations throughout the music and fine arts community.

The concept of world-building lies at the center of Jess Johnson’s work, which reflects her interests in science fiction, language, technology, and theories of consciousness.

Ashleigh Taupaki (b. 1997, Waitakere, New Zealand. Lives and works in Tāmaki-makau-rau, Auckland, New Zealand) explores Māori connections to place through concepts of indigenous narrative and non-human agency.

Regan Balzer (Te Arawa, Ngāti Ranginui) has developed their practice from cultural iconography painted with a combination of layers and styles. Regan has exhibited extensively around Aotearoa and overseas. In 2011, Regan completed a Masters in Māori Visual Arts at Te Pūtahi-ā-Toi, Massey University, Palmerston North (NZ), graduating with honours. This residencey is a partnership between Te Whare Hēra and Mana Moana.

Cora-Allan Wickliffe is a multidisciplinary artist of Māori and Niue descent, originally from Waitakere. In recent years her practice has focused on her efforts to revive the art form of Hiapo…

Te Whare Hēra in partnership with Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by guest artist in residence Kate Newby.

Xin Cheng likes to walk, and do stuff around making by hand, ecology, conviviality (and sometimes being nerdy about typography). While living in Hamburg over the past three years, she hosted performative talks and workshops on everyday resourcefulness in Berlin, Sheffield, Mexico City; befriended dancers, film-makers, philosophers, junk traders; wrote stories for Hainamana, made books with Materialverlag and organised a multidisciplinary show on rubber trails.

Hoël Duret is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects begin with developing a fictional story that playfully gathers and questions various narrative styles and registers; in a meta-fictional way, the narrative process itself becomes equally important as the resulting artwork.

Dr. Nagam is the Concordia University and Massey University Scholar in Residence for 2018-2019, and is building an Indigenous Research Centre of Collaborative and Digital Media Labs in Winnipeg, Canada.

Te Whare Hēra Eavesdropping Residency is a partnership with City Gallery Wellington, supported by Creative Victoria, Australia.

Eavesdropping used to be a crime, but now it’s everywhere. Eavesdropping explores the politics of listening in our post-Snowden moment.

French artist Ève Chabanon’s practice of social performance, live action gatherings and film and object making advances a vision for a in depth conversation on the impacts of neo-liberal political issues.

Chicago-based artist, cultural activist and organiser Latham Zearfoss has been a key figure in activating new queer and non-binary spaces. Concerned with inherited queer histories and the everyday realities of social and political life on the margins, Zearfoss’s intersectional practice focuses on formative experiences of “selfhood and otherness”.

Mexican artist Eduardo Abaroa’s projects are often provocations where he sets out to question the socio-political and economic dimensions of governance, power and authoritarism.

French artist Chloé Quenum works with glass, metals, textiles and concrete, and with processes of staining, transparency and casting. Key elements in her work are the references she makes to furniture, architectural structures and symbolic coding.

Yuka Oyama sets person and worn object into performance. Her practice lies at the intersection of contemporary jewellery and contemporary art.