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Unmentionables: Uncovering our Undergarments

15 Nov 2025 Unmentionables: Uncovering our Undergarments is all about making the personal public, and the public personal. Unmentionables provides visitors with an exclusive look at Waitaki Museum’s rarely seen collection of vintage underwear. Corsets, petticoats, bras and bloomers, this exhibition is a must see for those passionate about fashion history.

Waitaki Museum, 60 Thames Street, 9400

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Landscapes of Desire

15 Nov 2025 The Association of New Zealand Embroiderers’ Guild Extensions members invite everyone to view their latest exhibition - Landscapes of Desire. The Guild was formally established in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1974. In celebrating stitch and textile art, it aims to educate and promote the work of local embroiderers’ guilds across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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Martin Horspool: Urban Street Style

15 Nov 2025 Martin Horspool ventures into public spaces, eagerly observing and waiting for the right opportunity to photograph people as they congregate and go about their day, his subjects unaware of his quiet presence. He’s consistently on the lookout to capture unique and colourful characters, those that stand out from the crowd.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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small gestures

15 Nov 2025 An artist makes a statement when choosing to distort or honour scale. The exploration of scale suggests varying artistic concerns. In small gestures, a series of small-scale works interrogate the ‘impact of scale’, as our perception of it shifts throughout childhood and adulthood, with the human body playing a pivotal role.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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J.M. Lofley: Ocean oracles and odysseys

15 Nov 2025 J M Lofley’s (Tāngata Tiriti, Celtic, Viking) Ocean oracles and odysseys is an exploration of narratives and journeys spanning the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Rimurapa (bull kelp) and rimu kakauroa (giant kelp) position themselves as message and medium, telling stories of possibility and opportunity.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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Offerings: The Influence of European Modernism on the Local Landscape

15 Nov 2025 The arrival of influential European artists to Aotearoa New Zealand in the late 1800s-early 1900s introduced contemporary artistic developments that offered new ways of encapsulating local landscapes.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444,

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Sara McIntyre: Kākahi to Kākanui

22 Nov 2025 Sara McIntyre initiates the inaugural Forrester Gallery Artists Residency through a collection of images captured during her time in te rohe o Waitaki earlier this year. Sara spent ten weeks exploring Kākanui and the surrounding area. Kākahi to Kākanui is a portrait of a community, the people, their homes, and the environment.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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Sione Tuívailala Monū and Edith Amituanai: Toloa Tales

22 Nov 2025 In 2023, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū commissioned two major new video works from Tāmaki Makaurau-based artists Sione Tuívailala Monū (Aotearoa, Australia, Tonga) and Edith Amituanai (Aotearoa, Sāmoa) for the exhibition Toloa Tales. Later that year, the artists travelled to Sāmoa with cinematographer Ralph Brown to film their projects.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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Kids' Stuff

02 Dec 2025 Play isn’t just for children- it’s the foundation of memory, imagination and identity. Discover how games, toys and pastimes have changed (or not!) over the decades.

Whether you grew up with screens or sandpits, this exhibition has something for everyone, from the young to the young at heart.

Waitaki Museum, 60 Thames Street,

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wonderlab: Kids' Stuff

13 Dec 2025 Pop into Waitaki Museum to explore Kids’ Stuff!, then nip across the road to discover even more nostalgia at the Forrester Gallery. It’s hands-on, low-tech fun – just like the good old days. Wonderlab: Kids’ Stuff! celebrates the simple joys of classic Kiwi childhoods – think kites, paper boats, paint-by-numbers, and sewing cards. Good old-fashioned fun for the whole whānau.

Forrester Gallery, 9 Thames Street Ōamaru 9444, 9400

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