HÖGLUND ART GLASS STUDIO & GALLERY is one of Nelson's icon tourist attractions just 25-minutes drive from Nelson City, with Glassblowing & Beadmaking Studios, Glass Museum and a Glass Gallery featuring stylish and sophisticated handblown art glass, created by internationally renowned glass artists Ola Höglund and Marie Simberg-Höglund, created in striking colours and designs using complex glass techniques sought after by glass collectors and connoisseurs worldwide. Marie also makes a wide range of glass jewellery with silver and gold. www.hoglundartglass.com
View and purchase beautiful professional work from printmakers of New Zealand, Scotland and Canada using many forms of printmaking techniques at Baffin Street Gallery.
The gallery is open Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 11am to 5pm. www.baffinstreetgallery.co.nz
A Paradise for Visual Artists and Visual Art Lovers at The Empire Gallery. You'll find painting, drawing, sculpture, jewellery, leadlight, furniture, textiles - if it's original, it's art and it's the best in it's field - The Empire Gallery has it. www.empiregallery.co.nz
Exhibitions Gallery of Fine Art (previously Fishers Gallery in Wellington), feels it is important to continue to maintain and grow the quality, variety and range of artworks they sell. By representing emerging artists alongside more renowned and by displaying works from representational and expressionist to abstract they excite or challenge viewers visiting the gallery. www.exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
Farsite Gallery is part of Hutt Valley Community Arts. It operates as a community gallery which aims to make art more accessible to the residents of the Hutt Valley and wider Wellington region. www.hvca.org.nz/farsitegallery
Attractive high stud, white walls and polished wooden floors create a wonderful setting for expressive art works. Conveniently located in the Historic George Courts Building on the corner of Karangahape Road and Mercury Lane, surrounded in cafes, restaurants and boutique stores it's a great place to visit. Email:
ph +6421933268 GB, 238 Karangahape Rd, Newton, Auckland
The Hokitika Craft Gallery Co-operative is the showplace for nineteen artists and craftspeople, offering their work for the discerning visitor and collector. Their unique designs are made to the highest standard and accordingly you can be assured of good value for money and years of pleasure owning a true piece of the West Coast of New Zealand.
www.hokitikacraftgallery.co.nz
A trip to L'arte' is a visual and edible feast.
The art at L’Arte’ is all made by New Zealand artists. Apart from there being mosaics everywhere the unique art
works will have you absorbed while you sip on your supreme coffee!
www.larte.co.nz
Lesa Art Gallery is a new art gallery situated in the historic zone of Jackson Street, Petone.
Lesa Gallery will showcase the best in new graduate art, plus emerging artists from around the country and abroad. The concept of the gallery is to exhibit artists that are just beginning their careers and are looking to establish themselves professionally. www.lesagallery.com
Letham Gallery is situated in the heart of Ponsonby in a delightful old brick building, Letham Cottage, one of Ponsonby's historic landmarks. The gallery promotes contemporary New Zealand art, established and emerging artists. www.lethamgallery.co.nz
Monterey Art Gallery is a fine art gallery situated in historical Howick, specialising in paintings and applied arts by renowned New Zealand contemporary artists. The Gallery deals in paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass and jewellery and only presents art from New Zealand artists. www.montereyartgallery.co.nz
At Oyster we offer you a wonderful mix of beautiful things and enable you to shop with a conscience. If it's not made in New Zealand, we want to know where it came from, who made it and if they were paid and treated fairly. www.oystergallery.co.nz
SOLACE ART GALLERY, the only gallery on the Western Hills in Lower Hutt, provides a forum to nurture and support local and regional emerging and established artists exhibiting and selling a wide range of high quality and unique works.
Thornton Gallery stocks an extensive range of New Zealand Artists. Along with original art works including paintings, ceramics, sculpture in stone, wood, copper and bronze, art glass and jewellery, Thornton Gallery sells NZ limited edition prints and reproduction art prints. www.thorntongallery.co.nz