There are lots of great shows around the motu this month!

Whakawhanaukataka by Jess Nicholson: Blue Oyster, Dunedin

Whakawhanaukataka is an exhibition of ceramic sculptures and installation that is attentive to how earth-materials, people and other things belong to specific places; silt carried along by a river to the shoreline, rocks that erode and tumble from mountains, objects kept safe in containers and mana whenua held by whakapapa to land. The exhibition brings a combination of vessels and forms together which are interlinked, yet speak to their own transitional, in-between states of being.

You can check out Jess’s work @sick.ceramics

Invercargill Pottery Club presents Feathers and Flowers, alongside artist Diana Golez at Art Attic Gallery, Invercargill, until November 16th

Rewilding at Dunedin Public Art Gallery until 25th February 2025

Rewilding features ceramic works from the gallery’s collections including those by Len Castle, Barry Brickell and Kate Fitzharris.

Rewilding Installation view, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2024.

‘Rewilding presents viewers with two divergent garden paths – alternative routes to consider how artists have explored gardens, the environment, and what might happen when nature finally prevails. In some of the works in this exhibition, gardens represent formal spaces of respite and sanctuary, as a private oasis from which to escape the outside world.’

Ceramics of Unease by John Parker at Milford Galleries Queenstown, 1 – 25 November

Hullabaloo Artists in Arrowtown at Lakes District Museum and Gallery, until 10 November

A collective of artists from around Central Otago exhibiting in a variety of mediums, including ceramics by Sue Rutherford and Robert Franklin