Lopdell Precinct invites the studio artists registered for Open Studios Waitakere Weekend 2026 to participate in a preview exhibition which will be open to the public.

The aim of the exhibition is to enhance the profile of the weekend event and promote the participating studio artists. The works will be displayed in the Seminar room on level 1 of Lopdell House.

A significant site for New Zealand’s contemporary arts. The 1950s home of acclaimed artist Colin McCahon, with an adjacent artist’s residency. Visitors can enjoy a tour of the Museum. 

Stunning artwork from a diverse group of talented Artists with a deep connection to the West Coast and Bethells/Te Henga area. Fine art paintings in oils, acrylic and watercolour, along with sculpture, weaving, mixed media, photography, stained glass, and more.

"The Evocation of Worlds" by Ruth Ige, an exhibition at Te Uru, gathers together a new body of work that extends the artist's ongoing exploration of Blackness, African diaspora, speculative imagination, and ancestral presence. Across a serious of paintings, figures emerge and dissolve through fields of indigo, violet, shadow, and light – never fully fixed, never entirely knowable.