Rokowhiria
Rokowhiria Art & Heritage

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ASA
62nd Annual Exhibition

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Able Art Collective

Event

Art Addicts

Child making a cardboard sculpture

Event

Botanical Correspondents: Crossing time with Julia Holderness and Emily Cumming Harris
Julia Holderness

Detail from Botanical Correspondents: a painting of native plants and dark berries against a deep blue background.

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Contemporary Printmaking of Aotearoa: A Kōrero of Thoughts and Ideas
Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand

Vicki Mangan’s By the Lake, a layered, textured work of mulberry paper and wax in blues, greens and yellows.

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Domain Tales

Ashburton Domain Swimming Baths circa. 1911

Programme

Duologue
Inge & Marc Doesburg

Inge Doesburg’s Karitane, a loose, earthy landscape of coast and sky in ochre, rust and grey.

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Early Urban Ashburton

Early postcard view over Ashburton looking along Cameron Street, a wide road lined with houses and trees.

Story

Eating stars together at dusk
Saskia Bunce-Rath

Tiny feet in the planet garden (detail), 2023, wool and embroidery thread on monks cloth.

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Exploring Printmaking

Students in a printmaking session

Programme

Great Storm of 1868: Refuge in “Arms” of Ashburton

Sepia photograph of a family on horseback wading through deep floodwater, with a bridge in the background.

Story

Icon:
50 Years of the Ashburton Clock Tower

Historic photograph of crowds at the Ashburton Clock Tower

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In Colour

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Island Breeze

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Kura Pounamu
Our Treasured Stone

Mere (hand weapon). Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (OL000070/1)

Exhibition

Kōwhai Kids

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Living on the Land:
Tākata Whenua o Hakatere

Students in a classroom session

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Nature’s Symphony: A Visual Journey through our Forests
Marilyn Rea-Menzies

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Ng King Bros.
Chinese Market Gardens

Ng Brothers Chinese Market Garden Settlement

Programme

Nocturne
Kara Burrowes & Charrette van Eekelen

Detail of Charrette van Eekelen’s textile work Night Lines, showing lit structures on a wharf at night.

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Our Connection to the Natural World
Heather Sarin

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Painting New Zealand
Ian Scott

Ian Scott’s painting Sacred Hill, a collage-like composition of figures, faces, ferns and a coastal landscape.

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Panthalassa
Natchez Hudson

Panthalassa by Natchez Hudson

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Peregrination: A Sub Antarctic Odyssey
Kathy Reilly

Kathy Reilly’s print Wayfinding, with fiery orange forms over deep blue and green textures, like an aerial view of land.

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Play with Clay!

Students practise clay pottery.

Programme

Potion
Anita DeSoto

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Quick history of Barrhill: J C Wason’s model village

Black-and-white photograph of a large group of parents and schoolchildren posed in rows outside Barrhill School for a flag-hoisting ceremony in 1901.

Story

Sharing Histories:
Gifts of 2025–2026

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Stranded Assets – Redux
Jenna Packer

Detail of Jenna Packer’s foyer wall commission Stranded Assets – Redux, a repeating pattern of trees and hills in blue, green and ochre.

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Sunday Studio

Child making a cardboard sculpture

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Survivor WW1 Game

Students in a classroom session

Programme

Tales from the Whakanui Shore

Sepia photograph of Daisy Mackie sitting on the shore at Whakanui beach beside large whale bones, including a tall jawbone standing upright.

Story

The Components of the Humble Kiwi Villa

Historic photograph of a family sitting on the veranda of a rural villa in the Ashburton District.

Story

The Highlander's Farewell
Ayesha Green

Image of sheep painted by Ayesha Green for her exhibition The Highlander's Farewell at Rokowhiria Art & Heritage

Exhibition

The Space Balls: When Cosmic Junk Landed in Mid Canterbury

Black-and-white photograph of a DSIR scientist in a white coat examining the burnt-out hole in the first space ball.

Story

The Word Witch - Flights of Fancy
David Elliot

David Elliot’s illustration Goodness Gracious, showing a woman flying into the air above a breaking wave.

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Tinwald: Southern suburb or more than meets the eye?

Sepia photograph of men in boater hats and a woman with a parasol relaxing on the grass beneath willow trees in the Tinwald Domain.

Story

True Crime: Rakaia

Postcard portrait of Amy Bock dressed in men’s clothing, standing in a long overcoat with a high collar.

Story

Waterton: a township lost to time

The Waterton Hotel

Story

Zonta Ashburton Women's Art Award 2026

Julia Holderness’ Villa Margaux: a studio archive, a table laid with painted ceramics, jugs and handwritten papers.

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Zonta Ashburton Women's Art Award 2027

ZAWAA26 Premier Award-winning work dreamchaser by Miranda Parkes.

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the cuckoo sings for me, for the mountain
Noel Meek

Video still of a dark, glinting coal face with deep diagonal ridges.

Exhibition