Art Attic Gallery

11/06/2026

ROLLING CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Cabinets at the Attic - Art Attic Gallery, Invercargill

We’re inviting national and international creatives to develop small-scale, site-responsive installations for a series of lockable street-level and internal display cabinets.

If you like to work within limits, are ready to dazzle our southern audience… we’d love to hear from you!

Return postage, micro materials budget and installation support provided
Depth: 30mm | No power | Precise dimensions apply

Message us or visit our website for more details today:
www.artatticgallery.org.nz/proposals

02/06/2026

Holding Hands with a Ghost | Hazel Smith
Open event 5.30pm Friday 5 June
Exhibition runs until 11 July 2026

With her latest work “Holding Hands with a Ghost” Southland and Otago based artist Hazel Smith invites you to look introspectively into the past. Hazel's work focuses on the symbolic and whimsical, using them as ways to explore concepts that we can't quite grasp onto.

Previously she has looked at ideas and concepts such as memory with “Memory is Blue” and nostalgia with “Nostalgia is Pink”. More recently has exhibited at Arts Murihiku where the concept of the unknown was explored with “Sanctifying the Fog” - which sought to make peace or at least an understanding with the unknown, a concept which can feel unsettling. In her latest exhibition at Art Attic, Hazel delves into the idea of confronting and illuminating the ghosts that stay with us long after their first encounter. Like with the concept of the unknown she hopes to find a means to bring peace to this way of viewing the past.

31/05/2026

Gallery documentation for One Leaf Many Strands

A big thanks to the exhibiting artists Lesa Hepburn, Morgan German, and Cassandra Anna Goh, writer Wesley John Fourie, and to all of the further supporters involved 🙌

A special thanks to key supporter Creative New Zealand Creative Communities Scheme.

17/05/2026

We're excited to share about workshops with Jessica Covell at South Invercargill Community Art Space.

Workshop Sessions:
Friday 22nd May 2026
10.30am - 12pm, and 4.30pm - 6pm
No cost, Bookings required
Email: [email protected]

Join Jessica Covell for a hands-on tufting workshop exploring collaborative textile-making through wool, texture, and place.

Participants will have the opportunity to try tufting on a large-scale shared artwork: a simple map of South Invercargill created collectively throughout the session.

Because tufting is a physical art form that involves handling specialised equipment, this workshop is recommended for ages 12 to 24. Younger participants who feel confident and capable are also welcome to have a turn with guidance.

Alongside the tufting activity, participants can explore weaving with wool using handmade stick looms in a relaxed, drop-in style activity suitable for a range of ages and experience levels.

Workshop Sessions:
Friday 22nd May 2026
10.30am - 12pm, and 4.30pm - 6pm
No cost, Bookings required
Email: [email protected]

South Invercargill Community Art Space
241 Elles Road, Invercargill Waihōpai

Image credit: Blue Oyster Project Space

13/05/2026

Each artist exhibiting in One Leaf Many Strands has produced an edition of zines. They are available at the exhibition across the month of May 2026, and have been published in the National Library and other sites as evidence of the collaboration.

Collectors edition of x3 artist zines by Cassandra Goh, Morgan German, and Lesa Hepburn, with an exhibition essay by Wesley John Fourie
Available to purchase direct from the gallery $30ea
Contact the gallery for postal orders (+ $10 postage within New Zealand)

06/05/2026

We’re excited to share about a new community art space in South City!

A separate initiative from Art Attic situated at 241 Elles Road Invercargill Waihōpai, please feel welcome to join for a Youth Week Open Day on Friday 22 May where the community are invited to contribute to the emerging identity of the space.

Get in touch if you'd like to book for one of the Youth Workshops, or if you’d like to know more about supporting this new initiative. Please like and follow the page and share the post to help this new creative beginning for South Invercargill 🙌💫🎊

26/04/2026

One leaf many strands | Morgan German, Cassandra Anna Goh, Lesa Hepburn

Open event 5.30pm Friday 1st May
Exhibition runs until 30th May 2026

“While for this exhibition the three artists share a common material; harakeke (the plant from which the paper itself is made) the show is as much about their differences as it is about commonalities.” - Wesley John Fourie

Morgan German – a multi-disciplinary artist recently graduated from Otago Polytechnic, developing a natural fibre arts practice with a focus on the coastline and environment. Born in Scotland to a mixed Scottish, Pākehā and Māori family, and raised in New Zealand, their work draws on their ancestry and lived experiences in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Cassandra Anna Goh – 17 years’ experience in photography, education at Glasgow School of Art - Communication Design BA (Hons) 2017. Born in Singapore, based in Invercargill Waihōpai, she is a storyteller that creates visual essays.

Lesa Hepburn – multi-disciplinary artist with over 40 years’ experience; based in Invercargill Waihopai. Born in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia and living in Malaysia and Australia until moving to Brisbane at age 15. Lesa has lived in Ipoh, Miri, Kuching, Bellingen, Sydney, Bathurst, Brisbane, Darwin, Toowoomba, Redcliffe, Invercargill, Dunedin and Whanganui. Kawai Raupapa – Certificate in Maori and Indigenous Art – Southland Institute of Technology 2018; Bachelor of Visual Art, Queensland College of Art 1987; Moved to New Zealand in October 2017.

24/04/2026

Please join us for a closing artist talk for Stella Ignition with photographer Clayton Morgan

2 - 3pm Saturday 25th April at Art Attic Gallery. Light refreshments provided

17/04/2026

Exhibition photos for Stella Ignition.

Join us at the gallery for a closing Artist talk with Clayton Morgan 2 - 3pm Saturday 25th April.

09/04/2026

When the external world gets fast, loud and chaotic, how do you find your anchor?

Within each of us is a deep and wise place, a part of us that KNOWS

As we continue through this year of so much fire and air (fire horse energy!) it's so important that we return to what anchors us, so that we move with clarity and alignment in the direction of what is truly for us.

This is a dance to anchor into your deep truth,

The ancient wisdom of your bones,

The power of presence,

And the strength to move forward, even if the whole path is not yet revealed.

When we return to the dance, we anchor back in.

This is a call to return to the dance.
Friday 17th April 6:30pm, the Art Attic

https://events.humanitix.com/anchored-cacao-and-somatic-dance

Photo credits: Heaven and Earth, Clayton Morgan. (On exhibition in Stella Ignition, runs until April 25th 2026)