Past Exhibitions
Box of Birds is an artistic response towards Waitaki Museum’s collection of taxidermy specimen boxes. Collaborating together local artists Natalie Carpenter and Tracey Vickers explored ideas using the shared and diverse medium of ink.
Forrester Gallery12 December 2020 to 17 January 2021
This intermedia exhibition offers the opportunity to express the hopes and fears of our community whether focusing on global issues, local concerns or individual pressures.
Forrester Gallery31 October 2020 to 6 December 2020
There is more to our world than meets the modern eye.
Forrester Gallery24 October 2020 to 22 November 2020
Hauora (2020) is a series of prints, which use images of birds in a contemporary Māori artistic style to explore diabetes and obesity among Māori.
Forrester Gallery24 October 2020 to 22 November 2020
Peter is a graduate from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts and has a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University, Melbourne. He has been a secondary school teacher in Nelson, a College of Education senior lecturer at Otago and has taught drawing, painting, art history and theory at the
Forrester Gallery24 October 2020 to 22 November 2020
This year we are celebrating 50 years of the Burns Memorial art exhibition. Every year school students from around the Waitaki share their artistic talents with us.
Forrester Gallery12 September 2020 to 18 October 2020
Configured has been created especially for the Forrester Gallery, Ōamaru and continues a dialogue begun in 2017 with new work from Kiri Mitchell, Sarah Baird and Michele Beevors.
Forrester Gallery25 July 2020 to 6 September 2020
Burns Pollock describes himself as a “lucky lifetime resident of the Awamoko (valley)”. The works in this exhibition feature the artist’s beloved and in his mind ‘undervalued’ Waitaki rock escarpment or ‘rock tumbles’, as well as other ‘treasures’ found across the landscape.
Forrester Gallery25 July 2020 to 6 September 2020
29 artists and 20 scientists collaborate to bring you artworks exploring research by scientists.
This exhibition is an art and science collaboration from the Dunedin School of Art and Otago Polytechnic.
Forrester Gallery13 June 2020 to 19 July 2020
Welcome back to your place. An exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the Forrester Gallery exploring the concepts of place and identity.
Forrester Gallery13 June 2020 to 19 July 2020
An important national touring exhibition telling a little known part of our history – the story of the government sanctioned practice of dawn raids during the 1970s.
Forrester Gallery21 May 2020
Photography from the Forrester Gallery collection The Gallery has a small collection of fine art photography. Most, but not all, of these works have been purchased because they depict a place in the Waitaki.
Forrester Gallery2 May 2020 to 11 May 2020
The Burns Memorial Art Exhibition is always a wonderful showcase of children’s art that reflects our community and environment. Named to honour George Burns, an Oamaru born journalist with a passion for children’s’ art, it was his belief that “Art is not a luxury.
31 August 2019 to 31 December 2019
One hundred years ago on Saturday 19 July 1919 the community of Oamaru celebrated PEACE.
Thames Street, Oamaru18 July 2019 to 18 September 2019
Self-taught Figurative Cloth Doll Artist, tutor and pattern maker Sharon Mitchell has been inspired by the story of the Lion King for her first exhibition at the Forrester Gallery. She uses human and animal figures to portray the story and express the connectivity of a community.
Crafted, 3 Harbour Street26 July 2019 to 29 August 2019
Steampunk HQ and the Forrester Gallery combine to present an exhibition to celebrate 10 years of Steampunk in Oamaru. From award winning wearable art to portable brains this riveting show will blaze your furnace and spark your engine.
Steampunk HQ11 May 2019 to 28 July 2019
Pasifika Treasures : a celebration of Craft and Art of the Pacific
Culture Waitaki is coming together to support the play: Still Life with Chickens by award winning Pasifika playwright D.F Mamea, 2 - 3 April 2019 at the Oamaru Opera House.
Oamaru Opera House3 April 2019 to 6 April 2019
Does everyone see the same thing? What do you see when you wander around the historic harbour area of Oamaru? Do you even really look? This exhibition features two Oamaruvians, living sixty years apart, who saw something worth capturing in photography and painting.
Forrester Gallery2 February 2019 to 14 February 2019
Colin McCahon is New Zealand’s most famous modernist painter. The Forrester Gallery has a small but significant collection of works by McCahon. This exhibition features two new acquisitions to the collection kindly gifted by Ron and Margaret Parker in 2017.
Forrester Gallery1 February 2019 to 2 February 2019
Tākaro is a fully interactive exhibition featuring a paua shell play house, a giant puzzle, marble run, weaving and games. It will be a super place for families to visit and take visitors during summer.
Forrester Gallery2 February 2019