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GROUP EXHIBITION

Pūtahitanga Jhana Millers 8–24 October 2026 Wellington
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Pūtahitanga brings together new and recent work by contemporary ringatoi Heidi Brickell, Zena Elliott, AJ Manaaki Hope, Maioha Kara and Nadia Marychurch. Across painting, wall-based works and whakairo, the exhibition considers whakapapa as an expansive relational system, connecting people not only to their tūpuna, but to whenua, materials and the rhythms and cycles of te taiao, the natural world.

The title Pūtahitanga speaks to a meeting or confluence, a convergence of distinct practices that find resonance in one another. A shared kaupapa emerges through the exhibition, as ideas move between the personal and ancestral, the material and cosmological, and across different understandings of wā—time and space—where past, present and future coexist.

Throughout the exhibition, glitter, uku, onepū, harakeke, timber, woollen blankets and painted and carved surfaces are worked through gathering, binding, stitching, carving and painting. Guided by tikanga and tohu, the works draw on pūrākau and experiences of kāinga, while opening onto questions of identity, belonging and how knowledge is carried and transformed across generations.

Hikuawa rau, mā wai tōna kato e ātete.

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Artists Exhibiting

Heidi Brickell contemporary artist
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Zena Elliott contemporary artist
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Aj Manaaki Hope contemporary artist
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Maioha Kara contemporary artist
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Nadia Marychurch contemporary artist
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About the Gallery

Jhana Millers Art Gallery was established in 2018 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington to showcase compelling and innovative contemporary art and promote emerging local talents. Housed in the listed Mibar Building, fitted with large windows and a concrete ceiling, the gallery provides space for solo and curated group exhibitions.

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Level 1, Mibar Building
85 Victoria Street
Wellington
New Zealand
Opening Hours
Wednesday–Friday: 11am–5pm
Saturday: 11am–4pm
or by appointment
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Wellington Level 1, Mibar Building, 85 Victoria Street
Jhana Millers contemporary art gallery in Wellington New Zealand
Jhana Millers
Level 1, Mibar Building, 85 Victoria Street, Wellington, New Zealand
0211670896
http://www.jhanamillers.com

Opening hours
Wednesday–Friday: 11am–5pm
Saturday: 11am–4pm
or by appointment
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