River of Becoming

River of Becoming brings together two distinct exhibitions: the Buck Nin Collection and a new body of work presented by Stuart Bridson.

Rooted in ideas of place, memory and transformation, the exhibition explores how art carries stories forward while continually creating new ones. The Buck Nin Collection offers a compelling encounter with an important artistic legacy, while Bridson’s exhibition responds to the present with his own distinctive vision.

Together, they form a conversation across time — between inheritance and reinvention, memory and possibility. Like the Waikato River, the story is never still. It moves, changes and gathers meaning as it goes.

River of Becoming is an exhibition about where we come from, where we stand, and what we are yet to become.

A Place to Belong by Caroline Peacocke transforms the Artspost Gallery windows with a vibrant installation of repeated house forms, exploring ideas of home, affordability, identity and belonging. Through colour, pattern and repetition, the work asks what home can mean as the way we live together continues to change.