River of Becoming brings together two distinct exhibitions: the Buck Nin Collection, gifted to WSA by Buck Nin’s family, and a new body of work by Stuart Bridson.

Born in 1942 and passing in 1996, Buck Nin left an important artistic legacy. His collection offers an opportunity to encounter his work and reflect on the stories, places and memories held within it. Alongside this, Stuart Bridson responds to the present with a new body of work shaped by his own distinctive vision.

Together, the two exhibitions create a conversation across time — between inheritance and reinvention, memory and possibility. Like the Waikato River, stories are never still. They move, change and gather meaning as they go.

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

Caroline Peacocke — Artspost Gallery Windows

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