Join us to celebrate community arts in Manawatū and our wider region this June at Square Edge!

The MS Art Group are artists with multiple sclerosis who share a passion for creating art and live with the challenges of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Rose Bourke is an artist based in Papaioea currently working across painting, drawing, and ceramic mediums. Her works engage with the everyday, responding to its rhythms and rituals. Following the birth of her daughter, the studio has offered a sanctuary in which to reflect on the intimacy, isolation, and identity theft that accompanies new motherhood.

Thoughts & Feelings @ 2 am 30 September is an autobiographical textural diary that focuses on life in my early 20s and the many challenges and uncertainties I have had to overcome to stand where I am today.

A joint exhibition by mother and son duo, Sue Pegrume and NAMU Jade Ackerman.

Alchemy Collective is a group of artists who formed after participating in the Artist’s Mentoring scheme at Square Edge in 2021. They consist of: Adam Dodd, Paul Harvey, Mayette Maling-Cope and Maggie Duff. Together they are Alchemy Collective, and they are delighted to present a group show of their recent works at Square Edge.

Julia is an emerging local artist, from Palmerston North. She was inspired by the Van Gogh Alive exhibition and by Mondrian’s flower paintings. She started painting flowers, including natives such as protea. Following Van Gogh, the paint has been applied extremely thickly and in predominantly unblended brushstrokes.

Paul Dunham is a sound artist based at Himatangi Beach. His recent work has seen a focus of the relationship between past and contemporary media and connecting their socio-cultural and technical conditions of existence. As media archaeology these relationships are represented and expressed through sound as recorded works, installations, or performances.

Hayden Williams is fundraising to get to the 2023 World Games for basket ball this June. View his online exhibition, and help him raise funds!

This collection of works is made up of an assortment of techniques that come together to tell a story about interspecies relationships within everyday experiences.

Working across a range of mediums, emerging NZ based artist, Amrit Kaur explores florals in her work.

A series of films exploring the challenges of mental health