Former names Lopdell House Gallery Current tenants Te Uru Completed 2014 Floors 6 | Type Art Gallery Construction started 2012 Opened 2014 Phone +64 9-817 8087 | |
Location 420 Titirangi Road, Auckland, New Zealand Address 420 Titirangi Rd, Titirangi, Auckland 0604, New Zealand Hours Open today · 10AM–4:30PMTuesday10AM–4:30PMWednesday10AM–4:30PMThursday10AM–4:30PMFriday10AM–4:30PMSaturday10AM–4:30PMSunday10AM–4:30PMMonday10AM–4:30PMSuggest an edit Similar Lopdell House, McCahon House Museum, Gus Fisher Gallery, Pah Homestead, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tām Profiles | ||
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (commonly known as Te Uru, formerly known as Lopdell House Gallery) is a contemporary art gallery located in Titirangi, Auckland. The gallery, which serves the West Auckland region, was originally opened within Lopdell House in 1986.
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Redevelopment
The gallery closed in 2012 for a building project, with the new custom-built gallery, designed by Mitchell & Stout Architects, opening on 1 November 2014. The building project received a warm critical reception and has received awards in the 2015 Auckland Architecture Awards Public Building and Heritage categories, and the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Awards Public Building category.
Name change
The name of the gallery references the Māori phrase Te Hau a Uru (wind from the west), meaning the air currents the Waitakere area is known for. The name was chosen in consultation with local iwi Te Kawerau ā Maki.
Te Uru's inaugural director was Andrew Clifford, who was appointed in 2013 and is still in this role.
Exhibitions
Te Uru hosts the annual Portage Ceramic Awards, New Zealand's premier prize for ceramics. Many external curators have realised independent projects at Te Uru and Lopdell House Gallery, including Ron Brownson, Karl Chitham, Moyra Elliot, Douglas Lloyd-Jenkins, Haru Sameshima, Peter Simpson, Linda Tyler and Ian Wedde. Damian Skinner was curator of the exhibitions Hattaway, Schoon, Walters: Madness and Modernism (1997) and Steve Rumsey and the Camera Club Movement 1948-64 (2003). Major exhibitions staged since the gallery's 2014 re-opening include Seung Yul Oh's HaPoom, Janet Lilo's Janet Lilo: Status Update, and Judy Millar's site-specific installation The Model World.