Stoddart Cottage Gallery

Stoddart Cottage Gallery Stoddart Cottage. Heritage Destination, Art Gallery and Artisan Shop. Birthplace of Impressionist Painter, Margaret Stoddart. Annual Artist Residency.

Historic Places Pouhere Taonga Category 1. Diamond Harbour, Banks Peninsula. Open Fridays to Sundays and most public holidays (apart from Good Friday, the morning of Anzac Day and Christmas Day)

Before Me | Charrette van EekelenVan Eekelen contemplates her relationship to local landscapes through materiality and f...
20/09/2026

Before Me | Charrette van Eekelen

Van Eekelen contemplates her relationship to local landscapes through materiality and form and considers its inhabitants, past and present.

The cottage is punctuated by a powerful suite of small scale, texture rich paintings. These perform like stations around the walls and work as series. Each, a nocturnal meditation distilling a quiet reverence and introspection one can feel in the safety of a familiar landscape, transformed by night.

The central work for Before Me is a large scale mixed media textile painting, made from carefully curated fabrics and textures. This work is a study of Margaret Stoddart’s 1908 watercolour painting, Bushfire at Paraparaumu.

‘I use textiles, knitting, embroidery and paint to explore materiality, memory and a sense of home. In this work, I have been looking at the landscape around me through my own experience, while also imagining what Margaret might have seen from this place before me. Our lives are separated by time, circumstance and experience, yet there is something familiar in the act of looking. She looked at what was before her; I look at what is before me. Across time, we are not so different.’

Charrette van Eekelen.

Before Me opens Saturday October the 3rd at 4pm. All welcome.

30/08/2026

Host | Katharina Jaeger & Shannon Williamson. Opens Saturday 5th September, 4pm. All welcome ✨

30/08/2026

Host | Katharina Jaeger & Shannon Williamson

The dynamic between pīpīwharauroa/Shining Bronze Cuckoo and riroriro/Grey warbler can be seen as a poignant metaphor for the histories that shape the places we inhabit. Taking its name from this precarious relationship, HOST draws on Jaeger and Williamson’s shared love of assemblage and abstracted anatomy to investigate the mutability of their own stories of place.

United by a reverence for drawing and a desire to press at it’s boundaries HOST sees Jaeger and Williamson abstract and reassemble fragments from their respective environments to construct disquieting meditations on the ways we relate to the structures which sustains us; the land, architecture, object, body and story. From works on paper to sculpture, Jaeger and Williamson use drawing as a means of excavating memory and building connection. Through travelling, collecting, recounting and assembling the artists embrace conventional and expanded-field disciplines of drawing to articulate the mental maps and stories we build as we navigate this complex environment.

Host opens on Saturday September the 5th at 4pm and runs for the month of September. All welcome.

Marie Celeste Lawrence’s exhibition, The Future Was a Feeling, opens this Saturday, 4th of July at 4pm. Nau mai, haere m...
02/07/2026

Marie Celeste Lawrence’s exhibition, The Future Was a Feeling, opens this Saturday, 4th of July at 4pm. Nau mai, haere mai!

Two artists respond to ideas of reciprocity and human agency in this raw and engaging exhibition, which appropriately marks the week of Solstice.

Marie Celeste Lawrence | The Future Was a Feeling.

The Future Was A Feeling transforms Stoddart Cottage into a space of ritual and speculative world-building, inhabited by an imagined spiritual custodian and keeper of subcultural memory, a figure who rebuilds meaning through ritual and repetition. Through symbolic transformation, traces of the past are redirected toward reflection and
resistance.

Lucy Matthews | Common Thread

This project explores local gift economy in Te Waipapa and draws inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s view of the gift economy.

Lucy responds to the exchange of resources within our small community. These can be observed within the natural environment and our community. Lucy says that this could include the
transformation of oxygen from carbon dioxide, sunshine to ripen fruit, the offer of a lift from the ferry, or a gift of home grown preserves.

For a year Lucy tracked experiences of giving and receiving within our local landscape, mapping the texture and quality of those moments onto a series of abstract postcards, paintings and embroidered works. These ‘experience-scapes’ offer a snapshot of reciprocity of our local environment and community.
This work invites us to celebrate our ‘wealth’ beyond traditional economic structures, to appreciate what we are receiving and giving moment to moment and to celebrate the richness of interdependence.

Both exhibitions open on Saturday July the 4th at 4pm.

Lucy Matthew’s exhibition, Common Thread, opens this Saturday 4th of July at 4pm. All welcome! Two artists respond to id...
02/07/2026

Lucy Matthew’s exhibition, Common Thread, opens this Saturday 4th of July at 4pm. All welcome!

Two artists respond to ideas of reciprocity and human agency in this raw and engaging exhibition, which appropriately marks the week of Solstice.

Lucy Matthews | Common Thread

This project explores local gift economy in Te Waipapa and draws inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s view of the gift economy.

Lucy responds to the exchange of resources within our small community. These can be observed within the natural environment and our community. Lucy says that this could include the
transformation of oxygen from carbon dioxide, sunshine to ripen fruit, the offer of a lift from the ferry, or a gift of home grown preserves.

For a year Lucy tracked experiences of giving and receiving within our local landscape, mapping the texture and quality of those moments onto a series of abstract postcards, paintings and embroidered works. These ‘experience-scapes’ offer a snapshot of reciprocity of our local environment and community.
This work invites us to celebrate our ‘wealth’ beyond traditional economic structures, to appreciate what we are receiving and giving moment to moment and to celebrate the richness of interdependence.

Marie Celeste Lawrence | The Future Was a Feeling.

The Future Was A Feeling transforms Stoddart Cottage into a space of ritual and speculative world-building, inhabited by an imagined spiritual custodian and keeper of subcultural memory, a figure who rebuilds meaning through ritual and repetition. Through symbolic transformation, traces of the past are redirected toward reflection and
resistance.

Both exhibitions open on Saturday July the 4th at 4pm.

Two artists respond to ideas of reciprocity and human agency in this raw and engaging exhibition, which appropriately ma...
24/06/2026

Two artists respond to ideas of reciprocity and human agency in this raw and engaging exhibition, which appropriately marks the week of Solstice.

Lucy Matthews | Common Thread

This project explores local gift economy in Te Waipapa and draws inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s view of the gift economy.
Lucy responds to the exchange of resources within our small community. These can be observed within the natural environment and our community. They could include the transformation of oxygen from carbon dioxide, sunshine to ripen fruit, the offer of a lift from the ferry, or a gift of home grown preserves.

For a year Lucy tracked experiences of giving and receiving within our local landscape, mapping the texture and quality of those moments onto a series of abstract postcards, paintings and embroidered works. These ‘experience-scapes’ offer a snapshot of reciprocity of our local environment and community.
This work invites us to celebrate our ‘wealth’ beyond traditional economic structures, to appreciate what we are receiving and giving moment to moment and to celebrate the richness of interdependence.

Marie Celeste Lawrence | The Future Was a Feeling


The Future Was A Feeling transforms Stoddart Cottage into a space of ritual and speculative world-building, inhabited by an imagined spiritual custodian and keeper of subcultural memory, a figure who rebuilds meaning through ritual and repetition. Through symbolic transformation, traces of the past are redirected toward reflection and resistance.

Both exhibitions open on Saturday July the 4th at 4pm. All welcome.

Open call for proposals ends June 30th ✨
24/06/2026

Open call for proposals ends June 30th ✨

05/06/2026

Jane Venis | A Little Bit of Pāua Goes a Long Way | June 6th - June 28th.

Jane Venis is an artist, musician, luthier of bespoke instruments, an academic and an educator. Her practice inhabits the intersection between visual arts, sound and performance. Jane frequently works with other artists, notably long time collaborator, Dunedin artist, Hannah Joynt.

Jane’s work is joyful, humourous and fun with its tactility and its participatory elements, while drawing upon important contemporary social, political and environmental issues.

In this exhibition Jane repurposes everyday objects to make bespoke musical instruments, combining these with pāua, native woods and possum fur to create a colourful and textural band of truly bespoke instruments. Jane’s band will be playing these instruments at the exhibition opening.

Please join us for the opening event, Saturday June 6th at 4pm. Nau mai, haere mai!

Diamond Harbour and Districts Historical Association will be hosting Canterbury Museum Associate Curator Human History, ...
31/05/2026

Diamond Harbour and Districts Historical Association will be hosting Canterbury Museum Associate Curator Human History, Frances Husband, who will be speaking about the life and work of Margaret Stoddart. This event will be held in the Green Room at the Diamond Harbour Community Hall, 7.30 pm on Tuesday the 9th of June. Suggested donation of $5 at the door for non members.

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