A Taste of The Depot 2012
21 January - 9 February 2012

Opening in the Main Gallery on: Saturday 21 January 3 – 4.30pm

An eclectic and intriguing peek at what is to come at The Depot in 2012.

This taster exhibition provides audiences with a sneak preview of...

T.L.Rodney Wilson:  Mo’s Kitchen:  An anthropology of the kitchen
11 February – 1 March 2012

Opening in the Main Gallery on:  Saturday 11 February 4.30 - 6pm

“Assailed as we are by gastro-pornography, assaulted by the used car salesmen of the kitchen...

Disconnect/Reconnect/Revisited
3 – 22 March

Opening in the Main Gallery on: Saturday 3 March from 3-4.30pm

Collective exhibition commenting on the social constructs of identity. Sin-Mae looks at the idea of morphing through a process of repetitive...

Caroline Griffin: No Matter What
3-22 March

Opening in Outerspace Gallery on: Saturday 3 March 3-4.30pm

Response to readily found aggregates of atoms using a visual vocabulary of the geometry of the tetrahedron. The inner workings of nature remain...

Group Show: Viewpoint
24 March-12 April

Opening in the Main Gallery on: Saturday 24 March 3-4.30pm

Viewpoint is a group exhibition of new works by 8 painters who have been studying and exhibiting together for the past 3 years. The word ‘viewpoint’ can be...

Sane Mari Botha: Natural Cycles - Death and Birth of a Star
24 March-12 April

Opening in the Outerspace Gallery on: Saturday 24 March 3-4.30pm

Sane-Mari Botha based the paintings in the Natural Cycles series on the birth and death of a star. The dying star...

New Media and Legal Issues One Day Seminar – 15 February  $30
New media expert Lewis Bostock demonstrates how to use social media networking to expand your client base and promote your work.  David McLaughlin, entertainment lawyer specialising in the field...

Vision to Viability Two Day Workshop – 29 February & 1 March ($80)
This interactive, intensive workshop will provide you with the tools to establish and maintain your creative vision.  You will learn about setting realistic and achievable goals, creative...

Business of Arts Three Day Workshop – 12, 13, 14 March - ($150)
An intensive and lively programme in which artists learn how to set themselves up as a business.  Practical knowledge and skills in GST, tax, costing & pricing structures, book keeping,...

“What a marvellous thing is a map…. Without some kind of a map we only have a small idea of where we are, an even smaller one of where we have been and not the slightest chance of where best we might go”.
- Hamish Keith

Cultural mapping is a dynamic...

ARTS, HERITAGE & SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN AUCKLAND'S ARTS CAPITAL

Devonport is a veritable el Dorado of the arts. With its galleries, artist studios, a writers’ centre, theatres, recording studio, band rehearsal spaces and book shops all squeezed into a small...

On Sunday 23 October The Depot featured on Radio NZ's 'The Arts on Sunday'.

How does a multidisciplinary creative space survive (and thrive) on minimal public funding for 15 years? Lynn Freeman interviewed Linda Blincko (Depot founding member and creative...

Latest Depot 'Cultural Icons' interviews available online include:

Peter Scholes (Composer, musician) is interviewed by Denys Trussell

http://culturalicons.co.nz/episode/peter-scholes

Mary McIntyre (Artist) is interviewed by Riemke Ensing