OPENING: the Spiral Collectives Exhibition
Fri, 24 Oct
|The Charlotte Museum
Join us as we welcome the Spiral Collectives, for their 50yr Anniversary with an exhibition celebrating both germinal Spiral moments and key figures. And at the opening we are excited to be launching 'Spiral 8 Setting the [work] table: 50 years of Spiral Collectives'!
Time & Location
24 Oct 2025, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Charlotte Museum, 1A Howe Street, Freemans Bay, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Guests
About the event
Opening Celebration and Spiral Issue 8 Launch
Friday 24 October, 5:00PM - 8:00PM The Spiral Collectives Exhibition Dates Friday 24 October - Friday 19 December 2025
We are delighted to present our final exhibition of 2025 with Spiral Collectives, who are celebrating their 50yr Anniversary, marking the beginnings of the first edition of the women's arts journal Spiral in 1975. Including the Spiral publications from 1976- 2025, archival ephemera and artworks, the exhibition spans both germinal Spiral moments and key figures. Spiral Collectives is a small artist-led charity. They educate, awhi & embrace, tautoko & support the practice & legacies of creative work by women & nonbinary people in Aotearoa.
The launch of Spiral 8 Setting the [work] table: 50 years of Spiral Collectives will be held in conjunction with the opening celebration.
Spiral 8 , with representative literary and visual works features Jacquie (J.C.) Sturm, Renée, Arapera Blank, Gladys Gurney (Saj), Frances Cherry, Marilynn…