Bay of Plenty Times
  • Bay of Plenty Times home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Sport
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
  • Sport

Locations

  • Coromandel & Hauraki
  • Katikati
  • Tauranga
  • Mount Maunganui
  • Pāpāmoa
  • Te Puke
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Thames
  • Tauranga
  • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Bay of Plenty Times

Interactive Art Loves You exhibition for all the senses at Tauranga gallery

Amy Diamond
By Amy Diamond
Bay of Plenty Times·
21 Feb, 2018 05:00 AM3 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

The launch of <note>Art Loves You</note> proved to be popular with local art lovers. Photo / George Novak

The launch of <note>Art Loves You</note> proved to be popular with local art lovers. Photo / George Novak

The traditional way of viewing art will be taken to the next level for Tauranga art lovers when a local gallery launches a range of interactive experiences for all the senses.

Tauranga Art Gallery was preparing to launch to the public Art Loves You which relied on human interaction and engagement with each exhibition.

The six-month programme, which was set to launch on February 24, would showcase immersive digital and interactive experiences across three exhibitions and 14 individual projects.

A range of experiences would be on offer including sensory chambers, healing pools, sound, light, touch and scent experiences, a weaving forest with yarn, video games, art you can tweet and art you can take home and Instagram.

Tauranga Art Gallery director Karl Chitham said the entire gallery would be dedicated to art that people could "touch, feel, Instagram, play, listen to, smell and even take home".

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

"This will be a fun day out for all the family and an opportunity to experience work by local and national artists as well as a number of international projects from China, Hawaii, the United Kingdom and the United States," he said.

Gallery marketing and media co-ordinator Martine Rolls-Pierhagen said the programme would bring a range of "exciting" work to Tauranga from contemporary artists, software developers, designers, scientists and environmental artists.

"This is the first time interactive art will take over the gallery. Art needs people to engage with it," she said.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Art That Needs You kicks off the three-part programme this week. It will include works by Tiffany Singh, Shanghai-based design collective Super Nature, local artists Scott Brown and Kereama Taepa.

The second part of Art Loves You titled Light Touch will begin in April.

This exhibition would showcase Hueue by Chin-En Soo, Submergence by UK-based Squidsoup and US-based Brian Knep's installation Healing Pools.

A few weeks later, Swedish-born New Zealand artist Jeanette Shäring launches her installation called Whose Water Are You where she would be inviting the local community to participate by collecting water samples that would then be used in the installation.

Shäring would combine science and art while working with various organisations to look at water quality and mapping to help in protecting our local environment.

Art Loves You can be experienced at Tauranga Art Gallery from February 24 until mid-July.

You'll find the gallery on the corner of Wharf and Willow Streets in central Tauranga. More details on artgallery.org.nz.

Exhibition dates

Art that Needs You: 24 Feb – 3 June
Light Touch: 31 March – 17 June
Whose Water Are You: 14 April – 15 July

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

Bay of Plenty Times

Māori fighter stars in Netflix boxing event

07 Jul 01:24 AM
Bay of Plenty Times

Police search for suspect after man shot in leg

06 Jul 10:51 PM
Bay of Plenty Times

Teen's sudden cancer diagnosis puts close-knit family on 'rollercoaster ride'

06 Jul 06:00 PM

From early mornings to easy living

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Bay of Plenty Times

Māori fighter stars in Netflix boxing event

Māori fighter stars in Netflix boxing event

07 Jul 01:24 AM

Cherneka Johnson's fight will stream live on Netflix, a first for a Kiwi boxer.

Police search for suspect after man shot in leg

Police search for suspect after man shot in leg

06 Jul 10:51 PM
Teen's sudden cancer diagnosis puts close-knit family on 'rollercoaster ride'

Teen's sudden cancer diagnosis puts close-knit family on 'rollercoaster ride'

06 Jul 06:00 PM
Premium
Balancing power: What the employment law changes mean for you

Balancing power: What the employment law changes mean for you

06 Jul 05:00 PM
Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky
sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Bay of Plenty Times e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Bay of Plenty Times
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP