Many of the artists choose the theme of endangered species or threatened habitats for their works. The art is varied - from installation to paintings to photographs to mixed media.
Diane Harries' installation piece "There Used To be Enough" is a commentary on the decline in numbers of kereru, or wood pigeon. Created from handmade flax paper, copper wire and muka fibre stitching, the installation consists of hundreds of laser cut kereru shapes, hanging like a curtain in the front window of the gallery.
"The point I was making with this was that there used to be enough kereru for people to hunt them. Maori used to hunt them and come back with thousands of them to store for food over the winter - and there'd still be plenty left in the bush.
"And I wondered, where are they now?"
Helen Budd's painted and mixed media works in the exhibition reference her time working at Otago Museum.
One piece is a portrait of an albatross in flight.
"I was contracted to make fibre glass eggs for the albatrosses at Taiaroa Head," Ms Budd said.
"They used them so they could take the actual egg out and check and weigh it while the mothers sat on the dummy eggs. It was really important that the size and weight of the dummy eggs was right - if it was too light she thinks the chick has died and kicks it out of the nest, and if it's too heavy she thinks it's a stone and kicks it out of the nest.
"I had a very narrow range of weights that it could be," Ms Budd said.
Another shows a moa with its skeleton visible, which refers to Ms Budd's work piecing together a giant moa skeleton for Otago Museum.
Gallery on Guyton is open Wednesday to Saturday, from 11am to 4pm.
