Weaving Community Shutter Room Member's Show - ArtBeat 2025

Especially for ArtBeat 2025, and with support from Creative Northland, we have a new group exhibition opening!

Weaving Community April 4 - April 26

Gallery Hours

Wednesday — Friday 10:30am — 2:30pm

Saturday 10am - 1:00pm

Opening Friday 4th April 5 - 7pm

Come on in to celebrate the opening, meet some new people and reconnect with the team behind the scenes.

This year’s theme, 'Weaving Community', encourages exploration of connection, collaboration, and belonging through lens-based and photographic practice.

‘Weaving communities’ Exhibition

This exhibition will display member-created works exploring community, its appearance, and the feeling it evokes. Mediums will include photography, video, audio-visual pieces, photomontage, and installations. This gallery event will also feature a public opening and a curation and critique workshop led by Angela Rowe, offering an educational component for participants.

About us

The Shutter Room Collective and Gallery is a volunteer run community led organisation, we are an incorporated society with a governance committee, we are fortunate to have a wonderful team of volunteer gallery hosts.

We have a professional photo studio available for hire, we run workshops and community events alongside our calendar of exhibitions.

Our mission

To support and promote photographic practice in our region

Formally established June 2013, The Shutter Room Collective (TSRC) aims to foster photographic practices in Northland. Our objective is to enable established and emerging photographers in Te Tai Tokerau to share knowledge and ideas, discuss their practice and explore points of connection between the work of each artist through; exhibitions, the TSRC’s Photographic Studio, social media and collaborative projects.

We are able to keep our doors open thanks to generous support from Whangarei District Council, Creative Northland, the Creative Communities Scheme and Lotteries Community Grants.