What's a fundraiser without a party (and prizes). We’re hosting a bingo night as part of our campaign 50/50 — For Makers and Objectspace.
$35 tickets online now (incl. 3 bingo cards!)
6pm, Thursday 28 May
Objectspace, 13 Rose Road, Ponsonby
Invite a mate or two to take your place in Martino Gamper’s Endgrained and test your luck. Special guests will join us to call the rounds and there will be seriously good prizes, including works by Aotearoa’s best makers (such as jewellery titans Judy Darragh and Warwick Freeman). We’ll reveal the prizes over the coming weeks, but expect this will sell out – get your tickets now (only 50 spaces).
Our biggest fundraiser ever is live! 50/50 — For Makers and Objectspace.
We’re fundraising with @boosted.nz to support both our ambitious programming and the spaces that hold it. With all gifts doubled up to our $80k target (thanks to generous match-givers), there has never been a better time to support Objectspace. We need to raise it by 15 June (all or nothing) so now is the time to give – whatever you can! And we’ll split the bill:
* 50% raised will go to our makers: to commission works and shows from the artists we serve – the people pushing craft, design and architecture forward in Aotearoa.
* 50% raised will go to Objectspace’s operational budget: to help us run our spaces, cover the staffing needs of our growing exhibition and event programme, and plan for the future.
Throughout this big campaign to resource and revel in Aotearoa design, craft and architecture, we’ll be sharing insights from Objectspace alumni. Stay tuned, and support makers and Objectspace! Link in bio.
Feat new song by LEAO @noa.records
Listen to Lissy & Rudi. With our 50/50 crowdfunder launching today and all gifts doubled up to the $80k target, there’s never been a better time to support makers and Objectspace. AROHANUI ❤️ Link in bio.
Accompanying Engrained runs Wood from the trees, a collaborative research project between @martinogamper , Objectspace and @practisetheory presenting ephemera of local timber histories drawn from journals, photographic collections and timber museums.
This research project will be captured in the publication we’re working on for Martino’s Endgrained – landing in June at Object Book Launch (find more online).
📸 @samuel_hartnett
Object Book Fair is back in June celebrating an object of design – the book. Browse and buy design-forward books, and speak to the designers and publishers who made them.
11am – 4pm, Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 June
Objectspace, 13 Rose Road, Ponsonby
Save the date to visit us over this weekend and take in hundreds of local and international publications. Find contributors (and tickets to launch night) online now.
Design: @practisetheory
Audio: Fridge, Cut Up Piano & Xylophone
Screening in Endgrained: Speaking in Stone, a short film commissioned after the untimely death of renowned and much admired sculptor John Edgar ONZM.
From 4pm on Saturday 23 May
13 Rose Road, Ponsonby
Free tickets at objectspace.org.nz/events
About the film:
John Edgar’s studio in West Auckland, once a large industrial ship-building warehouse, had become a vast repository of his copious and prolific creative life. In the aftermath of his death, all those close to him were confronted with the ’remains of the day’. Every corner and surface echoed that he was no longer here – that the unfinished work would remain – unfinished. Yet all of it demanded attention, recording and processing.
This was the impetus for Speaking In Stone, directed by Greg Wood with music by Peter Hobbs.
Image: John Edgar, photograph by John Daley, 1988
Design Lives Here is back on 10 June 2026. We’ll introduce your speakers next week, but considering this ALWAYS sells out tickets are live now for diehard fans of the series.
One much-loved object from your home. One coveted object you WANT in your home. Four speakers, a 200-strong crowd of design lovers.
That’s the brief for Design Lives Here, Objectspace’s annual design event with @thisishere.nz presented by @cemac_nz .
$40 bucks and covering great kōrero, natural wine, local brews and good eats.
objectspace.org.nz/events
@cazador_akl@blackestate@bryterlaterwines@libertybrewingnz@drinkalmighty@goodshitsoda
Home Studio is open, showing works shaped materially and conceptually by the combined workshop/home environments in which they were made.
Brought together wonderfully by curator @daeganwells in the former office and home of architect Sir Miles Warren.
View until 28 June at Objectspace Ōtautahi.
65 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch Central.
Commissioned alongside A Chop That Breathes, @kerry.ann.lee ’s tear-off essay traces her adoration and ongoing collaboration with trail-blazing artist and designer, Guy Ngan.
‘We both went to the same design school in the same little city (mid-century and end of the century, respectively), but our paths never crossed. We each lived in other places at times, and brought the world back home to scale in our own ways. What’s the throughline here?
Writer Greil Marcus cautions that when a scholar dives into the dustbin of history, they can fall right through the hole in the bottom. Maybe that’s what happened.’
For more richly framed insights into this creative kaupapa, join us this Monday for Kerry Ann Lee’s Ockham Lecture: Connections between Connections, and pick up a poster on the way in.
Mon 11 May
Doors 5.30pm, 6pm talk begins
Register now at objectspace.org.nz/events
📸 @samuel_hartnett
A quiet moment in Endgrained. Most days a myriad of community bookings have been warming the gallery with kōrero and connection, set among the furniture of @martinogamper .
Whether bustling or idle, take a seat in Gamper’s Endgrained when you visit our Autumn Season of shows, until Sun 31 May at Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
📸 @samuel_hartnett
