Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, featuring emerging young artist, Tracey Baird, who specialises in installation photography. With spectacular local scenery as a backdrop, Tracey blends reality and fantasy  [ Read More ]

Works from a talented West Coast artist as well as tiles created by local community members as part of the Gallery’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

      A  newly carved 12 metre pou was today unveiled by Kiingi Tuheitia at the entrance to the Arataki Visitor Centre in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Parkland today  [ Read More ]

  On a walk along North Piha came across this spider actually in the wave zone on the shore. Auckland Council staff reckon its a Banded Tunnelweb Spider Hexathele hochstetteri,  [ Read More ]

The name means the sea mist that hangs in this small, remote bay at the end of North Piha Beach. Although only 5 minutes walk from the North Piha carpark,  [ Read More ]

The West Coast Gallery is planning an exhibition from 16 July to 14 August called On the Wing, Birds through the Eyes of West Auckland Artists. This is a real  [ Read More ]

With a few of the nasties flowering and seeding, it’s a good time to deal to weeds on your property or road frontage. Cotoneaster is currently smothered in bright red  [ Read More ]

I have recently had informed representations about my former use of  “Milk Track” for the cutting between Seaview Road and Beach Valley Road. Having been challenged about where this name  [ Read More ]

Early Thursday morning (21 April), a small group gathered at Te Ahua Point, Mercer Bay, to unveil a pou marking the importance of this site to Te Kawerau a Maki. The  [ Read More ]