Collection

Tauranga Art Gallery Trust Collection


Nigel Brown and Richard Arlidge

Tauranga Art Gallery is a public art gallery. The Gallery does not have an acquisitions budget to purchase works of art, but the Tauranga Art Gallery Trust has been gifted works by artists and their families for the benefit of the western Bay of Plenty community.

The Tauranga Art Gallery Trust's collection includes works by Edward Bullmore, Nigel Brown, Susan Wilson, Mark Braunias, Arthur Dagley, Jim Cooper, Robin White, Betty Wishart, Don Binney, Tracey Williams, Vanetta Miles, Yvonne Paine, Irene O'Neill and a work by John Gully.

(pictured right: Nigel Brown and gallery director Richard Arldige. Brown gifted 46 of his works to the Tauranga Art Gallery Trust in 2007).



Tauranga City Council Civic Art Collection


The Tauranga Art Gallery Trust is responsible for the Tauranga City Council Art Collection. The focus of the collection is on both contemporary and historical works that have links with the region either through content or the artist. 

Art works have been acquired through purchases and gifts, and include works by Charles Blomfield, W.M.Hodgkins, John Gully, Trevor Pye and Elizabeth Grainger.



Contemporary New Zealand Print Collection


This collection comprises of works by well known New Zealand artists such as Nigel Brown, Carole Shepherd and Dick Frizell, and is being continually added to.

The prints are loaned to local intermediate and secondary schools so students can be exposed to original pieces of art.



Edward Bullmore Collection


In September 2004, Jacqueline Bullmore, widow of the late Edward Bullmore, gifted approximately 300 works to the Tauranga Art Gallery Trust.

A major retrospective exhibition, EDWARD BULLMORE A Surrealist Odyssey,  was held at the Gallery in 2008, featuring some of these plus works from private family collections.