Exercise your creative brain on the Wellington rail network!
What's On
Objectspace Workshop with Tyrone Te Waa, 26 July 2026
Make drawing tools inspired by Keiji Takeuchi’s exhibition, walking sticks & canes.
The World of Craft & Food Cultural Market, 4 April 2026
Join Squiggla at Mt Eden War Memorial Hall for mark making activities surrounded by art, food, and crafts from around the world.
Squiggla at CubaDupa, 28 – 29 March 2026
An open, drop-in gymnasium for improvised mark making!
Squiggla Making Space at Newtown Festival, 8 March 2026
A full day of improvised mark and instrument making, created in communion and collaboration with the festival’s dance, music, and street sensations
Community Whānau Day, 7 March 2026
Join Squiggla at The Arts House Trust for joyful mark making activities alongside a range of other family-friendly experiences
Body + Material: a Spontaneous Squiggla Encounter, 9 August 2025
A Squiggla workshop with inspiration from Max Gimblett’s exhibition, 'The Open Door'
Fluidity, Gesture & Rhythm, 19 July 2025
A Squiggla workshop with inspiration from Grace Wright's exhibition 'Grand Illusions'
Visual Music Making Space, 21 June 2025
A Squiggla Visual Music Making Space with Creative Waikato at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery
Aotearoa Art Fair, 1 - 4 May 2025
Visit the Making Space for hands-on activities for all ages that activate imaginative and inventive ideas.
ANZAAE Conference, 14 - 16 April 2025
The Squiggla team presents a Making Space at The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Conference 2025
Music on the Mall, Saturday 5 April, 2.30 - 6.30pm
Join us for collaborative creativity on Onehunga Mall!
The Arts House Trust Community Day, 8 March 2025
Drop-in to the Squiggla Making Space to experiment with beautiful materials and discover techniques for playful mark making.
Slow Looking with Visual Music, 22 January 2025
A Squiggla Workshop for Adults, Waiheke Art Gallery / Te Whare Taonga O Waiheke
The Squiggla Café: A Dynamic Mark Making Workshop, 19 January 2025
The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū, Nelson
Experimental Mark Making and Collage Family Workshop, 12 January 2025
Family Workshop, Waiheke Community Art Gallery / Te Whare Taonga O Waiheke
Squiggla Play Arena at the Silos - Sonic Playground Open Day, 12 October 2024
Interact with the sonic experience through free-flow mark making right onto the paper wrapping the Silo 6 walls.
Improv night with Squiggla Play Arena at the Silos, 10 October 2024
All ages Squiggla Workshop exploring visual improvisation for Silo 6 locals.
Squiggla Play Arena at the Silos - Open Day, 5 October 2024
Dive into hands-on mark making right onto the paper wrapping the Silo 6 walls. Follow the Wrap Around Squiggla Trail to encounter five different zones of making.
FREE online workshop for Mental Health Awareness Week
Talk and Squiggla Workshop at Gow Langsford, 14 September 2024, 1 - 3.15pm
An in-gallery Squiggla workshop responding to works in the exhibition, A Moment in Time: Dashper, Reynolds, Maddox.
Squiggla Making Space at ITAC 7, 4 - 7 September 2024
IMAGINE/POHEWA with Squiggla at ITAC 7
Squiggla Workshop: Ballón Assemblé mark making machines with Jack Hadley, 3 August 2024
Join Jack Hadley to make Don Driver inspired drawing devices in this special Squiggla workshop at Objectspace.
Think with Ink - hosted by Squiggla, 10 August 2024
Embrace randomness, risk and chance in this experimental ink workshop.
Experimental Drawing and Collage Workshop, 10 July 2024
A cuppa, cake and some creativity at the Chartwell office!
Kaiako/Educators Workshop at Te Uru, 7 May 2024
Discover free-flow non-judgemental mark making as a tool to unlock creative thinking. Join us for an inspiring educator workshop and learn how to bring Squiggla to your classroom.
Radio New Zealand interview with The Chartwell Trust co-director, Sue Gardiner
Sue joins Mark Amery to discusses The Chartwell Project's 50th anniversary year and the importance of a hands-on creative space at the Aotearoa Art Fair.
Aotearoa Art Fair, 18 - 21 April 2024
On the verge of Invention! At the Art Fair, Squiggla’s INVENT 2024 activities focus on generating new ways of making.
Sydney Contemporary, 7 - 10 September 2023
The Squiggla Making Space Presented By Eckersley’s Art & Craft is a place for all to explore.
New Zealand Association of Gerontology Conference, 6 – 8 September 2023
Learn about how Squiggla can contribute to creative ageing programmes.
ANZAAE Conference, 4 - 6 July 2023
The Squiggla team presented a conference paper and a Squiggla Making Space at The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Art Educators Conference 2023.
Aotearoa Art Fair, 2 - 5 March 2023
Develop creative thinking through mark making as a truly accessible way to become more creative.
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Art Lab, 15 Apr - 12 Jun 2022
Uncover fresh ways of looking, feeling, sensing, thinking and observing.
