Visit the Making Space for hands-on activities for all ages that activate imaginative and inventive ideas.
What's On
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.
New Zealand Association of Gerontology Conference, 6 – 8 September 2023
Learn about how Squiggla can contribute to creative ageing programmes.
Sydney Contemporary, 7 - 10 September 2023
The Squiggla Making Space Presented By Eckersley’s Art & Craft is a place for all to explore.
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.
