The Space of a Pause brings together a group of women artists whose work invites a slowing down, a moment of stillness, breath, and attention. Across painting, textile, photography and object-based practice, the exhibition offers works that create room rather than demand it, encouraging the viewer to pause, linger, and look more closely.
For these artists, making becomes a deliberate act of stillness and quiet. Created alongside lives shaped by care, movement, and change - and for many, the presence of children - the studio becomes a space to step out of urgency and into focus. Within this space, light settles, forms are held, and quiet gestures carry meaning.
Rooted in ways of seeing contemporary life in Aotearoa, the exhibition suggests that a pause is not an absence, but something actively made. Here, stillness becomes an invitation, to take space, to notice what is often overlooked, and to inhabit a moment where form, feeling, and attention are allowed to rest.
Group name: In Quiet Company
In Quiet Company is a small collective of female artists based in Aotearoa, brought together through a shared stage of life, balancing creative practice alongside family and work. The group connects online, sharing works in progress, ideas and support, and is united by a shared love of making and continuing creative practice through busy and changing seasons.
Working across painting, textile, photography and object-based work, In Quiet Company formed to create opportunities to show together and support one another’s creative lives.
Names of Artists:
- Rhianna May
- Rose Ackland
- Hollie Teutscher
- Jessica Crowe
- Rose Kennedy
- Lisa Billing / Heymaker Studio
Sponsored by Gate Pa New World - This exhibition launch preview is Friday 13 March 2026 - 5.30pm at The Incubator Creative Hub, The Tauranga Historic Village, 17th Ave, Tauranga. Licensed Bar onsite, and everyone is welcome.
On display at The People’s Gallery Toi Ka Rere from 14 March to 4 April