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Scheduled
Event Date
March 01, 2025 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
End Date
March 02, 2025
Mercury Bay artist studios
Whitianga & Mercury Bay Area, Whitianga
Age
All ages
Organiser Website
Mercury Bay Art Escape
Event information may be subject to change. Please confirm details with event organisers.

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Mercury Bay Art Escape

This iconic Mercury Bay event is held each year in early March. This first Art Escape weekend is scheduled for the 1st & 2nd and the 8th & 9th of March. A FREE event and opportunity to explore the Coromandel's artists studios, see their work, talk and even purchase their work.

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Alan Rhodes [Whenuakite] - Pottery
Michael Harrison [Tairua] - Painter
Dessa Bluu [Tairua] - mosaics

Artists Open Studios

Local artists are opening their studios again to the public in March as part of the Mercury Bay Art Escape. All are welcome to visit over the two weekends in March to enjoy meeting, see work in progress and even purchase pieces of artwork.

There is a brilliant mix of artists including:

  • potters
  • sculptors
  • painters
  • printmakers
  • photographers
  • flax weavers
  • woodworkers
  • mosaic artists
  • jewellers
  • a glass artist 
  • and a furniture maker.

From Tairua to Rings Beach, grab a map and enjoy FREE entry to studios each weekend. Look out for the official blue Art Escape flags along the way.