DEPOT 3 Vic Road is a vibrant and multi-faceted art and cultural space situated in the heart of Devonport.
Formerly Council Borough Chambers, this historic building is now home to the DEPOT Shop | Toi Toa and Studio D3 members occupying the upstairs artists studios.
Upcoming Exhibition
Coming Soon!
Current Exhibition
Sarah Morrah: Neural Bloom
Previous Exhibiton
Studio D3: Momentum
The DEPOT Shop | Toi Toa is proud to support local artists and artists from across Aotearoa. We stock handcrafted items including ceramics, cards, jewellery, prints, glassware, Toi Māori, homewares, art and art publications.
Opening Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday: 10am – 4pm
Monday: Closed
Click below for more info on our Shop artists and to view the collection.
Studio D3 was founded in 2024 to create, foster, and preserve affordable and sustainable studio spaces for artists.
Our members actively contribute to Devonport’s creative economy, enriching the cultural and social fabric of our community. All member artists enjoy 24/7 access to the studios, utilities, Wi-Fi, and a shared community area.
Members are required to sign an annual membership agreement, participate in Open Studios, and volunteer time to support Studio D3’s operations.
For artists interested in joining Studio D3, please contact us here.
Studio D3 Artists
Rose Evans
Rose Evans (Te Atiawa, French and Welsh, jeweler) works as a Museum Object Conservator and Exhibition Developer. Having spent 15 years at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa specialising in Māori, Pacific and contemporary sculpture Evans then worked with the British Museum, Torpedo Bay Navy Museum and Auckland Museum. In 2012 Evans established Objectlab, a heritage consultancy providing both object conservation, museum development and exhibition services to the heritage and wider cultural sector. To complement her skills with cultural objects, Evans studied jewellry at Hungry Creek, continuing to make at Workshop6 before joining Studio D3 in 2024. This is her first exhibition of jewellery. She mainly works in silver and has an interest in strong geometric shapes and hollow forms.
Fiona Mackay
Fiona Mackay (ceramics) originally trained as a furniture designer and now brings her design background and aesthetic to making small-run functional stoneware ceramics, and more recently larger more sculptural pieces. Her work is process driven with a focus on exploring texture and building techniques.
fionamackayceramics.co.nz
@fionamackayceramics
Janet Mazenier
Janet Mazenier (painter) is a Te Hau Kapua – Devonport painter made in Ireland and born in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work speaks to the spirit of places that she explores, their genius loci. Currently in the final year of PhD candidature (Creative Practice) at Auckland University of Technology she is actively researching her ancestral home of Ireland by undertaking multiple residencies. With an upcoming exhibition in Iceland following a second residency at the Burren in Co. Clare, she has a number of Aotearoa New Zealand exhibitions planned for 2025 and beyond. Recently a finalist in the Waikato Painting and Printmaking Awards 2025, in 2024 her work “Mudflats” won the main Painting Award.
Karen Rubado
Karen Rubado (textile artist) is based in Te Hau Kapua – Devonport and graduated from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts, First Class Honours. Commissioned to produce a work for Te Tuhi, Rubado was also featured as an emerging artist in Projects curated by Gabriela Salgado and Francis McWhannell for the 2018 Aotearoa Art Fair. Selected exhibitions include: Tracing Intricacies at Webb’s Wellington, 2024; detours and daydreams at RM Gallery, 2023; soft ware at Melanie Roger Gallery, 2021; 1924 at Corban Estate, 2021 and under intense scrutiny at Te Tuhi, 2020.
Mickey Smith
Mickey Smith (US/NZ, multidisciplinary) is a conceptual artist and photographer. For over two decades, her practice has been engaged with a longstanding inquiry into libraries, books and archives — in particular the social significance of their physical existence or disappearance. Her work is heavily research based and spans numerous disciplines, including image making, writing and video installation. Since 2003, Smith’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States, in New Zealand and Venice. Her works belong to numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art Library, Sheldon Museum of Art and Weisman Art Museum. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography from Minnesota State University Moorhead (1994) and a Diploma in Jewellery Design from Hungry Creek Art & Craft School in New Zealand (2019). Smith is an advocate and spokesperson for Harbour Hospice Auckland and a founding artist of Studio D3.
mickeysmith.com
@mickeysmithstudio
Celia Walker
Celia Walker’s (printmaker) work focuses around altered landscapes and environmental change. Her ecology-driven practice sees her using locally sourced materials and non-toxic processes. She is interested in large-scale installations and has curated several collaborative print projects. Celia has tertiary diplomas in Museum Studies and Environmental Science, and a PhD in Art History.
celiawalker.co.nz
@celiawalkerprint
Pigeonhole Collective
Anoushka Coulter (painter), Ailsa Coulson (painter), Sasha Elise (painter), Farah Latif (sculptor), Bailey McNally (mixed media), Jaymin Patel (portraiture painter), Kiara Schaumkell (textile sculptures), Daniel Sisel (painter), Jack Valentine (painter), Joseph White (mixed media)
Some may call us an artist collective. Others may even call us financially destitute. They may be right, but they would not be entirely correct.
Deep down we are most like pigeons. Ornithic street-rats searching for meaning in a world full of holes. Nomads of urban confusion. We limp with misshapen processes from one ontology to the next, developing poetics with which we hope to confront the many facets of the current human condition.
It is with this mission in mind that we have chosen to flock together for support and motivation, as we migrate through the unsteady winds of the art world.
pigeonhole.nz
@pigeonholenz
@ailsa.png
@chefbigdowg
@jaymin.patel
@gumhoe_
@danielsisel
@anoushka_paintings
@kiaraschmaukle
@farah_latif_
@jackvalent1ne
@fromsashe
@nathanwilsonart
