Something Human by Mathew Johnson and Ila-Rose Hepetema
Sat, 29 Aug
|The Incubator Creative Hub
Two of The Incubator Creative Hub's most compelling young artists, each deeply rooted within the collective, collide in a show that feels less like a collaboration and more like a live wire stretched between two minds.
Time & Location
29 Aug 2026, 10:00 am – 19 Sept 2026, 3:00 pm
The Incubator Creative Hub, 159 17th Avenue, Tauranga South, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand
About the event
Their works provoke, resist, and explode, each piece igniting the next until the gallery becomes a chain reaction of ideas.
This is a rare collision of two singular creative forces, an eclipse that exists for only a fleeting moment before the orbit shifts again. Once these works scatter back into their own trajectories, this constellation will not gather in quite the same way again.
This is an exhibition that does not ask for your attention. It seizes it, burrows into it, and leaves carrying a piece of you with it.
To create is to let the soul speak. Play. Create. Express. Connect.
● Ila-Rose Hepetema, a Bay of Plenty Māori artist, brings vibrant energy to every canvas through her stunning oil paintings and portraiture. With a lifelong passion for colour theory and composition, Ila-Rose’s work celebrates saturation and vibrancy in bold, captivating ways. After honing her craft studying contemporary Māor…
