There are no current vacancies at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.

Our Volunteer Programme offers a behind-the-scenes perspective of the operation of Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery. Volunteers work alongside art professionals while gaining practical experience, developing knowledge about art and artists, and meeting others with interest in art.

Volunteers play a vital role in what we do and we're extremely grateful for their support.

Learn more about the Volunteer Programme here.

The Adam Art Gallery Internship is a paid opportunity which enables a recent graduate, postgraduate student or early-career art professional to work with the Gallery to develop knowledge of all aspects of the Gallery’s work.

The Internship is made possible with the generous support of Barbara Blake.

Learn more about the Adam Art Gallery Internship here.

Victoria University of Wellington’s Art History Programme and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery jointly administer the Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust Endowment – a generous gift of the Woolf family, presented to Victoria University of Wellington in 2015 in recognition of the contribution to photography by the late Ronald Woolf.

This Endowment provides funds for projects that support young photographers, students studying the history and practice of photography, and emerging curators of photography. Funds are allocated on an annual basis towards exhibitions, symposia and publications that further the Endowment’s educational and creative aims. The Endowment is managed by the Victoria University of Wellington Foundation.

Assessment of applications is undertaken by an advisory group consisting of representatives from the Art History Programme, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts Massey University, and the Woolf family, and the group is chaired by a representative from Victoria University of Wellington Foundation.

Previously funded projects:

2025
Contribution to production costs for photography exhibition, Things are, they do not happen by early-career curator Jess Clifford and photographic artist Sam Norton.

Support for Chris Corson-Scott to scan negatives and print works by documentary photographer John Miller for Whāi Wahi exhibition.

2024
Support for research assistant Matthew Whiteman, enabling preparatory work towards an anthology of key texts on New Zealand photography.

2023
Summer Research Scholarship: Margo Montes de Oca on environmental photography in Aotearoa. Supervised by Professor Susan Ballard Art History.

2021
Contribution to Lachlan Taylor to support research towards a publication based on his Master’s research undertaken at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.

2018
Contribution towards Still looking: Peter McLeavey and the Last Photograph, edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Adam Art Gallery exhibition catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same title, curated by Professor Batchen and his 2018 Art History Honours class.

2017
Contribution towards Apparitions: The Photograph and its Image, edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Adam Art Gallery exhibition catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same title, curated by Professor Batchen and his 2017 Art History Honours class.

For further information about the aims and activities of the Endowment contact the Gallery Director Manutaki Abby Cunnane abby.cunnane@vuw.ac.nz

To find out more about gifts and bequests to Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington contact Senior Development Manager, Corinne Barnard corinne.barnard@vuw.ac.nz

The deadline for applications is the last Friday in February each year, with decisions made in March.