KIWI ART TRAIL
October 2024 - April 2025
About the Kiwi Art Trail
The Kiwi Art Trail is a collection of 20+ kiwi sculptures that have been turned into bespoke pieces of art by talented New Zealand artists. Brought to you by Gallagher Insurance and Save the Kiwi, the Kiwi Art Trail is a free, family-friendly public art trail for all to enjoy.
After the inaugural exhibition in Auckland in 2023, the 2024/25 Kiwi Art Trail took 20 brand-new sculptures to Tauranga in October 2024. In November the Trail headed to Napier, followed by Whangārei in January 2025. The Kiwi Art Trail wrapped in Auckland in March 2025.
The purpose of the Kiwi Art Trail is to bring New Zealand’s national icon, the kiwi, to the forefront of people’s imaginations, and to raise much-needed funds for kiwi conservation by auctioning the sculptures.
In 2025, the Trail generated approximately $150,000.
These sculptures were sold for $10,000 each pre-auction, including to art buyers in London, San Francisco, Italy and Liechtenstein.
Thank you to our sponsors & partners for making the Kiwi Art Trail possible
About the kiwi
Aotearoa used to be home to millions of kiwi. Today a fraction remains. The ngahere (forest), once loud with birdsong, is falling silent.
However, New Zealanders are known all over the world as Kiwis … ironic because most people have never seen our namesake in the wild.
In areas where communities, volunteers and organisations are carrying out intensive predator control, the rate of decline is slowing - some kiwi populations are even increasing. But much of Aotearoa’s forest remains unmanaged and kiwi remain at significant risk due to predators.
We must become kaitiaki (guardians) of te taiao (the environment) and work together to return kiwi to every corner of New Zealand.
About Gallagher Insurance
Gallagher Insurance, formerly known as Crombie Lockwood, has been helping New Zealanders protect what’s important to them for 45 years. Gallagher Insurance is the principal sponsor of the Gallagher Kiwi Burrow, a purpose-built kiwi incubation and hatching facility located in Taupō. Since the facility opened in 2019, the Burrow team has hatched more than 300 chicks and released them into safe places in the wild.
About Save the Kiwi
Save the Kiwi lives and breathes kiwi conservation - it’s in the name, after all! The charity supports kiwi conservation projects all over New Zealand, whether they’re doing hands-on kiwi work, protecting kiwi from stoats and ferrets, or preparing for the return of kiwi one day. Save the Kiwi is passionate about making kiwi conservation more accessible to the average person - because everyone should have the opportunity to see a kiwi in the wild one day!
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