Cobblestone Park light boxes

The light boxes at Cobblestone Park are a joint Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington and Wellington City Council venture.

These light boxes are located in Cobblestone Park in front of Victoria University's Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation at 139 Vivian Street – view on Google Maps

Current exhibition

Any Time, Any Wear

Lexie Etherington

Cobblestone lightboxes from December 2025 to May 2025

In ‘Any time, Any Wear’, Lexie Etherington presents investigation into the relationship between body and cloth as an open format, providing the wearer with choices to make adaptations and manipulations to the garment to create something new each time it is worn.

With the rise of fast fashion predominantly made from polyester or other plastic based fabrics, our clothing lifecycle continues to grow rapidly with little acknowledgment of the afterlife and implications on our environment.

‘Any Time, Any Wear’ recognises the constant changes of the body and mind over our lifetime and how clothing created in an open formant can match this ever-changing need. The garment and its possible adaptations are limitless. These are two examples of a multitude of opportunities and how you, the wearer, can add or subtract from a base to suit your need at any time and for any type of wear.

Past projects

Horizons revealed
Philippe Campays, Jacqueline McIntosh, Bruno Marques and Carles Martinez Almoyna

Te Whānau Mārama
Leon Gurevitch

Ko Wai Au? | Who am?
Hannah Hopewell

Pupuke te Mahara
Bobby Luke

Kia niwha te ngākau
David Hakaraia

Two worlds/ two times
Daniel K Brown and Mizuho Nishioka

Bringing the German Pavilion Back Home
Jessica Wright

Transient Crossings: Embodiment in the Everyday
Stacey Mountfort

Christchurch through the Looking Glass
Ryan McCully

Prefabricated Architecture for a Circular Economy
Gerard Finch

Wai o papa: Waterlands (2016)

Wai o Papa, or Waterlands, is a Deep South project, one of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s national science challenges. This cross-disciplinary project investigates how science, art and design can assist Māori coastal communities on the Kapiti-Horowhenua coast adapt to the impacts of climate change. The images on the panels represented on one side, an estimation of the impact of 0.5, 1 and 1.5 metres of sea level rise on the coast between the Waikawa and Ōhau rivers; and on the other, the mouth of the Ōhau River at the lunar high tide.

Deep South Science Challenge: Dr Huhana Smith, Professor Penny Allan, Professor Martin Manning, Martin Bryant, Derrylea Hardy, Jane Richardson, Professor Murray Patterson, Abdallah Richards, Kevin Cartwright.

A Speculative Future (2015)
By Nicholas O'Connell, Holly Loft, Emma Erasmus, Tom Robertson.

Scraping the Sky: A Retreat Upwards (2014)
By Ben Allnatt, Declan Burn, Winston Dewhirst, and Tom Dobinson.

Digital Futures (2013)
By Simone Crane, Shiping Toohey, Jake Evill, Earl Stewart.

Glamping at Ngapotiki Reserve (2012)
By Jono Coates, Sarah Mokhtar, Daniel van Polanen, Tanya Mazurkiewicz , Michelle Hall.

First Light IN4MS (2012)
By Tobias Danielmeier.