Creativity, Education, Community

The Ockham Collective is a registered charitable trust based in Auckland, New Zealand. Its kaupapa is to support lifelong creativity and education. Our support is direct: we offer beautiful, purpose-built spaces to like-minded individuals and groups who want to share their knowledge and ideas with our city.

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Meet the 2024 Ockham Collective
Meet the 2024 Ockham Collective

We're thrilled to finally announce the 12 artists that together form the 2024 Ockham Collective. They come from all corners of Tāmaki Makaurau's creative community: music, theatre, film, literature and the visual arts.

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April Calendar
April Calendar

Two of our OC whanau will be taking to the stage in Hotel Sol at Covert Theatre as part of the Auckland Improv Festival. Also in April, Amy Mansfield and collaborator Rachel Davies are bringing the Write Club to The Nix

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Mauri at Modal
Mauri at Modal

He M A U R I, an exhibition of cyanotypes and paintings by Rangihīroa Panoho, is being launched on Friday 5 April at our Modal space in Mt Albert and continues until Wednesday 24 April.

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Our 2024 Ockham Collective

Our 2024 creatives are a talented and highly diverse bunch including writers, musicians, filmmakers, theatre makers and a visual artist. Click onto the next page to get better acquainted with each of them. Meet our 2024 Ockham Collective »

Our alumni

Previous years’ Ockham Collectives have included a poet laureate, an arts laureate, two NZ Book Awards winners and an Emmy winner. Meet our Ockham Collective alumni »

Our story, founders and staff

Benjamin Preston and Mark Todd formed the Ockham Foundation in 2009 at the same time they founded Ockham Residential and started developing apartments in Auckland. They’ve been friends since university and are fiercely committed to lifelong learning, questioning and critical thought. Check out our story »

Our spaces

We realised early on how hard it is to find good spaces to educate and create in central Auckland. The main thing Ockham is known for is the creation of beautiful spaces. One of the most meaningful and enduring ways we can give back to the community is to make space available to the individuals and groups that enrich our city. See our spaces »

FAQs

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Contact us

Burning question still unanswered by our FAQs? Want to get involved? Want to be considered for a Residency? Just want to say hi? Please contact us »