Helen Hitchings

Helen Hitchings was a New Zealand art dealer, best known for the short-lived but influential eponymous dealer gallery she opened in Wellington in 1949.

Recognition and influence

In 2008 the Museum of Wellington City & Sea staged an exhibition recreating Hitchings’ gallery. In 2015 the Te Papa Tongarewa opened an exhibition The Gallery of Helen Hitchings which features photographs of Hitchings alongside objects sold through or similar to those presented at her gallery.
In 2016 Wellington artist Erica van Zon produced a body of work in homage to Hitchings, titled Coffee Perhaps. The work was displayed at The Dowse Art Museum.

Further information

The archives of the Helen Hitchings Gallery are held in the Te Papa archives.
Justine Olsen, curator of Decorative and Applied Arts at Te Papa, was interviewed about Helen Hitchings and the influence of her gallery in 2015.