UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
21 July - 14 Aug: Euan Macleod - Fool on a Hill OPENING: Tues 21 July, 5.30pm ARTIST TALK: Wed 22 July, 12noon 18 Aug - 11 Sept: Chris Pole - Aro o Te Kinga Stefan Roberts - Undivided...
21 July - 14 Aug: Euan Macleod - Fool on a Hill OPENING: Tues 21 July, 5.30pm ARTIST TALK: Wed 22 July, 12noon 18 Aug - 11 Sept: Chris Pole - Aro o Te Kinga Stefan Roberts - Undivided...
Just as seeing is more than the physical act of looking, the photographs in Undivided Attention invite a different way of perceiving the world, where views are interconnected and elements are linked. As one space merges into another, new relationships and observations emerge. These works offer an alternative reading of familiar places. They… View more
Chris Pole’s exhibition Aro o Te Kinga features a suite of new oil paintings alongside a 2-channel film work depicting views from, towards, and around Mount Te Kinga, creating an immersive experience informed by the artists exploration of, and connection with, this unique part of the West Coast Te Tai Poutini. Pole’s practice shows… View more
Sydney-based artist Euan Macleod, has maintained regular connection with Aotearoa New Zealand since moving to Australia in 1981. Family and professional links continue to draw him back but so too does the place itself. He is a man of two homelands and while in his Sydney studio, he frequently re-imagines Banks Peninsula, or the stormy… View more
Backtracking with Kristin Hollis essay by Sally Blundell I’ve been thinking about family, where I’ve been. A lot of women about my age get into writing. For me, I had to do something pictorial. It’s a coming out in a funny sort of way. – interview with the artist, 15 April, 2026 The past isn’t… View more
“Given my work to date, the choice of subject for this exhibition may seem odd. Some background. In 2018, I was contacted by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK. My colonial series The Odyssey of Captain Cook and The Labours of Herakles are in their collection but they weren’t emailing about that. They had… View more
Charrette van Eekelen’s paintings are fabrications: scissored, stitched and painted to create persuasive descriptions of objects and space. Colours and textures are found and combined. Freehand embroidery draws lines, paint undulates surfaces. Close inspection reveals silkiness, rough weave, sheen and transparency. Wool and velvet contrast with the openness net and materiality produces the illusion of… View more
Tom Field presents Cycles of a Southern Sea, an exhibition of oil paintings developed over a period of thirty years. Field’s practice captures the landscapes and atmospheres of Aotearoa through a distinctive observational style, characterised by painterly mark-making and an expressive use of light. In this series, the artist draws on his experiences of free diving in the… View more
“My back yard has been a repository for over 40 years of collecting ‘found object treasures’. Death and life cycles are a constant theme in my work. Many of the plants in my backyard are left to go wild. Naturally going to seed and rambling.” Maurice Lye’s home and garden are full and constantly being… View more
Nigel Buxton presents an exhibition of illusory draped fabric – curvaceous, full and lush – emerging from deep shadows with a chiaroscuro glow. In smaller painting angels, as solid as statues, appear in landscapes or, in another, an angel from an Leonardo’s Virgin in the Rocks is extracted from the grotto and reframed. Although we… View more
Nigel Buxton Stan Bowski Tom Field Polly Gilroy Rebecca Harris Marian Maguire Maurice Lye Vivienne Murchison Jenna Packer Chris Pole Simon Ogden Chloe Summerhayes John Reynolds Grant Takle Philip Trusttum