UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
23 June - 17 July: Kristin Hollis - BACKTRACK OPENING: Tues 23 June, 5.30pm ARTIST TALK: Sat 4 July, 11am 21 July - 14 Aug: Euan Macleod - Fool on a Hill OPENING: Tues 21 July, 5.30pm ARTIST TALK:...
New Work
KRISTIN HOLLIS – BACKTRACK – 23 June-17 July 2026
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
MARIAN MAGUIRE – Tudor Hearth – 19 May-19 June 2026
“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 – Acts of Love – 21 April-15 May 2026
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 – Cycles of a Southern Sea – 21 April-15 May 2026
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
MAURICE LYE – IMBY (in my back yard) – 24 March-17 April, 2026
“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 – Angels, Folds & Shadows – 24 March – 17 April, 2026
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
XMAS ’25 – 2–19 December, 2025
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
PHILIPPA BLAIR (1945-2025) – Constant Weave – 4-28 Nov, 2025
CONSTANT WEAVE – an exhibition of paintings, drawings, works on paper, photographs and prints celebrating a remarkable artist. It has been hard saying goodbye to Philippa. I first encountered her forty years ago when I was a student at Ilam School of Art. She turned up as a visiting lecturer and was a powerhouse, changing… View more
ANDY LELEISI’UAO – Mo lo’u Tina – 7-31 Oct 2025
Andy Leleisi’uao draws on sources like comic books, record covers, plastic action figures, tools and puzzles, bringing them into play on the drawing board of his imagination. Recurring motifs provide visual touchstones for viewers and remind us of the inherent humanity of his creatures, and the universality of their struggle and endeavour within a limited… View more
SEFTON RANI – The Rosebank Road Paintings – 7-31 Oct 2025
Rosebank Road was the location of the paint factory in which Sefton Rani’s father once worked. Memories of the factory – enamel paint, viscous and slippery, vats of colour, the team of Pasifika workers, mixed languages, noisy machinery and the impact of seeing the factory burnt down during Sefton’s boyhood – fed into this current… View more