The postponement of a residency in Japan from 2019 to 2024 due to the pandemic gave Bennett an opportunity to extend and further clarify his thoughts and also to explore ideas as to how working in a rural Japanese environment might influence his project’s process and outcome. He acknowledges Japanese tradition in construction methods combining… View more
An invited group exhibition with a very human theme Bridgit Anderson, Joanna Braithwaite, Glenn Busch, Nigel Buxton, Julia Holden, Andy Leleisi’uao, Euan Macleod, Marian Maguire, Richard McWhannell, Kristin Stephenson, Phillip Trusttum, Keinyo White, Tim J. Veling FLOORTALK: Sat 7 June, 11am Euan Macleod Nigel Buxton Joanna Braithwaite … View more
A sheet of newspaper lies on the pavement, saturated and translucent from recent rain. The underside bleeds upwards to appear on the surface. Disparate stories and images overlap and interfere with each other. Images and text from the underside appear as latent images; half formed and visible before the page has even been turned. This… View more
Elegant and architectural, Stan Bowski’s abstract constructions capture space. Loosely labelled ‘paintings’ the works in The Width of a Room could be aptly described as wall sculptures. “The idea of how paintings occupy space became increasingly important as I made these works. The volume within a room, and the space that is displaced by objects,… View more
Autumn Selection Artists include: Bridgit Anderson, Nigel Buxton, Darryn George, Polly Gilroy, Thomas Hancock, Rebecca Harris, Euan Macleod, Marian Maguire, John Reynolds, Stefan Roberts, Aiko Robinson, Grant Takle, Philip Trusttum, and more.
To enquire about any of the works currently installed at the Observatory Hotel, Arts Centre, please email us – thank you. Or, better yet, visit Folds & Shadows #2 by Nigel Buxton 2024, oil on canvas, diptych $12,500 Oscillation Polly Gilroy 2023, stretched silk, 1120 x 920mm $3500 Ultramarine Nigel Buxton 2021,… View more
Thomas Hancock’s exhibition Mass in Flux is a new series of oil paintings that lean into process-based methods to explore abstraction. He began these works by sculpting, photographing and digitally manipulating forms that became ‘models’, then employing his skills in still-life painting to depict solitary objects in fictional spaces. ‘I employ chance and happenstance in… View more
In Janna van Hasselt’s exhibition Flop on Pop, her porcelain structures ooze with tactile exuberance. New woven and flowing ceramic paintings glow from walls while more sculptural glazed forms slump on floating discs of colour. “I find inspiration in the everyday; the minutiae of life as a parent. Precarious stacks of laundry, collapsing play huts,… View more
We are thrilled to bring a selection of new 2017-2018 etchings by Aiko Robinson into stock. Of Japanese-New Zealand heritage, Robinson has developed a laboriously detailed practice that draws on traditional printmaking and ink on paper techniques. In 2020 Aiko Robinson completed a two-year Masters of Printmaking scholarship from the prestigious Tokyo University of… View more
Gestaltwandler, 2025, tent fragments, sleeping bags, curtains, blankets, clothing, duvet cover, webbing, cord, thread Carapace is a body of work I started developing during the pandemic. At the time I was questioning how I could sustain a sculpture practice without a specific destination for my work. This led me to making portable and tactile sculpture that… View more