. ‘The past is a foreign country’, so begins L P Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go Between. A line that beautifully captures the elusive nature of memory. Most of us recall the past as fragmented moments, hard visual or audible information that we flesh out with imagined scenarios that validate our personal agendas. The Law… View more
This new exhibition of large paintings juxtaposes views of the working life; both inside and outside the studio. In one grouping, the artist converted the insistent thud of pile-driving that occurred just over his fence, into the impulse for a set of loose canvases in which monumental piles create vertical rhythms across flattened backgrounds. Drawing… View more
The Butterfly Effect… ‘There is the galactic time of the stars, there is the geological time of mountains, there is the lifetime of a butterfly.’ John Berger It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. The Butterfly Effect, a… View more
Born and based in Ōtautahi, acclaimed artist Darryn George is of Ngāpuhi descent. His paintings reflect the breadth of his cultural roots, finding their anchorage in his Christian faith and his Māori heritage. He has primarily worked with geometric abstraction, often executed with immaculate finish, but over the past few years tones have undulated, texture… View more
Paper Road: A road that has been planned but not built Paper Road is where I have been thinking about the future – in climate, politics, and relationships – and about recorded history versus storytelling. The paintings are of invented locations, with imagined figures drawn in part from art historical images, personal archives and news… View more
Central to Ōtautahi based artist Vivienne Murchison’s practise is her synaesthetic experience of colour. To exploit this subjective experience she offers the opportunity to experience colour as she does – as energy – each colour a unique vibration in constant motion. Her research has evolved into a practice which exploits the luminous quality of watercolour… View more
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 Hollis, 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