Revolving Summer Show – featuring recent works and old favourites viewable throughout the gallery.Nigel Buxton, Darryn George, Polly Gilroy, Euan Macleod, Marian Maguire, Simon Ogden, Vivienne Murchison, Jenna Packer, John Reynolds, Stefan Roberts, Terry Stringer, Grant Takle.
Featuring: Nigel Buxton, Andrew Bond, Darryn George, Euan Macleod, Craig Potton, Marian Maguire, Simon Ogden, Vivienne Murchison, John Reynolds, Terry Stringer, Grant Takle NIGEL BUXTON ANDREW BOND DARRYN GEORGE EUAN MACLEOD Euan Macleod’s paintings on paper are approximately 300x400mm (precise size varies) and are all presented unframed, $3000 each. Imagery relates to the… View more
Catalogue is an oddly dispassionate title for this exhibition of twenty small paintings by Chloe Summerhayes. It understates their liveliness. Using domestic or ornamental objects as a starting point, she has made a visual journal of things she has been intuitively, inextricably drawn to. For her, the meaning of each chosen object is less important… View more
Barbara Boekelman’s large-scale paintings brim with vitality and intricacy. Reworking is central to her method. Using representative imagery as a starting point, she draws, obscures, wipes away, redraws and paints over, gradually surrendering to a predominantly abstract fusion of colour and form. In an intuitive exercise of concealing and revealing, the foreground and background continuously… View more
Stefan Roberts offers an unusual way of comprehending landscape. The elegant black and white photographs in Excursion are honest recordings of local topography. Or are they? Photography was invented during the nineteenth century when the wonders of science challenged the status quo and inventions came thick and fast. The first photographs must have been thought… View more
Katie Thomas draws on the tradition of European Modernism and Abstraction yet her painting also takes its cue from her engagement with the natural world in the here and now. Changes in light, colour, atmosphere and space are a direct influence on her studio practice. Large in scale, her paintings are gesturally active yet serene,… View more
New paintings and ceramics The seven paintings in this exhibition all have a basis in observed reality but appear as if from another realm. Some works flicker with light and are reminiscent of the Pointillist artist George Seurat or the Impressionist Camille Pissaro yet Harris’s consideration of gesture and colour is driven by her own… View more
The Artist ‘Artist’ is an umbrella term encompassing a full spectrum of visible, and invisible, creative activities that touch and affect almost every aspect of contemporary life. In this series I honour the often unseen and undervalued workers at the creative coalface. Considering our current government’s attitude towards the arts with cutbacks and withdrawal of… View more
New Zealand born, Sydney based artist, Joanna Braithwaite titles her new exhibition Call of Nature. Pun intended. With the curiosity of an anthropologist she wittily comments on human and animal behaviour. Snakes, couches, newspapers, monkeys, laptops and lavatories abound. Her brush moves with sure intention. When Joanna paints animals it is as if she has… View more
Creating what he describes as topographic photo-maps that act as intimate studies of light, weather and water, Tim J. Veling has produced a broad art-documentary record of Ōtautahi’s Pūharakekenui Styx River catchment. This work marks Veling’s first experiments utilising the tri-colour separation process. The resulting prints are ghostly impressions of delineated light. They carry an extended… View more