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
Polly Gilroy presents a new suite of stretched silk ‘paintings’ which conjure chromatic and spatial harmonies evocative of our environment. Their appearance forever shifts in changing light. Gilroy takes inspiration from the Support/Surfaces movement that emerged from the South of France during the 1960s and 1970s. Protagonists of that movement stripped painting down… View more
In four gigantic leaps Marian Maguire bounds across an earthly timeline from pre-history to the current era. Plants, animals, minerals, fire and water pack these highly detailed prints, that are shaped as worlds but also form eyes. Alongside the World prints are the two major works from her 2022 Enlightenment Project series, which were the precursor to these images… View more
Four large paintings dominate this exhibition by esteemed artist Philippa Blair. These robust abstract works continue to forge paths into new compositional areas. Through them she is raw, playful, honest and curious. Each painting is a journey. Blair’s exhibiting career spans fifty years, both throughout New Zealand and on the international stage, and these paintings… View more
Artists respond to the dynamic boundary between land and sea Josh Bashford, Jacqui Colley, Maurice Lye, Euan Macleod, Marian Maguire, Vivienne Murchison, Jenna Packer, Chris Pole, Stefan Roberts Coastlines delineate the human realm yet the line between land and sea is never fixed. Coastal regions – beaches, cliffs, estuaries – are ever-changing and often fragile…. View more
In this colourful exhibition Nigel Buxton presents paintings in the tradition of trompe l’oeil. These works, at first glance, persuade us to accept illusion. Paint modelled on flat surface tricks us, for a moment, into believing we see drapery in three dimensions. The flops and folds of fabric curve sensuously in and out of shadow… View more
Grant Takle has cut a couple of hundred records into neat sections to make Sound Proof. The discs – now in halves, quarters and thirds – are silenced, yet the suggestion of music is not. What comes across is the visual resonance of a grooved rhythm in reflective black, rippling across the wall. The colour… View more