An exhibition of self-portraits by one of New Zealand’s most well-respected contemporary painters. These monumental paintings on loose canvas are inventively composed and energetically created. They demonstrate Philip Trusttum’s fluidity with paint and freedom in picture-construction, confidence which comes from a lifelong commitment to art. Please join us on Sat 24 Feb,11am for a floortalk… View more
Featuring: Philippa Blair, Nigel Buxton, Rebecca Harris, Chris Pole, Thomas Hancock, Janna van Hasselt, Euan Macleod, Vivienne Murchison, Richard McWhannell, Simon Ogden. James Robinson, Chloe Summerhayes, Terry Stringer Philippa Blair Nigel Buxton Rebecca Harris Chris Pole Thomas Hancock Janna van Hasselt Euan Macleod Vivienne Murchison Richard McWhannell Simon Ogden James Robinson Chloe Summehayes Terry… View more
Jacqui Colley’s painterly dialect is clear and strong in her latest body of work. The fundamental physical attributes of the paintings are the grammar of Colley’s visual language. The flat, rectangular canvas, the medium, the texture dictate the ultimate form of each work and provide the foundation for meaning and expression. Colour is syntactical, providing… View more
‘Over four decades Simon Ogden’s painting and prints have sustained the immediate attention of all viewing his work. Indeed, this experience has been publicly accounted for by Auckland artist John Hurrell, observing that Ogden’s subjects encroach on the viewer’s space, sitting forward in surfaces that don’t recede, engaging those who look. His new exhibition Con.form.i.ty… View more
“I’m involved with this idea of our consciousness existing in a metaphysical realm. During this diaspora into this alternative world, I imagine our consciousness taking human like forms and like all migrants they introduce their own memory, language and culture to share while assimilating.” This exhibition of thirteen paintings creates a world imbued with an… View more
Christine’s Jewellery Box is about the loss of my mother and a reclaiming of memories. In 2018, I inherited my father’s garden. Three years earlier he had said ‘my gardening days are over, do what you like and make it your own.’ In one corner sits a weather-beaten greenhouse. Not just a place for my… View more
Maurice Lye suspects we never really left the Stone Age. It is from the substance of Earth – our spinning rock, one of only four non-gaseous planets in our Solar System – that we mine what we need to fabricate what we desire. Even the very latest technology wouldn’t be possible without minerals hewn from… View more
Sefton Rani sees himself as a sculptural painter. His work is primarily created with solidified paint skins which he uses to investigate the materiality of paint and how far it can be pushed. The paint skins, which are formed on glass, plastic or objects, once dry, are peeled off and enhanced with various materials and… View more
New Work Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Buxton, Darryn George, Chloe Summerhayes, Katie Thomas, Tim J. Veling Enquiries Joanna Braithwaite Darryn George Chloe Summerhayes Tim J. Veling Katie Thomas Nigel Buxton Enquiries
A new suite of paintings and drawings on paper. While researching towards The Enlightenment Project, Marian Maguire stumbled upon the microscopic investigations of Nehemiah Grew, a seventeenth century plant anatomist. She was inspired by his remarkable illustrations of the cellular structure of leaves, stems, seeds and roots, published in ‘The Anatomy of Plants’… View more