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

18 March – 11 April: Janna van Hasselt – Flop on Pop – new ceramics Thomas Hancock – Mass in Flux – new paintings OPENING: Tues 18 March, 5,30pm ARTIST TALK: Weds 19 March, 12noon 15 – 26 April: Autumn Selection 29 April – 23 May: Ron Left Stan Bowski OPENING: Tues 29 April, 5,30pm… 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

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

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

  Most of us at some stage have encountered the ‘His Master’s Voice’ logo, The curious cross-breed terrier peering into the sound-horn of an old-style gramaphone. This image has become the inspiration behind Andrew Bond’s latest suite of paintings. His love of music and its pivotal role as a catalyst for image making within his… View more

In this selection of 21 photographs, assembled over decades of exploring New Zealand, Sydney-based photographer MikiNobu Komatsu invites you to cast fresh eyes on Aotearoa’s buildings, streets and landmarks – some of which are still with us, others no longer existing. These photographs reflect his artist’s eye and capture light and shadow as much as… View more

In this poignant exhibition of new paintings by Sydney-based artist Euan Macleod, figures again roam dramatic landscapes. He imagines his ageing mother, June, making her way along the familiar routes of the Port Hills and Lyttelton Harbour, walking-stick in hand. Sometimes she has her great grandson Henry in tow. The two have never met. Through… View more

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

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 Stringer

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

  It’s Saturday evening in the fish and chip shop on the main drag. It’s absolutely pissing down in the way that the skies west of the Main Divide only seem to know how. Eight men sit on benches, waiting to collect their deep-fried feed. “Good for the rain tanks but not much else,” says one of them,… View more

a colour has many faces  Salome Tanuvasa, Janna Van Hasselt, Poppy Lekner, Lily Custance, Polly Gilroy Curated by Polly Gilroy Artists use colour to make you feel or see something, however a single colour can be translated in many ways. There is an undeniable instability to colour. Although, on a surface level hues appear stable,… View more

On the dead limb squats a crow – autumn night. BASHO John Reynolds’ recent paintings strike a foreboding tone, ‘as if a storm were coming.’ The works suggest a painting is itself a catastrophe of sorts. There’s a fragmentation and disquiet at play with a bright nervosity and an arc of breezy fatalism. Despite this… View more

AUTUMN HARVEST Bridgit Anderson, Philippa Blair, Barbara Boekelman, Andrew Bond, Jacqui Colley, Rebecca Harris, Julia Holden, Ralph Hotere, Euan Macleod, Simon Ogden, John Pule, James Robinson, Richard McWhannell, Grant Takle Featuring work pulled from the archives, fresh arrivals, and plum works from recent shows. Below is a sample of works from the show:    .  … View more

James Robinson is an expressionist artist assosiated with a generation of painters in New Zealand that gained national prominence in the early 2000’s     Robinson says that the paintings in Witches’ Song are experimental free-hanging works that, although individual, oscillate against one another, putting their secret pieces together, and as with most of my… View more

Barbara Boekelman’s large-scale paintings brim with vitality and intricacy. The works are expressive and unified by palette and process. Reworking is central. She draws, obscures, wipes away, redraws and paints over. It’s through this process that curious forms and colour relationships emerge. The life of each painting begins with rich and varied narrative achieved by… View more

  Cosmological nonsense or mythological mumbo jumbo are two descriptors that Andrew Bond would proudly associate with this body of work. Taking a cue from the ambiguous phrase ‘The Golden Bough’, Andrew has delved into its uses and meanings through literature and art, and filtered it through his own subjectivity to create paintings that journey… View more

James Robinson FERMENT, 121 individual works on paper, 210x150mm approx (detail above)           Joanna Braithwaite     Nigel Buxton     Jacqui Colley   Polly Gilroy      Thomas Hancock     Viv Kepes     Maurice Lye     Euan Macleod   Marian Maguire       Vivienne Murchison   Simon Ogden   Chris… View more

Teeming with colour these new works by Darryn George burst with life. Utopic visions are depicted through organic mark-making with a new introduction of birds perching amidst branches and foliage. “I’m still interested in working with the Garden of Eden theme but I wanted to introduce birds because of Aotearoa’s special relationship with them –… View more

  These 12 paintings on paper were part of ‘In the street I was lost …‘, an exhibition first shown in 2020 which was dominated by an epic 7.4 metre painting of the same name. Unfortunately the exhibition opened on the very day Aotearoa New Zealand first went into lockdown so was unseen. The recent WIDE… View more

W I D E A celebration of the panoramic format John Reynolds Philippa Blair Mark Sharman Simon Ogden Chris Pole Rebecca Harris Stefan Roberts Tim J. Veling ________________________________________________________ In the street I was lost…  John Reynolds 2020, acrylic and oil paint marker on linen canvas, 2100  x 7400mm In this epic 2020 painting John Reynolds… View more

“The Waterlog series explores the importance of water as a pivotal and vulnerable force within nature. Water sculpts, rots, and nourishes. In my work, the water that shapes and informs the environment has been allowed to alter and shape the photographic interpretation of the landscape. Just as waters influence on the environment is gradual, so… View more

  Rebecca Harris often feels her paintings are a continually evolving project. When I look at them, it is as if her hand has only just left the surface. If I turn my back, I imagine she may reappear and busy herself with small alterations, completely absorbed. Under the twigs, leaves, flowers, dew drops and… View more

The Enlightenment Project An exploration of Western history In an attempt to understand Western history and its world-wide impact Marian Maguire produced a new suite of prints that map philosophical ideas, politics, scientific discoveries, inventions and historical events. Her starting point was the Age of Enlightenment – it was during that era that Cook’s Endeavour… View more

Various obsessions are in play with this latest work: my life long fascination with the painting of C14th and early C15th Flanders, the role played by drapery throughout the old master period and various characters who appear in these works, some known others anonymous. One of the faces is contemporary and lives here in Christchurch… View more

Julia Holden’s new paintings tell the story of the regulars at Little Palm Beach on Waiheke Island and the daily social interactions of its community of clothing-optional bathers. ARTIST TALK – Weds 22 June, 12pm Join artist Julia Holden as she discusses her current practice and exhibition      Also on show, 4 performance photographic works… View more

An exhibition that traverses invented landscapes on a shoestring, driven by the richness of the artist’s imagination and his painterly skill.   ARTIST STATEMENT: Several series of previous work are connected here. Previous exhibitions: ‘Springs and Falls’, ‘Take Me to the River’ and ‘Truth or Consequences’ are all involved in a similar way to what… View more

“In order to use colour effectively it is necessary to recognise that colour deceives continually.” Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963) Casting observations from her previous PG Gallery exhibition in 2020, Polly Gilroy presents a study of light and shadow in the gallery space. Taking cue from the reflections which cascaded across former bodies of… View more

             “Colour like music, you cannot hold back from an emotion, whereas black and white is linked with writing and the letter and reason, color is not  rational, color is dangerous. You fall into it. You can’t control it” Quote from Pipilotti Rist in article by Carolina A. Miranda for LA Times On her 2021… View more

“Landscape might be something of a commonplace term, but it is one with a variety of different meanings. It might be used to describe the material terrain or topography of land, or to conceptualise the broader interactions of environment. As a political space, landscape might refer to human entanglements with the ‘natural’ world and the social implications of dwelling… View more

An exhibition of nine exquisite oil paintings by Thomas Hancock. ‘Once Removed’ brings together paintings representing a variety of subjects and categories; found objects, imagined objects and created objects, repositioned as still life, photographs, digital and hand-made drawings and three-dimensional works, described by Hancock as a ‘middle ground’ prior to their resolution as paintings. – Warren Feeney… View more

Philippa Blair Joanna Braithwaite Nigel Buxton            Rebecca Harris         Chris Pole John Reynolds Aiko Robinson James Robinson Terry Stringer

Is it possible to claim that painting is an extreme sport?   Artist and trustee of the Yvonne Rust West Coast Arts Trust, Evelyn Hewlett answers ‘yes’ maintaining that for almost five decades, Catherine Brough’s plein-air paintings out in the field and on the front-line in Canterbury and the West Coast are an affirmation that this is true.   ‘When you look… View more

‘Given the chaos of the last 18 months, I’m increasingly appreciative of being able to work outside in some very beautiful gardens. The peace afforded by working in silence and watching the undaunted life-cycle of nature through the seasons, leaves an indelible mark on my work in the studio. Much of this body of work is influenced… View more

In this exhibition Maurice Lye captures domesticity and displacement through a nostalgic lens. Homeward Bound spans several decades with some works being as recent as 2020 and old as 1978. Each photograph offers a glimpse into strangely familiar yet unfamiliar settings. Some were taken away from home, when occupancy is temporary; others were taken within home, where… View more

  Curate Me A Response to the Ara Artwork Collection Artists and academics have drawn inspiration from museum and art collections for centuries. Here, Curate Me brings together works from the Ara Artwork Collection and the responses inspired by them in a dynamic manner. Participants: postgraduate students, staff, and alumni, from across a range of… View more

  Spring Selection until 24 September Including gallery artists Darryn George, John Reynolds, Philippa Blair, Marian Maguire, Nigel Buxton, Euan Macleod, Vivienne Murchison, Rebecca Harris, Ralph Hotere, Sefton Rani, Andy Leleisi’uao. Due to Delta and Lockdown disruptions to our exhibition schedule we have rehung a new stock show until we open our next exhibition.    … View more

Andy Leleisi’uao is polite in his manner, careful not to offend. It is in the studio that he articulates what is on his mind and speaks to the truth of colonial migrant experience and it isn’t all easy to hear. In this new exhibition, Umbilical Brown, he doesn’t paint for us utopias or highlight myth,… View more

Sefton Rani’s father worked in a paint factory in Avondale, West Auckland. His co-workers were predominantly Samoan, Tongan or Cook Islander, as Sefton’s father was himself. He had arrived in Aotearoa at the age of twenty in 1959 or 1960 with only ‘yes’ and ‘no’ in English. Sefton’s father learnt fast. He became a shader… View more

  Stella and Cecil Wallace created a home and a dental surgery at 43 Beach Road, Kaikoura in 1915. In 2020 Anderson collaborated with Margaret Egan, Stella and Cecil’s granddaughter, to create a series of 27 still life images composed of childhood memories, everyday domestic objects and the antique paraphernalia of Cecil’s dental practice. Drawing… View more

‘This show is built around a response to COVID-19 and started with a set of loose canvas paintings based on ideas relating to social distancing, isolation bubbles, and clusters. “Feedback” from these paintings then flowed into my general practice and I went on to produce the large circular paintings. I also extended the on-going use of… View more

        Ralph Hotere took printmaking seriously. He was responsive to materials in everything he did. He picked up tools, handled substances and worked with what they could do. He never fought the medium, always worked with it. In his hands an electric grinder might scribe light into stainless steel, paint might spread… View more

Birds fly through plants and trees amidst a wondrous array of patterns in this major exhibition of Simon Ogden‘s linoleum constructions 2019 – 2021. These works are painterly yet barely a brush touches them. They are refreshingly crafted from found linoleum with patterns evocative of times past while remaining free of specific historical constraint. The… View more

Euan Macleod and well known New Zealand photographer Craig Potton spent a few nights together near the top of the Tasman Glacier early in 2020. In the uncontained Australian fire season of summer 2019-20, not only was the sky above much of Aotearoa stained a reddish brown by smoke, dust and ash, there were reports… View more

    Janneth Gil and Viv Kepes were both profoundly moved by the shocking attack on Christchurch’s Muslim community on 15 March 2019. As artists they were conscious of both the historical role of the visual arts as an act of witnessing and remembering of historical events, and reparative power of art for a traumatised society…. View more

Viv Kepes and Janneth Gil were both profoundly moved by the shocking attack on Christchurch’s Muslim community on 15 March 2019. As artists they were conscious of both the historical role of the visual arts as an act of witnessing and remembering of historical events, and reparative power of art for a traumatised society. Many in… View more

Recent works and old favourites viewable throughout the gallery, including artists: Julia Holden, Richard McWhannell, Marian Maguire, W.D Hammond, Euan Macleod, James Robinson, Vivienne Murchison, Tony Bond, Ralph Hotere, Terry Stringer, Katharina Jaeger, John Reynolds, Donna-Marie Patterson, Philippa Blair, Nigel Buxton, Andrew Ross, Aiko Robinson, Rebecca Harris, Grant Takle, Maurice Lye, Darryn George and more

We celebrate the end of 2020 with an elegant exhibition featuring: Philippa Blair, Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Buxton, Vivienne Murchison, Donna-Marie Patterson, John Reynolds, Terry Stringer (See also Euan Macleod’s exhibition High Wire, on show in the Side Gallery) Thank you for your continued support this year and wishing you health and happiness for 2021 ~ Marian, Nigel… View more

The etchings, drawings and works on paper in this exhibition were all made towards a book project Euan Macleod undertook with Booker finalist Lloyd Jones. High Wire was published by Massey University Press earlier in 2020. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New… View more

The night burned dark and a pair of courting birds sped past, disappearing with a whoosh into foliage. The paintings of Rebecca Harris inspire narrative. She tells us no story – there are no characters, no beginning, no end – but she sets the scene for a tale one might tell oneself. They invite entry. One… View more

“For those who are familiar with my previous works this exhibition may come as a small surprise. I’ve typically favoured the monochrome, and if on the rare occasion when I introduced colour, it was with a subdued and subtle palette inspired by the Japanese Ukiyoe artists of the 17th and 19th centuries (Edo period). When… View more

  23 March – 10 April Opening Tues 23 March, 5.30pm Euan Macleod Lessons in Isolation   13 April – 7 May Opening Tues 13 April, 5.30pm Simon Ogden Digging in the dirt for diamonds   11 May – 7 May Opening Tues 11 May, 5.30pm Ralph Hotere prints 8 June – 3 July Opening… View more

Seeing what’s there the individuality of observation Philippa Blair, Nigel Buxton and Katharina Jaeger Maurice Lye, Richard McWhannell, Andrew Ross I went to artschool in the early 1980s and drawing was central to our training. We drew from live models one full day a week. I learned that I must look, really look, look hard…. View more

The Garden of Eden was the start point for these new works by Darryn George. He draws as if seeking a return to an age of innocence, when enjoyment in nature was less complicated. These works are a radical departure from George’s earlier paintings. He abandons the austerity of highly polished surfaces, straight lines and… View more

In this elegant exhibition Polly Gilroy has assembled a body of work that cultivates the space between us, and explores the many faces of colour through sensory and perceptual experiences. Intriguingly titled ‘In absence of’, these works are elusive. Soft hazes of silk slowly engulf colours whilst selectively capturing and amplifying light. This new series brings the… View more

“EDGELAND is the name of David Eggleton’s last poetry volume, so I use this word as a beginning. The resonance in the ‘Edge’ and ‘Land’ are vast symbolically. Literally in the material of the craft I’ve languaged the edges, either spliced cut joined de-constructed and heated. David often masticates metaphor and symbol in cyclic ingestions,… View more

ARTIST STATEMENT –  Shock after shock Grant Takle Critiquing our society, Takle grapples with tough topics, seeking to illuminate social and political realities. ‘This group of works is a response to Christchurch and its ongoing calamities. It draws from the psychological and sociological forces experienced in the aftermath of two of New Zealand’s most devastating disasters. The… View more

         Open and Close (Pyramid series #6) James Robinson 2019, canvas, fabric and mixed media, 2200 x 2200mm (sold) Notes on ‘Open and Close’ James Robinson, 2019 This canvas and fabric collage is part of a series of mandalas after a long journey through India and Egypt in 2018. It’s both a tunnel… View more

  Nigel Buxton most usually expresses ‘interiors’ or ‘still life’ with a strong sense of his own presence. His gesture, his positioning in the room and the time spent are all very evident. Drapes have long been props within his studio set-up and in these large-scale works they claim deliberate presence in their own right. In… View more

        The first five are called Squeeze  #m1 – #m5 Acrylic on handmade Khadi Indian cotton paper 640g Paper size approx: 770 x 570mm $2400 each unframed              The four small ones are also called Squeeze #s1 – #s4 Acrylic on handmade Khadi Indian cotton paper 320g Paper size… View more

The Spanish Woman (Jack Mitchell-Anyon, after Edith Collier) by Julia Holden 2019, photographic recording of a painting on live model, archival pigment print, 1 of 1. 695 x 605mm framed $3200 Painting directly on a live model, Julia Holden pays homage to a portrait by Edith Collier and elicits a sense of pathos that reaches… View more

Still Life #72 by Nigel Buxton 2005, ink and chalk pastel on paper. 1030 x 760mm 1230 x 920mm (framed) $5200 More often than not, art making is a solo activity. Lockdown is therefore familiar territory for artists. The sense of living-in-the-studio is clearly exemplified in Nigel Buxton’s work. His most persistent theme, one that… View more

Forest Light Rebecca Harris 2019, oil on board, 930 x 1240mm $5500 Based on nature, this painting marks a change from Rebecca’s fantastical paintings though an aura of otherworldliness still imbues it. Teetering on a line between the magical and the real Rebecca is inspired by nature and the feelings that rise up in her… View more

. In the street l was lost… Samuel Beckett The End. ‘…. as if the landscape Had plans to be a Nolan. The desolation of it. ‘ Clive James The River in the Sky With his Christchurch exhibition In the street l was lost… John Reynolds extends his ongoing ‘Lost Hours’ series, which ponders the fateful disappearance… View more

Donna-Marie Patterson spends her time between Kaimata on the West Coast and Christchurch. She investigates aspects of ecology, as a realm of connectivity, between nature and humans. Ecological ideas are fused with scientific, historical, cultural and political concerns. Her works illustrate the complex processes through which the natural and human-made realms interact, the intersectionalities between… View more

For Vivienne Murchison there is an internal experience of instantaneous and dynamically changing tonal impressions which overlay colour vibrations onto moods, atmosphere, music and personalities. Go Beyond is a series of paintings in response to these ‘colour sensations’ and offers us the notion that colour is a form of consciousness. An annual sojourn to the… View more

Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Buxton, Polly Gilroy, W.D Hammond, Rebecca Harris, Viv Kepes, Euan Macleod, Richard McWhannell, Donna-Marie Patterson, James Robinson, Terry Stringer, Grant Takle Joanna Braithwaite   Nigel Buxton   Polly GIlroy W.D.Hammond Rebecca Harris Viv Kepes Euan Macleod      Richard McWhannell Donna-Marie Patterson   James Robinson Terry Stringer Grant Takle      

       A collection of new paintings exploring mythology, displacement and imagined utopias. Using a mixture of traditional and contemporary iconographies Andy Leleisi’uao puzzles over humanity and human relations.          

I started the big grey drawing in February of 2012 during a brief artist-in-residence stint at the Caselberg Trust House in Portobello on Otago Peninsula. I wrote something about it at the time which I have just reread. I find it interesting – what I said and what I didn’t say – because my memory… View more

With immense emotional and physical commitment Philippa Blair has created a fresh body of dynamically abstract paintings. Honesty within each work is something she strives for. Not one stroke is contrived or false. She takes inspiration from the great American playwright Sam Shepard when he said, “You can’t make a mistake when you improvise… it’s… View more

Polly’s debut solo exhibition Within and Without presents a suite of eight 2019 works that quietly ask for your attention. The works demarcate space, absorb sound and activate different chromatic relationships within and without. These relationships are enhanced by light and shadow throughout the day, encouraging spacial awareness. Within and Without is a term used… View more

BILLOW – an installation that occupies the gallery space. Christchurch artist, Katharina Jaeger, recontextualises familiar things in a way that is disorientating and invites us to consider them afresh.                                  Born in Zurich 1964, Katharina Jaeger studied art at Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich before… View more

  Two large works on paper and a collection of drawings from the mid-1980’s to the present. Presented courtesy of Jonathan Smart Gallery. Kristin Stephenson (Hollis) first studied art in the England during the 1960’s and drawing has been central to her practice since. For more about Kristin Stephenson: Jonathan Smart Gallery – artist Artist… View more

   Newly Formed presents two bodies of work produced while Julia Holden was artist-in-residence at Tylee Cottage, Whanganui, 2018, plus two additional portraits. Of the performance portraits, the first five form a suite based on original portraits by New Zealand artists that were part of Sarjeant Gallery’s exhibition, ‘125 Celebrating Women: Works from the Collection.’ This exhibition opened… View more

Nine intense and delicate paintings by Christchurch artist Rebecca Harris which take their impulse from the world she sees combined with the landscape of her imagination.      Rebecca Harris graduated with an MFA in painting at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 2013 after previously completing a degree in Art and… View more

        WINTER STOCK Philippa Blair, Tony Bond, Roger Boyce, Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Buxton, Bill Culbert, Julia Holden, Ralph Hotere, Euan Macleod, Marian Maguire, Simon Ogden James Robinson, Andrew Ross, Terry Stringer, Tim J. Veling, Ana Catalina Vicuña Featuring work pulled from the archives, fresh arrivals, and plum works from recent shows.          … View more