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
17 Sept – 11 Oct: Rebecca Harris – Sprinkled Julia Holden – The Artist 15 Oct – 1 Nov: Katie Thomas – Altered Landscape Stefan Roberts – Excursion OPENING: Tues 15 Oct, 5.30pm 5 – 29 Nov: Chloe Summerhayes Barbara Boekelman OPENING: Tues 5 Nov, 5.30pm 3 – 21 Dec: XMAS ’24 OPENING: Tues 3… 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
‘It began as an exercise, an experiment. surrounded by water, stepping on loose lands, this was a way to accept my own reality: temporary, suspended, and vulnerable. Searching the void, freeing the mind of thoughts, images, and words, I understood how white space, just like silence, has meaning. As tides, sometimes high, and sometimes low,… View more
For eight years Tim J. Veling has been photographing the Residential Redzone in Christchurch, starting when houses were still being demolished, observing the clearances, the wildness, the mowing, the management. It has become meditative returning for him; he is a patient witness to change. In this grouping he focusses on a double row of cypresses,… View more
New Zealand raised, Sydney based artist Joanna Braithwaite presents ten paintings in this stunning new collection. This is her first one-person in exhibition in Christchurch since 2010 and PG is proud to host her return. Joanna Braithwaite is the winner of the 2019 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize. SLIDE TALK: Grant Banbury on Joanna Braithwaite… View more
Spaciphic Object #1 – 13 Tony Bond 2018 – 2019, acrylic, aluminium, silicon, and acrylic lacquer. Ranging from 340 – 540mm across, approx 200mm depth. $4,500 each For list of works available. Christchurch born and raised, Tony Bond has been exhibiting his object-based work throughout New Zealand since the year 2000. Having initially studied… View more
AUTUMN: Philippa Blair, Darryn George, W.D Hammond, Julia Holden, Euan Macleod, Terry Stringer Philippa Blair Darryn George W.D Hammond Julia Holden Euan Macleod Terry Stringer
Relative Locations Chris Pole In this exhibition of new paintings Chris Pole has worked from photographs of the Canterbury high country, an area he knows well. By slicing and sliding the frames, thus shifting the groundlines, he has created abrupt mismatches that accentuate the upward thrust of the mountains, the downward pull of scree slopes… View more
Remember Me Rangitahua’s Treasure Viv Kepes This series of paintings was made in support of a research project currently being undertaken by two of NZ’s top marine ecologists, Dr David Aguirre and Dr Libby Liggins. They are studying the adaptations of the corals at the Rangitahua (Kermadec Island) Marine Sanctuary to their rugged… View more
Over the summer period PG Gallery192 will be exhibiting a rotating selection from stock. We currently have works on show from the following artists: Yukari Kaihori, Julia Holden, John Reynolds, James Robinson, Hamish Coleman, Richard McWhannell, Robert McLeod, Bill Hammond, Aiko Robinson, Tony Bond, Roger Boyce, Rebecca Harris, Andy Leleisi’uao, Tim Veling, Donna-Marie Patterson, Simon… View more
William Bennett, Philippa Blair, Tony Bond, Roger Boyce, Nigel Buxton, Rebecca Harris, Katharina Jaeger, Euan Macleod, Marian Maguire, Richard McWhannell, Donna-Marie Patterson, John Reynolds, James Robinson, Anya Sinclair, Terry Stringer, Tim Veling, Ana-Catalina Vicuña Tony Bond Philippa Blair William Bennett Roger Boyce Nigel Buxton Rebecca Harris Katharina Jaeger Viv Kepes… View more
FOLDING IN FORESTS Aiko Robinson I am currently undertaking my masters in printmaking at Tokyo University of the Arts. This exhibition is made up of a select few works from my time in Tokyo so far. My work is a response to Shunga (‘spring pictures’), a form of pornography that flourished in Japan during the… View more
Flow I WHITE WHISPER Yukari Kaihori White is the colour of the baby’s baptismal robes, the bride’s dress, and the deceased’s robes. In Eastern and Western cultures, we often use the colour white at the rituals when one enters a new stage of life to represent renewal and rebirth. This tendency to use the colour… View more
This is Robert McLeod’s first exhibition in Christchurch for ten years and is thus something of a ‘catch-up’ exhibition, featuring paintings that illustrate some of the strands in his work from 2010 to 2018. His perverse ‘Disneyesque’ figures are a response to the current state of prejudice and intolerance in the world. McLeod comments that he… View more
‘To gain a sense of the object in three dimensions has led to me changing the image, as seen by the viewer moving around the sculpture. I am showing that idea in this exhibition, but more recently I have approached the figure sculpture somewhat differently. A new treatment I have adopted is to carve into… View more
A whiter shade of pale Simon Ogden’s intention, in this fresh set of works, was to step sideways from the patterning and decoration of the linoleum works that have been a major part of his practice over the last decade and return to liquid medium. In the A whiter shade of pale series,… View more
“In an era of climate change and global warming, Euan Macleod’s meditations upon the planetary water-cycle have gained a particular poignancy. Whereas, in earlier series, his ubiquitous, striding protagonist was placed on the ocean-floor, wading through water or climbing snow-clad alps, the figure has now moved to a higher territory of the hydrosphere. …As he surveys the… View more
Darryn George presents an exhibition of nine of his most recent abstract paintings. These works – enriched with deep, saturated blues and reds – all centralise a Maori word that directly translates to communicate an underlying meaning. ‘The Journey paintings record places the Israelites went through, after leaving Egypt, on their way to the Promised Land…. View more
‘What bliss there is in blueness.’ – Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark ‘Blue comes to us through silence and mystery and much argument.’ – Colm Tóibín, In Lovely Blueness. ‘Blue speaks of the morning, of the sky & of the sea. Yet as the fish with cross-weaving of colour had taught me, contained in… View more
noun: fanfiction a term used to describe the inventions of an admirer of an existing piece of work (most often a novel, TV show or movie), which feature characters or storylines borrowed from the original. after Edouard Manet Julia Holden has recreated five still life paintings by Manet by modelling asparagus, apples, plums and mandarins in… View more
‘It was the hottest September day ever recorded in the UK. The balcony of my London flat overlooked Shadwell Basin (an old tobacco dock just off the Thames in East London) and as the steamy late afternoon arrived so did the throngs of people seeking relief from it. The crowd slowly grew, swimming, sunning,… View more
‘These are a play between the works of Gordon Walters and those of Piet Mondrian. I have kept to the horizontal lines of Gordon Walter’s koru paintings, with their curvaceous turnarounds and occasional free moving circles, and applied to that Mondrian’s commitment to red, blue, yellow, black, grey and white. While making these works I listened… View more
We are delighted to present a major exhibition of paintings by Richard McWhannell. Auckland-based, he is nationally recognised as a consummate painter. Born in Akaroa, McWhannell studied at Ilam School of Art and has deep connections to the Canterbury region. This will be his first exhibition in Christchurch for ten years. ARTIST STATEMENT: This exhibition is… View more
A group exhibition featuring the work of Viv Kepes, Motoko Kikkawa, Donna-Marie Patterson & Arabella Spoors curated by Jane Bowman Viv Kepes Viv Kepes is a North Canterbury based artist. Born in 1973, she grew up in Belmont, Lower Hutt. Spending her formative years exploring local native bush reserves, streams… View more
A suite of five lithographs and one etching in which immortal Greek goddesses question their continued commitment to roles and attributes ascribed to them for millennia. VIDEO ‘Athena is my favourite ancient Greek deity. She is sensible, wily, loyal and brave. She rolls with the punches and holds her own on Olympos. She represents… View more
Some of Philippa Blair’s paintings coil into themselves; they are nests, labyrinths, confined by the picture frame, mysteries to be investigated from without. Others expand across the surface; marks jump forward to the viewer, from one canvas to another, resistant to constraint. Dancing off Score is dominated by paintings with the latter dynamic. In these works… View more
PG Gallery192’s temporary Pop-up gallery in the central city ran from October 2017 until July 2018. Located on the bottom floor of the Wynn Williams Building, the Pop-up featured a rotating display of artworks, all from our Bealey Avenue gallery stock. Installation images below: .Instal Featured 16 July – 30 July, 2018 Doc Ross… View more
This year our Christmas show features: Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Buxton, Hamish Coleman, Darryn George, Julia Holden, Katharina Jaeger, Andy Leleisi’uao, Euan Macleod, Richard McWhannell, Marian Maguire, Simon Ogden, Chris Pole, Tim J. Veling Joanna Braithwaite Nigel Buxton Hamish Coleman Darryn George Julia Holden Katharina Jaeger Andy Leleisi’uao Euan Macleod … View more
This body of work began as an exploration of the Māori word ‘Me’, which can be translated as ‘and’ or ‘with’. In Te Ao Māori (the Māori world), as in Eastern Philosophy, there is an intrinsic acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of humans and the environment. Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au. (I… View more
A series of eight new paintings from Hamish Coleman based around memory, trace and reoccurring imagery, with stills from various NZ short films being the starting point. Hamish Coleman is a Wellington based artist. Born in 1989, Coleman graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (hons), from the University of Canterbury in… View more
‘Looking at a series of Anya Sinclair’s works, it is hard to know exactly when we, as viewers lose our hold on reality. The break is never instant, but the longer we spend looking, the further we fall from what we know. Critically, these landscapes are empty, emphatically devoid of any human or animal subject…. View more
Pauline Rhodes has created a site-specific installation in the gallery Artist statement: ‘The performative working materials involve a unique process of imprinting and staining with iron oxides. The materials are part of an accumulation of working sculptural elements, which can respond to a wide range of spatial situations. The time consuming process of staining… View more
A group of recent works by Katharina Jaeger investigating object, form, and association. KATHARINA JAEGAR Born in Zurich1964, Katharina Jaeger immigrated to New Zealand in 1986. She completed her Bachelor of Design at Ara Institute of Canterbury and has exhibited in solo and numerous group exhibitions nationally, recently… View more
A collection of new paintings exploring mythology, contemporary iconography and Andy Leleisi’uao‘s thoughts on society.
featuring: Philippa Blair, Nigel Buxton, Darryn George, W.D. Hammond Sam Harrison, Euan Macleod, John Reynolds, Grace Wright PHILIPPA BLAIR NIGEL BUXTON DARRYN GEORGE W.D. HAMMOND SAM HARRISON EUAN MACLEOD JOHN REYNOLDS GRACE WRIGHT
An exhibition of 40 tondos from the ‘Muse’ series and four paintings from the ‘Girl with Prosthesis’ series. “They seem like nice enough people, these ladies. For the most part, warm maternal types of a certain age. Definitely, defiantly suburban – divorcees and widows. Perhaps they’re trying just a little too hard, in expression… View more
An exhibition of seven works on paper which describe and explore interior space. Artist statement: ‘What do you see? What you see in the drawings is what I looked at. However what I saw might not have been what you saw if you had been the one doing the looking. But what I looked… View more
‘Clap’ 2017 acrylic on canvas 300x 245mm SOLD ‘Skirt’ 2017 acrylic on canvas 300x 245mm SOLD ‘Clutch’ 2017 acrylic on canvas 300x 245mm SOLD ‘Sleep Shop’ 2017 acrylic on panel 800x 565mm … View more
Sand: a fragment of rock ground to small size by earth’s processes. Sandstone: a type of sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand that has compressed and hardened. These new paintings by James Robinson are the result of process. And in James’s process he reflects the dynamic of the earth. Formation, erosion. Accumulation, dispersal. Coagulation, dissolution…. View more
Through human history art has had a closer relationship to the spoken word than the written one. In pre-literate times, stories were shared through their telling, with art often being used as a prompt. In earlier times, too, the light and warmth of the family hearth provided a focus for the remembering of histories and… View more
Painting as ‘visual pleasure’, is a concept lying at the heart of my work. The luscious, organic forms ooze and flow sensually around each other, like honey pouring out of a bottle. The forms are derived from a sense of bodily-ness that is abstract, yet suggestive of the interior and exterior body. Like pieces of… View more
My practice is a response to shunga, ‘Spring Pictures’, a form of pornography that flourished in Japan during the Edo period between the 17th and 19th centuries. Historical shunga reflects the acceptance or celebration of sex in Shinto culture, and values love, mutual pleasure and equality between sexual partners. It is also positively associated… View more
This year our Christmas show features: Joanna Braithwaite, Wendy Bornholdt, Nigel Buxton, Hamish Coleman, Darryn George W.D.Hammond, Samuel Harrison, Andy Leleisi’uao, Marian Maguire, Simon Ogden Chris Pole, James Robinson, Margaret Silverwood, Tim J.Veling Joanna Braithwaite Wendy Bornholdt Nigel Buxton Hamish Coleman Darryn George W.D.Hammond Samuel Harrison Andy Leleisi’uao Marian Maguire Simon Ogden (‘Touched… View more
“I have always been that type of photographer who walks and collects images randomly, somewhat in the tradition of American photographers like Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. Sometimes I have built individual series of work from these, but in general I have just observed and recorded whatever interested me. Those things not immediately photographed by… View more
The residency offered the artists a chance to explore the historical, commercial and natural locations that are so emblematic of the island’s isolation and rugged natural beauty. They were also able to experience its complex and dynamic environment, with excursions hosted by local guides, whose knowledge of and enthusiasm for the science and local mythologies… View more
“Just as the painter prods the visual field with brush or palette knife, the walking figure tests the ground; he shifts earth and snow; he moves water with hand or oar. A mark is left in the sand, a ripple, a gesture in mid-air.” Gregory O’Brien, 2014 The distinctive exploration of figure and landscape is continued in these recent… View more
A group show in which invited artists respond to an original engraving, by Giorgio Ghisi, of Michelangelo’s fresco in the Sistine Chapel. More about the Ghisi engraving Essay by John Finlay about Michelangelo’s fresco The Last Judgement EXHIBITION FEATURES: The Ghisi engraving, Josh Bashford, Philippa Blair, Roger Boyce, Darryn George, W.D.Hammond, Samuel Harrison, Marian Maguire, John Reynolds, Aiko… View more
THE UBIQUITOUS SIGN “I’m going down, to Alphabet Street” Prince Walk, bike or drive down seemingly any street in Christchurch, and you will eventually confront them – the inevitable cluster of brightly-coloured temporary traffic management signs. These banal yet insistent warning signs have become an almost permanent feature of the topology and streetscape of Christchurch’s… View more
Tim J. Veling – artist statement: At 4.35am on September 4th 2010, Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Miraculously, despite it and thousands of aftershocks causing widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure across the city, there was no loss of life. Avonside – a patch of land measuring 1.3 square kilometres and… View more
ARTIST STATEMENT May 2016 ‘Originating from questions I was asking myself around the status of the art object in the world, and of structures of archive and presentation and the transactions inherent in making and showing art, Tissue Solo and the Artefacts forms part of a significant body of work that began in 2014 and… View more
At first glance the six paintings in this exhibition seem simply to be geometric abstractions but Darryn George drew on his Maori background, his philosophy and personal experience in the development of this work. Earlier this year he was interviewed by Amanda Greenfield. An edited transcript appears below. INTERVIEW – Darryn George speaks with Amanda Greenfield… View more
“Drawing and painting are separate processes, yet linked together in a morphology of random moves.” (Philippa Blair, 2016) The sense of structure in Philippa Blair’s drawing and painting often starts with a geometric or gestural diagram. This diagram sets down an embryonic rhythm. A rhythm that is physical but also emotional. Blair then reveals and… View more
ARTIST STATEMENT: Some time ago I heard the comment, “It’s easy to be a photographic artist, you only have to take one great image but a cinematographer has to take 24 great images every second.” This led me to take a different view of the individual frames that make up a moving image, each one… View more
Brutalised walls of cast concrete are essential features of any modern city. Skylines around the world are defined by concrete’s upward reach. A staggering 330,000 cubic metres was used in just one building – the Burj Khalifa tower built in Dubai in 2009. Modern engineering developments have seen concrete evolve ambitiously into dams, canals and… View more
Rivers, bones, flax, insects, leaves, traces. Light, shadow, cut metal, silhouette, pattern, history. The focus of Nic Moon‘s work is human ecology and the ways that people interact with the environments in which they live. Tributary includes sculpture and painting in an elegant installation that explores the theme of traces – in the natural world and in… View more
Josh Bashford presents seven pieces in this exhibition of new woodcuts. Several are large scale works printed on canvas. With an individual carving style Josh chisels through darkness with flowing marks. At first glance the images appear complex abstract patterns, but as one looks longer, one sees the images teem with life and symbology. ‘My work explores mark making and its ability to portray themes… View more
Three of the artists in this show – Chris Pole, Hamish Coleman and Gareth Brighton – use the photographic image or film stills as the basis for their work. The fourth – Andrew Ross – is a photographer who uses the traditional method: hand-printing from the photographic negative. CHRIS POLE HAMISH COLEMAN ANDREW ROSS… View more
A GROUP SHOW FEATURING: Gretchen Albrecht, Liam Barr, Philippa Blair, Wendy Bornholdt, Joanna Braithwaite, Nigel Buxton, Sam Harrison, Tony de Lautour, Euan Macleod, Simon Ogden, Aiko Robinson, James Robinson, Margaret Silverwood, Llew Summers, Grant Takle. CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW FOR DETAILS ABOUT INDIVIDUAL WORKS I’m perhaps writing this a few weeks early but… View more
“This is an agnostic snapshot where past, present and future collide in trying to make sense of the next life.” – Andy Leleisi’uao Quaint: attractively strange or old-fashioned. Synonyms: picturesque, charming, sweet, attractive. Quaint is exactly how the latest suite of paintings from Andy Leleisi’uao appear. Leleisi’uao transports the viewer to a world of vibrant… View more
Marian Maguire has created a new series of large paintings around the theme of struggle. The characters are from Greek mythology but the subject was inspired by life in Christchurch post-quake. Alongside the paintings are a group of etchings in which Herakles or Maui wrestle the Lion or the Taniwha.
A ceramic installation presented in three parts: PULSE, Resonance 1, Resonance 2 Measuring 1.36 x 4.4 metres PULSE is comprised of 154 individually constructed ceramics, each one about 17cm in diameter. The pieces resonate visually and Fran Maguire has made a soundscape to go with this work which amplifies the experience of PULSE within the… View more
ANTHROPOCENE AND ASYLUM comprises of two parts. The first is a grouping of works that could be loosely termed paintings but are more aptly described as assemblages on canvas. These were made by James Robinson while he was guest artist in a residency programme, hosted by the Dunmoochin Foundation near Melbourne, during 2014. Having made the paintings James invited… View more
LURK consists of 22 individual sculptures that Nicole Bourke has installed within the hallway area of the gallery. They are of a domestic scale, looking spectacular en masse, but also revealing intricate detailing on closer inspection. Some pieces seem to be growing out of nooks, as life-like textures and surfaces have been created with the broad array of… View more
Earlier this year Bill Hammond broke the little finger on his right hand and at hospital they strapped the broken finger to the one next to it. That finger, the companion, they called the ‘strap buddy’ and ‘bone shop’ is a colloquial term for the orthopaedic department at the hospital.
An exhibition of woodcuts, wooden screens and watercolours inspired by traditional Japanese ‘shunga’. Christchurch based, of Japanese / New Zealand heritage, Aiko Robinson is a recent graduate of Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland. This is her first one-person exhibition. WARNING: this exhibition contains sexually explicit imagery AIKO ROBINSON – HEAD OVER HEELS by Jane Bowman The basic… View more
‘Craig’s Place, Otaki’ and ‘Three Views from Mataura’ These six photographs come from two series, one interior, one exterior. Both exhibit a fine sense of detail and luxurious tonal range. Aside from the intriguing subject matter there is a compositional tightness to Andrew Ross’s photographs which makes satisfying viewing especially on the book-plate scale he has… View more
I first drew willows 30 years ago. Planted as shade trees by the early settler farmers in an otherwise treeless and harsh environment they developed and grew into gnarled monsters, breaking themselves under the strain of their own weight and fierce storms. They were close to the cottage and a quick walk away. Armed with easel,… View more
Philippa Blair – CROSSINGS by Marian Maguire For lots of reasons it isn’t the done thing to write about art from a personal perspective and I understand why. A writer’s feelings/responses may have nothing whatsoever to do with the artist’s intentions – they can be way off track. Yet I’m tempted to follow a track…. View more
We are delighted to present this strong, poetic, playful, gutsy and humane exhibition as we re-launch the gallery, post earthquake repairs/renovations, and wish to thank the artists for their involvement and stellar contributions. more about LAUNCH Exhibition dates: 10 March – 11 April PG gallery192 hours: Tues-Friday… View more
