UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
21 April - 15 May 2026: Charrette van Eekelen - Acts of Love Tom Field - Cycles of a Southern Sea ARTIST TALK with Charette van Eekelen - Sat 9 May, 11am 19 May - 19 June: Marian Maguire...
New Work
CHARRETTE VAN EEKELEN – Acts of Love – 21 April-15 May 2026
Charrette van Eekelen’s paintings are fabrications: scissored, stitched and painted to create persuasive descriptions of objects and space. Colours and textures are found and combined. Freehand embroidery draws lines, paint undulates surfaces. Close inspection reveals silkiness, rough weave, sheen and transparency. Wool and velvet contrast with the openness net and materiality produces the illusion of… View more
TOM FIELD – Cycles of a Southern Sea – 21 April-15 May 2026
Tom Field presents Cycles of a Southern Sea, an exhibition of oil paintings developed over a period of thirty years. Field’s practice captures the landscapes and atmospheres of Aotearoa through a distinctive observational style, characterised by painterly mark-making and an expressive use of light. In this series, the artist draws on his experiences of free diving in the… View more
MAURICE LYE – IMBY (in my back yard) – 24 March-17 April, 2026
“My back yard has been a repository for over 40 years of collecting ‘found object treasures’. Death and life cycles are a constant theme in my work. Many of the plants in my backyard are left to go wild. Naturally going to seed and rambling.” Maurice Lye’s home and garden are full and constantly being… View more
NIGEL BUXTON – Angels, Folds & Shadows – 24 March – 17 April, 2026
Nigel Buxton presents an exhibition of illusory draped fabric – curvaceous, full and lush – emerging from deep shadows with a chiaroscuro glow. In smaller painting angels, as solid as statues, appear in landscapes or, in another, an angel from an Leonardo’s Virgin in the Rocks is extracted from the grotto and reframed. Although we… View more
XMAS ’25 – 2–19 December, 2025
Nigel Buxton Stan Bowski Tom Field Polly Gilroy Rebecca Harris Marian Maguire Maurice Lye Vivienne Murchison Jenna Packer Chris Pole Simon Ogden Chloe Summerhayes John Reynolds Grant Takle Philip Trusttum
PHILIPPA BLAIR (1945-2025) – Constant Weave – 4-28 Nov, 2025
CONSTANT WEAVE – an exhibition of paintings, drawings, works on paper, photographs and prints celebrating a remarkable artist. It has been hard saying goodbye to Philippa. I first encountered her forty years ago when I was a student at Ilam School of Art. She turned up as a visiting lecturer and was a powerhouse, changing… View more
ANDY LELEISI’UAO – Mo lo’u Tina – 7-31 Oct 2025
Andy Leleisi’uao draws on sources like comic books, record covers, plastic action figures, tools and puzzles, bringing them into play on the drawing board of his imagination. Recurring motifs provide visual touchstones for viewers and remind us of the inherent humanity of his creatures, and the universality of their struggle and endeavour within a limited… View more
SEFTON RANI – The Rosebank Road Paintings – 7-31 Oct 2025
Rosebank Road was the location of the paint factory in which Sefton Rani’s father once worked. Memories of the factory – enamel paint, viscous and slippery, vats of colour, the team of Pasifika workers, mixed languages, noisy machinery and the impact of seeing the factory burnt down during Sefton’s boyhood – fed into this current… View more
ANDREW BOND – Horseplay in a Time Before Ege Bamyasi – 9 Sept-3 Oct 2025
. ‘The past is a foreign country’, so begins L P Hartley’s 1953 novel The Go Between. A line that beautifully captures the elusive nature of memory. Most of us recall the past as fragmented moments, hard visual or audible information that we flesh out with imagined scenarios that validate our personal agendas. The Law… View more
PHILIP TRUSTTUM – At Work – 9 Sept-3 Oct 2025
This new exhibition of large paintings juxtaposes views of the working life; both inside and outside the studio. In one grouping, the artist converted the insistent thud of pile-driving that occurred just over his fence, into the impulse for a set of loose canvases in which monumental piles create vertical rhythms across flattened backgrounds. Drawing… View more