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