Exhibitions

A passion for paper - new works on paper - Karen Covic & Maggie McGregor

Alone in the long Grass (you should've left the light on)  Karen Covic - Upper Gallery These new paintings by Karen Covic explore the quiet dignity of wild flowers, their resilience and ability to...

Two worlds collide - Painter Paul Screach & Printmaker Prue MacDougall

 Beyond The Invisible Paul Screach 'In making these paintings I wanted to relinquish control as much possible allowing natural processes to predominate. By eliminating the ‘hand of the artist’...

Two artists and their journey into abstract expressionism. Paintings by Olivia Courtney & Maria Owens.

  'the one rule is no rules.' - Helen Frankenthaler Olivia Courtney & Maria Owens are two artists - painters, who capture with gestural brushstroke and colour the emotional landscape of a mome...

Kyla Covic & the Edge of Light / Jane Thorne & the Closet Romantic

KYLA COVIC Edge of Light The harsh, raking light and atmospheric effects found in Aotearoa New Zealand are something I feel compelled to paint. The vast, ever-changing sky and sea are my insp...

Chroma - the intensity of colour. New paintings by Carole & Holly Shepheard

Oscar Wilde said 'Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways' We live in a world filled with colour. Most of the time we ...

All Things Painterly - work by Erin O'Malley & Jenny Dow

summer songs A song can be defined as a short poem or a group of words set to music usually meant to be sung and when fully realised enjoyed and heard. In this body of work I have endeavoured to ...

Juxtaposed - Susanne Khouri & Kate McLean

I had the pleasure of visiting both of these artists at their studios earlier in the year. What a treat to be able to spend time with two women who live and breathe their art practice. I hope you e...

Linda Gair 'My Kaleidoscope'

MY KALEIDOSCOPE - Linda Gair kaleidoscope - made up of 3 Greek words … ‘kalos’ – meaning beautiful ‘eidos’ – meaning shape ‘skopos’ - meaning watcher, or thing looked at The kaleidoscope, with it...

Zoë Nash 'A time and a place'

“I love how my artworks grow and evolve with every mark made or action taken so that in the end, just like a knitted jumper, the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts.” Zoë Nash is a dive...

to sit beside you - group show

This group show celebrates the unique relationship between all the artists collectively involved with the Railway Street Gallery + Studios. Curated and styled by Erin O’Malley of Madder & Rouge...

'why do you seek after it' by Jo Dalgety

‘A chance remark led to my delving into the history of the Hauraki Plains, going back much further than my great Grandfather's arrival, knocking my ‘prosperous land for dairy farming’ narrative o...

Off the Press II

Off the Press II is the second iteration of an annual exhibition showcasing contemporary printmaking processes by artists based in Tāmaki Makaurau. The six artists featured for 2023 are: Ina Arraou...

A Secret Forest - Prue MacDougall

Prue MacDougall has turned her watchful and whimsical gaze towards the innate power of trees. Utilising Greek Mythology, she is urges us to think about the essential roles that trees and forests pl...

Peter Atkinson 'six months in Pompallier mission garden'

"Every corner is haunted, if not inhabited." - Gaston Bachelard. Restored as New Zealand’s earliest working industrial site, Kororareka Russell’s Pompallier Mission is populated by the stories of t...

Intersect – Anita Mudaliar

Printmaker Anita Mudaliar creates multi-layered images, rich in mark-making that reveal an obsession with texture, surface, and layering. There is a tactile dimension to the work which stems from h...

ALL FOUR CORNERS – Waitakere Printers Ink

We are a group of printmakers that have been brought together from all four corners of Auckland. The paper we work on is printed on all four corners. Information and inspiration can come to the art...

Homage II by Linda Gair

In her sun-filled, north facing studio Linda Gairs’ bookshelf flexes and groans under the weight of New Zealand’s champion artists. Louise Henderson, Maddox, McCahon, Binney, Woolaston, Rita Angus ...

This and That - artist Sarah Bookman

Sarah Bookman (M.Arch Prof) is a designer born in  Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, now based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. While working in architecture, Sarah continues to use...

Emergence by Kim Shaw

Emergence means a process of becoming, coming into existence, coming to be. In my current work I’m thinking of it as a circumstance that emerges through a series of previous decisions not made by m...

CANOPY by Maggie McGregor

My earliest forebears packed up large families and travelled across the world to an unknown land – New Zealand. I can only imagine images they had in their minds of the destination that led them to...