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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 ...

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...

Zoe Nash, Sonja Drake and Kirsty Black - Walker & Hall Art Awards finalists 2022

'Bluebell Wood' is a Finalist in this year's Walker & Hall Art Awards. Zoe's works are a colourful, playful, and celebratory exploration of mark making, process, repetition and accumulation. H...

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...

Award winning artist, educator - Charlotte E. Johnson

Artist, educator, and author of a series of technical articles previously published in NZPhotographer Magazine, Charlotte E. Johnson talks about her photographic journey, the ups and downs along th...

16:34 | 16:35 Megan Murphy & Greta Umbers

At 16:34 on the 14th of September, 2019, Callan (Megan’s son and Greta’s brother) was alive. At 16:35, his life and the complex patterns of generations past—reaching back, all the way to the stars—...

Too Good to be True - Katie Blundell

On a sun-drenched summer’s day in a sheltered Rakino Island bay, sparkling waters beckoned. Snorkel in hand, Clevedon based artist Katie Blundell ventured beneath the surface. To begin with it was ...

As Above, So Below

As Above, So Below is all about unseen networks - mycelial, alluvial, dendrological, familial - that connect through histories, landscapes, timelines. A group of artists have responded to the conce...

'As Above, So Below' UPPER GALLERY exhibition

Sonja Drake, Cecilia Márquez, Abbie Read, Wendy Lawson, Louise Keen, Nyle Turuwhenua - exhibition from 16 June - 5 July 2022 The unseen networks - mycelial, alluvial, dendrological, familial that c...