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CONTEMPLATION - Auckland Festival of Photography

After two ‘unprecedented’ years of lockdowns, cancelled plans and global uncertainty, a collective of Auckland-based photographers with diverse photographic practices have found similarities in the...

Meet the Artist Karen Covic - Exhibition Relinquish

As a process driven artist, Karen Covic is primarily interested in the way in which materials respond to different surfaces, and how colours combine to create harmony or conflict. Her underlying in...

Arbornauts by 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...

Indoor - Outdoor Flow by Brogan Scott

Taking her cue from the natural world and home interiors, Brogan Scott successfully blurs the lines between exterior and interior. Delve a little deeper, you will see how she plays with what is on ...

International Womens Day

International Women's Day, Tuesday 8 March 2022, is a global day celebrating the historical, cultural, and political achievements of women. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first ...

'Way marking' by Jo Dalgety

The markers that people leave within the landscape, and the markers or memories that landscape leaves in people is at the core of Jo Dalgety’s paintings. Be enchanted as you meander To the Hedgerow...

Off the Press – five printmakers

Eco-systems, environmental challenges and ecological disaster are reoccurring themes in this selection of original prints by five talented printmakers. On display will be a range of experimental ap...

Eroica – Tina Frantzen

Tina Frantzen paints intuitively, using a process of revealing in which figures appear. The details of these figures are unknown to her before she starts, so that with each work there is a path of ...

I AM SHE by Jacqueline Spencer-Macleod

Jacqueline Spencer-Macleod describes herself as a portraitist of the Sublime Femme. Spencer-Macleod is an Artist whose central concerns are female figuration, portraiture in national identity and b...

Anna Crichton 'Mother India - Embroidered Tales'

"Our history is the sacred biography of the Mother. Our philosophies are the revelations of the Mother’s mind. Our arts – our poetry and our painting, our music and our drama, our architecture and...

Umbrage by Sharon Vickers

Umbrage: noun: archaic: shade or shadow especially as cast by trees. With the increased density of housing in the cities, and the felling of many of our mature trees, together with the periods of h...

La Bohème by Micky Light

Bohemian style is synonymous with a counterculture associated with creativity, artistic expression, and a disregard for social norms and mainstream aesthetics. The origins of this mode of expressio...

WINTER - paintings from contemporary artists inspired by the seasonal changes

Railway Group Artists present expressions of nature or more abstract concepts representing winter. A painting may convey a sense of stillness and peace or a visual rendering of a psychological stat...

Short Stories – paintings by Jane Thorne, inspired by Katherine Mansfield

Artist Jane Thorne recently discovered a kinship with the philosophy of Katherine Mansfield. Like Mansfield, she blurs the boundary between the human and the nonhuman, endowing moths and bugs with ...

Transience by Barbara MacKinnon

BMK’s paintings might look like compilations of ordinary flowers, but together they tell a specific story of painting; an investigation through art lineage, symbolism, and composition. A pause brou...

Artist Talk - Linda Gair

Behind most contemporary artists hides inspiration of an old master. Some artists reveal a dialogue more than others. Whether they represent classical subject matters in a contemporary way, or a co...

HOMAGE by Linda Gair

It’s easy to assume that good art is measurable by a works’ originality, but delving into some of the world’s most highly valued artistic practices reveals a different story. Exchange of ideas and ...

Islands, Aerial views and the Peninsula - by Robyn Gibson

Islands, Aerial views and the Peninsula are landscape paintings based on memories while traveling. The artist documented a number of majestic landscapes some years ago when on holiday visiting frie...

Recapitulation - Peter Atkinson's limited edition prints IN THE GALLERY STUDIO

From grand architectural spaces that open a room to other vistas and possibilities, to small intimate still life studies that evoke quiet attention to the beauty of simple objects, there is somethi...

Nexus - by Glenys Cullimore

Glenys Cullimore’s varied subject matter comes together in this solo exhibition, connected by her unique perception of colour and innovative sense of composition. Cullimore was fascinated with the ...