News & Exhibitions

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...

Artist talk - Charlotte E. Johnson

Artistic Vision through the lens of a Camera “In this world of visual bombardment everywhere we look, of anti-social ‘social media’, of continuous scrolling and non-stop screen time, an image that ...

'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...

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 ...

Charlotte E. Johnson, contemporary fine-art photographer joins Railway Street Gallery

Charlotte E. Johnson is a contemporary fine-art photographer and emerging artist who lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Her work aims to evoke emotion and connection in those who view it, of...

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 ...