News & Exhibitions

Fiona Cable exhibits at Sculpture on the Peninsula

Oceanic Feeling – soft sculpture, soft on the planet                         Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary has inspired this installation, a hanging soft sculpture, referencing the ocean,...

'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...

A Journey Beneath the Surface - Sonja Drake

Excerpts from Sonja Drakes MFA catalogue 2021 - end of year submission. We shape the world in ways visible and invisible. In his 2006 publication Theatre Country: Essays on Landscape and Whenua, ec...

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...

Wishing you Hope, Peace and Tranquillity, Linda Gair

In the late 1940s, and immediately after WWII, New Zealand was in for a time of reconstruction in the wake of vast national sacrifice. New Zealand, then a country of only 1.6 million, had lost almo...

Susan Hurrell-fieldes - new series of paintings

Susan Hurrell-fieldes work is autobiographical, influenced to large extent by her life in New Zealand and her work in New York. Over the years she has accumulated a growing library of leitmotifs to...

Review of Towards Strangeness by Ina Arraoui

Towards Strangeness is a group show of five established print artists: Prue MacDougall, Kyla Cresswell, Nan Mulder, Kathryn Madill, and Catherine Macdonald. Collectively, these works encapsulate fe...

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...

Towards Strangeness - Prue MacDougall, Kyla Cresswell, Nan Mulder, Kathryn Madill and Catherine Macdonald

A group show: Prue MacDougall, Kyla Cresswell, Nan Mulder, Kathryn Madill and Catherine Macdonald. Occasionally circumstances seem to produce a perfect breeding ground for eccentrics. At these rare...

Reflecting on the nature of time and human experience, revisiting a trip to to Rome - Peter Atkinson

“Autumn is a beautiful time to visit Rome”, says Auckland artist Peter Atkinson. The temperature is mild, low afternoon sun illuminates the trees turning gold along the banks of the Tiber and penet...

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...

Kim Shaw - paintings integrating movement and stillness

Movement and stillness are not separate; they are integrated, and they inform one another. Movement in daily life is constantly encountered but seldom given thought to regarding its meaning or impa...

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...

Summer Residence - Kathryn Carter

Kathryn has continued to paint in Northland since her last exhibition Rangitapu in November. She has spent time in the Bay of Islands over the summer by the sea, drawing and sketching in isolated b...