Past
-
GAVIN CHAI
ODE TO SOLITUDE 7 - 30 November 2024 Gavin Chai (b. 1997, Malaysia) is based in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Chai captures enigmatic scenes of contemporary life through his careful composition and deft treatment of colour, light, and shadow. Some works appear almost as if transported from another time – gesturing toward the heightened intensity or religiosity of early... Read more -
HEATHER STRAKA
LOST IN A DREAM 7 - 30 November 2024 Heather Straka (b. 1972) has a Master of Fine Arts from Ilam School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury and lives and works in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. She has received several awards and residencies, including the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago, and is represented in... Read more -
KARL MAUGHAN
WAIRARAPA 10 October - 2 November 2024 Gardens are perennial markers of time. There are the many hours spent on hands and knees tending to the soil; mulching, weeding, feeding, planting, and pruning. Then of course there is the slow transformation from bare earth to germination, the shoots of verdant green pushing up through the dirt, the... Read more -
DICK FRIZZELL
PRINT BONANZA 10 - 26 October 2024 Page Galleries is excited to hold a Dick Frizzell PRINT BONANZA!! Featuring works spanning more than a decade, there will be final editions and exclusive discounts on offer for a limited time from 10 – 26 October only in our upstairs gallery. As one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated, prolific, and... Read more -
ELIZABETH THOMSON
STILL AND ALWAYS 12 September - 5 October 2024 STILL AND ALWAYS features a suite of new works from Elizabeth Thomson alongside a selection of earlier works from her personal archive. Like a series of underground taproots – tendrils simultaneously stretching back into the past while reaching towards the future – this exhibition traces those formative experiences and burgeoning... Read more -
ED BATS
WINTERCOAT 15 August - 7 September 2024 As a result of changing seasons many animals grow in a thick protective coat in response to a decrease in sunlight exposure. For the human amongst us, winter inevitably ushers in the need for additional clothing – layers upon layers intended to provide warmth and safeguard from the elements. For... Read more -
HANNAH VALENTINE
CLOSENESS IS A DIFFUSE BORDER 15 August - 7 September 2024 He comes out, is put on her chest, above her heart, sticky. And the flesh that follows, put under a Kōwhai tree. And then another boy, and this time the placenta under a Rewarewa. The spine of its leaf twisted, curled, coming away from life and pressed into wax. He... Read more -
MAX GIMBLETT
WHERE LIGHT LIES 18 July - 10 August 2024 For Max Gimblett the studio has always been where the light lies. Featuring an arresting suite of recent paintings, this exhibitionis testimony to the artist’s ceaseless pursuit towards enlightenment and a longstanding desire to articulate truth and humanity through his practice. While ‘light’ is often emblematic of hope, where light... Read more -
JOHN WALSH
20 June - 13 July 2024 John Walsh (b.1954, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti / New Zealand Irish) grew up in Uawa Tolaga Bay and now lives on the south coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where the rugged shoreline ceaselessly draws him back to the canvas to meld histories of migration and colonialism with mātauranga Māori and contemporary narratives. Walsh’s... Read more -
ROBBIE MOTION
BOY MEETS WORLD 23 May - 15 June 2024 The title of Robbie Motion ’s latest exhibition is a tongue-in-cheek throwback to American television from the 1990s: specifically, a coming-of-age sitcom about a boy navigating the pitfalls of growing up and finding his place in the world. It’s tempting to interpret this pop-cultural reference as a cynical yet charming... Read more -
DEREK COWIE
IF THE RIVERS WERE RUNNING RED, PEOPLE WOULD SEE 23 May - 15 June 2024 As a scientist I know the crucial importance of getting our understanding of the environment and concerns about its degradation out to the public. The only way change can happen is with public awareness, driving the necessary political change. Over decades I have used all the conventional channels to get... Read more -
REUBEN PATERSON
KINGDOMS 24 April - 18 May 2024 'The kingdoms of the seas and the skies are ultimately connected through the pathways and stories of whetū / stars.' Reuben Paterson (Ngati Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) brings together the kingdoms of moana and rangi in his continued exploration of celestial navigation, as he himself navigates his new home and... Read more -
IN THE WINDOW
LAURA WILLIAMS: STILL WIVES 24 April - 12 June 2024 Laura Williams has created an installation in our window gallery evocative of the luscious domestic interiors depicted in the artist's own paintings. Featuring a suite of hand-painted wallpapers against which are hung a selection of the artist's previous works, it is as if one has stumbled upon a real life... Read more -
TURUMEKE HARRINGTON
FELLED 24 April - 18 May 2024 FELLED presents a selection of mahi from Turumeke Harrington ((Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne) that emerged out of, and in the process of developing, her installation SWAMPED, currently displayed in Wellington City Council’s Courtenay Place Lightboxes. Chloe Cull, curator for the Lightbox project, wrote about the various ways SWAMPED addresses the complex... Read more -
TE HOKINGA MAI
HIRIA ANDERSON-MITA 28 March - 20 April 2024 Hiria Anderson-Mita (b.1974, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Rereahu) paints from her home studio in Ōtorohanga, where the artist’s koro and nanny raised their children and later their granddaughter. Creatives in the traditional forms of Mahi Raranga and Whakairo, her grandparents were involved in Ngā Puna Waihanga, a network of... Read more -
LISA REIHANA
OUTAKES 29 February - 23 March 2024 Lisa Reihana (b.1964, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Ngāpuhi-Ngāti Hine-Ngāi Tū-Te Auru) is among the most renowned contemporary artists from Aotearoa. Reihana expertly weaves together numerous threads drawn from western museology, archives, and history with the tikanga, mātauranga, and whakapapa of te ao Māori. Her extraordinary multidisciplinary practice encompasses video, photography, sculpture, and... Read more -
BUNCH
LAURA WILLIAMS, REUBEN PATERSON, KARL MAUGHAN, SARAH MUNRO, ELIZABETH THOMSON, EMILY WOLFE, TURUMEKE HARRINGTON, ROSA ALLISON, HIRIA ANDERSON-MITA, DICK FRIZZELL, RITA ANGUS, JEFFREY HARRIS, MAX GIMBLETT, SALOME TANUVASA 1 - 24 February 2024 Throughout history many visual artists have turned to the botanical world for inspiration. While the outcome of these flowery meditations may result in the depiction of a seemingly innocuous bunch of painted blooms there is often more to these works than meets the eye. One might first recall those 17th... Read more -
STAR GOSSAGE
TAUORANGA (LIVING, EXISTENCE) 1 - 24 February 2024 Star Gossage (1973, Ngāti Wai / Ngāti Ruanui) presents a veritable garden in this exhibition of recent paintings. Gossage visually transplants us to her whenua on a headland above Pākiri beach, north-east of Auckland. Nestled between ocean and river, the artist’s whare is located on ancestral land – a place... Read more -
GAVIN CHAI
ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY 14 December 2023 - 27 January 2024 Gavin Chai captures fleeting moments. All the stars in the sky sees Chai turn his observant eye and skilful hand to illuminate even the sparsest scenes; a shaft of light through an open door, the geometries of shadows cast upon an empty hallway, the crumpled sheets of an unmade bed,... Read more -
NGATAIHARURU TAEPA
TUHIRANGI, TUHINUKU 14 December 2023 - 27 January 2024 Bringing together a selection of previous works alongside a new series, this exhibition encourages the viewer to reflect upon notions of balance and equilibrium; with Tuhirangi referring to those patterns and marks that appear in the sky above, and Tuhinuku to those found on the land below. Tuhirangi, Tuhinuku acknowledges... Read more -
VISHMI HELARATNE
WORK FROM HOME 16 November - 9 December 2023 Learning how to work from home amid the global pandemic was a difficult adjustment for many. Creating a multi-functional personal space without it feeling suffocating is a tricky thing to achieve, especially when you have previously had the freedom of moving through the world as you please. Playing with terms... Read more -
ED BATS
BUT TODAY IT'S DIFFERENT 16 November - 9 December 2023 Ed Bats presents a new suite of paintings incorporating collage elements alongside the familiar hard-edged abstraction and patched surfaces of his recent works. The exhibition title borrows from a line that appears in the first prose poem of William Carlos Williams' Spring and All. A little book bound in blue... Read more -
OUTER-BODY
19 October - 11 November 2023 The act of capturing the human form is at once intimate and elusive. The specific contours of a face, the familiar outline of shoulders, the nape of a neck, the characteristic crossing of one limb over another. While these features circumscribe the outer limits of the corporeal body, they also... Read more -
LAURA WILLIAMS
HOW GREEN ARE MY VALLEYS 21 September - 14 October 2023 Laura Williams’ detailed paintings are inhabited by a cast of rambunctious and often scantily clad characters including figures displaced from Greek mythology and Catholic scripture. Bordered by draped curtains, some worksfeel particularly reminiscent of those toy theatres that flourished in 19th-century England as a popular form of domestic entertainment. Made... Read more -
KARL MAUGHAN
SPRUNG 21 September - 14 October 2023 Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste … [i] Gardens are perennial markers of time. There are the many hours spent on hands and knees tending to the soil; mulching, weeding, feeding, planting, and pruning. Then of course there is the slow transformation from bare earth... Read more -
MICHAEL HIGHT
24 August - 16 September 2023 Michael Hight (b.1961) has a remarkable ability to capture the unique geographies of Aotearoa in vivid and immaculate detail. The artist’s latest series of paintings include the soaring snowcapped mountains of Mount Ngāuruhoe; the vertical clay cliffs that flank the Rangitīkei River; and the silhouette of Mount Ruapehu emerging from... Read more -
VITA COCHRAN
HOLDING PATTERNS 27 July - 19 August 2023 Taken apart and arranged on black velvet like a Victorian pressed flower arrangement or natural history specimen, the shapes of the glove pieces suggest anatomy, botany, calligraphy, and reveal the complexity of their making. The sixteen pieces of fabric and three metres of joining seams that compose a pair of... Read more -
JUDY DARRAGH
MEMORY FOAM 27 July - 30 September 2023 Judy Darragh (b. 1957 Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand) works across sculpture, video, collage, jewellery, and photography. No matter the medium, her practice is characterised by a bold and brilliant use of colour and found materials. Judy Darragh presents three large scale large photographic works in our window space; an extension... Read more -
TOSS WOOLLASTON
UNEARTHED WATERCOLOURS 27 July - 19 August 2023 My own ultimately rather restricted range of dull earth colours and reduced blues and greens arose from my own personal response to the daytime earth colours of the sun-drenched landscape of Māpua ... writers on my work are fond of quoting me as having said ... I wanted to paint... Read more -
HIRIA ANDERSON-MITA
MANAAKI 29 June - 22 July 2023 My koro and nanny instilled in me the intrinsic values that are Manaaki. They are, and have become, their koha to me that forms the central part of my identity. Manaaki is our tikanga and a part of the Māori worldview that was, and still is, intergenerational. As a kid,... Read more -
JOHN WALSH
WHERE IS THE LOVE? 29 June - 22 July 2023 John Walsh (b.1954, Te Aitanga a Hauiti / New Zealand Irish) lives and paints on the South Coast of Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Walsh grew up in Uawa Tolaga Bay, on the East Coast of the North Island, and his painting practice increasingly addresses the devastation of this once idyllic environment, resulting... Read more -
ELIZABETH THOMSON
THE POOL OF MNEMOSYNE 1 - 24 June 2023 I do not ask for youth, nor for delay in the rising of time's irreversible river that takes the jewelled arc of the waterfall in which I glimpse, minute by glinting minute, all that I have and all I am always losing as sunlight lights each drop fast, fast falling.... Read more -
TURUMEKE HARRINGTON
LOOSE UNITS 4 - 27 May 2023 It’s been a busy year for Turumeke Harrington. The young artist is rapidly becoming a creative force and a distinct voice in contemporary art in Aotearoa. For most, just looking through her recent exhibition history is enough to induce fatigue, but Harrington is eager to show her gratitude for this... Read more -
A WAY OF BEING
WORKS FROM THE CELIA DUNLOP COLLECTION 4 May - 10 June 2023 Born in Palmerston North in 1948, Celia Dunlop grew up in a household surrounded by interesting paintings and objects. Through this early exposure, Celia developed a great appreciation for art that eventually burgeoned into an innate joy of collecting, which was to sustain her throughout her life. By the time... Read more -
EMILY WOLFE
EXCAVATION NOTES 6 - 29 April 2023 In her recent work Emily Wolfe turns her attention to the history and traditions of European landscape painting, more specifically those prints made after 17th and 18th century paintings by French artists Claude Lorrain and Claude-Joseph Vernet. Wolfe photocopies the prints in sections before cutting and reassembling them as paper... Read more -
DEREK COWIE
PAINT THE TOWN RED 9 March - 1 April 2023 A familiar phrase used to describe wildly extravagant and destructive behaviour, the semantic origins of the well-worn idiom ‘paint the town red’ remain open to debate. Some claim the expression emerged from an old Irish ballad describing the way bonfires cast skies and surrounding landscape in a brilliant red glow.... Read more -
PAUL MASEYK
A MAN NEEDS A VICE 9 March - 1 April 2023 If you can't say something nice, say it with a t-shirt. Polite and soft-spoken, Paul Maseyk looks you earnestly in the eyes when he speaks to you and uses words like “slap dash” and “hunky dory”. He cooks a delicious quiche, makes repairs around the family home, and spends time... Read more -
AOTEAROA ART FAIR 2023
THE CLOUD - AUCKLAND TĀMAKI MAKAURAU 2 - 5 March 2023 We are excited to be presenting new work from artists Ngataiharuru Taepa, Emily Wolfe, and Hannah Valentine for Aotearoa Art Fair. Contact us via email to register your interest or purchase your ticket here and find us at Booth B11. Ngataiharuru Taepa (b.1976 Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Te Arawa, Te Āti Awa)... Read more -
MAX GIMBLETT
ACROSS THE RIVER 9 February - 1 March 2023 Across the River features unique works on paper from renowned New York based artist Max Gimblett. The exhibition is something of an ode to American author Ernest Hemingway’s novel Across the River and Into the Trees, which was published in 1950 and left a remarkable impression on the artist when... Read more -
SALOME TANUVASA
A FEELING OF; A SENSATION OF 1 - 22 December 2022 A feeling of; a sensation of began with a grey day driving around the craggy windswept south coast of Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Emerging over the course of several months, the colours, shapes, and gestures that appear in Salome Tanuvasa’s paintings capture something of the atmosphere of that distinctive landscape. The verdant... Read more -
ALPHABET SOUP
THE FINEST STOCK 1 - 22 December 2022 Featuring stockroom work from Star Gossage, Laura Williams, John Walsh, Gavin Chai, Toss Woollaston, Derek Cowie, Ngataiharuru Taepa, Vita Cochran, Hiria Anderson, Finn Ferrier, Lisa Reihana, Heather Straka, Paul Maseyk, Ed Bats, Turumeke Harrington, Sarah Munro, Jasmine Togo-Brisby, Hannah Valentine, Gordon Crook, Negin Dastgheib, Harry Watson, Max Gimblett, Rita... Read more -
AOTEAROA ART FAIR 2022
THE CLOUD - AUCKLAND TĀMAKI MAKAURAU 16 - 20 November 2022 The Aotearoa Art Fair 2022 is now open! Visit us at stand B9 to view works from artists Reuben Paterson (b. 1973 Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Ngati Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi), Turumeke Harrington (b. 1992 Otāutahi Christchurch, Ngāi Tahu), and Max Gimblett (b.1935 Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland). You can purchase... Read more -
ED BATS
ISN'T IT JUST 3 - 26 November 2022 The artist known as Ed Bats adopted a pseudonym during their days as a graffiti artist, covertly painting murals on streets around Aotearoa and across Europe. Perhaps as a result, Bats’ works are imbued with an architectural quality that is evident in both their physicality and construction. Bats combines hard-edged... Read more -
ROBBIE MOTION
A BODY WAS HERE 3 - 26 November 2022 A face emerges from a pool of darkness, features swimming and puddling together. Bodies appear distorted, as if reflected in a carnival mirror. Heads, limbs, and torsos are punctured by gaping holes. Positive and negative space become ambiguous, scale and proportion wilfully discarded. This is the murky and mysterious world... Read more -
REUBEN PATERSON
CREAM 6 - 29 October 2022 Reuben Paterson (b. 1973 Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Ngati Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) harnesses the mesmerizing properties of light. Paterson is renowned for his inimitable, iridescent paintings, made through a distinctive application of glitter on canvas. These paintings encompass all manner of subject matter – from cloudscapes to wild cats, botanical... Read more -
VISHMI HELARATNE
KANDY ROAD 6 October - 3 December 2022 Our window gallery currently features several works from Vishmi Helaratne, originally created for the artist's exhibition Kandy Road at play_station gallery. While addressing the significant and complex histories of Sri Lanka and their own upbringing here in Aotearoa, Helaratne delves into the politics of sex and identity, presenting speculative meditations... Read more -
HANNAH VALENTINE
YOUR BODY OFTEN KNOWS MORE THAN YOU DO 8 September - 1 October 2022 Hannah Valentine's practice is pervaded by the artist's interest in the corporeal and our own tactile sensibilities, emphasising the importance of touch and physical experience in interacting with the world and each other. Taking form primarily in sculptural object and installation, her work is permeated by the human body and... Read more -
KARL MAUGHAN
RECENT WORKS 8 September - 1 October 2022 Karl Maughan takes the garden as his subject matter, deftly capturing the light, colour, texture, and pattern found in nature. Over the last three decades, the artist has developed his own distinct visual language, which has in turn taken on a life of its own, shooting and sprouting in different... Read more -
ELIZABETH THOMSON
LATERAL SERIES - HABITABLE ZONES 11 August - 3 September 2022 A ‘habitable zone’ might be a likeable, liveable space—an agreeable domestic environment, quite possibly—yet, in planetary terms, the meaning of the phrase is more specific: It is the distance from a star at which it is possible for liquid water to exist on the surface of an orbiting planet. Elizabeth... Read more -
LAURA WILLIAMS
THINLY VEILED 11 August - 3 September 2022 Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall, With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the wall. There all the things are waxen neat, And set in decorous lines, And there are posies, round and sweet, And little, straightened vines. Her mind lives... Read more -
DEREK COWIE
I W.A.S. A C.O.G. 14 July - 6 August 2022 Derek Cowie (b. 1956, Ruatōria, New Zealand) lives and paints in Pōneke Wellington. Cowie’s work is represented in several public collections including Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The artist exhibited with Peter McLeavey Gallery throughout the 1980s before moving to London where he worked as a scenic painter... Read more -
JOHN WALSH
THINGS ARE HEATING UP 16 June - 9 July 2022 John Walsh (b.1954, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti / Irish) grew up in Uawa Tolaga Bay, on the East Coast of the North Island, and now lives and paints on the South Coast of Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. Walsh melds histories of migration and colonialism with contemporary narratives and mythologies in a vivid and fluid application... Read more -
IDYLL
TORI BEECHE, GAVIN CHAI, BRUNELLE DIAS 16 June - 9 July 2022 Tori Beeche (b. 1972, Aotearoa) lives and works in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Beeche has a Master of Fine Art from University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts (2020). Her work has been included in the finalist exhibitions for the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award (2021), New Zealand Painting & Printmaking... Read more -
NGATAIHARURU TAEPA
POU RONGOĀ 19 May - 11 June 2022 He ata ki runga, he ata ki raro He ata ki te whakatūtū He ata ki te whakaritorito He ata whiwhia, he ata rawea He ata taonga, he ata raukura Ngataiharuru Taepa (Te Arawa, Te Āti Awa) presents Pou Rongoā, featuring the commanding three-panel kōwhaiwhai work He ata ki runga,... Read more -
HIRIA ANDERSON
WAIRUA 19 May - 11 June 2022 Hiria Anderson (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Rereahu) surveys her immediate surroundings and those individuals and relationships within her community of Ōtorohanga. The artist captures in detail the intimacy, incongruity, and poeticism of the everyday and with it the interplay between Tikanga Māori and contemporary municipal life. While her works... Read more -
MAX GIMBLETT
THE LEGEND OF THE CERAMIC MASTER 21 April - 14 May 2022 There sometimes appears to be many Gimbletts: one is an extroverted colourist, another pursues the subtle luminous effects of gilded and lacquered surfaces. Gimblett brushes with all things: sacredness and passion; violence, sacrifice, and death; fear and awe; beauty, pleasure, peace, and joy. —Wystan Curnow, Max Gimblett: The Brush of... Read more -
TURUMEKE HARRINGTON
(TĪKARO) SLOWLY DAWNING 21 April - 14 May 2022 Light, paint, and water coalesce in Turumeke Harrington’s solo exhibition (Tīkaro) Slowly Dawning. Harrington presents a suite of jelly-coloured light works featuring cut-out motifs of tuna (eel), hare, tī kōuka (cabbage tree), and whetū (star). The frosted acrylic lights appear almost as zoetropes or early animation wheels, lending the creatures... Read more -
EMILY WOLFE
PAPER TRAILS 24 March - 16 April 2022 Emily Wolfe’s new series of paintings sees the artist further immerse herself in the traditions and reveries of trompe l’oeil and its charismatic illusory qualities. A collector of antiquities and curiosities, Wolfe sets broken or discarded objects and materials against backdrops of old master styled landscape paintings, which themselves have... Read more -
SOFT LANDING
HEIDI BRICKELL, VITA COCHRAN, FINN FERRIER, SERENE HODGMAN, FIONA JACK, KATHRYN TSUI 24 February - 19 March 2022 Soft Landing is a group exhibition featuring work from artists Heidi Brickell, Vita Cochran, Finn Ferrier, Serene Hodgman, Fiona Jack, and Kathryn Tsui. The exhibition brings together a selection of artists who each engage with textiles on their own terms, incorporating material aspects into distinctly different modes of making. While... Read more -
LISA REIHANA
A RESOLUTE SEARCH 3 - 19 February 2022 Lisa Reihana (B.1964, Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Ngāpuhi-Ngāti Hine-Ngāi Tū-Te Auru) is among the most renowned contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand. Reihana's extraordinary multidisciplinary practice – encompassing film, photography, sculpture, costume, body adornment, and written text – examines the many ways in which identity and history are constructed and represented, and... Read more -
KARL MAUGHAN
NEW PAINTINGS 9 December 2021 - 22 January 2022 Karl Maughan (b.1964) takes the garden as his subject matter. From wild and overgrown hedges to meticulously manicured lawns, Maughan deftly captures the light, colour, texture, and pattern found in nature. Over the last three decades the artist has developed his own distinct visual language, which has in turn taken... Read more -
PAUL MASEYK
ME ME ME 9 December 2021 - 22 January 2022 Paul Maseyk is a distinct voice in contemporary ceramics in Aotearoa. While on the one hand his work speaks to the history of ceramics and ceramic techniques; the other hand determinedly raises a sly middle finger to conventionality as he deftly navigates between ceramics, painting, and sculpture. Some works are... Read more -
ED BATS
DON'T MIND IF I DON'T 11 November - 4 December 2021 Don't mind if I don't sees Ed Bats further pushing at the boundaries of scale, composition and gesture. While Bats is influenced by artists including Sven Lukin, Richard Diebenkorn, and Blair Thurman, the artist has increasingly turned their attention closer to home and these works are peppered with nods to... Read more -
SARAH MUNRO
CONTINUING TRADE 11 November - 4 December 2021 Sarah Munro's recent and ongoing Trade Items series consists of delicately embroidered works that respond to a watercolour and pencil drawing from 1769 by Ra'iatea navigator and high priest Tupaia, who joined James Cook's first voyage at Tahiti, depicting the exchange of a crayfish for a length of cloth or... Read more -
ED BATS + KOWTOW = TENT 2021
AUCKLAND | WELLINGTON | ONLINE 4 - 7 November 2021 TENT is a new Art Weekend presented by the team who deliver the Auckland Art Fair. The inaugural edition will feature live exhibitions across Aotearoa and online from Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 November. For TENT 2021 Page Galleries is excited to be to presenting work from Ed Bats in... Read more -
DICK FRIZZELL
RETURN TO ORDER 21 October - 6 November 2021 Dick Frizzell's exhibition began with a painting of a single vase of flowers. ‘Return to Order’ speaks to the highs and lows of the artistic process, the emergence of style, the joy of painting, and its sometimes unexpected outcomes. An intelligent young person’s guide to Dick Frizzell’s florals... Read more -
JASMINE TOGO-BRISBY
IN THE ROOMS OF OUR BODIES 30 September - 16 October 2021 In the rooms of our bodies is an extension of Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s ongoing explorations into the multifarious ways that marginalised histories are embedded within contemporary material culture. Through her research driven practice, and working across various media, Togo-Brisby delves into her own personal history and that of the Pacific slave... Read more -
HAND-HELD
TURUMEKE HARRINGTON, BEN PEARCE, HANNAH VALENTINE 30 September - 23 October 2021 Hand-Held features three sculptors whose practices variously intersect and diverge to create dynamic works built upon sincere considerations of materiality and balance. Turumeke Harrington moves between objects, furniture, and installation. Harrington’s clarity of form and function is supplemented by a poetic pragmaticism. Her sympathetic approach to materials combines with a... Read more -
MAX GIMBLETT
THE SUN ALSO RISES 9 - 25 September 2021 While the majority of works in this exhibition were made during lengthy periods of isolation inside his home studio in New York City, these recent paintings elicit a remarkable sense of optimism. The exhibition takes its title from a painting of the same name (in turn borrowed from Ernest Hemingway’s... Read more -
HEATHER STRAKA
MEMORIA 29 July - 14 August 2021 Auckland artist Heather Straka’s recent works inhabit an eerie liminal space that sees them hovering somewhere between the worlds of painting, photography, and film. Memoria unfolds inside a series of dilapidated interiors. The scenes and characters occupy a shallow space, dramatically lit, where the stark contrast between dark and light... Read more -
ELIZABETH THOMSON
CUBIST ENCOUNTERS 24 June - 24 July 2021 In mid-winter 2018 and again last year, I was artist in residence in the Queensbury Hills, between Cromwell and Wanaka, Central Otago. The residency was a converted boat-building shed high up in the hills looking across the Clutha Basin to the St Bathans Range and down the valley to... Read more -
GORDON CROOK
BIOGRAPHIES BORE ME 24 June - 24 July 2021 Many people will be familiar with the work of Gordon Crook through his large vivid banners and wall hangings that have adorned the foyer of the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington since its doors opened in 1983; their bold abstract shapes and forms delighting thousands of concert goers over the... Read more -
FIGURE SKATING
HIRIA ANDERSON | LAURA WILLIAMS | ROBBIE MOTION | STAR GOSSAGE 27 May - 19 June 2021 Figure Skating brings together a dynamic selection of artists whose painting practices all relate to or circumnavigate the human form, playing upon conventions of portraiture and figuration and their accompanying narratives and histories. Hiria Anderson (Rereahu, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura) holds an MFA with First Class Honours from Whitecliffe College... Read more -
REUBEN PATERSON
DILANA 29 April - 22 May 2021 Page Galleries is delighted to showcase an exclusive collaboration between artist Reuben Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) and Dilana Rugs. While renowned for his works made with glitter, the Auckland based artist regularly engages with a variety of materials and formats within his practice – including painting, sculpture and... Read more -
MICHAEL HIGHT
31 March - 24 April 2021 Michael Hight's 'black paintings' offer a contemporary and distinctly local take on wunderkammern or cabinets of curiosities, those almost magical repositories for all manner of wondrous and unusual objects popularised in sixteenth-century Europe. Hight defines the composition of these works by employing a set of shelving units, with each compartment... Read more -
DEREK COWIE
PAINTINGS 4 - 27 March 2021 Derek Cowie doesn’t like to make things easy for himself. The artist revels in the awkward and the uncomfortable. “I like making things difficult”, he says. “And I want to engage in difficult subjects.” Cowie has long been motivated to make work that addresses the somewhat polemical subject of climate... Read more -
EMILY WOLFE
VANISHING POINT 4 - 27 February 2021 Emily Wolfe’s new series of paintings sees fragmented or discarded objects set against backdrops of old master styled landscape paintings, which themselves have the appearance of having been salvaged from certain ill fate. Wolfe’s paintings are characteristically enigmatic; her disarming domestic interiors heavy with absence and a pervasive sense of... Read more -
HARRY WATSON
ANCIENT SOULS TODAY: OUR LIZARD BRAIN IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 4 - 27 February 2021 Harry Watson has developed his own enigmatic style and visual vernacular over decades of experimentation and practise. A completely self-taught carver, Watson was first inspired by the saints, angels and reliquaries of the cathedrals of medieval Europe. From the mid-1990s his work adopted a New Zealand focus and since then... Read more -
STAR GOSSAGE
NOHO MAI, KI TE AHAU / SIT WITH ME 10 December 2020 - 30 January 2021 Star Gossage (1973, Ngāti Wai / Ngāti Ruanui) presents a veritable garden in her exhibition of recent paintings. Surrounded by these works we are transported to Gossage’s own garden on a headland above Pākiri beach, north east of Auckland. This exhibition is something of an ode to spring; with titles... Read more -
TOSS WOOLLASTON
10 December 2020 - 30 January 2021 My own ultimately rather restricted range of dull earth colours and reduced blues and greens arose from my own personal response to the daytime earth colours of the sun-drenched landscape of Māpua ... writers on my work are fond of quoting me as having said ... I wanted to paint... Read more -
MARITA HEWITT
MATERIAL EFFICIENCIES 12 November - 5 December 2020 An autobiographical rag picker of sorts, I collect our redundant domestic textiles, and in a homage to the commodity and history of paper; (as both ancient and contemporary) I memorialise these often mundane fragments of presence in a pragmatic metaphysics of destruction and renewal. Bringing awareness to temporality and waste,... Read more -
SPRING WINDS
A SURVEY OF IMPORTANT WORKS 12 November - 5 December 2020 Artworks find their way into our gallery under all sorts of circumstances and in many different ways; some arrive on a gentle breeze, others on the tail of a persistent southerly. For whatever reason, sometimes works are with us only briefly, while others stay with us a little longer before... Read more -
JOHN WALSH
UAWA TOLAGA BAY 15 October - 7 November 2020 Uawa Tolaga Bay features a suite of incredibly potent paintings that directly address the environmental devastation resulting from intensive monoculture pine forestry at Uawa Tolaga Bay, on the East Coast of the North Island. John Walsh (Aitanga a Hauiti/ New Zealand Irish) grew up in Uawa. This exhibition is an... Read more -
NEGIN DASTGHEIB
RISING 15 October - 7 November 2020 Negin Dastgheib has always been interested in the concept of home. Earlier works focused on Dastgheib’s family memories of pre-revolution Iran and her own nostalgia for that time. A few years ago the artist began to expand and explore the notion of ‘home’ through other memories of places and experiences.... Read more -
REUBEN PATERSON
YOU KNOW WHO 17 September - 10 October 2020 Reuben Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) weaves together new paintings and sculptural works that linger at the edge of visual perception and earthly understanding in his latest exhibition. You Know Who hints at moments of personal revelation, seasonal growth, and new beginnings. Paterson’s glittering cloudscapes are interposed by prismatic... Read more -
ED BATS
BOOTLEG UTOPIA 20 August - 12 September 2020 The artist known as Ed Bats adopted a pseudonym during his days as a graffiti artist, covertly painting murals on streets around Aotearoa and across Europe. Perhaps as a result, Bats’ works are imbued with a certain architectural quality that is evident in both their physicality and construction. Bats combines... Read more -
NGATAIHARURU TAEPA
KIA ĀIO TE WHENUA 20 August - 12 September 2020 Ngataiharuru Taepa’s exhibition Kia Āio Te Whenua takes its title from a karakia and looks to those everyday moments that offer a sense of stillness or tranquillity. Taepa’s series of intricately cut wooden panels continue the artist’s exploration of kōwhaiwhai through contemporary materials and processes, with these works painted in... Read more -
JASMINE TOGO-BRISBY
DEAR MRS WUNDERLICH 23 July - 15 August 2020 Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s exhibition responds to the artist’s discovery that her great-great-grandparents were acquired as house slaves by the Sydney-based Wunderlich family in 1899. A letter sent to Togo-Brisby’s granny from Mrs Wunderlich provides the starting point for this exhibition; an extension of work first developed for the Courtenay Place Lightboxes... Read more -
KARL MAUGHAN
25 June - 18 July 2020 Karl Maughan takes the garden as his subject matter. From wild and overgrown hedges to meticulously manicured lawns, Maughan deftly captures the light, colour, texture, and pattern found in nature. The garden continues to offer the artist and viewer new opportunities for discovery; whether thrust onto the undergrowth or invited... Read more -
JADE TOWNSEND
HOMESICK / SICKHOME 30 May - 20 June 2020 Homesick/Sickhome features a series of new mahi constructed with fishing and tourism debris; cast out by others and then retrieved by Jade Townsend from beaches across Thailand and Spain. The artist transforms this discarded material into delicately woven and painted works. Some are almost jewel-like; others have the appearance of... Read more -
MAX GIMBLETT
LEAVES OF GRASS 30 May - 20 June 2020 Leaves of Grass features a selection of works on paper from Max Gimblett’s archive. There is an onslaught of vibrant, riotous colour, pattern, and texture in these works. The scale is human; gesture and movement is implicit. One can almost picture the way the artist’s body moves; see the raised... Read more -
AFTER NATURE
VIRTUAL ART FAIR 30 April - 17 May 2020 Following the cancellation of AAF2020 the amazing team at Auckland Art Fair have put together the Virtual Art Fair, which will take place online from Thurs 30 April - Sun 17 May at artfair.co.nz . After Nature borrows from a work of the same name by artist Jade Townsend, which... Read more -
DEREK COWIE
12 March - 23 May 2020 The paintings of Derek Cowie have long been suffused with a surrealist sensibility and a preoccupation with eco dystopian realities and speculative fiction. Sadly those alternate environmental realities are no longer abstract, but startlingly real and material. Cowie’s recent series of paintings and peculiar constructions explore the catastrophic plight of... Read more -
PAUL MASEYK
OUT OF THIS WORLD 13 February - 7 March 2020 Paul Maseyk is a distinct voice in ceramics in Aotearoa. While on the one hand Maseyk’s work speaks to the history of ceramics and ceramic techniques; the other hand determinedly raises a sly middle finger to conventionality as he navigates between ceramics, painting, and sculpture. Some works appear as totems,... Read more -
WAYNE BARRAR
PAIRED TOPOGRAPHICS 13 February - 7 March 2020 Wayne Barrar’s photography emerged in the 1980s out of an interest in visualising and thinking about the human-modified landscape. His work at this time referenced both historical topographic photography (particularly 19th-century practice in New Zealand) and the influential American contemporary exhibition, New Topographics. While his later work has engaged with... Read more -
MICHAEL HIGHT
PLATEAU 28 November - 19 December 2019 Michael Hight's latest exhibition features a series of paintings that offer a contemporary and distinctly local take on wunderkammern or cabinets of curiosities, those almost magical repositories for all manner of wondrous and unusual objects popularised in sixteenth-century Europe. Hight defines the composition of these works by employing a set... Read more -
REUBEN PATERSON
WALLFLOWERS 28 November - 19 December 2019 Read more -
JOHN WALSH
PAPATŪĀNUKU AND US 31 October - 23 November 2019 Read more -
SARAH MUNRO
RAUKUMARA 31 October - 23 November 2019 RAUKUMARA (2019) is a continuation of Sarah Munro’s ongoing Trade Items series focused specifically on the Raukumara Ranges on the East Cape of the North Island of Aotearoa. The narrative within the work centres around the history of introduced species in the area, and their effect on the environment. The... Read more -
ELIZABETH THOMSON
CODA PHENOMENA 10 - 26 October 2019 Inner ear, inner eye 'A plant,' according to the poet Mandelstam, 'is the envoy of a living thunderstorm that rages permanently in the universe-akin in equal measure to stone and lightning! A plant in the world is an event, a happening, an arrow….' In the midst of such flux, Elizabeth... Read more -
MARITA HEWITT
AN ARCHIVE 10 - 29 October 2019 Read more