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John Hurrell on ‘This Year’s Walters Prize’

Congratulations to Ana Iti, the winner of the 2024 Walters Prize. The judge …


Ralph Paine on ‘This Year’s Walters Prize’

Yeah, the “international judge,” along with all his proclaimed expertise and stature… “Bonaventure …


John Hurrell on ‘This Year’s Walters Prize’

I notice that the 2024 Walters Prize judge, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, was …


John Hurrell on ‘Shanley’s Raw Ceramics’

Too 'woo-woo' huh, Julia? You might even be right, though I'm not sure …

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Robbie Fraser, Descending Stereopsis, 2025, oil on canvas, 914 x 762 mm

Robbie Fraser’s Nine Painted Canvases

Enigmatic Linear Repetition

TWO ROOMS

Robbie Fraser

 

The Centre Always Drifts to the Right

 

7 March - 5 April 2025

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Rebecca Wallis. A Loosening of Order. Print identifying as a Painting.

WSA Paintng and Print Awards

ARTSPOST

Waikato Society of Arts

 

2025 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Awards 

 

21 February 2025 - 23 March 2025

JH
Installation view of Mikala Dwyer's Shards and Stones, Sticks and Bones at Starkwhite in Auckland. Little Gold Cloud on the left. Nest is on the right.

Mikala Dwyer @ Starkwhite

STARKWHITE

Mikala Dwyer



Shards and Stones, Sticks and Bones



15 February - 12 March 2025

 

JH
Installation shot of Miles Hendricks, Rainbows End, at Ivan Anthony.

Hendricks Drawings

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Miles Hendricks

 

Rainbows End

 

8 February - I March 2025

JH
Anto Yeldezian, Wall Games, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 1400 x 1900 mm, detail

A Drive to Conquer

COASTAL SIGNS

Anto Yeldezian


Area


31 January - 1 March 2025

JH
Huseyin Sami, Cut Painting (BP), 2025, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 152.5 cm

The Creative Pleasures of ‘Mutilation’

SUMER

Huseyin Sami

 

Rhythm & Cuts

 

31 January - 1 March 2025


JH
Martin Creed, Work No. 3766, 2023, watercolour, gouache, acrylic, pencil on paper, 31 x 23.2 cm / 12 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches

Nifty ‘Brusherly’ Creed

MICHAEL LETT

Martin Creed


Like Favourite Socks in a Drawer


29 January - 1 March 2025

JH
Overall installation view of Judy Darragh's Forest of Dreams at Two Rooms

A Forest of Darraghs

TWO ROOMS

Judy Darragh


Forest of Dreams


31 January 2025 - 1 March 2025

JH
Rohan Hartley Mills, (left) Fools Gold, 2023, aluminium foil and acrylic paint on newsprint and cardboard (right) Crayola Payola, 2024, Oil on papier-mâché and cardboard.

Exciting Pah Collection

THE JAMES WALLACE ARTS TRUST

Two dozen painters, sculptors and jewellers

 

Pushing Parallels
Curated by Abbie La Rooy, Kiki Hall and Michael Prosee

 

23 November 2024 - 9 March 2025


JH
Installation of Ingo Meller at Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland

What Painting is

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Ingo Meller

Ingo Meller

 

30 January - 29 March, 2025

JH
Olafur Eliasson, Life is lived along lines, 2009; Installation view: Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, 2024; Photo: David St George; Courtesy of the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin

Superb Eliasson

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Olafur Eliasson
Your curious journey

 

7 December 2024 - 23 March 2025

JH
Jenny Holzer, STATEMENT - Truisms +, 2015, a four-sided vertical LED sign: with RGB diodes, stainless steel housing, robotic rotator and hoist, © 2015 Jenny Holzer, ARS. Photo: Collin LaFleche.

Holzer’s Cascading Truisms

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Jenny Holzer
STATEMENT - Truisms +, 2015

Curated by Natasha Conland

 

27 March 2024 - 9 March 2025


JH
Gretchen Albrecht, Receptum, 1988, gouache and collage on paper, six panels, 2140 x 4700 mm (overall)

Collaging Albrecht

TE URU WAITAKERE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY

Titirangi

 

Gretchen Albrecht
Liquid States


3 November 2024 - 2 February 2025

pd
Te Maari, Epicenter (E), installation image, 2024

Knitted Māori Dolls

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Kirikiriroa

 

Te Maari
Epicenter (E)


27 November - 21 December 2024

JH
Ralph Paine, À la Leibnitz, eight framed drawings of watercolour and pencil. Each 230 x 310 mm.

Paine as Fan Boy

CHARLES NINOW

Auckland

 

Ralph Paine
Leaves From a Pillow Book

 

December 5 - December 21, 2024


JH
Installation shot of Veronica Herber's Making My Way Home exhibition at Melanie Roger.

Herber’s Torn Tape Graphite Grids

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Veronica Herber
Making My Way Home


14 November - 7 December 2024

JH
Heather Straka, Age of Discovery The Painter, 2021, archival pigment on Photorag Ultrasmooth, 765 x 1135 mm.

Constructed Straka Photographs

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

 

Heather Straka
Isolation Hotel

 

26 November - 21 December 2024

JH
Winston Roeth, Belmont Quintet, 2024, Kremer pigments and polyurethane dispersion on five slate panels, 50,8 x 168.4 cm

The Pleasures of Chromatic Individuality

FOX JENSEN MCCRORY

Auckland

 

Winston Roeth
The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing

 

16 November - 14 December 2024

 

JH
Milli Jannides, Wide Meshed Nets, 2024, oil on linen and silk, 2400 x 1800 mm

Jannides ‘Abstractions’ & Portraits

COASTAL SIGNS

Auckland

 

Milli Jannides
Shivers


15 November -14 December 2024


JH
Sam Rountree Williams, Headlands, 2024, oil on linen, 204 x 153 cm

The Self as Lighthouse

SUMER

Auckland


Sam Rountree Williams
Headlands


14 November - 14 December 2024

 

JH
Louise Fong, Deng (Lantern), 2007, acrylic, ink, and enamel on board, 1100 x 1200 mm

Opulent and Hauntingly Evocative Fong

BERGMAN GALLERY

Auckland

 

Luise Fong
Nexus



12 November - 30 November 2024

NF
Darling Meihana, Colourful Love, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 cm. Photo: Norman Franke

Something in Common

ARTSPOST

Hamilton


Something in Common
Arts for Health annual exhibition


1 November to 1 December 2024.

JH
Paul Davies, Untitled, 2024, acrylic on linen, 153 cm x 122 cm

Perplexing ‘Wildernesses’

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Paul Davies
Still Frame

 

24 October - 24 November 2024