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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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Ammon Ngakuru, Jonah and the Whale, 2025, oil on canvas, 1850 x 1650 mm; Maggie Friedman, Untitled (Jeff Koons, Party Hat, 1995-97, The Broad Museum Los Angeles, 2025), 2025, oil on canvas, two elements each 1830 x 1145 mm

Friedman and Ngakura @ Coastal Signs

Two clever painters

COASTAL SIGNS

Maggie Friedman & Ammon Ngakura

 

Icon

 

Curated by Sally McMath

 

13 August - 13 September 2025

Recent Posts

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Christina Barton, Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from aotearoa New Zealand 1985 -2021

Barton Anthology

Te Pataka Toi Adam Art Gallery / Te Herenga Waka University Press

Wellington

 

Christina Barton

 

Out of the Blue: Essays on Artists from Aotearoa New Zealand  1985 - 2021

JH
Installation view of Jeena Shin's Time Crystal exhibition at Two Rooms.

Jeena Shin’s Fields of Floating Angular Geometry

TWO ROOMS

Jeena Shin

 

Time Crystal

 

15 August - 27 September 2025

 

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Frances van Dammen, Silverbeet,  oil on canvas

Three Women at WINTEC, Kirikiriroa

Te Whare Toi

van Dammen, Knighton, Glass

 

Three Women at WINTEC

 

17 - 24 May 2025

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PĀNiA! Orange Builder’s Pony With Ear Bonnet or Protective Muff, 2025  Folding saw horse, hobby horse head, thermal glove, dowel, glue, faux leather bridle, duster, stroller wheels, fake eyelashes, band aids, bandage, fixings, sound, 120 x 125 x 50 cm

Laree Payne & Mokopōpaki Team Up.

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Group show

 

ȧ la Tōrea Pango

 

14 May - 7 June  2025

JH
Selina Foote, Berthe, 2025, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 600 x 500 mm

Foote’s Balustrades

TWO ROOMS

Selina Foote

 

The Balcony

 

15 August - 27 September 2025


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Zena Elliott, The Silence Forced Upon Us Is Louder Than the Crown's Declaration of Partnersip and Fairness, acrylic paint, rakau,haumaru, haumarangai, mauri, rongoa, karakia, 2025

Waikato Award: Inclusive Selection

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

National Contemporary Art Award

 

Selected by  Nigel Borell

 

1 August - 28 October 2025

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Tony de Lautour, Black Mountain 2 2025, acrylic on canvas, 750 x 1000mm

Obliterated Titular Language

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Tony de Lautour

 

Location

 

26 July - 23 August 2025

JH
Richard Killeen, Catspiralcatspiral (9458), 2025, Ink jet and Bona Mega Matt varnish on ACM, 1000 x 480mm

Containing Meaning

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Richard Killeen

 

Jar

 

26 July - 23 August 2025


JH
Steve Carr, Many Steves, 2025, pigment inkjet print; diptych each 1524 x 1016mm unframed, 1550 x 1045 x 35mm framed, 1550 x 2090mm framed overall Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof

Chortle Chuckle Carr

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Steve Carr

 

How to Disappear

 

30 July - 23 August 2025

JH
Installation view of Built at Two Rooms

Building Architecture-Alluding Art

TWO ROOMS

Gretchen Albrecht, John Reynolds, John Nixon, James Ross

 

Built

 

4 July - 9 August 2025

JH
Denis O'Connor, I for Inklings, 2024, pigment, wax on Welsh slate, 245 x 195 mm

Angling for Resonances

TWO ROOMS

Denis O’Connor

 

Lucken’s Alphabet

 

4 July - 9 August 2025


JH
Ruth Cleland, Concrete Floor 4, 2925, acrylic on board, 60 x 80 cm.

Pebbles, Oblongs & Reflections

SUMER

Ruth Cleland


Concrete


11 June -12 July 2025

JH
Cerith Wyn Evans, installation view of Cerith Wyn Evans at Michael Lett.

Cerith Wyn Evans at Lett

MICHAEL LETT

Cerith Wyn Evans

 

Cerith Wyn Evans

 

14 June - 12 July 2025

JH
Joyce Campbell, The Giant Rock, LiDAR photogravure

Unnerving Campbell

TWO ROOMS

Joyce Campbell

 

Dream Diary

 

23 May - 28 June 2025

 


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Conor Clarke, Follow Your Nose, 2025, single channel video, 25 min54 sec, Connor Clarke in collaboration with Ted Howard

Nocturnal Ornithology

TWO ROOMS

Conor Clarke


Night Writing


23 May - 28 June 2025

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Mike Parr, detail, Sunset Claws exhibit, Going Home, 2023, Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne.

A Supplement to ‘Art, Palestine and Waiheke (a Report)’

A consideration of the continuing Gaza conflict

JH
Jonny Niesche, Fat Lava installation at Starkwhite, Auckland.

Exhilarating Niesche

STARKWHITE

Jonny Niesche

 

Fat Lava

 

3 May - 7 June 2025

JH
Installation shot of some of Jude Rae's various objects at Two Rooms

Painted Potted-Plant Parts

TWO ROOMS

Jude Rae

 

various objects


11 April - 17 May 2025


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Installation of Bambury and May works at Sumer

Wall-Reflected vs Frontal, Directly-Radiating Colour

SUMER

Stephen Bambury & Anne-Marie May

 

The Still Point of the Turning World

 

26 March - 26 April 2025

JH
Virginia Leonard, Eating with Blue Blood and Village Knickers, 2025, clay, resin and lustre, 400 x 500mm plus ceramic tray.

Leonard’s Aesthetic….Hmm?

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Virginia Leonard

 

The Wedding Breakfast: An Ode to Olly

 

26 March - 19 April 2025

JH
George Watson, Fields 3, detail,  hand dyed silk, fence batons, staples, 2300 x 230 mm overall

George Watson at Coastal Signs

COASTAL SIGNS

George Watson

 

The Farm

 

7 March - 12 April 2025

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Peter F Muller. Corrugated Wave'2 finger ring. Sterling Silver, part corrugated, part oxidised ponamu.

Diminutive Sculpture in Waikato

ARTSPOST

Hamilton Kirikiriroa

 

2025 Small Sculptural Award


28 March -2 6 April 2025