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Jonny Niesche, Fat Lava installation at Starkwhite, Auckland.

Exhilarating Niesche

STARKWHITE

Jonny Niesche

 

Fat Lava

 

3 May - 7 June 2025

Intriguing mesh ‘paintings’ and installation

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

Focussing on Foliage

JH
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

Two Optical Methodologies

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

Interpreting Her Delicious but Gaudy Prickly Pots

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

Critique of Settlers’ Ethos & More

JH
Laith McGregor, S.O.S., 2025, clay and enamel, dimensions variable.

Performing Magic (with Anxiety)

STARKWHITE

Laith McGregor

 


Long Days, Longer Nights

 


15 March - 15 April 2025

Craft and Nervousness

JH
Dale Frank, Installation shot of Dale Frank at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Dale Frank in Onehunga

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Onehunga

 

Dale Frank


Dale Frank


8 March - 4 April 2025

Epoxy Resin on Perspex Paintings

JH
Robbie Fraser, HARK, 2025, oil and light refractive pigment on canvas, 1168 x 1216 mm

Robbie Fraser’s Nine Painted Canvases

TWO ROOMS

Robbie Fraser

 

The Centre Always Drifts to the Right

 

7 March - 5 April 2025

Enigmatic Linear Repetition

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

Varied Sculptural Mix

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

Unironic Kitsch

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

A Dominating Ethos

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

Using Both Sides of the Canvas

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

Chuckles & Sensuality Galore

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

A collective of assemblages

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

Display of recent historic works

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

Exploring rudimentary smears

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

Poetics of Space, Light, & Light-Infused Water

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

‘Lightfalls’ of Glowing Maxims

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

Investigating agitated planes and edges

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

Drawings, Collages and Brief Texts

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

Grey Matte Paper

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