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Laura Williams, Dutchess County Picnic

Sophisticated Faux Naivety

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Hamilton

Laura Williams
Dutchess County Picnic

 

13 February - 9 March 2019

Knowingly untutored

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Trent Thompson's 'Hydrocal White' paintings as installed in his 'In Lieu' exhibition at Skinroom gallery

White Leaning on White

SKINROOM

Hamilton


Trent Thompson
In Lieu


15 February - 9 March 2019

 

Spatial extension of feeling

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Shannon Novak, Open, 2018, vinyl, mirror ball, and lights. At Ramp

Novak at Ramp

RAMP

Hamilron

 

Shannon Novak
Unbounded

 

28 September - 18 October 2018

Gay narratives in abstraction


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Winner: Sarah Ziessen, You and Me: The Weight of History.

2018 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

National Contemporary Art Award
Selected and judged by Reuben Friend

 

4 August - 28 October 2018

Winner: Paint as garment

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Rachel Hope Peary, A Quiet Meal, A Glass of Red Wine, A Heavy Chat. Photo by Holly Russell

Abstraction for a New Generation

LAREE PAYNE GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Chelsea Pascoe, Nicholas Megchelse, Rachael Hope Peary
No Holiday

 

26 April - 12 May 2018

Non-Objective Art at Weasel

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Installation view of 'White Rainbow' in Ramp, April 2018

Hanging Paintings on a Painting?

RAMP

Hamilton


Group painting exhibition
White Rainbow


April 23 - May 23 2018

Painted Support; Painted Surface


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Niki Hill, Blush 2

Examining the Feminine Ideal

TACIT GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Group show
Renegotiating the Feminine Ideal


10 March - 24 March 2018

Looking closely at values

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Roger Key's exhibition Minor Events as installed at Wallace Gallery

Roger Key’s History Paintings

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Roger Key
Minor Events

 

3 February - 25 February 2018

Cocking a Snook

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Tiger Murdoch, Great North Road, plywood.

2017 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Selected finalists
National Contemporry Art Award


29 July - 5 November2017

Interactive and ‘ethical’.


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Geoffrey Clarke, Vernacular, 2017, ink on synthetic canvas, 1600 mm x 1900 mm.

Flippant Abstraction

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Geoffrey Clarke
Vernacular

 

1 June - 29 June 2017

Clarke’s demurral

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Joseph Scott, Charisma (go into all the World), 2017, mixed media

Passing Foxes

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Joseph Scott

You are passing another fox

 

18 March - 31 March 2017

 

Joseph Scott in Hamilton

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Bryan Hobbs-Crowter, HEEL!! Mummified opossum, collar, lead.

Serious Fluff

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Group show
Fluff

 

24 February - 11 March, 2017

Waikato Surrealism


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Andrea du Chatenier, Bearded Prophet, ceramic and textile.

Du Chatenier Survey

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Andrea du Chatenier
Being Andrea du Chatenier

 

2 December, 2016 - 22 January, 2017

Spoofs of masculinity

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Cara Fotofili, Experiencing a Significant Shortfall of Gravitas, watercolour on 300 gsm paper, 1400 x 5200 mm

Deflating the Spiritual

GALLAGHER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS GALLERY

Hamilton

 

Cara Fotofili
Small changes

 

17 October - 9 December 2016

Eschewing the divine

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Sorawit Songsataya, Good Kisser, 2016, two 3D printed vases (plastic particle) wooden plant stand.

Hamilton’s Contemporary Art Prize

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition

 

National Contemporary Art Award 2016

 

3 September - 4 December 2016

3D printed vases by winner


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Lonnie Hutchinson's Light My Fire at Ramp. Photo: Geoff Ridder

Lonnie Hutchinson in Waikato

RAMP

Hamilton

 

Lonnie Hutchinson
Light My Fire

 

8 August - 31 August 2016

Revisiting the female nude

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On the wall, Abigail Jensen's Big Black Painting.

Black

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Abigail Jensen and Eliza Webster
Creep

 

8 July 8 - 23 July 2016.

Rough and brutal

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George Hajian's Silver, Tinted, Pink at Ramp

Male Objectification

RAMP

Hamilton

 

George Hajian
Silver Tinted Pink

 

24 March - 12 April 2016

Homo-erotic perving over Ken


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Visesio Siasau, Onotu' ofe'uli - Onotu'ofekula, 2014, tapa cloth

Wallace Awards in Morrinsville

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville


Selected Finalists
Wallace Art Awards 2015

 

20 February - 24 April 2016

Last year’s winners

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Shigeyuki Kihara's Undressing the Pacific at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. Photo: Kevin Dornauf

Shigeyuki Kihara in Hamilton

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Shigeyuki Kihara
Undressing the Pacific

 

14 November 2015 - 29 February 2016

A fa’afafine deconstructs the colonial gaze

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Glenn Burrell's Destination: Liquid Sunshine as installed at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.

Collapsed, Deflated and Made of Paint

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Glenn Burrell
Destination: Liquid Sunshine

 

7 October - 27 October 2015

Glenn Burrell’s eviscerated forms