Current
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Windows
Philip Clairmont 24 Sep - 18 Oct 2025 Auckland City This exhibition considers the recurring presence of the window in the work of Philip Clairmont (1949–1984), not as a subject alone, but as a persistent and evolving motif: architectural, psychological, symbolic. Long associated with the charged interiors, mirrors, and wardrobes that defined his early breakthroughs, Clairmont’s window works open another kind of space. They offer views both outward and inward, into rooms, colour, memory, and states of mind. Read more -
The Weight of the World
Dick Frizzell 4 - 25 Oct 2025 Onehunga Dick Frizzell is one of Aotearoa’s most widely known and celebrated painters. His works traverse genres with an assured confidence and skill. In this major new exhibition, Frizzell returns to the historically rich tradition of landscape painting, embedded as ever with his playful and idiosyncratic sensibilities. Frizzell’s landscapes bring into... Read more
Upcoming
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The Tree Collectors
Reuben Paterson 22 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 Auckland City “And you, stars, the ancestors, nuclear orbs, red giants, white dwarves, burn brilliantly, burn on the waka down there, burn on waka riding valleys, burn on waka in the night, burn on waka past the end of light.” Robert Sullivan, Waka 100 , from Star Waka (Auckland University Press, 1999)... Read more -
Colour Memories
Sara Hughes 1 - 29 Nov 2025 Onehunga In her forthcoming exhibition, Sara Hughes presents a personal and reflective new body of work shaped by ideas of memory, influence, and artistic lineage. Developed over several years, the project emerged as Hughes marked a milestone birthday, prompting a deeper look at how her childhood, family, and long engagement with... Read more
Past
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Sydney Contemporary 2025
Booth C02 10 - 14 Sep 2025 Offsite The central focus of Gow Langsford’s presentation at Sydney Contemporary is a bold new body of work by Dale Frank. Renowned for his distinctive resin works, Frank’s vivid compositions, layered with rich colour and unpredictable movement, reflect a career spanning five decades of artistic innovation. His works are luminous, fluid,... Read more -
Studio X
Graham Fletcher 27 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Auckland City Graham Fletcher’s newest body of works treat the artist studio not simply as a site of production, but as a curated, self-reflexive environment. They have been inspired by Matisse’s The Pink Studio (1911), which comes from a lineage of 20th century artists exploring the studio as subject and as a charged site of introspection. Studio X presents ten paintings that operate within a layered visual and conceptual space, where tribal artefacts, modernist references, and mid-century furnishings converge. Read more -
Unique Screenprints 2024-2025
Max Gimblett 27 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a series of new unique screenprints by Max Gimblett. These large-scale works are the latest in the evolution of his screenprint practice, created in his signature iconic quatrefoil shape – both deeply recognisable and quintessentially him. In these works, Gimblett uses a vibrant colour... Read more -
A Flight Through Time
Don Binney 23 Aug - 27 Sep 2025 Onehunga Gow Langsford is delighted to present a landmark solo exhibition celebrating the work of Don Binney (1940-2012), one of Aotearoa’s most distinctive painters. With a remarkable practice that spanned over five decades, this exhibition honours a career deeply rooted in the artist’s sustained engagement with our native birds and distinctive... Read more -
How to Disappear
Steve Carr 30 Jul - 23 Aug 2025 Auckland City In How to Disappear , Steve Carr leans deeper into his enduring role as the comic outsider, part magician, part sad clown, pursuing vanishing acts that never quite succeed. Across film, sculpture, and photography, Carr stages a series of near-escapes: crouched behind lenticular plastic, lost in coloured smoke, or swallowed... Read more -
The Open Door
Max Gimblett 26 Jul - 16 Aug 2025 Onehunga A major exhibition of new work by Max Gimblett, one of Aotearoa’s most significant expatriate artists, is presented at Gow Langsford’s Onehunga gallery. Internationally renowned for his fusion of Eastern and Western artistic traditions, Gimblett returns with a vigorous suite of paintings that reaffirm his singular place in the history of contemporary abstraction. In this latest body of work, The Open Door, Max Gimblett returns to the canvas with a commanding series of vast multi-panelled works, along with his iconic quatrefoil shaped canvases—each a bold meditation on form, gesture, and the transcendent possibilities of abstraction. The artist’s signature materials, acrylic paint and precious metal leaf, are applied with a calligraphic immediacy that recalls the spontaneity of Zen brushwork, stemming from his Buddhist mushin (no mind) methodology. Read more
