Upcoming
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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 -
The Tree Collectors
Reuben Paterson 22 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 Auckland City
Past
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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 -
In that stone, in that cyclone, in that leaf
Group Exhibition 2 - 26 Jul 2025 Auckland City Earlier this year, wildfires rocked the Greater Los Angeles area, destroying thousands of buildings and burning over 50,000 acres. Extreme weather events – cyclones, rainstorms and floods – are increasing with the impacts of climate change, which pose a very real threat for Pacific nations. This exhibition, In that stone, in that cyclone, in that leaf, brings together a group of artists whose practices explore and expand contemporary perspectives on place, identity and environmental concerns in Aotearoa and Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa. It features the work of represented artists Shane Cotton, Brett Graham, Reuben Paterson, Patricia Piccinini, John Pule and John Walsh, with invited artists Star Gossage, Emily Karaka and Yuki Kihara, and the late influential painter Colin McCahon (1919-1987). Read more -
Creating Space
Frances Hodgkins 21 May - 25 Jun 2025 Auckland City ‘It was in 2019, the year which marked the 150th celebration of Hodgkins’ birth, that I walked into Tate Britain while visiting London on business. There, hanging on the feature wall of this enduring institution was Frances Hodgkins’ oil Wings Over Water, c.1932, which every visitor to the museum passed... Read more -
Present Tense
Group Exhibition 23 Apr - 14 May 2025 Auckland City Presented at Gow Langsford’s City gallery, Present Tense brings together a dynamic range of voices shaping the landscape of contemporary art in Aotearoa today. Spanning diverse practices, media, and perspectives from the gallery’s stable, the show reflects a moment of collective inquiry— into identity, memory, materiality, and the evolving nature of image and form. Read more -
The Wedding Breakfast An Ode to Olly
Virginia Leonard 26 Mar - 19 Apr 2025 Auckland City Virginia Leonards’ practice is intrinsically linked to the state of her body. It hasn’t always been an easy one to live in—injuries from a serious accident in her youth have meant a lifetime of chronic pain, operations and bodily scarring, with the latest procedure being a knee replacement. It was... Read more -
Montage of Attractions
Matthew Browne 26 Feb - 22 Mar 2025 Auckland City In the wake of grief, a very personal new body of work has emerged from Tāmaki Makaurau-based painter Matthew Browne. With a highly skilled and established practice in geometric abstraction, Browne has often explored the metaphorical, unseen and emotive within his formalist compositions. Montage of Attractions takes his practice even further into the realm of personal expression, after the death of his father, with an incredibly impressive output of 92 works on paper and a suite of paintings. The title of the show stems from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1923 film theory, reflecting on how an audience can be profoundly moved by a sequence of ‘attractions’—the audience working to piece together fragments of a narrative into the full story. This journey of montage is one that Browne’s latest exhibition delves into. Read more
