Upcoming
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Group Exhibition
To coincide with Aotearoa Art Fair 2025 23 Apr - 17 May 2025 Auckland City -
Creating Space
Frances Hodgkins 22 May - 25 Jun 2025 Auckland City
Past
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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 -
New Ways of Being
Group Exhibition 29 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Auckland City To begin the new year of 2025, Gow Langsford’s City gallery presents New Ways of Being, by four rising contemporary artists from Aotearoa; Grace Wright, Aiko Robinson, Hannah Valentine, and newly represented artist Claudia Kogachi. Working across a breadth of mediums, the artists have developed distinctly unique visual languages within their respective practices, and New Ways of Being reflects a shared exploration of the self and the body. Read more -
My Country
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori 29 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Auckland City Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (1924–2015) is a contemporary Aboriginal Australian artist whose works transcend the boundaries of traditional indigenous art while remaining deeply rooted in her Kaiadilt heritage. A senior Kaiadilt woman from Bentinck Island in Queensland’s Gulf of Carpentaria, Gabori began painting in 2005 at the age of 81, embarking on an extraordinary artistic journey that spanned a decade. During this time, she created a body of work that speaks to a profound connection between land, memory, and cultural identity, with three outstanding examples included in this exhibition, My Country. Read more -
Headwaters
Michael Hight 27 Nov - 24 Dec 2024 Auckland City The fragmented relationships between landscapes, memories and human interventions have been long-standing subjects of exploration for artist Michael Hight. In this new body of work by the self-taught painter, Headwaters, the artist turns his attention to the rivers of the South Island. These rivers, as the exhibition title suggests, act as both literal and metaphorical sources—wellsprings of imagery for his hyperreal and symbolic paintings. Read more -
East Coast
Karl Maughan 27 Nov - 24 Dec 2024 Auckland City Karl Maughan, one of Aotearoa's most recognisable contemporary painters, is celebrated for his large-scale depictions of gardens, where dense foliage and brilliant flowers create immersive environments. East Coast is his latest series of paintings, which expand on his iconic exploration of lush botanicals, incorporating not only vibrant garden scenes but... Read more -
Sunrise of Fog and Dreams
André Hemer 23 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 Auckland City Since the early 2000s, André Hemer has emerged as a key figure in the hybrid exploration of contemporary image-making, known for his amalgamations of traditional techniques with modern technologies. This new body of paintings showcases a dynamic evolution, characterized by flat surfaces that shift away from the three-dimensional forms of... Read more
