Current
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New Painting
Shane Cotton 12 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Onehunga Shane Cotton's New Painting delves into the collision of Indigenous and European time systems, warping time, memory, and nature through the lens of his Ngāpuhi whakapapa. His new works place ancestral figures in surreal, cosmic landscapes, exploring hybridities, transformation, and the cyclical nature of history. Cotton’s paintings blend history, mythology, and technicolour imagery, reflecting on the layered, nonlinear relationship between the past, present, and future in Aotearoa. Read more -
ART FOR GOOD
A Collaborative Charity Art Auction Benefitting Kindness Collective 31 Oct - 7 Nov 2024 Onehunga Gow Langsford are delighted to support New Zealand charity Kindness Collective this November. Hosted at Gow Langsford’s flagship premises in Onehunga and generously supported by Art+Object and Studio Art Supplies , a selection of artworks created specifically for the event by leading Aotearoa artists including John Pule, Matthew Browne,... Read more
Past
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Erotic Geologies
Natalie Tozer 21 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Onehunga Erotic Geologies is a sci-fi parable that seeks knowledge from the underground. Shifting through an otherworldly landscape where rocky outcrops meet tumultuous skies, the setting of the film makes reference to post-earthquake Ōtautahi in Te Waipounamu and the Tongariro Crossing in Te Ika-a-Māui. The narrative follows protagonists Rangi and... Read more -
Dawn and Dusk
Paul Dibble 21 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Onehunga Haeata/Dawn and Porehu/Dusk (2002)continues Paul Dibble’s exploration of seated figures, a theme he has revisited since the mid-90s. A reinterpretation of Michelangelo’s figures from the Medici tomb, the work explores classical European art history through the lens of New Zealand's cultural landscape. The figures are cast in bronze and presented... Read more -
A Moment in Time: Dashper, Reynolds, Maddox
Celebrating the Chartwell Collection 24 Aug - 14 Sep 2024 Onehunga Last year, The Chartwell Collection invited Galleries across Aotearoa to participate in a yearlong celebration of their 50th Anniversary. Fittingly, their initiative put the focus on artists and highlighted the integral role of dealer galleries in how they built their collection. The Chartwell Collection began in Hamilton in the early... Read more -
Illuminations
Yafeng Duan 20 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 Onehunga The first solo exhibition of Chinese born, Berlin based Yafeng Duan to be presented in Aotearoa. Read more -
Attraction and Transmission
David McCracken 15 Jun - 13 Jul 2024 Onehunga Attraction and Transmission presents a new exhibition of large-scale sculptures by Auckland based artist David McCracken. This body of works develops and extends themes from McCracken’s 2020 solo exhibition with Gow Langsford, Exalt in Transmission. McCracken derives the forms of his sculptural objects from mechanical origins – one can detect underlying reference to engine belts, cogs, and other machine elements. These everyday objects are worked through an artistic process and transformed into monumental sculptures fabricated from Corten steel. Read more -
Haia
John Pule 11 May - 8 Jun 2024 Onehunga Haia brings together a body of recent paintings and drawings by John Pule. With bursts of bright colour, painterly suggestions of water, vast tropical vegetation and silhouetted human figures, the works presented in Haia further the rich artistic vision that has made Pule a widely celebrated artist in Aotearoa and beyond. Read more