The Aroma of Black (Part III)

Reuben Paterson 9 Dec 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] For The Aroma of Black (Part III) Paterson returns to his exploration of textile traditions. Where earlier works borrowed from fabrics he associated with the maternal side of his family, these new works take their inspiration from botanical subjects and reference still life paintings by 17th century Dutch painters. His ideas are translated into carefully constructed glitter paintings which, for the first time at Gow Langsford Gallery, use a more intricate method that creates smoother, more graduated depth to the textured surfaces. Read more

Halcombe

Karl Maughan 9 Dec 2015 - 23 Jan 2016 Auckland City In his latest exhibition, Halcombe, Karl Maughan continues with the garden theme for which he is now famous. He returns to his familiar rhododendron subjects in these vibrant compositions. Alongside the new works, Gow Langsford Gallery will also show Salamanca Road, an epic nine metre work commissioned by the Dowse Museum Wellington for his solo exhibition there in 2014. Read more

Lost World

Gregor Kregar 11 Nov - 5 Dec 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In Lost world sculptor Gregor Kregar combines structures made from recycled glass with large stylized bronze dinosaurs. Through this unusual juxtaposition the artist creates an environment to surprise and engage the viewer. Kregar’s interest in dinosaurs was sparked by observing his four year old’s fascination for these creatures. Intrigued by reading him dinosaur books before bed each night and finding plastic replica all over the house, the artist was spurred to create his own setting in which to bring these prehistoric animals to life. Read more

Still

Martin Ball 11 Nov - 5 Dec 2015 Auckland City In Still motorcycles, with all their associations with macho and speed, are lovingly painted in Martin Ball’s signature realist style. The effect is an unexpected comparison between subject and methodology.

Ball is known for his realist paintings and drawings and although motorcycles are a subject he has touched upon in the past, he is best known for his large-scale portraits. Interestingly, his motorcycle subjects are treated in a similar manner to his figurative works – refined edges, obsessive attention to detail, closely cropped, exquisite brushwork and a softness of touch. All of which imbue these works with an intense calmness that defies the nature of the motorcycles themselves. Read more

1960s

Group Exhibition 14 Oct - 5 Nov 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The 1960s were a golden age of God, Queen and Country for New Zealand. Encouraged by a strong economy, the nation enjoyed one of the world’s highest standards of living. Fashion, politics, music and the visual arts flourished and chased away post-war gloom. As wider audiences responded to increased opportunities to engage with art the appetite for the visual arts grew substantially. Read more

Bound Communication and Stories of Love

Lisa Roet 14 Oct - 5 Nov 2015 Auckland City This new body of work for Gow Langsford Gallery looks at ways of communication and stories of Love. Through her signatory image of the ape bust, Roet expresses moments of communication and emotion as she has witnessed through her research into Primate body and sign language at zoos, ape language research centres and residencies with primatologists worldwide. Made form bronze, carrara marble and gold plated bronze, Roet plays with mediums reminiscent of a decadent past. Read more

Spring Catalogue 2015

Group Exhibition 16 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The annual Spring Catalogue began in 1995 and has concentrated on presenting high value secondary market artworks by both New Zealand and international artists. This year’s publication is a break from this tradition and focusses on the artists represented by the gallery. Read more

Paintings

George ‘Hairbrush’ Tjungurrayi 19 Aug - 12 Sep 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] George ‘Hairbrush’ Tjungurrayi (b. circa 1947) is a celebrated Aboriginal painter. Made up of shades of colour and optical lines, Tjungurrayi’s paintings are based on the “Dreaming” – the stories owned by different Aboriginal tribes and their members that explain the creation of life, people and animals. George predominantly conveys aspects of “Tingari Dreaming”, the sacred ancestral journeys of men and women who travelled throughout the country and shaped the landscape. His works refer to sacred sites located in his ancestral country including his homelands Wala Wala, Kiwikurra, Lake Mackay and Kintore. Read more

Russell Clark

19 Aug - 12 Sep 2015 Auckland City Russell Clark (1905-1966) was a painter, sculptor and an influential teacher and illustrator. His painted scenes of modernist New Zealand landscape, rural Maori life, and modernist sculptures give him a unique position in New Zealand art history. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a dynamic collection of works from the artist’s family, some of which have not previously been shown Read more

Dale Frank

22 Jul - 15 Aug 2015 Auckland City, Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The viewer becomes protagonist in Dale Frank’s new series of works. Where earlier works are partially reflective through the use of high gloss varnish, in this new series Frank replaces canvas with mirrored Perspex, allowing the viewer to become an integral part of the work. The works will be exhibited at both gallery spaces and a catalogue will be available. Read more

Anzac

Laurence Aberhart 24 Jun - 18 Jul 2015 Auckland City Monuments to those who fell in the Great World War of 1914-18 can be found all over Australasia. Lovingly erected to immortalise those they remember, they appeared throughout the landscape immediately after the war. Generations gone by, they are the remnants of another time; a reminder of a faded community-mindedness. Although immediately familiar, they are taken for granted, just passed by. Here, Aberhart brings the near forgotten into focus, making protagonists of those on the edge of our collective consciousness. Read more

The Chief of the Canoe

Colin McCahon 24 Jun - 18 Jul 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Colin McCahon: Chief of the Canoe is a collection of significant works by Colin McCahon. The title of the exhibition borrows from the eight panelled The Canoe Tainui – an epical work from 1969 and metaphorically instates McCahon as a leader of twentieth century New Zealand art.

Colin McCahon: Chief of the Canoe brings together a grouping of masterworks and includes paintings from the Elias (1959), Visible Mysteries (1968) and Jump (1974) series’ and an early religious work (1947). Read more

Post Invisible

Group Exhibition 27 May - 20 Jun 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Post Invisible is a thematic exhibition of “white” works. Its focus is on international artists including works by seminal abstractionist Sol le Witt, American post-conceptualist Christopher Wool and photographer Isaac Layman. Read more

Withdrawn at the Request of Sue Crockford Gallery

Billy Apple 27 May - 20 Jun 2015 Auckland City At the end of 2005, Gow Langsford Gallery extended an invitation to a group of artists to participate in Frieze, an exhibition inspired by Greco-Roman architectural friezes. The gallery gave each of the artists a blank canvas to paint. These were then installed in a continuous line around the perimeter of the gallery to create a horizontal frieze of paintings.

Along with Gow Langsford’s artists, some – including Billy Apple® – were represented by other galleries. At the eleventh hour Apple’s work was withdrawn at the request of his then Auckland dealer, Sue Crockford Gallery. Unhappy with these circumstances, Apple and the gallery replaced his canvas with a wall label which read, ‘Frieze art work by Billy Apple withdrawn at the request of Sue Crockford Gallery’. Read more

Gallipoli

John Walsh 29 Apr - 23 May 2015 Auckland City Marking the centenary of the World War I Gallipoli campaign, last April painter John Walsh joined a group of artists on a journey to Gallipoli Peninsula to make work towards the exhibition entitled Your Friend the Enemy which will travel Australasia in the coming year. On this trip Walsh was drawn to the personal, often untold, narratives of men at war. Read more

Paintings of the Sun

Simon Ingram 29 Apr - 23 May 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] For over a year Simon Ingram’s Radio Painting Station has been collecting energy emitted from hydrogen atoms undergoing “spin-flips” in space. The visual representation of this collection is a series of thirty concentrically circular compositions that materialise energy from the sun, and the interstellar medium, in a cartoon-like and painterly way. It is these that the artist chooses to present for his fourth solo exhibition Paintings of the Sun at Gow Langsford Gallery. Read more

Up The Road

Dick Frizzell 1 - 25 Apr 2015 Auckland City There are no epic vistas or sublime sunsets in Dick Frizzell’s latest series of landscapes. The subjects in Up the Road are intentionally somewhat unspectacular. They are familiar, belonging anywhere; his farm gate could be my farm gate, it could be your gate, if you have a farm. Although there is a hint of that Frizzellean naivety, the new works are too “good” to fall strictly into his self-proclaimed “bad landscape” genre. These works are the result of the Man on the road; noting the landscape’s attractions and distractions as he goes, before working them into these wondrous (albeit at times awkward) homescapes. He takes no prisoners in defending his portrayal of everyday environments in this manner; Frizzell has long since distanced himself from the critical fraternity. Read more

It's More Than A Game

Richard Lewer 1 - 25 Apr 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Richard Lewer’s new paintings are about the game of rugby.

As to be expected from a New Zealand man living abroad, they are nostalgic, and unapologetically so. Rugby became important to Lewer when he moved to Australia. He sees the game as a connecting force – for his friends, his family, and his nation.

Lewer’s social realist practice explores stories from the realms of crime, religion and sport. He sees parallels between being an artist and an athlete – both roles rely on endurance. Read more

Sea of Dragons

Max Gimblett 3 - 28 Mar 2015 Auckland City There is a lot written about Max Gimblett’s paintings yet there is an element of his practice that resists definition. In a sense his works are easy to define: they are mostly abstract, mostly expressionist or sometimes a bit hard-edged; there could be a reference to the divine or Eastern philosophies; they may be bright and wild or perhaps calculated and reticent. Yet beyond this lies something else, something captivating and knowing, ephemeral – something like emotion. Standing before a painting in Sea of Dragons there is an undertow of energy. It is as if these works emit fleeting pulses that are briefly tangible. Read more

Proof of Heaven

Judy Millar 3 - 28 Mar 2015 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] In her exhibition Proof Of Heaven Millar will exhibit a large group of new paintings that she has been working on over the last six months in her Berlin studio. Taking cues from the colours found in post-apocalyptic comics these works glow with an otherworldly light, mysterious and unsettlingly beautiful. Forms appear to emerge and disintegrate in an unstable world of things half-seen and impossible to recognise. Read more

The Wrong Gallery

Group Exhibition 28 Jan - 28 Feb 2015 Auckland City The Wrong Gallery was conceptualized by Maurizio Cattelan, Ali Subotnick and Massimiliano Gioni in 2005. It is a 1:6 scale reproduction of New York’s smallest exhibition space of the same name, which they founded together in 2002. Subsequent versions have been shown all over the world including at Tate Modern (2005). Our rendition of The Wrong Gallery will be installed in our Kitchener St Gallery and will, fittingly, be filled with miniature artworks by gallery artists. Read more