The Here And Now

Chris Heaphy 15 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 Auckland City Chris Heaphy’s new exhibition The Here and Now explores our perception of place and time. The paintings appear to be flat images of coloured flower arrangements, or brightly coloured dots, ordered on a white background. Looking closer, they float between a world of recognizable images and abstract or symbolic meaning. Read more

Zig-Zag

Karl Maughan 15 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Karl Maughan grew up in Palmerston North, before attending Elam School of Fine Arts in 1983. During his years at Art School, Maughan began working with garden scenes as a way of dealing with light, shade and composition. The subject matter suited his explorations with paint, and gardens have been the subject of Maughan’s work for over 30 years. He writes, “I’m interested in all the cultural associations we all have with the idea of the garden. They are a central part of the idea of civilisation, the first instance of humans asserting their control over nature.” Read more

John Walsh

18 Oct - 11 Nov 2017 Auckland City In John Walsh’s recent body of works, we are transported to a realm in which spirits and humans co-exist. Time and space overlap as contemporary beings mix with ethereal suggestions of what might lay beyond. With mixed Aitanga a Hauiti and New Zealand Irish Heritage, Walsh’s ancestors voyaged across oceans on their immense journey to Aotearoa. The navigation of the Pacific was a profound feat, through which Walsh finds inspiration for how we might navigate the future. He writes of the “evolving culture that had to be patient, resourceful, inventive, prepared to drop truths and beliefs… embracing a measured love, fear, respect and exhilaration of venturing into the uncertain.” Read more

A Sound of Thunder

Gregor Kregar 18 Oct - 11 Nov 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Gregor Kregar, A Sound of Thunder exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery, 2017 Read more

Works from the Collection of the Late Sir Paul Holmes

20 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 Auckland City The late, great and often controversial Sir Paul Holmes will be remembered for his services to New Zealand journalism, but outside of his illustrious broadcasting career, Holmes, and his wife Lady Deborah Holmes were avid art collectors. They acquired a small but impressive collection of works predominately by New Zealand artists, most of which were housed at Mana Lodge, their private residence in the Hawkes Bay. Gow Langsford Gallery is proud to present a selection of works from this beloved personal collection. Read more

Black Matters II

Reuben Paterson 20 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The medium of glitter is not one that is easily manipulated, however, New Zealand artist Reuben Paterson has spent the past 20 years developing, refining and mastering his medium. His works are provocative, alluring, and most of all, mesmerising. Black Matters II is a new series of work exploring themes of light and politics, captured in snapshots of brilliant, bursting fireworks. Read more

Celebrating 30 Years

Group Exhibition 23 Aug - 16 Sep 2017 Auckland City, Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] From humble beginnings in a converted petrol station on Richmond Road, Grey Lynn to two central Auckland locations, John Gow and Gary Langsford have been at the helm of Gow Langsford Gallery since its opening. Their shared passion and dedication to the arts has contributed to their ongoing success locally and internationally.

Gow Langsford Gallery's inaugural exhibition opened on the 9th of August 1987 with a group exhibition that included works by Dick Frizzell, Judy Millar, and Allen Maddox. Thirty years on, Frizzell and Millar are still represented by the gallery, as is the estate of Allen Maddox. It is only fitting to celebrate this milestone with a group exhibition featuring new works from the current Gow Langsford Gallery stable. Read more

New Works

Antonio Murado 26 Jul - 19 Aug 2017 Auckland City Spanish born painter Antonio Murado continually pushes the boundaries with his painting techniques. While a brush upon canvas may be the preferred method by many, Murado employs the acts of scraping, blowing, peeling and corroding his mediums in order to create his seemingly delicate works. Fresh from his New York studio where he now resides, New Works is an exhibition which showcases his skills as a painter who cannot be categorised within a single genre. His works weave through that of landscape and abstraction; showcasing a fine balance between both, as flower petals float within sweeps of gestural oil paint. Read more

Matériel

Jono Rotman 26 Jul - 19 Aug 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] America based, New Zealand born photographer Jono Rotman returns to Gow Langsford Gallery for his third solo exhibition Matériel, following on from his controversial Mongrel Mob Portrait series. Using large format photography, Matériel explores the politically and culturally complex issues of weaponry. Read more

New Zealand Light

Group Exhibition 28 Jun - 22 Jul 2017 Auckland City New Zealand Light is a group exhibition which celebrates five of New Zealand's most significant modern artists, Colin McCahon, Gordon Walters, Ralph Hotere, Shane Cotton, and Peter Robinson. The common thread that runs through their respective practices is their masterful ability to convey reflections of light within a largely monochromatic palette. Shadows rise to the surface or fall back between layers of foreground and background, their shifting nature reflecting equally tumultuous periods of political and social upheaval in New Zealand’s cultural history. Read more

Whitelight

Lisa Roet 28 Jun - 22 Jul 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Australian artist Lisa Roet presents a new body of work completed especially for her third solo exhibition at Gow Langsford Gallery. These works are based on her visit to the snow monkeys in the hot springs of Japan in 2016. Read more

New Northland Explorations, Some Interiors

Laurence Aberhart 31 May - 24 Jun 2017 Auckland City As part of the Auckland Festival of Photography (1 June – 24 June), we are pleased to present a solo exhibition of works from renowned New Zealand photographer, Laurence Aberhart. The emotive and atmospheric use of black and white photography is distinct of Aberhart’s works. They often capture iconic buildings, memorials and cemeteries within quiet and almost eerie settings. Despite their inherent stillness, the photographs are rife with history with Aberhart possessing a unique skill in capturing a moment in time through carefully considered compositions. Read more

Digital Plastique

Simon Ingram 31 May - 24 Jun 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] All of the works in Simon Ingram’s Digital Plastique began as drawings made on an Android phone. These drawings are made by Ingram in-between times, while he is waiting or when gaps open up in a day. Read more

In Print

Group Exhibition 3 - 27 May 2017 Auckland City To coincide with the Auckland Readers and Writers Festival (16 - 21 May), Gow Langsford Gallery presents In Print, a group exhibition of rare and limited edition publications from a selection of prominent local and international artists including Ai Weiwei, David Hockney, Rohan Wealleans, Andy Warhol, Bettina Rheims, and Ralph Gibson. Read more

Getting to Know You

Richard Lewer 3 - 27 May 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Getting to Know You is a series of portraits of people I’ve seen almost every day for the last 5 years. However though we’ve spent significant time together, there’s never been an opportunity to really look at or study these individuals; and in the context we meet, it would be odd to dwell on their features and think too long about Dave’s eye colour, the slope of Koda’s nose or the crookedness of Chris’s mouth. Removing them from our usual sporting context has allowed this study to take place. Read more

black white orange mountain

Ugo Rondinone 5 - 29 Apr 2017 Auckland City black white orange mountain (2016) tests the boundary between the real and the fake, with the viewer constantly engaged in this interplay. While the stone medium evokes objects found in nature, this is immediately disrupted by bold coatings of industrial paint, bringing the authenticity of the material under question. Read more

Michael Hight

5 - 29 Apr 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Michael Hight returns to Gow Langsford Gallery with a solo exhibition of paintings that revisit the subject for which he is most well-known: landscapes, both familiar and transcendental, that are populated with beehives. Read more

Damien Hirst

8 Mar - 1 Apr 2017 Auckland City From animals encased in formaldehyde, jewel encrusted skulls, and works adorned with the wings of butterflies, Damien Hirst’s approach to creating art is unprecedented. Playing with appearances, Hirst is a master of manipulating the human eye and what we traditionally associate with certain images. Read more

The Geometrics

Paul Dibble 8 Mar - 1 Apr 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] The Geometric Figures express Paul Dibble’s ongoing interest in the aesthetics of pure forms. They were first produced in the late 90s and in early 2000 and signified a shift from works which had used a more narrative basis of themes. The works are all figurative in content with the human form reduced to simple geometric shapes. Some of the works have straight or bowed props seeming to support the shapes. The mathematical forms give the works a cool surreal elegance yet at the same time the figures are highly gestural, reflecting a strong sense of humanity. Read more

Cross Rhythms

Allen Maddox 8 Feb - 3 Mar 2017 Lorne Street [2008 - 2021] Allen Maddox (1948-2000) is remembered as being one of New Zealand’s finest exponents of abstract expressionism. His work, spanning over three decades, investigates the tensions between structure and gesture, primarily utilising the motifs of grids and crosses. Read more

Golden Age

Pat Hanly 8 Feb - 3 Mar 2017 Auckland City Throughout his career Pat Hanly (1932-2004) expressed his responses to matters of social conscience in contemporary New Zealand with an impassioned vision. His paintings are characteristically vibrant, while his subjects are variously political; reflective of the human psyche; and, in his observations of family and friends, personal. This exhibition brings together a collection of painted works and limited editions for his first solo exhibition at Gow Langsford. Read more