Summer Editions

Group Exhibition 6 Dec 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 Auckland City We are delighted to present Summer Editions. This exhibition features editioned works by Gow Langsford artists, including John Pule, Max Gimblett, Reuben Paterson, Dick Frizzell, Brett Graham, and Gregor Kregar, as well as prints by famed NZ artists Don Binney and Pat Hanly. Read more

Rhododendrons

Karl Maughan 6 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Auckland City New exhibition of garden landscape paintings by Karl Maughan at Gow Langsford Gallery. Read more

Life Is Understood In Circles

Grace Wright 15 Nov - 2 Dec 2023 Auckland City Life Is Understood In Circles is a new exhibition of works by Grace Wright. Read more

The Creamiest

Reuben Paterson 15 Nov - 2 Dec 2023 Auckland City New exhibition of works by Reuben Paterson. The Creamiest at Gow Langsford Gallery. Read more

Skyscapes

André Hemer 18 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Auckland City New screenprint series by Vienna based acclaimed artist André Hemer. Read more

Today

Sara Hughes 18 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Auckland City Sara Hughes presents Today, a new series of paintings at Gow Langsford Gallery. Read more

Revisiting Modernism

Group Exhibition 27 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Auckland City Revisiting Modernism will present a selection of work by some of New Zealand’s best women modernists. It includes works by well-known artists, Angus, Henderson, and Hodgkins, and some whose standing is increasingly acknowledged, such as A. Lois White, Adele Younghusband, and Jacqueline Fahey. It also makes room for revisiting the work of some figures who haven’t attracted much in the way of scholarship or acclaim, such as Ruth Browne, Jean Horsley and Gabrielle Hope. Read more

Stockroom Selects

Group Exhibition 30 Aug - 20 Sep 2023 Auckland City Stockroom Selects showcases a range of recent works by gallery artists, Max Gimblett, Sara Hughes, Dale Frank, Reuben Paterson and André Hemer. Read more

Spectral Evidence

Virginia Leonard 30 Aug - 23 Sep 2023 Auckland City Virginia Leonard’s ceramic works are ornate wonders. Their appearance could resemble sea creatures, or tropical vegetation, or perhaps even alien life. Colourful, sharp, seemingly floral and often gilded, the works have a fantastical quality and an aesthetic sensibility that borders on the Baroque. Read more

Four Paintings, Four Sitters

Charles F. Goldie 9 - 26 Aug 2023 Auckland City The paintings included in Goldie: Four Paintings, Four Sitters provide a compelling view of the technical virtuosity and distinctive subject matter that made Goldie famous. These works range in date from 1910 to 1918, which situates them in the most productive and esteemed period of the artist’s production. Read more

Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension

Simon Ingram 9 - 26 Aug 2023 Auckland City New exhibition of works by Auckland artist Simon Ingram. Read more

Works on Paper

Dame Louise Henderson 12 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 Auckland City Works on paper by Dame Louise Henderson Read more

Between Waking and Dreaming

Antonio Murado 12 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 Auckland City The works presented in Between Waking and Dreaming further Murado’s exploration of his ‘blown paint’ technique. By blowing liquid paint across pale, semi-transparent backgrounds, Murado creates paint impressions that can be read as flower petals, seemingly floating across the vigorously painted background, which could be read as cascading water. Though this impression is more interpretive than literal. In another sense, these works could be read in terms of gestural abstraction. Whichever way one choses to read them, these paintings are lyrical and immersive. Read more

Requiem

Ralph Hotere 14 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Auckland City Gow Langsford Gallery is delighted to present Ralph Hotere: Requiem, an exhibition of selected works by the distinguished artist. Hotere is widely considered to be one of the all-time greats of New Zealand art, and his work is held in institutional and private collections throughout the country. Hotere is perhaps best known for his dark palette abstract works, which were often painted with automotive lacquer. Read more

Huia Sings Alone

Paul Dibble 14 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Auckland City Paul Dibble is a leading figure of his generation, having created a rich body of sculptural works for public and private contexts over the course of decades. The artist is particularly well-known for his large-scale, cast bronze sculptures, though he is also well-versed in working on a domestic scale. Key themes in Dibble’s work include native flora and fauna, cultural history, architecture, and the human figure. Read more

Manifesto!

Jacqueline Fahey 17 May - 10 Jun 2023 Auckland City Gow Langsford Gallery is proud to present Manifesto!, Jacqueline Fahey’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.This exhibition shows works from a broad cross section of the distinguished painter’s career output, with works dating from the early 1970s up until the present. Manifesto! highlights Fahey's artistic vision, technical finesse, and the diverse range of content that she has engaged with over the decades. Read more

Silience

Matthew Browne 17 May - 10 Jun 2023 Auckland City Matthew Browne’s paintings presented in Silience provide excellent cases in point. On one level, these paintings present hard-edged arrangements of colour and form with a meticulous evenly finished application of paint. By this reading, the works are overtly formalist, and connected to a long tradition of abstract painting, meshed in a discourse of surface, colour, form, and grids. But, in their subtleties, there is also something more open-ended and exploratory at play. Browne has described a process that starts in exploring formal relationships in colour and form but develops greater complexity as the work progresses. Read more

Twilight's Edge

Graham Fletcher 19 Apr - 13 May 2023 Auckland City Aptly titled, Twilight’s Edge is a series of dimly lit landscapes from Ōtepoti Dunedin-based painter Graham Fletcher. Read more

Allen Maddox

19 Apr - 13 May 2023 Auckland City This exhibition features works by Allen Maddox from the mid-1970s through to the 1990s. It was a prolific period for the artist, whereby his chosen motif was first explored and then further developed. Read more

Intimate Perspectives: Small Sculptural Objects

Group Exhibition 22 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Auckland City The exhibition features a variety of small sculptures and offers an alternative and intimate perspective to a genre, often focused on large-scale. The objects presented in the exhibition are small and inherently tactile, with their appearance informed by the way they were created. The artists have used different materials such... Read more

Michael Hight

22 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Auckland City For this exhibition of new paintings, Michael Hight returns to well-known hyperreal landscapes, inspired by South Island imagery from Glenorchy to the Buller River. Read more

Colin McCahon

22 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Auckland City This exhibition is made up of works from two seminal series by Colin McCahon (1919-1987); The Flight From Egypt, 1980 and Angels and Bed, 1976-1977. Both created toward the end of his painting career, they show a deep engagement with the spiritual and emotional dimension of human experience and evidence a lifetime spent asking questions through painting. Read more

Serenity

Max Gimblett 22 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 Auckland City This exhibition is made up of a series of small new paintings by Max Gimblett. It encompasses his signature shaped canvas, the quatrefoil, along with Enso tondo works and rectangles in a mix of bright hues and reticent gold gilding. His unique blend of Eastern philosophy, calligraphy, and abstraction has made him one of this country’s most recognised and respected artists of his generation. Read more

Flow

Group Exhibition 18 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Auckland City Bringing together internationally renowned artists Anish Kapoor (India/UK), Bosco Sodi (Mexico), Dale Frank (Australia) and Bernard Frize (France), Flow is an exploration of colour, surface and materiality. Read more