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

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

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

In The Stars I Trust

Reuben Paterson 7 - 20 Oct 2024 Offsite Nearly thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope launched from Merritt Island, Florida, and after correcting its flawed optics, provided detailed images that have helped answer longstanding astrophysical questions. Reuben Paterson, an Auckland-born artist of Māori and Scottish descent, responds to these so-called answers with deeper imagination. His series In The Stars I Trust features ten mixed-media paintings based on constellations captured by the Hubble, viewed from a Southern Hemisphere perspective. Read more

Spring Catalogue 2024

Group Exhibition 25 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Auckland City Gow Langsford's annual Spring Catalogue exhibition for 2024 presents a remarkable collection of works by some of New Zealand's most celebrated artists. This exhibition offers a rich cross-section of Aotearoa’s artistic legacy, showcasing prominent pieces by Bill Hammond, Karl Maughan, Gretchen Albrecht, Dame Louise Henderson, Tony Fomison, Toss Woollaston, and others. Spanning through to the early 21st century, this collection of works offers a captivating journey through the evolution of New Zealand's visual art, showcasing the depth, diversity, and enduring impact of these revered artists. 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

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

We are nourished by the unknown

Patricia Piccinini 28 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 Auckland City The central focus of Patricia Piccinini's first solo exhibition at Gow Langsford, We are nourished by the unknown, is her major 2023 work The Bridge. In this work a life-sized female character sits cradling a hybrid animal-human creature. The composition evokes Dutch renaissance depictions of the Good Samaritan, with the woman’s warmth juxtaposed against the unsettling animalness of the creature, challenging us to display the same compassion for difference that they do. The exhibition also showcases smaller sculptures The Pacifist, The Protégé and Safely Together alongside works on paper and hand blown glass works. 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

Sam Harrison

31 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Auckland City Christchurch based artist Sam Harrison is a craftsman in every sense of the word. He is a master of many mediums, working across bronze, concrete and plaster along with watercolour and printmaking techniques. Harrison’s works have a raw, emotive quality, which is underpinned by meticulous attention to detail. The works presented in his second solo exhibition with Gow Langsford continue his exploration of the human figure. Read more

Gordon Walters

31 Jul - 24 Aug 2024 Auckland City Gordon Walters (1919-1995) was a pioneer who is widely recognised and celebrated as one of New Zealand’s most significant modernist artists. Walters’ career spanned over five decades and from 2017-2019 the comprehensive survey exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision was developed and toured in partnership by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. 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

Hang In Any Order

Richard Killeen 3 - 27 Jul 2024 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present an exhibition of artworks by Richard Killeen. The exhibition includes several of Killeen’s distinctive cut-outs, which range in date from 1981 to 2002. 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

Hands of Gold

Max Gimblett 5 - 29 Jun 2024 Auckland City Gow Langsford is delighted to present Hands of Gold, an exhibition of new works by Max Gimblett. Hands of Gold features a stunning array of paintings, the majority of which take the quatrefoil shape – a hallmark of Gimblett’s oeuvre. While this essential form repeats, the treatment of surface varies considerably from work to work. There are evenly surfaced monochromes, grid-like patterns, and extravagantly gestural brush strokes in a rich array of colours. What shines through in this diverse range of approaches to painting is the quality of Gimblett’s craft and his distinctive artistic vision. 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

Five Figures

Group Exhibition 8 May - 1 Jun 2024 Auckland City Five Figures brings together a selection of figurative works by notable women artists. It includes work by Jacqueline Fahey, Dame Louise Henderson, Ayesha Green, Nicky Hoberman, and Jenny Watson. Read more

I stain my heart with thoughts of you so resistant

Aiko Robinson 8 May - 1 Jun 2024 Auckland City Boldly erotic yet delicately intricate, I stain my heart with thoughts of you so resistant is Aiko Robinson’s first solo exhibition at Gow Langsford. Read more

Collective Visions

New & Recent Works by Represented Artists 10 Apr - 4 May 2024 Auckland City Collective Visions showcases new and recent works from many of the artists in our Gallery stable, including Dick Frizzell, Reuben Paterson, Graham Fletcher, Hugo Koha Lindsay, Virginia Leonard, Gregor Kregar, Matthew Browne, David McCracken, Chris Heaphy, Max Gimblett, Michael Hight, Karl Maughan, and newly announced represented artist, Patricia Piccinini. Read more

This Must Be the Place

Inaugural Exhibition 6 Apr - 4 May 2024 Onehunga This Must Be the Place is the inaugural exhibition at Gow Langsford’s flagship Onehunga premises. It brings together the work of a diverse range of artists who respond to themes of place, belonging, and cultural legacy. In examining locality in Aotearoa and Oceania through a modern and contemporary lens, This Must Be the Place showcases a diverse range of practices and contextual frameworks from the region. Read more

The First Days in a Strange New Land

Chris Heaphy 13 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 Auckland City Chris Heaphy has been active as an artist for more than three decades. During that time, he has created a significant body of highly engaging artwork. Visually and conceptually nuanced, his work has examined themes of time, place, and memory. These themes have remained consistent while the artist has moved through several different approaches to image-making. Read more

Flora & Fauna

Zadok Ben-David 14 Feb - 6 Mar 2024 Auckland City Gow Langsford is thrilled to present Flora & Fauna, a selection of artworks by London-based artist Zadok Ben-David. Active since the late 1970s, Ben-David has exhibited in a broad range of international contexts where his work has met widespread acclaim. The intricately painted stainless steel artworks presented in Flora & Fauna provide a compelling view of the artist’s practice, showcasing the technical and conceptual finesse that has underpinned his global success. Flora & Fauna is Ben-David’s first exhibition in New Zealand. Read more

The Plimsoll Line

Hugo Koha Lindsay 14 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Auckland City The Plimsoll Line presents Hugo Koha Lindsay’s latest body of paintings. These works bear a visual relationship to earlier iterations of his practice – with monochromatic or dichromatic palettes, clusters of abstract markings, and a clean, considered aesthetic. Yet, they differ in the level of intent behind the mark making. Lindsay’s earlier works made use of incidental processual markings, whereas the paintings in The Plimsoll Line feature more deliberate impressions. Read more

Summer Paintings

Group Exhibition 17 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present Summer Paintings. This exhibition presents a selection of paintings from six painters – Dale Frank, Séraphine Pick, Judy Millar, Ruth Ige, Karl Maughan, and Allen Maddox. The works are eclectic in style, ranging from the Maughan’s meticulously detailed 1997 gardenscape Ashurst through to Millar’s mesmerising Rows for Gertrude Stein, a monochromatic gestural painting from 2002. Each of the paintings demonstrate the skill, flair, and distinctive vision of the artist behind them. Read more

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

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

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