Exhibitions 2024
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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 -
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 -
Colin McCahon: A Journey
23 Nov 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Onehunga Reflecting on the journey of one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated modernist artists, Gow Langsford is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by Colin McCahon at our Onehunga flagship gallery. Spanning four decades, with works from 1947 through to the end of his career in the 1980s, the exhibition offers a rich insight into the evolution of his artistic voice and the social, cultural, and personal contexts that shaped his practice. As McCahon stated in his 1972 Survey Exhibition Catalogue: “My painting is almost entirely autobiographical—it tells you where I am at any given time, where I am living and the direction I am pointing in.”
McCahon’s legacy is far-reaching and remains vital in today’s world. His bold integration of text and image, alongside his engagement with existential inquiries, continues to influence contemporary artists in Aotearoa and beyond. This survey exhibition not only celebrates McCahon’s pioneering role in modern art but also explores the enduring relevance of his work. His practice continues to challenge viewers to reflect on the human condition and our relationship with the land, faith, and wider society. 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
