Sydney Contemporary 2026

Booth A03 3 - 6 Sep 2026 Offsite Our presentation at Sydney Contemporary 2026 brings together a group of internationally recognised artists whose practices are united by a deep engagement with materiality, transformation, and the relationship between object and surface. With a particular focus on sculpture and materially driven wall-based works, the booth explores how artists use diverse mediums, from bronze and stainless steel to charcoal, textile, pigment and paint; to create powerful physical and conceptual experiences.
Works by Tony Cragg, Lee Bae, Yuki Kihara, Gregor Kregar, Bosco Sodi, Colin McCahon and Grace Wright all create a dialogue between established and emerging voices, connecting painting, sculpture, textile and installation through a shared interest in process, surface and materiality.
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to be oneself

Raymond McIntyre 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Auckland City Few artists occupy a more enigmatic place within New Zealand art history than Raymond McIntyre (1879–1933). A painter of subtle perception and refined sensibility, McIntyre belonged to a generation of artists who looked beyond the geographical and cultural horizons of a colonial outpost towards the cultural ferment of modern Europe.... Read more

My brush cannot begin to paint you a picture of my feelings

Aiko Robinson 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Auckland City Intimate, erotic and exquisitely detailed, Gow Langsford is delighted to present Aiko Robinson's latest body of work My brush cannot begin to paint you a picture of my feelings. Over the past decade, Robinson has developed an image-making practice that delicately balances historic influences with a contemporary aesthetic. Her work... Read more

the first incision I saw I dreamed no more

John Pule 1 Aug - 5 Sep 2026 Onehunga John Pule's the first incision I saw I dreamed no more presents a body of recent paintings and works on paper shaped by memory, spirituality and lived experience in Niue. Layered with vivid colour and symbolic imagery, the works continue Pule's deeply personal exploration of identity, environment and ancestral knowledge.... Read more

The Seasons

Michael Hight 8 Jul - 8 Aug 2026 Auckland City Michael Hight’s new body of work The Seasons traverses Aotearoa with a focus on the shifting seasons, from summer in The Maniototo to spring in the Waitaki Valley. In Hight’s articulate landscapes, everything is in focus. The found intricacies of a landscape—sheep’s wool caught on a barbed wire fence—reflect an... Read more

Another Day

Claudia Kogachi 27 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 Onehunga Permeated with personal and cultural iconography, Claudia Kogachi's inaugural exhibition at Gow Langsford, Another Day , transports us into a distinct world where experience and fantasy collide. These works show Kogachi’s exploration of a sense of place and belonging—through inherited histories, memory, research, imagination, travel and personal experience. Born in... Read more

Minor infractions

Hugo Koha Lindsay 10 Jun - 4 Jul 2026 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a new body of work by Hugo Koha Lindsay (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Maru). With a practice that is based in abstraction, Lindsay is interested in how everyday life and its systems are increasingly mediated and structured through abstract processes and language. His paintings... Read more

Protest Paintings

Jacqueline Fahey 23 May - 20 Jun 2026 Onehunga Gow Langsford is proud to present a major exhibition surveying the work of Jacqueline Fahey from the 1950s to the present day. Protest Paintings brings together works spanning over seven decades of one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinctive and celebrated artistic voices – whose unflinching eye for the sociopolitical... Read more

Something in the Air

Yafeng Duan 13 May - 6 Jun 2026 Auckland City Gow Langsford is pleased to present a new body of work by Yafeng Duan, bringing together recent and newly developed paintings created between 2022 and 2025. This series emerges in the wake of a transformative 20-day visit to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024, when Duan celebrated her inaugural exhibition with... Read more

Doorway to Night

Brett Graham 18 Apr - 16 May 2026 Onehunga For his inaugural exhibition with Gow Langsford, Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui) presents Doorway to Night , a reimagining of the 1840s home of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, who lived overlooking Onehunga Beach and the Manukau Harbour near the gallery’s present site. Structured from tī kōuka (cabbage trees), whose leaves... Read more

New Works by Gallery Artists

15 Apr - 9 May 2026 Auckland City Presented at Gow Langsford Gallery’s City gallery, this exhibition brings together a considered selection of recent works from the gallery’s stable of represented artists. Spanning a diverse range of mediums, approaches and conceptual frameworks, the exhibition reflects the depth and dynamism of contemporary practice across Aotearoa. The exhibition coincides with... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail 2026

10 Apr - 4 May 2026 Offsite Viaduct Harbour presents the Aotearoa Art Fair Sculpture Trail, on display and free to the public from 10 April until 4 May 2026. In association with Auckland Live, the Trail brings together a lineup of 18 artists, including four artists from the Gow Langsford stable; Gregor Kregar, David McCracken, Bernar... Read more

Views of a City

Robert Ellis 11 Mar - 11 Apr 2026 Auckland City Robert Ellis (1929–2021) occupies a pivotal place in the development of modern art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Born in England and trained at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London, Ellis arrived in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 1957 to take up a lecturing position at Elam School of Fine... Read more

The Sound of Your Voice

Chris Heaphy 7 Mar - 4 Apr 2026 Onehunga Chris Heaphy's new exhibition The Sound of Your Voice at Gow Langsford Gallery Onehunga Read more

Photographs

Alan Miller 6 - 7 Mar 2026 Auckland City Photographs brings together a focused selection of works by Alan Miller, presented to coincide with the launch of his new publication photographs . On view for only two days following the book’s release, the exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter the prints firsthand — foregrounding the material and tonal qualities... Read more

Specular

Group Exhibition 11 Feb - 7 Mar 2026 Auckland City specular /ˈspɛkjʊlə/ adjective relating to or having the properties of a mirror. Specular brings together works that engage with reflection, surface, and the act of looking. The exhibition considers how reflective materials shape perception, positioning the viewer and their surroundings as integral to the work itself. From the historical use... Read more

The Form Before

Lee Bae 31 Jan - 28 Feb 2026 Onehunga With a practice grounded in repetition, patience, and physical engagement, Lee Bae’s work holds evidence of time spent, decisions made, and the meditative process of building presence through the simplest of materials. Subtly blurring the lines between drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, The Form Before is Lee Bae’s first exhibition... Read more

Annual Summer Exhibition

6 Dec 2025 - 17 Jan 2026 Onehunga The Annual Summer Exhibition is something of a tradition at Gow Langsford - though not one that appears on the calendar every year. This year marks a special occasion, as we present it for the first time in our new flagship gallery in Onehunga. Bringing together works from across our... Read more

Spring Catalogue 2026

24 Oct - 21 Nov 2026 Onehunga This Oc tober , Gow Langsford brings its celebrated Spring Catalogue Exhibition to Onehunga for the first time, marking the return of one of the gallery’s longest-running exhibition traditions . A cornerstone of the gallery’s programme since the mid-1990s, the Spring Catalogue has long showcased exceptional works by some of... Read more

Recent Editions

Group Exhibition 16 Sep - 10 Oct 2026 Auckland City This focused presentation brings together a selection of recent editions and works on paper by represented artists including Sara Hughes, Reuben Paterson, and Max Gimblett. Featuring both unique works and editions, the exhibition celebrates the breadth of contemporary printmaking and works on paper, highlighting each artist's distinctive approach to colour,... Read more

House Style

James Cousins 16 Sep - 10 Oct 2026 Auckland City James Cousins' new exhibition titled 'House Style' at Gow Langsford Auckland City brings together a new group of paintings that explore the unstable space between visibility and concealment, public and private, history and memory. Central to the exhibition is the relationship between process and image. Read more