Darryn George’s  grasses, shrubs & trees is an unexpected exhibition, possessing all the hallmarks of  a midlife crisis, a moment where,  what once seemed important in your life is transcended by something more necessary.   The grasses, shrubs and trees in George’s new paintings have replaced the geometric... Keep Reading

In the North Quad of Te Matatiki Toi Ora, the Arts Centre, on one of the raised grass beds is a multitude of combined memories of a place. This multitude is commonly referred to by a single, reductive word; history. With Return home Tūī. Let your song remind us of histories unseen Martin Awa Clark Langdon acknowledges history and site... Keep Reading

Scraps #1 - Spencer Hall “Transit and jetlag expressed as sticker collage.” Like many compulsive diarists, prolific South Island artist and musician Spencer Hall has a deep sense of self.  A lifelong journal keeper, Hall has culled these bite-sized articles, comics, photographs and illustrations from his 2018 and 2019 sketchbooks,... Keep Reading

The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi launches a new annual event in November.  The Arts Centre Sculpture Festival is described by creative director Chris Archer as something that will ‘lift people’s spirits given the strange times we are in.’ The Festival’s programme is curated by Form Gallery director, Koji Miyazaki who has brought... Keep Reading

 In what has been an undeniably unusual year, Perspective - Women in Urban Art will be Fiksate’s second exhibition of 2020, exploring the experiences of a group of female urban artists, each travelling distinct paths within the wide scope of graffiti and street art, fields traditionally considered predominantly masculine.  Featuring... Keep Reading

In collaboration with Dilana and design director Sudi  Dargipour, artist Reuben Paterson (Ngati Rangitihi, NgāiTūhoe, Tūhourangi), has embarked on a series of rugs that he describes as ‘bridging the sea, the living land and the sky, everything we traverse and everything in Māori terms, Whakapapa back to the primeval parents of Ranginui... Keep Reading

There is a memorable scene in the iconic 1983 graffiti documentary Style Wars in which then New York Mayor Ed Koch discusses his plan for wild wolves to patrol and defend the city’s subway train lay-up yards from graffiti writers.  While it seems over the top, it highlights an extreme of the various approaches to graffiti deterrence... Keep Reading

The Wrightmann Collection: An All-Encompassing Perspective ofArt in a Post-Quake City  It is a private art collection of nearly 1,000 works that began its life as the two separate collections of Selene Manning and Anthony Wright.  Housed in their two-story home designed by Athfield Architects, The Wrightmann Collection will open for a... Keep Reading

Colin McCahon’s Gate III, 1970 returns to Ōtautahi Christchurch 49 years after it featured in the Auckland City Art Gallery’s touring exhibition Ten Big Paintings, a commissioned exhibition of large-scale paintings by leading artists in Aotearoa.  Gate III represents the ambitions of contemporary art at that time in its scale and themes... Keep Reading

While the permanent collection displays are being refreshed at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, there is still an opportunity to view some of the Gallery’s best-loved paintings in the ongoing exhibition Persistent Encounters. The exhibition explores some of the recurring subjects and themes within the Gallery’s historical... Keep Reading

relationship status is a stunning new solo show by Miranda Parkes at Jonathan Smart Gallery. It is a visual delight: Vibrant pinks and greens, glistening golds, shimmering silvers, rich textures and playful materials invigorate and energise the white walls of the space. With the rise of social media, something happened somewhere around 2013 where. Keep Reading

Tony Scanlan, Rage #0 “The average human has been my life’s work, but I don’t think I've ever actually seen one.” A black and white sketch selection with a cover in the style of the esteemed Mad magazine, Rage collects a handful of veteran local artist Tony Scanlan’s skilful pen and ink studies and comic-strip musings, placing... Keep Reading

The Paris-born artist Louise Henderson was pivotal to the development of mid-century Modernism in New Zealand and is one of the country’s most prolific and innovative women painters, yet her work has received limited exposure. Louise Henderson: From Life is the artist’s first ever survey exhibition and was developed by Auckland Art Gallery Toi... Keep Reading