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Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand- Ngahere – The Bush of Aotearoa

The Professional Weavers Network of New Zealand (PWN) was established in 1991 as a group who recognised the need for a national forum focused on weaving. Ngahere – The Bush of Aotearoa is a survey exhibition from the organisation of tapestry artists, pleased to ensure that their work is a ‘tactile’...
Fibre Gallery- A Distinctively Moana Gallery Showcasing Pacific artists

Nina Oberg Humphries is both artist and founder of the Tagata Moana Trust, a not for profit organisation committed to advocating for Pacific peoples through its policies, events and community resources to highlight and strengthen the visibility and identity of Pacific people. Born in Ōtautahi Christchurch (b.1990), Oberg Humphries is...
You’ll Grow Out of It – Young People and the Creative City

Recently, I hosted approximately two hundred school students on half a dozen street art tours across central Ōtautahi. It is one of the more satisfying parts of my work, engaging with young people and hearing their interpretations of the urban landscape and the signs of creativity found throughout. It is always fascinating to see...
Philip Trusttum’s Paintings- Fleeting and Animated Relationships

In the 2011 biography on expressionist painters, Philip Trusttum, its author, senior lecturer in Art History at the University of Auckland, Robin Woodward, succinctly gets to the heart of his painting in a single sentence: ‘Philip Trusttum’s intellectual curiosity and the stimulus that he finds in art history constantly overlap with...
Sculpture Festival 2022- The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora

The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora is holding its 3rd annual Sculpture Festival in its courtyard spaces and Great Hall in September. Curated by founder and director of Form Gallery, Koji Miyazaki, the event has its origins in the decision to create a unique annual attraction that would cultivate new audiences and encourage...
Gretchen Albrecht, nine illuminations 1976 – 1978

Who could have imagined ? A series of nine acrylic works on canvas from Gretchen Albrecht held in storage by the artist for more than four decades, never before seen in public. They came out of storage in 2021, the artist making the decision to take a second look at this series of paintings over three years, many titled on a...
Casey Bailey’s Pilgrimage

A freelance designer and illustrator Casey Bailey is also acknowledged as a painter of figures and landscapes that seem both contemporary and connected to a history of Western Art, (Francisco Goya, 1746–1828, is a favourite artists of Bailey’s), from the 17th and 18th century, given new life and relevance. Bailey...
No2. ART TRAMP at Oxford Gallery toi o Waimakariri

As artist Matthew McIntyre Wilson, (Taranaki-NgāMahanga, Titahi) comes closer to the completion of his residency at Oxford Gallery toi o Waimakariri, its exhibition programme steps up again and surprises in its increasing commitment to the support of artist’s and the wider picture and possibilities of their arts practices. Curator...
Catherine Brough (1935 – 2022) - Yes I Think I’m a Painter

(From her autobiography: Landscape Experienced 1947 – 2013) Yes I Think I’m a Painter. So said Cézanne in response to visitor Jules Borely who had come to Aix to see the master’s paintings. His hesitant claim to ‘perhaps’ being a painter – possibly still a novice (although nearing the end of his career he certainly...
Disillusioned Thinker

With this pulchritudinous show we find Francis van Hout unwisely(!) “havIng a dig” at art critics. Disillusioned Thinker presents digitally composed, yet hand constructed oil paintings of geometric abstraction, which seem to be the befuddling, yet perversely appealing products of an insomniac session spent ruminating and sweating lacerating...
Matthew McIntyre –Wilson- Matariki Artist in Residence at Oxford Gallery

Matariki Artist-in-Residence Matthew McIntyre-Wilson (Taranaki, Nga Mahanga and Titahi) weaves an experience of connectivity and community at Oxford Gallery toi o Waimakariri. The gallery is transformed into amorphous maker’s space, by turns archive, studio, and whare wānanga, cataloguing the artist’s ongoing explorations of raranga whakairo...
Matariki Ki Te Tihi-O-Maru 22

At the end of June, I travelled down to Timaru to visit my parents (and ended up sticking around into July due to a familial visit from the Covid fairy). As I am wont to do, I popped into the Aigantighe Art Gallery – one of the under-appreciated cultural treasures of the South Island. I’d gone in to check out the architectural proposals...
Auspicious Victory- Anyone or No One

Who is Auspicious Victory and what will visitors to Auspicious Victory’s exhibition, Hostile Body encounter when it opens? Auspicious Victory claims to come from Amarapura “The house of the immortals” and that we all live in a simulation. This is not your average artist, part designer, marketer, performance artist, techno...
David Elliot and Jack Lasenby (1931 – 2019) at the Ashburton Art Gallery

An internationally renowned illustrator, artist David Elliot’s illustrations for The Whistling Bull at the Ashburton Art Gallery, pay tribute to Jack Lasenby (1931 – 2019) the author of more than 30 children’s books, eleven of them illustrated by Elliot. The Whistling Bull serves as a survey of Lasenby’s imaginative writing,...
Max Brown- Tree Paintings in Cashel Street

Located in the central city, Max and Sheila Brown’s Xgaleri is a dedicated artists’ studio and gallery, the abstracted figurative expressionist paintings of native birds by Sheila Brown, a foil for Max Brown’s paintings and his attention to materials and the animated painterly gestural images. Max has recently completed...