PREVIEW is a companion exhibition to the Gallery’s presentation at Aotearoa Art Fair from 18 – 21 April 2024.
The exhibition will be an evolving one, featuring major works by some of the Gallery’s artists. Below is a selection of works featured in the first iteration of this exhibition, which will change weekly over the coming month.
Richard Adams The Sea Suite oil and acrylic on canvas (triptych) 1220 x 2730mm $22,000
Richard Adams is an artist who looks outwards for his painterly cues, and inward in his role as a violinist with the Nairobi Trio. His work rests in the intersection where realistic landscape painting and abstraction meet and exchange ideas. While we are viewing abstracted forms, we are offered a set of cues that can invoke perhaps a ‘landscape’ reading of the work.
Tony Lane Fourteen Stations oil, gesso, gold leaf on panel 1240 x 1055mm $22,500
The paintings of Tony Lane resist casual interpretation; the work is complex, the symbols elusive. The elements in his paintings are a kind of shorthand for the artist’s concerns. There are recognisably New Zealand volcanic cones, mountain ranges, barren hills, and yet there are also distant echoes of early Italian primitivist art. Click here to read more about the artist.
Installation view Barber, Penn, Turner
Kathy Barber Restless as we are oil on linen 1400 x 900mm $8,500
Kathy Barber is a painter of palimpsests. Canvases are built gradually through multiple layers of transparent glazes. Their contents altered, effaced, reimagined so that the origin of the work – be it a place, a memory, a thought – remains only in traces, visible in the margins, like a shadow – an echo. Kathy has completed a major 3 panel work (detail on home page) which will be revealed soon. More
Richard Penn Field 5 oil on canvas 5100 x 100mm $8,000
Richard Penn is painter and ceramicist. He recently completed a residency at Auckland Studio Potters and has taught sculpture at both the Otago Polytechnic and at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.
Johny Turner Homage to the Koru carved black granite (detail) 730 x 500mm $26,000
Johnny Turner’s respect for the intrinsic language of stone means his works are in sympathy with the material, there is a sense of a partnership, a mutual understanding. This piece, a modernist interpretation of a koru referencing both Hepworth and Moore, is a fine example. An artist page and quality photographs of Turners work are on the way. In the meantime, for more information about the artist, please contact us.
Philippa Blair Hello Yellow oil and acrylic on canvas 1780 x 1525mm $18,000
Philippa Blair has been a maverick for more than 5 decades. She has been described as a traveller and a restless spirit, fluent in translating the tumultuous world around her into vibrant observations that are boldly autobiographical but also hum with the familiar rhythms of life. More
Peter James Smith Rainfall acrylic on unstretched canvas 500 x 1020mm $7,500
Peter James Smith’s paintings reflect his wide interests in science, culture and history, all of which coalesce into his distinctive paintings and assemblages – carefully inscribed with relevant and revealing lines from poetry, mathematics and scientific diagrams. More
Jacqui Coley Sleep Walking oil on canvas 1400 x 1200mm $8,000
A strong connection to drawing underpins Jacqui Coley’s painting practice; in 2018 she won the prestigious Parkin Drawing Prize. Judge, Kelcy Taratoa, said he couldn't take his eyes of the work - even when he attempted to ignore it, describing it as progressive, explorative and extending the boundaries of what drawing can be. More
John Bailey Gold Column charcoal on arches paper 895 x 710mm $5,400
While his work is new to this Gallery, John Bailey, a friend and contemporary of Stephen Bambury, has been an active practitioner of minimalism since the 1970’s when he embraced the work of the pioneering conceptual ‘non-objective’ American artists like Sol Le Witt.
Glen Wolfgramm Circling liquid ink and acrylic on board 1200mm round $16,000
Glen Wolfgramm is an Auckland based artist of Tongan/Irish descent. His paintings can be read as multiple habitats, cities, buildings, roads, islands and seas, foliage - they are simultaneously familiar and confounding. More
The above selection is on display from 6 April and works will be added and swapped out for others over the coming weeks. Please watch this space for updates and/or contact us with queries about these or upcoming works.