Exhibitions

The Happy Place

17 - 30 Nov 2015 After decades of scientific and technological development hurtling us ever faster forward, we know that science fiction can be close to science fact. Science fiction scenarios are often played out by way of horror stories that become engrained in the popular consciousness. Childhood nightmares from reading The Day of the... Read more

Line of Site

17 - 30 Nov 2015 Taylor claims to be a Formalist, which would suggest that the aesthetic of her practice takes precedent. To this end, Taylor navigates the precision of her material constructs with an accuracy attesting to her skills as a practitioner. Every material detail is intricately managed. The proportions of her work and... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

New Work

3 - 15 Nov 2015 Liam Gerrard is a universal image maker. His drawings hold within them an entire possibility, both of the familiar and the utterly unknown. He draws upon a visual language that is ordinary, almost to the point of banality. Until you look closer. Floral arrangements hold dark secrets, fabled creatures are... Read more

Choice Chance Change

3 - 15 Nov 2015 Anita Levering is interested in the elimination of artistic agency in favour of a self organising ideographic language, going beyond the personal gestural act and expression. Experimental exercises reveal paradoxes and tensions between the structured and the organised, form and disorder. When applying paint Levering minimises gesture and brush marks... Read more

Year of the Bull

13 Oct - 1 Nov 2015 The Artist and Sanderson Contemporary gratefully acknowledge support from the Annual Commission of The Auckland Photography Festival and the Wallace Arts Trust in helping to realise this exhibition. The invention of digital photography in 1975, and subsequent computer programs that enabled photographers to alter and add to their pictures, changed... Read more

Theoria

29 Sep - 11 Oct 2015 Linda Holloway’s latest paintings refuse to stay still. Huge grids of metallic and matte squares respond and react to light, appearing to shimmer and shift as you approach them. Reminiscent of colour field paintings, her work creates visual environments that absorb us as we move closer, filling our whole field... Read more

Great Expectations

29 Sep - 11 Oct 2015 As a thoughtful observer of the world around him, Brendan McGorry is fascinated by human-made systems, and he scrutinises these structures through his multifaceted art practice incorporating drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. McGorry’s work seems to poke at the notion that money, fame, power and ownership are the common measures... Read more

20 / 20 Book Launch Group Exhibition

15 - 27 Sep 2015 This exhibition celebrates the launch of Sanderson Contemporary's new publication 20 / 20: Twenty Artists, Twenty Writers, One New Zealand Gallery. This, the fifth major publication from the gallery, features the work of 20 of our respresented artists alongside texts from leading curators, critics, and art writers. The exhibition features... Read more

Sydney Contemporary

10 - 13 Sep 2015 Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s international art fair, returns in 2015 from 10-13 September (Opening Night 10 September) with Australia’s largest and most diverse gathering of Australian and international galleries. Housed at Carriageworks, Sydney’s striking contemporary arts precinct, the Fair presents over 90 galleries from 13 countries, offering visitors access to cutting-edge... Read more

New Work

25 Aug - 13 Sep 2015 Through laborious work and constant experimentation Ray Haydon has developed processes to generate a seamless elegance in his sculpture, curving linear materials to create fluid forms that appear to be in flux. Working directly into his chosen medium, or sometimes mapping out ideas with maquettes, Haydon lets his fascination with... Read more

Everything is possible except that which is deemed impossible by the nature of things

25 Aug - 13 Sep 2015 '... it would halt the expansion of the universe to collapse into itself, until it compressed down to something so infinitesimal, so spatially unassuming, that it almost ceased to exist. Or if for simply an instant it lessened, a momentary fault like an unexpectedly dropped glass, the universe would race... Read more

Gem

11 - 23 Aug 2015 Crisp, even sequences of intense (sometimes lurid) colour diverge, align, and intersect across the surface of his works, in combinations that simultaneously bewilder and delight the viewer. His fields of flat, solid colour, defined by razorsharp lines, retain the overall surface consistency used by the Colour Field artists of the... Read more

Every Day

11 - 23 Aug 2015 The complexity of her compositions inspires a mood of introspective contemplation that is both unexpected and immediate. Working on a relatively small scale is key to Nakahara’s practice, which centres on perfecting the quality of her mark-making. Working exclusively in ink, her pieces are built slowly and deliberately from thousands... Read more

New Geometries

21 Jul - 9 Aug 2015 Karyn Taylor is interested in the space between the potential and the actual, the transitional state between energy and matter. Her starting point is the idea of quantum superposition, a state in which all potentials of a physical system exist simultaneously before ultimately collapsing into a single variant. Education: Masters... Read more

Nature vs Nurture

21 Jul - 9 Aug 2015 Over the past half decade Mark Rodda has consistently painted magical landscapes. The primary source of inspiration for these works has come from the European Romantic Landscape tradition of the 18th and 19th century. Rodda’s work has been especially influenced by the painting of French artists Eugene Delacroix and Camile... Read more

Monarch

30 Jun - 19 Jul 2015 An abiding interest in the surreal and the symbolic has seen Paul Martinson shift away from realism in search of a style that expresses the poetry of the human mind. While retaining a drawing-based figurative style, Martinson has embraced a personal, liberal approach to painting that allows a free flow... Read more

Mi Tierra

30 Jun - 19 Jul 2015 Cruz Jimenez possesses an idiosyncratic, anamorphic lens that allows him to look into the middle distance between the figurative and the completely abstract. A glance back at his past work turns up lofty images of sweeping painterly colours – forever oscillating away from the overtly figurative and back to it.... Read more

[ 195 ]

23 - 28 Jun 2015 Inspired by our wildly popular 150 x 150 x 150 exhibition, [ 195 ] is our new iteration of this affordable art concept. Although remaining true to the concept of small-works-for-an-amazing-price, we’ve decided to free things up a bit with the format: rather than defining an exact size/shape, artists have... Read more

New Work

2 - 21 Jun 2015 Simon Kaan describes his work as ‘biological landscapes’, animated vistas that piece together a sense of belonging and explore a multi-dimensional sense of self. The images he creates, like the work of the late Ralph Hotere, can be viewed through an allegorical window. Born in Sawyers Bay in Dunedin in... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Changing Shores of Shadow

2 - 21 Jun 2015 An aesthetic of beauty, still life, and the sublime is central to Kate van der Drift’s photographic practice. When exploring land and seascapes amidst decline, beauty becomes political. Water, in particular, is a central motif throughout the artist’s current photographic work, which explores post-event landscapes through constructed scenes and digitally... Read more

Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards

26 - 31 May 2015 Each year, four Auckland Art schools are asked to nominate their top Honours and Masters students for the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award, a non-acquisitional monetary award given to help launch emerging artists into successful careers in the arts.The winning artist will also be invited to mount a solo exhibition... Read more

On Line: Recent Drawings

12 - 24 May 2015 This exhibition features the work of contemporary artists using drawing as their primary medium. Rather than presenting drawings as studies, or as steps towards painting, artists in this exhibition have utilised the unique possibilities of drawing media to create engaging and complete works. Line is employed to create myriad effects;... Read more

New Work

12 - 31 May 2015 Searching for answers in a nonsensical world, Alan Ibell's elusive narratives simulate the logic at work in dreams. His paintings examine the time-old discourse between spirituality, religion and superstition, while challenging the viewer’s preconceived perceptions of reality. It could be said that Ibell’s paintings evoke the strange and sinister air... Read more

From the Balcony: Alan Pearson at the Opera

21 Apr - 10 May 2015 From the balcony, Alan Pearson at the opera represents a selection of paintings and drawings made during Alan Pearson’s sojourn in southern Italy and London in the 1980s. The opera series was exhibited in New Zealand in 1986-87 after which they were placed in storage. In London Pearson ventured into... Read more

Wilds

31 Mar - 19 Apr 2015 For all the expansion of the field of painting, and in spite of the rejection of medium specificity as a formal qualifier, painters like Damien Kurth find themselves returning to the studio, and to paint itself, as a way of working through the problems of image-making and representation. His work... Read more

Beneath your strawberry flesh

31 Mar - 19 Apr 2015 Winner of the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award in 2014, Alex Plumb’s Beneath your strawberry flesh is an exhibition of new video work made in collaboration with Chris Lorimer. The project is a result of a series of conversations between the artist and Lorimer, a freelance stylist and fashion pr... Read more

New Work

10 - 29 Mar 2015 John Oxborough’s latest paintings examine and challenge the conventions of portrait painting in the artist's characteristic Expressionist style. With brilliant colour underpinning the series, Oxborough’s exhibition is a confection with vivid blue and yellow to luminous copper and sienna. Fragmented figures are the centrepiece of each painting, with plains of... Read more

Modernism

10 - 29 Mar 2015 There is an undeniable humour in the work of Ted Dutch, an artist whose long career encompassed painting, printmaking, ceramic sculpture, animation and graphic design. His distinctive style of illustration drew liberally from cartoons and pop imagery, while his light-hearted choices in subject matter saw him create highly stylised, colourful... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

New Work

17 Feb - 8 Mar 2015 The line that first comes to mind when I view the work of Liam Gerrard is a well-worn Hollywood quotation, ‘You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!’ as uttered by an indignant Jack Nicholson in the film A Few Good Men (1992). Gerrard presents a realism that spits... Read more

Anomie

17 Feb - 8 Mar 2015 An initial encounter with Linda Holloway’s Anomie paintings might suggest that they are directly accessible through a familiar iconography centred upon the art and literature of Western civilisation. Panoramic landscapes viewed from on-high, populated by diminutive figures on a voyage or quest to somewhere else. It’s the stuff of classical... Read more

Sculpture

27 Jan - 15 Feb 2015 To celebrate the summer we have put together a sculpture exhibition, featuring some of our most popular artists as well a couple of exciting new-comers. The exhibition focuses on both outdoor sculpture and smaller works for the interior, with a focus on beautifully conceived and finely finished objects. The artists... Read more

New Work

27 Jan - 15 Feb 2015 PJ Paterson's varied practices switches from photography to paintings and addresses diverse subject matter. In his new series, he returns to painting, exploring iconic figures who have shaped his identity and influenced his cultural landscape. Depicting such cult figures as Cher, Muhammad Ali and Thom Yorke, Paterson’s new paintings employ... Read more

Summer Catalogue Show

16 Dec 2014 - 25 Jan 2015 Featuring exciting new work from our stable of artists, our Summer Catalogue offers a glimpse of what is in store for the gallery for the next 12 months. With the exhibition we also launch our brand new exhibition space, Room Two. Located within the Newmarket gallery, Room Two will feature... Read more