Exhibitions

Summer Showcase

28 Nov 2017 - 21 Jan 2018 Summer Showcase presents a forecast for 2018, offering a glimpse into the exciting programme of exhibitions and events that we have in store for the next 12 months. The gallery’s programme for 2018 includes major new exhibitions from our stable, curated group shows, and exhibitions from guest artists, as well... Read more

Reverb

7 - 26 Nov 2017 Sculptor Ray Haydon creates sinuous linear forms that respond to space, on a monumental and domestic scale, using an extensive variety of materials. Haydon uses the form of sculpture with its multiple vantage points to create his drawings in space. These open networks of linear abstract formations range from colossal... Read more

Book covers - textiles of the Bauhaus

7 - 26 Nov 2017 The Bauhaus continues as a major design influence for contemporary practitioners. Julia Holderness’s installations and artworks draw upon art and design histories and archives – both local and international, real and imagined. A collection of Bauhaus publications that were purchased from an ex-library sale forms a personal archive of art... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Public Talk: Inside Art Collecting

28 Oct 2017 11am on Saturday 28 October 2017 Sanderson Contemporary, Newmarket Planning and funding an art collection takes strategy and insight. Learn from the best with a public talk, followed by a Q & A, with two leading experts in the field. Leigh Melville is a Director of the industry-leading art auction... Read more

New Collector Series

24 Oct - 5 Nov 2017 The New Collector Series features an exciting selection of works from a number of Sanderson Contemporary's stable of artists, ranging in value from $150 - $5,000.Including work from; Josephine Cachemaille, Scott Eady, Meighan Ellis, Stephen Ellis, Liam Gerrard, Ray Haydon, Simon Kaan, Alan Ibell, Cruz Jimenez, Brendan McGorry, Paul Martinson,... Read more

As When The Guests Depart

3 - 22 Oct 2017 This exhibition forms part of Ibell’s ongoing investigation into the human psyche, exploring various aspects of the self and its relationship to the physical world. Ibell is interested in painting as narrative and uses figuration as a way to convey a poetic or abstract visual experience. To this end he... Read more

Alma

3 - 22 Oct 2017 Greenback utilises found objects, recycled materials and meticulously intricate handcrafted objects that capture a moment, sensation or pseudo historical event. Inquisitively weaving narratives that often blend social histories and the occult, popular culture and the paranormal in a unique and often humorous way. Since Graduating Canterbury University School of Fine... Read more

Under the Moon I Planted

1 - 15 Oct 2017 An off-site project during Artweek 2017 at Allpress Gallery presenting the latest body of work from Cruz Jimenez. Please contact Sanderson Contemporary for all sales enquiries. Read more

New Works

19 Sep - 1 Oct 2017 Born in Sawyers Bay in Dunedin in 1971, Kaan has been working for two decades now, since graduating from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1993. At art school Kaan specialised in printmaking, a practice he was taught by Maori educationalist and printmaker Marilynn Webb and Barry Cleavin, a... Read more

Morning Light

19 Sep - 1 Oct 2017 Wendy Kawabata is an artist who has travelled and lived for periods in diverse and far-flung places and is now based in Hawaii. Time spent in each place taking in the life, climate, landscape and culture emerges in unexpected and satisfying ways in her work. Most consistent is the deliberately... Read more

Sydney Contemporary 2017

7 - 10 Sep 2017 The third edition of the Sydney Art Fair, Australasia's international art fair, showcases outstanding work from over 90 galleries from around the Pacific Rim. Sanderson Contemporary will be presenting an curated selection of new work from Josephine Cachemaille, Stephen Ellis, Meighan Ellis, Simon Kaan, Paris Kirby, Karyn Taylor, Vaimaila Urale... Read more

Suspend

29 Aug - 17 Sep 2017 Suspend introduces a new body of work from artist John Oxborough. The works show paint suspended; prolonged within the picture plane inviting our contemplation. Suspend focuses on the properties of paint, abstracted to a point that the paint itself becomes the figurative subject of the works. Void of recognizable forms,... Read more

Concurrent

29 Aug - 17 Sep 2017 On view concurrently with Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, this exhibition features works by each of the artist's that will be presented in the Sanderson Contemporary booth. This is an exciting line up, spanning the genres of painting photography and sculpture. Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Sea of Echoes

8 - 27 Aug 2017 Photography has been seen as enabling a realm beyond natural vision, revealing visions previously unavailable to the human eye. Photographer Kate van der Drift similarly pictures what Walter Benjamin referred to as the “optical unconscious” (3). She does not snap to serve the heady aesthetics consumed by so many fans... Read more

Sanctuary

8 Aug - 27 Oct 2017 Paris Kirby’s practice predominately examines New Zealand native bush, with a focus on its immersive, dramatic and spiritual qualities. Her research draws inspiration from time spent amongst the bush across the country, recreating her experience and devotion to the subject through large-scale, highly-detailed paintings. Kirby has a background in fashion... Read more

Ornamentation and Abstraction

25 Jul - 6 Aug 2017 This exhibition offers a conversation about visuality, ornamentation, and abstraction. It traces the relevance of ornament to abstraction instead of setting them at odds. The collaged fabrics in the paintings serve as the artist’s composition as well as bearer of the ornamental patterns connecting us to the world, evoking a... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Opposite Shore

25 Jul - 6 Aug 2017 In his latest body of work, Opposite Shore, Ellis refers to various migrations across the seas, including those of environmental refugees and his own family’s passage from Scotland and Ireland to New Zealand in search of a new home. A key example from this suite is Standing Off (2017), where... Read more

Tatala

4 - 23 Jul 2017 This new body of work reiterates Urale's commitment to the use of symbols which strongly identifies her practice. Urale uses four universal keyboard symbols / \ to create the template for her artworks. These symbols have two defined cultural references; Firstly, they represent Samoan symbols used in pre-colonial art forms... Read more

Drawn

4 - 23 Jul 2017 DRAWN is a part of a wider series of curated group exhibitions that focus of a singular mode of creating- using a very broad term as the premise. DRAWN highlights the various ways we consider drawing, as a way of thinking or planning for a finished work or as the... Read more

Otherness

20 Jun - 2 Jul 2017 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

Light Show

20 Jun - 2 Jul 2017 Physics and natural science routinely underlie themes in Martinson's work. The light bulb, now an everyday object once sparked a quantum mechanical revolution when physicists puzzled over how electrical energy could transform into light waves. This moment lead to greater understanding of the true nature of reality and has become... Read more

Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards

13 - 18 Jun 2017 Each year, the five 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... Read more

Specimens

23 May - 11 Jun 2017 Looking at the model/subject has been the focus of Ellis’ art practice for more than two decades alongside an ongoing inquiry into the form/object. The gaze is a frequently called-upon trope in the artist's lens-based image making whereas a curiosity for the object stems from her more recent direction into... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Single Channel

23 May - 11 Jun 2017 Photography saturates more and more as an inseparable part of the everyday – multiple screens are a common part of home and work life, calling for our attention to buy, look, engage, respond, like. Single Channel is a collection of photographic works that each have their own definitive message and... Read more

Stellar

2 - 21 May 2017 Brendan McGorry shows a series of portraits of artists throughout history mapping a solar system of influences. While Yoshiko Nakahara's intricate and highly detailed drawings look at the microscopic beauty of the natural world. Yoshiko's focus in this new series focuses on the healing properties of rain and plants -... Read more

Reflector

2 - 21 May 2017 Shintaro Nakahara’s studies in pure colour are played out in calligraphic paintings that joyfully defy any accepted notion of colour theory. Crisp, even sequences of colour diverge, align, and intersect across the surface of his works, in combinations that simultaneously bewilder and delight the viewer. Shintaro studied Fine Art in... Read more

Panem et circenses

11 - 30 Apr 2017 In his latest series of portraits, PJ Paterson casts celebrities under the gritty realism of the police mugshot, using found internet images as source imagery. Unlike most widely-distributed images of the famous, mugshots exist within the public domain – allowing Paterson to sample the images freely. Paterson’s mode of sampling... Read more

Hiraeth

11 - 30 Apr 2017 This new body of work from artist Cruz Jimenez draws on ideas of nostalgia. The works depict fragments of memories and nostalgic wanderings, as well as a visual depiction of the artist's premonition of his future. Read more

Esc

28 Mar - 9 Apr 2017 This new body of work investigates things from the everyday, which had a profound effect on the direction of Eady’s research while on the residency. The process of making in Russia was limited by what tools and materials were available. Some works were made in collaboration with amateur local film... Read more

E rua o Ngāi Tahu awa/Two rivers of Ngāi Tahu

28 Mar - 9 Apr 2017 This exhibition brings together the work of Simon Kaan and Jon Tootill, two artists of Ngāi Tahu descent whose bicultural art-based research engages with the unique artistic ecology of Aotearoa. Art’s agency within cultural revival is central to Simon Kaan’s understanding of his position as an artist. Kaan possesses a... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

Soil and Salt

7 - 26 Mar 2017 Drawing from fable, music, cultural history, natural biology and preternatural curiosities, Gerrard creates a world of his own imagining. With a practice almost obsessively focused in illustration, the artist’s mastery of his medium is profound, with a highly recognizable, distinctive style in charcoal on paper. Gerrard’s use of visual juxtaposition... Read more

In The House of the Poet

7 - 26 Mar 2017 In The House Of The Poet forms part of Ibell’s ongoing investigation into the human psyche, exploring various aspects of the self and its relationship to the physical world. The exhibition title references an experience the artist had during his stay in the small town of Assisi, Italy in 2016.... Read more

Time Space Existence

14 Feb - 5 Mar 2017 Her time-based projections access the mysteries of vitalism, making the viewer not just an observer but an active participator in the manifestation of the work. Responding to the specific gallery environment, Taylor positions visual elements carefully within the constructed space – but the vitality of the installation expands beyond site-specificity.... Read more

ABSTRACT

14 Feb - 5 Mar 2017 To make abstract art is to make with freedom from any representational qualities. For this exhibition, Abstract, we have brought together a collection of artists who each explore the world of abstraction. Central to the work in this exhibition is colour as seen in the painting of Theresa Waugh, Wendy... Read more

Venice Fundraiser

8 Feb - 31 Mar 2017 We are very pleased to announce that Kāryn Taylor has been invited to exhibit at Venice in the G.A.A. Personal Structures exhibition, which is running concurrently with the Biennale. To support Karyn and her travel to Venice for the exhibition in May 2017, we are very excited to release two... Read more

Drift

24 Jan - 12 Feb 2017 Damien Kurth’s paintings explore modes of visual perception and interpretation, drawing on traditional painting practices to defy accepted conventions of the still life. Read more

Disquiet

24 Jan - 12 Feb 2017 Linda Holloway’s much awaited new series ‘Disquiet’ is an exploration in depth and texture. Rolling dark skies and seascapes merge into mysterious movement and emotive expression, a visual metaphor for the tumultuous year past. Subtle gradients form natural horizons, beckoning the viewer into the works elusive destination. Figures hide in... Read more