Exhibitions

Summer Showcase

3 Dec 2019 - 26 Jan 2020 This group exhibition highlights new works that our stable of artists have been working on throughout 2019, showcasing a range of scale and prices. We are excited to also preview works by artists debuting at Sanderson in 2020 forecasting what is to come in the new year. Read more

JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

SHE'S A FORCE

3 Dec 2019 - 26 Jan 2020 Josephine Cachemaille (b. 1971, New Zealand) is an award-winning installation artist who makes paintings, objects and assemblages. She approaches art-making as a place to engage with non-human things as bodies with needs, desires and agency. She describes objects, materials and media as “collaborators” who know things, contribute and have the... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Pond

12 Nov - 1 Dec 2019 Robert FitzRoy was New Zealand’s second Governor. He had been the captain of Darwin’s Beagle and went on to found the British Meteorological Office. His life’s work was the prediction of storms and the protection of shipping and seafarers from their destructive force. To that end he invented the weather... Read more

Freeform

12 Nov - 1 Dec 2019 Negative space is defined by the solid objects it surrounds. This is one of the physical aspects of Ray Haydon’s sculptural practice that really matters; he is actively “painting” the air with materials to fabricate constructions in space. Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Directional Listening: Fluvial Field Notes

22 Oct 2019 - 10 Nov 2021 Directional Listening: Fluvial Field Notes A desire emerged to put my ear to the riverbank. I remembered Barbara Hurd’s poetic essay about listening with her head in the dirt. Eavesdropping on the landscape. Attentive. “How often, after all, have our own deaf ears been a cause of hostility and longing?[1]”... Read more

Call of the Ocean

22 Oct - 10 Nov 2019 Aotearoa’s lineage of landscape painting began with early colonisation and the visual documentation of the unique and foreign surroundings they encountered upon arrival. This fascination with capturing Aotearoa’s unique beauty has been a continual theme throughout the nation’s art history. Perhaps then unsurprising that this traditional artform has such sustaining... Read more

Simon Kaan and Guests

1 - 20 Oct 2019 Simon Kaan's work show a new direction for the artist, working in washes of coloured ink, the circular landscapes are dreamlike. The works feature Kaan's signature signature iconography and split horizon lines. Jon Tootill’s practice is informed by pattern and colour. Drawing inspiration from raranga (weaving /plaiting), tukutuku (wall-panel weaving)... Read more

New Work

1 - 20 Oct 2019 We are delighted to introduce Sydney based artist Louise Tuckwell to Sanderson Contemporary. Tuckwell's geometric works draw on both logic and intuition, juxtaposing architectural forms with flat, playful colour. Tuckwell has been exhibiting for over 30 years and has works in many significant collections including Museum of Contemporary Art Australia,... Read more

Sydney Contemporary 2019

12 - 15 Sep 2019 Our booth will include a presentation of artists we have selected as part of a curated group exhibition – highlighting an inclination in several of our artists’ practices to look back throughout art history to inform their current artistic statements. These references can be found consistently throughout art history, most... Read more

Moa

10 - 29 Sep 2019 Aotearoa New Zealand was once home to nine species of moa. Despite millions of years of existence, their disappearance from fossil and archaeological records sadly coincided with the arrival of the first humans in the 14th century. The resulting destruction of moa habitat and human hunting was responsible for their... Read more

Aviary

10 - 29 Sep 2019 In these new works Alan Ibell builds on an ongoing interest in the canvas as a confining space, in which figures and objects are fixed over the course of the painting process, with the white space of their surrounds a tantalising echo of the white walls of the gallery in... Read more

New Work

20 Aug - 8 Sep 2019 Damien Kurth’s practice explores the over-looked and understated beauty of the common place and largely unremarkable household items that reside in his studio. Read more

Images of Love

20 Aug - 8 Sep 2019 Scott Eady, a Dunedin-based artist, is celebrated for his playful, often conceptual sculptures that explore bold colors, striking textures, and a sense of humor. His exhibitions are distinctive yet never alike, each offering a fresh surprise that showcases his unique, evolving artistic style Group exhibitions include Ridiculous Sublime, Dunedin Public... Read more

Shape of a Circle

30 Jul - 18 Aug 2019 In 'Shape of a Circle' Kāryn Taylor continues to explore ideas around geometry. She is interested in the notion that it can hold an influencing resonance along with it’s ability to describe the intrinsic order of the universe. Taylor takes the square and the circle as her building blocks for... Read more

Oh my, God

30 Jul - 18 Aug 2019 Auckland based artist Teresa HR Lane is interested in reversing the male gaze, with a sense of humour and playfulness. Inspired by her godly Greek ancestry, interest in anatomy and gender issues as represented by the media, she confounds our expectations by dismembering and reassembling bodies to offer us an... Read more

Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards

23 Jul 2019 - 28 Jul 2020 Each year, 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

Water Cycle

2 - 21 Jul 2019 Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara work collaboratively in their practice, with Yoshiko doing the delicate and intricate ink work and Shintaro adding the beautiful blocks of flat colour. In this show the Nakaharas explore the intricacies of different forms and bodies of water. Read more

Thoughts of Memory

2 - 21 Jul 2019 Abstract nostalgia from artist Cruz Jimenez’s life in both California and New Zealand is transferred to his canvases in an evocative wash of dripping golds with a more solid memory forming from time to time. Growing up in California, Jimenez recalls on fragments of his childhood, the magic and excitement... Read more

Survey

11 Jun 2019 - 21 Jul 2021 Survey presents an exciting exhibition from our stable of artists with works both out of the artists’ studio archives and some hidden gems from our stock room. This colourful exhibition showcases a variety of mediums, scales and prices. If you missed out on some of our artists’ earlier works, now... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

Cruel Bloom

11 Jun - 1 Jul 2019 Liam Gerrard’s drawings lie in continual juxtaposition; ominous and familiar, terrifying but beautiful, wild yet meticulously captured on paper. Gerrard’s ability to both entice and disturb at once has continually informed the artist’s practice. Cruel Bloom sees Gerrard chronical hydrangeas at various stages of their life cycle starting at full... Read more

The Works of Kevin Capon

21 May - 10 Jun 2019 Kevin Capons' works are eclectic from the grotesque to sublime beauty he photographs extremes and all facets of life's gritty yet beautiful path. Read more

By Definition

21 May - 10 Jun 2019 The materiality of our surrounding environment is an ever-changing entity. Architecture develops and adapts as new materials become available. Other forms decay as flaws in materials are found with time. By definition pulls together the work of four different artists who all react to the material world in very distinctive... Read more

Free snacks at the airport lounge

7 - 24 May 2019 An exciting show of new works by Claudia Kogachi at Allpress Studio. In this collection of works Claudia explores her Japanese heritage. Opening at 6pm, 7 May 2019 Allpress Studio 8 Drake St Freemans Bay, Auckland Read more

UHINGARO / CODE

30 Apr - 20 May 2019 Jon Tootill’s practice is informed by pattern and colour. Drawing inspiration from raranga (weaving /plaiting), tukutuku (wall-panel weaving) and whakairo (carving), Tootill creates beautifully paired-back patterns that often mimic repetitive forms found in nature. The patterns, or raranga and tukuruku, have a specific name or dialogue relating to their use... Read more

Sculpture

30 Apr - 20 May 2019 Ben Foster’s new exhibition Sculpture celebrates his most recognizable and loved works alongside a new playful series that sees the artist experiment with scale, colour and for the first time; movement. Living in Kaikoura, Foster’s surroundings inform and inspire his practice, using the native wildlife and natural geometries of the... Read more

PAPER

2 - 28 Apr 2019 An exhibition of unframed works on paper by both stable and guest artists. Ranging in scale, subject and medium PAPER offers a delightful range of works. From Stephen Ellis's incredibly detailed World Order (Still Life) to Cruz Jimenez's large scale expressive and emotive painting, PAPER shows a variety of ways... Read more

Chasing Colour

2 - 28 Apr 2019 Chasing Colour exhibits new works by John Oxborough and guest artists Leanne Williams and Jim Dennison who work collaboratively under the moniker Crystal Chain Gang. In this exciting exhibition, colour is brought to life through Oxborough’s expressive canvases and Crystal Chain Gang’s handcrafted chandeliers dripping in intricate coloured glass. Read more

The Barnes Project

12 - 31 Mar 2019 Following a recent visit to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia McGorry again looks to art history and a lineage of painting to inform his very contemporary style of painting. Recreating the eclectic feel of the Barnes Foundation through charcoal rendering directly on the wall surrounding the repositioned historical compositions. With... Read more

Higher Thought Forms

12 - 31 Mar 2019 Wanda Gillespie’s created artefacts are often claimed to be tools in spiritual/religious practice. Imagined gurus and guides show a path of imagined or potential enlightenment. The exhibition includes a series of highly detailed sculptural works that reference the abacus and perhaps offer us the ability to calculate and understand on... Read more

Those are my f-ing shoes

19 Feb - 10 Mar 2019 'Those are my f-ing shoes' is the next series of work by Kogachi, depicting scenes of competition or dispute with her mother, where the popular domestic bystander, the dog, is introduced. Quintessential of her painted scenes, we find sport and fun paired with relational issues that are teased out for... Read more

ANIVA

19 Feb - 10 Mar 2019 Aniva is a collection of sand on paper works presented as a large scale installation by artist Vaimaila Urale. Conceptually, the exhibition explores the artist's interest in collectivism and plays with notions around collective ownership, inclusive spaces and accessibility to art. The artwork operates as a constellation comprised of multiple... Read more

Reflections on Being

29 Jan - 17 Feb 2019 For over sixty years British-born Alan Pearson has been one of the outstanding proponents of pure painting in New Zealand art. His work, densely complex, restlessly explorative, remains true to the ethos of Neo-Expressionism, alive with gesture, emotion and insight, rarely rivalled for technical mastery. A Liverpudlian outsider in an... Read more

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29 Jan - 17 Feb 2019 Eva Dijkstra’s bold and colourful work straddles the junction between painting, sculpture, art and design. Following in the tradition of minimalist paintings and shaped canvasses, but picking up where her precursors left off. Presenting itself as minimal, or even non-objective, it is only after closer investigation the true work presents... Read more