Exhibitions

Summer Outlook

Group Show

30 Nov 2021 - 16 Jan 2022 Summer Outlook presents new works from our artists offering a glimpse into what our scheduled exhibitions in 2022 will bring. The exhibition will provide visitors with a visual taste of Summer and a lot of great reasons to focus on 2022 as we leave 2021 behind. The gallery’s programme for... Read more

RAY HAYDON

Passage

2 - 28 Nov 2021 Artist Ray Haydon is known as a master of materials - he effortlessly sculpts fluid forms from the most rigid and unforgiving materials. This new body of work, as it’s title Passage suggests, is a continuation of Ray Haydon’s distinctive sculptural practice of working with various mediums. In his masterful... Read more

BRENDAN MCGORRY

Finished Unfinished

2 - 28 Nov 2021 Through either abandonment or happenstance, artists have left paintings unfinished. By doing so, they have revealed their artistic process and fed into an age-old fascination with the inner workings of the artist’s studio. Notable unfinished works that have influenced McGorry include Leonardo da Vinci’s La Scapigliata, with its highly refined... Read more

ZARA DOLAN

Monotypes

5 - 31 Oct 2021 Zara Dolan is an Irish born, New Zealand artist. Her current series of work involves one-off monotype prints created on a large traditional printmaking press. Dolan’s work presents a dynamic energy - a suspended moment of lively animation. Drawing on abstract expressionist gesture, her mark making is direct and intuitive,... Read more

FREEMAN WHITE

Deep Blue

5 - 31 Oct 2021 Freeman White is known for his remarkable oil paintings, which capture the beauty of the landscapes and coastline in Aotearoa. In this newest series of work entitled Deep Blue, White brings his signature ability to capture an awe and respect for the beauty and power of nature to a new... Read more

TERESA HR LANE

Without End

7 Sep - 3 Oct 2021 Since relocating from Auckland to a small farm on the slopes of the sacred maunga, Whakarara, Lane’s practice has dramatically shifted into a new landscape. After a long absence from the land where she grew up, Lane has reacquainted herself with the rural; this time overlooking Matauri Bay, Te Tai... Read more

SCOTT GARDINER

Light Years

7 Sep - 3 Oct 2021 When examining the history of Scott Gardiner’s practice it becomes obvious there are certain themes which run throughout his oeuvre. Time, temporality and the search for meaning key among them. Made in the wake of his father’s death, this body of work became a re-examination of these concerns and a... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

New Work

10 Aug - 5 Sep 2021 Hydrangeas in various states of bloom naturally celebrate beauty as they blossom with vitality and rich colour. However as others deteriorate and enter their own gentle state of withering and wilting, they acknowledge the fading of beauty and the nature of impermanence. Notions of passing time are made apparent not... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Each to Each

10 Aug - 5 Sep 2021 Ellis took the opportunity of the pandemic to teach himself the basics of 3D modelling software to make and pose virtual objects on virtual tabletops – a process that renders the familiar unfamiliar, reflecting pandemic isolations, remembered liberties outside. The intangible functionless objects stand in for the thing army that... Read more

SIMON KAAN & WI TAEPA

Te Ha o te Marama

13 Jul - 8 Aug 2021 Throughout his artistic career spanning 20 years, Kaan has included circular motifs, describing these as “moon gates or moonbows”. This series of work continues the artist’s exploration of the moon, connecting the sky with land and water. He emphasises his thinking into Te Hā o te Marama, the breath of... Read more

DAMIEN KURTH

Spacer

15 Jun - 11 Jul 2021 For many people, the recent shared experience of national and global lockdowns provided the opportunity to slow down, observe and reflect. For Damien Kurth this experience amplified his desire to express the notability within the ordinary by emphasizing the austerity and banality of domestic objects. Representational images such as a... Read more

KATHERINE THRONE

In The Garden

15 Jun - 11 Jul 2021 Painted in thick layers of oil paint, the rambling roses and tangles of wildflowers seemingly burst off the canvas and into the viewer’s space. Katherine has a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Art, University of Auckland. She graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design in... Read more

ALAN PEARSON

Mystery and Reason: A Retrospective

18 May - 13 Jun 2021 Mercurial in nature, Alan Pearson had an ability to switch from expressionist representation to abstraction while revealing the underlying spirit and psyche in a person or place. When discovering a new location and needing to understand and establish the resident form, colour and light, he would use the old academic... Read more

JON TOOTILL

KAHUKURA, BETTER BICULTURALISM

18 May 2021 - 13 Jun 2022 KAHUKURA, BETTER BICULTURALISM The hero painting for Jon Tootill’s upcoming exhibition at Sanderson Contemporary is a full-spectrum colour study. Piwakawaka (2010-2020) completes a decade-long series that studies the rau, or plumage, of native birds through colour sampling. Tootill’s works act like an index, mapping colours found in nature. He selects... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Sweet and Sour

20 Apr - 16 May 2021 Forested, low-lying wetlands have been burned off, drained and cultivated into today’s lattice of paddocks, intersected by waterways contaminated with farm run-off. Site-specific camera-less ‘river exposures’ on large format film are created by placing unexposed colour negatives in the Piako river’s tributaries for a period between two and four weeks.... Read more

ALAN IBELL

Ascendants

20 Apr - 16 May 2021 The looming mountains of the ‘Landscape with Ascendants’ works invoke a sense of agoraphobia while the brick walls of the ‘Home’ paintings impose a contrasting claustrophobia, sensations in which the viewer is invited to share as they occupy the space of the gallery itself. The ‘Landscape with Ascendants’ paintings are... Read more

MOLLY TIMMONS

Haberdashery

16 Mar - 18 Apr 2021 The two materials switch between embracing traditional techniques, and mimicking each other’s form. At times this is through the use of subject matter, in which specific still life paintings are translated into embroideries. Figuration is built slowly with the thread in the same process one might approach an oil painting.... Read more

KĀRYN TAYLOR

An Implicate Order

16 Mar - 18 Apr 2021 It is like an underlying field of undivided wholeness which can be unfolded into an abstraction of forms in time and space, and again be enfolded back into the whole – a continuous dance between wave and particle, material and immaterial. Kāryn Taylor likens geometry to a language that has... Read more

Auckland Art Fair 2021

Group Show

24 - 28 Feb 2021 Julie Cromwell Julie Cromwell’s latest body of work Form of Transition, is an enquiry into her vessels’ physical and intangible qualities. Cromwell’s inspiration draws from ancient amphorae that were used for the transportation of wine and oils. Julie Cromwell has been working with clay for many years, graduating from Derbyshire... Read more

Emerging Artists 2021

Group Show

26 Jan - 16 Mar 2021 Sanderson’s annual Emerging Artists exhibition supports promising new talent - this year, showcasing a collection of works from recent graduates of AUT, Unitec and Whitecliffe. With the many uncertainties of 2020, students spent much of their university year in isolation, confined to web-based learning and the materials at hand. 2020... Read more

NATASHA WRIGHT

A Place To Stand

26 Jan - 15 Mar 2021 The show includes a collection of expressive oil paintings and works on paper completed in New York during quarantine in 2020 - a period that has now become synonymous with flux and transition. Wright completed her MFA in 2018, sighting Canadian American painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) as one of her... Read more

Summer Solstice

Group Show

8 Dec 2020 - 25 Jan 2021 Summer Solstice presents an artistic forecast for 2021, 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 2020 includes major new exhibitions from our stable, curated group shows, and exhibitions from guest artists, as... 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