Exhibitions

Advent

10 Dec 2013 - 19 Jan 2014 Featuring exciting new work from our stable of artists, Advent 2013 offers a glimpse of what is in store for the gallery in 2014. With more works to be added as they arrive in the gallery. Including work from: Andrew Barns-Graham Brit Bunkley Josephine Cachemaille Kevin Capon Candi Dentice Ted... Read more

Sculpture

26 Nov - 8 Dec 2013 When we think of marble we think of lavish interiors and classical architecture. We think of art history favourites – the Venus de Milo, Michelangelo’s David or maybe The Kiss by Rodin. We know marble as monumental. Martin Selman’s work poses a challenge to the way we appreciate marble as... Read more

New Work

13 - 30 Nov 2013 Environmental messages and social commentary are presented through the whimsical yet confronting tableaux of Candi Dentice. Exquisitely rendered landscapes form a backdrop for the surreal and symbolic subjects of her paintings, which deal with the costs of economic expansion and consumerism. Dentice’s painting technique is highly refined, honed through formal... Read more

Unscripted

12 - 24 Nov 2013 'Japanese artists Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara work both together and separately … Recently they have begun to collaborate, combining their different approaches to create an exquisite series of works that they have called 'Hikari' (Light), a metaphor for the revelation implicit in taking a mutual journey.' - Helen Kedgley, Senior... Read more

JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

Give me the light

29 Oct - 10 Nov 2013 In her darkly funny installations Josephine Cachemaille combines the earthy aesthetics of 1970s home craft projects with the earnest, aspirational language of the self-help industry. She takes a skeptical position, poking fun at the growing phenomenon in the West of pop psychology and positive thinking, the irrational idea that material... Read more

Redbush and Milk

16 Oct - 9 Nov 2013 James R Ford is an artist whose varied practice includes drawing, assemblage, installation and film. His observative projects often feature play, chance or repetition, with resulting work being of an existential nature, incorporating humour and the everyday. Redbush and Milk comprises of recent text-based works that consider themes of choice... Read more

The Law of Unintended Consequences

8 - 27 Oct 2013 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

New Work

24 Sep - 6 Oct 2013 Clare Kim (essay by Andrew Paul Wood) Korean-born Clare Kim’s minutely detailed drawings are a kind of concrete poetry, calligrams or carmina figurata; figurative or abstract images created from tiny lines of carefully selected text. Multiple layers of information, textual and visual, are encoded in the same image. As... Read more

No Phobia

18 Sep - 12 Oct 2013 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 Triffids or 1984, for example, remain with us as adults in the shadows, warning of the dangers that come with genetic modification or... Read more

Subsection 27A

28 Aug - 14 Sep 2013 Tracey Walker's artworks deal with the division between landscape and urbanscape, lamenting the loss of natural wholeness through the artificial divisions created by human imposition on the land. Pieces are painted in multiple layers of acrylics and oils onto an etched aluminium substrate. Works initially appear as collections of images,... Read more

'The Artists' Book Launch Exhibition

20 Aug - 1 Sep 2013 The Artists: 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c. 2013-2015 is the continuation of the The Artists series, past editions of which has been given a “nine out of ten” and lauded as “beautifully produced” (Barbara Sullivan, Northern Advocate, 2009) as well as deemed as “... a great service... Read more

Rag and Bone

7 - 11 Aug 2013 At the Auckland Art Fair Sanderson Contemporary Art presents curated group exhibition Rag and Bone, with new projects from Kevin Capon, Young Sun Han, Josephine Cachemaille, Clare Kim, PJ Paterson and Sian Torrington. Rag and Bone seeks to examine current applications of appropriation, focussing on this group of artists who... Read more

Auckland Art Fair

31 Jul - 24 Aug 2013 A group exhibition to coincide with the Auckland Art Fair, 7-11 August. Read more

Velorum

30 Jul - 18 Aug 2013 Ray Haydon responds intuitively to space, creating works of refinement and precision. His pieces retain a lyricism and freedom of line that belie the emphasis on technical process and exactitude which go into their making. Haydon creates his forms by imagining the broad approach he wishes to take, then mapping... Read more

The Strings

16 - 28 Jul 2013 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 of individual pen strokes and subtle washes. Every minute detail is described with unshakable precision; gradually, forms... Read more

Accumulations

10 - 27 Jul 2013 Working slowly in oil, Gruenwald produces thousands of these small marks, which merge to create a single overall form. Appearing at once organic and considered, the form conveys movement and direction, with each work communicating a distinct energy and trajectory. Colour is key element, with interconnected fields of unexpected colour... Read more

Two Gallery Abstracts

3 - 21 Jul 2013 After over 11 years in Parnell, Sanderson Contemporary Art has relocated their main gallery to expanded premises in Newmarket’s Osborne Lane. As the door closes on Sanderson Contemporary Art’s presence in Parnell, Billy Apple takes the last look. The final exhibition in the emptied out gallery space focuses on the... Read more

Bubble Boy

25 Jun - 14 Jul 2013 Essay by Amy Stewart, June 2013 There is much art in the world that claims to deal with the great binaries – life and death, light and dark. Arguably, every artist (and every person) engages with this discourse, as these fundamental oppositional pairings are the great basics of life, and... Read more

Peripheral Fantom Index

5 - 23 Jun 2013 In Peripheral Fantom Index, Korean-American artist Young Sun Han demonstrates his continued concern with his personal history and the context of his origins, particularly his North Korean connection. Current news stories coming out of the region serve to amplify Han’s fascination with the ancestors who continue to haunt him. Using... Read more

Down Home

29 May - 15 Jun 2013 Down Home brings together the work of four photographers addressing narratives of home; familial interactions, household artefacts, the domestic and the suburban. Through their varied practices, Kevin Capon, Young Sun Han, PJ Paterson and Jane Zusters demonstrate how close studies of the everyday can lead to quiet revelations. Kevin Capon’s... Read more

Duplex

21 May - 2 Jun 2013 Damien Kurth’s paintings explore modes of visual perception and interpretation, drawing on traditional painting practices to defy accepted conventions of the still life. Rejecting the stereotypical subject matter, images and iconography of the European still life, Kurth takes a counter-historical approach to the social and cultural parameters of still life... Read more

Newmarket Gallery opens Tuesday 21 May

14 - 19 May 2013 Sanderson Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the opening of their new main gallery at Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street, Newmarket. The gallery officially opens at 5.30pm on Tuesday 21 May with Damien Kurth's exhibition 'Duplex', together with a group show of major new work from the gallery's represented artists.... Read more

Phantasm

8 - 25 May 2013 Alexandra Odelle's intimately-scaled paintings and drawings operate within a rigorous aesthetic framework. Tiny and ambiguous forms swarm and oscillate over the surface of her works, emitting subtle movements through an array of marks. Restless, cyclic interchanges evoke palpable sensation, seeming to call for interpretation and recognition, which continue to elude.... Read more

New Work

30 Apr - 19 May 2013 Michael Hawksworth's current practice explores various conjunctions of image and text, drawing and collage, invention and found material. The artist's creative process is concerned with the invention of new objects that shy away from unambiguous readings or classifications. The interests that drive his work at present are focused around personal... Read more

Twiggy Considered as a Gestalt System

16 - 28 Apr 2013 In this series P J Paterson playfully utilises images of iconic 1960s model Twiggy to explore the ideas of appropriation and artistic property first examined by the Pop Artists. As a figure that came to embody the era, portraits of the model saturate contemporary mass media. Paterson’s paintings of Twiggy... Read more

The Outer Edge Project: 'Keep Walking Past The Open Windows'

16 Apr - 16 Jun 2013 Artist Statement When I rub my eyes with the heel of my palm, I see fizzy monochrome patterns like interference on a TV set. The sensation is both pleasure and pain and it's hard to stop rubbing Even when I know it's leaving black kohl smudges on my hands and... Read more

Nonlocality

10 Apr - 4 May 2013 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. Nonlocality demonstrates the artist’s personal, liberal approach to painting that allows a free flow of imagery and ideas, while retaining... Read more

Landscape

2 - 14 Apr 2013 Landscape continues John Oxborough’s study of representation and perception, using the landscape as a means to explore the function and meaning of memory. Two distinct series are depicted in the exhibition; one drawn from the artist’s early years as a painter in Dunedin, and the other from his current life... Read more

White Night in Parnell

16 Mar 2013 For one night only - Saturday 16th March 2013, 6pm-Midnight - White Night will transform Parnell Road with 17 visionary art projects. Watch the streets and courtyards of the historic village come alive with performance, interactive projects and site-specific installations spread along Parnell Road from Fraser Park to the Holy... Read more

Ara

15 - 31 Mar 2013 Art’s agency within cultural revival is central to Kaan’s understanding of his position as an artist. Kaan possesses a refined visual language developed over decades, intrinsically tied to his sense of personal genealogy being of Ngai Tahu and Chinese descent. His practice considers the implications of the intermingling of the... Read more

Grow in Light

13 Mar - 6 Apr 2013 Artist Wendy Kawabata presents a major installation in her exhibition Grow in Light; comprised of hundreds of handmade crochet flowers, Grow in Light sprawls across an entire gallery wall, appearing at once organic in form and routine in its laborious making. Begun during an artist’s residency in Iceland, the work... Read more

Studio Raids

5 - 13 Mar 2013 Ever wondered what goes on in an artist's studio? We've raided the studios of 16 of our artists to bring you unusual, experimental and amazing works that might not otherwise have made it to the gallery. Works are priced from $80 with some key pieces available for silent auction on... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

New Work

13 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 New large-scale charcoal works from Liam Gerrard demonstrate the artist’s continued scrutiny of startling subjects; employing humour, pastiche and irreverence to construct confronting images and assemblages. Gerrard’s works are technically faultless and painstakingly realised, regardless of subject-matter which ranges from bizarre to quietly gruesome. Through these works, Gerrard calls attention... Read more

The Outer Edge Project: 'Draw a Line Somewhere'

12 Feb - 7 Apr 2013 No one is solely heroic. This work is a reflection on the multiple facets of human nature. I think of it as an anti-monument. Whereas a monument commemorates heroic qualities, the anti-monument celebrates the mundane reality of the everyperson – softness, fluidity, and domesticity, brightness and darkness, solidity and frailty... Read more

Continuum

12 Feb - 3 Mar 2013 Ben Foster’s latest work includes large-format kinetic sculptures and new figurative geometric works, demonstrating the artist’s two key approaches to his current practice. While abstract kinetic works represent Foster’s ongoing interest in Minimalist aesthetics and organic structures, figurative sculptures indicate a playful departure for the artist, as he explores the... Read more

Pink & White

22 Jan - 10 Feb 2013 Thought to have been completely destroyed by the eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886, part of the Terraces were rediscovered by a group of New Zealand scientists in 2011; buried in sediment but still intact. Candi Dentice was invited to observe scientists in the subsequent project which mapped the Terraces,... Read more