Exhibitions

Summer Showcase

6 Dec 2016 - 22 Jan 2017 Summer Showcase features exciting new work from Sanderson Contemporary's stable of artists, offering a glimpse of what’s in store for 2017. With new work from: Josephine Cachemaille Ted Dutch Stephen Ellis Ben Foster Liam Gerrard Linda Holloway Ray Haydon Alan Ibell Cruz Jimenez Simon Kaan Wendy Kawabata Paris Kirby Damien... Read more

PORTRAIT

22 Nov - 4 Dec 2016 The viewer becomes the subject of Josephine Cachemaille’s Self Portrait in a Friendly Universe. In her recent studio practice Cachemaille has urged viewers to join her optimistic, animist fantasy – to become more connected, positive beings, traversing modern boundaries between persons and things. In her work for Portrait, Cachemaille evokes... Read more

Wayfarer

8 - 20 Nov 2016 This exhibition features new work from the collaborative practice of artists Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara. The Japanese-born husband and wife, who were classically trained in Tokyo, each make art independently; as individuals they have different conceptual concerns, work on dramatically different scales and in different mediums. Their unique collaborations demonstrate... Read more

The Waiting Game

8 - 20 Nov 2016 These images were drawn over a period of several years and are not representational drawings but portraits or translations of models posing, waiting in time. Dismissing the realism of a purposefully designed scene Alan creates an atmosphere where the space the models occupy belongs to a metaphysical world. As models... Read more

Upland and Furrow

25 Oct - 6 Nov 2016 Wendy Kawabata’s latest series of paintings Upland and Furrow are accumulations of geometric shapes that form improvised grids. The works demonstrate a delicate geometry that relates to quilt design, a craft the artist has explored alongside her painting. Quilt-making has the peculiarity of being both prescriptive and flexible, which is... Read more

Spectrum

25 Oct - 6 Nov 2016 In his latest work Ben Foster engages abstract geometric form to capture various creatures, with immaculately constructed sculptures in coated aluminium that are playful and instantly familiar. Spectrum shows works of increasing subtlety, as Foster draws contrast between light and shade, human and animal, predator and prey. As a Minimalist,... Read more

JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

Feel Up

11 - 23 Oct 2016 Josephine Cachemaille’s exhibition FEEL UP! urges us to join her in an optimistic, animist fantasy where we become more connected, positive beings, traversing modern boundaries between persons and things. The gallery installation appears to be the site of a kind of 'encounter group' therapy session with costumes and comical prop-like... Read more

Embed

11 - 23 Oct 2016 Embed is an extension of Vaimaila Urale’s interest in ASCII, early computer image making using keyboard characters. The exhibition features new large scale prints as well as ceramic works referencing ‘talking sticks’ and Lapita pottery. Vaimaila’s practice references traditional Polynesian visual language, in juxtaposition with contemporary artistic practice and mark... Read more

Some Light

27 Sep - 9 Oct 2016 Some Light is a series of extremely didactic works; simultaneously peaceful and full of energy. They house a maze of symbolism that is multifaceted and open to simultaneous readings. Rich in content and in hue the works propose some thing, pictured some where and set in Some Light. Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

LANDSCAPE

27 Sep - 9 Oct 2016 One of the earliest art forms, landscape has been used throughout the ages to capture, depict and communicate the natural world. The genre of landscape has shifted away from scenery painted to decorate the interior to an increasingly politicised subject matter created to provoke and question the human condition and... Read more

Sleep Walk

6 - 25 Sep 2016 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

Cadence

6 - 25 Sep 2016 After several decades of a successful career working in bronze, wood, stainless steel, aluminium and Corten steel crafting a range of indoor and outdoor works, Haydon’s exploration into the properties of carbon fibre has opened up a whole new area of imagery. “Imagine a ribbon thrown in the air, the... Read more

Simon Kaan in conversation with Martin Langdon and Lana Lopesi

17 Aug 2016 EVENT: Simon Kaan in conversation with Martin Langdon and Lana Lopesi Wednesday 17 August at 6pm | Sanderson Contemporary, Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street, Newmarket, Auckland As part of his exhibition Black Cloud, Simon Kaan will be joined in conversation by fellow artists Martin Langdon and Lana Lopesi to discuss... Read more

The Death of Painting

16 Aug - 4 Sep 2016 For this new series of works McGorry cites the pre- Raphaelite period. Taking prime examples of paintings in the era that are etched into our visual memory, McGorry re-works their composition to create contemporary works. This meshing of art historical references and contemporary imagery is a consistent theme in his... Read more

Black Cloud

16 Aug - 4 Sep 2016 EVENT: Simon Kaan in conversation with Martin Langdon and Lana Lopesi Wednesday August 17th at 6pm | Sanderson Contemporary, Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street, Newmarket, Auckland As part of his exhibition Black Cloud, Simon Kaan will be joined in conversation by fellow artists Martin Langdon and Lana Lopesi to discuss... Read more

Writhe

26 Jul - 14 Aug 2016 In this exhibition Anita Levering attempts to eliminate artistic agency, with a body of work that displays her investigation into intuitive making. The series has a sense of playfulness; Levering’s paintings incite curiosity whilst avoiding the restraints of formalism. As she allows her compositions to take shape, Levering considers the... Read more

Viaje

26 Jul - 14 Aug 2016 The Spanish title of Cruz Jimenez’s latest exhibition is Viaje – which, translated into English, means 'journey'. The artist's Mexican heritage is embraced in this new body of work, a series that describes Jimenez’s own development; his journey. Cruz’s practice is immersive and intuitive; his large works celebrate the power... Read more

Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards

21 - 24 Jul 2016 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

Line to Plane

28 Jun - 17 Jul 2016 Line to Plane is an exhibition showcasing new works from artist Kāryn Taylor. In this new body of work Kāryn is further investigating geometric space, notions of defined reality and the desire for logical outcomes. Taylor’s works seem to be made with some form of magic – a glowing line... Read more

Boxer Rebellion

28 Jun - 17 Jul 2016 Boxer Rebellion is a selection of photographic and moving image works from artist PJ Paterson. The works come together to portray a post apocalyptic reality. As developers look to expand the outer limits of the city to accommodate population growth, inner city living becomes more and more elite. Paterson depicts... Read more

Unremarkable Treasures

7 - 26 Jun 2016 Unremarkable Treasures is an exhibition that prompts us to explore the transference of things old and new from one owner, connoisseur, archivist or collector to another. This body of new work from Scott Eady draws upon a fundamental concept of producing sculpture through the use of everyday objects and therefore... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Eventual Efflorescence

7 - 26 Jun 2016 Eventual Efflorescence is a new series that depicts the banal realism of an everyday, suburban environment. These scenes are as recognisable and familiar as any one of the many new subdivisions continually springing up across the developed world. The images are difficult to locate within Aotearoa, or any specific region;... Read more

Auckland Art Fair

25 - 29 May 2016 At Auckland Art Fair Sanderson Contemporary presents a major new works from Scott Eady, Stephen Ellis, Karyn Taylor and Mark Whalen. Auckland Art Fair is New Zealand’s premier international showcase for contemporary art and runs from May 25th - 29th at The Cloud on Auckland’s Queen’s Wharf. The 2016 edition... Read more

Fabrications - Auckland Art Fair group show

17 May - 5 Jun 2016 Illusory effect is the central tenet to the selection of the works for Fabrications – a group show running concurrently with the Auckland Art Fair. The gallery show is intended to offer a deeper experience of our artists’ practice beyond the confines of the Art Fair stand. Each of the... Read more

Collisions

17 May - 5 Jun 2016 Mark Whalen’s Sympathetic Magic Disbelief – geared as it is toward underwriting circumstantially survivable outcomes, or hedging success – is humankind’s homeostatic default. Conversely, the suspension of disbelief is art’s ur-function – and thus an arguably dangerous proposition. However, imagined danger may be imaginatively leveraged. Or good fortune summoned, via... Read more

New Work

26 Apr - 15 May 2016 Alan Ibell’s enigmatic chronicles lie in a territory somewhere between illustration and art, a knowing amalgam that sits this side of cartoon – a hybrid format that has put new energy and a touch of whimsy into the genre of figure in landscape. His somewhat slight, faceless and even ethereal... Read more

Here there is no why

26 Apr - 15 May 2016 Forget about the allegories and symbolism of 17th century Dutch still life painting or the formalism and intimacy of Giorgio Morandi’s art. Apart from his choice of subject, Damien Kurth’s paintings have very little in common with familiar narratives of still life painting. Precedents for his work are more immediately... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Permafrost: Drawings 2015-2016

5 - 24 Apr 2016 The utilitarian writing device known as the ‘ball-point pen’ is the medium used by school children in 1B4 exercise books, of crossword warriors and doodlers by the telephone; it’s the people’s most familiar mark-making tool. Amidst the broad array of high art media, the 21st century boasts some of the... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

New Work

15 Mar - 3 Apr 2016 Floral arrangements hold dark secrets, fabled creatures are contextualised into a modern dialogue, and the repugnant turns sweet. Gerrard is an alchemist, forever transforming commonality into something precious, and sometimes inherently sinister. On first inspection we are drawn slowly and enticingly into the image, presented as we are with lyrical... Read more

In The Land

15 Mar - 3 Apr 2016 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

JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

Same as it ever was

23 Feb - 13 Mar 2016 Josephine Cachemaille’s installation of assemblages and collages evokes a primitive setting within which contemporary concerns play out. Prop-like cloth wall hangings suggest landscape: mountains, a sun, a cave or portal; a disc of blue velvet on the gallery floor, a pool. Occupying the landscape are entities: lean assemblages of studio... Read more

Ode to Time - Recent Paintings

23 Feb - 13 Mar 2016 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 artistic climate still clinging to nationalism-as-landscape, the beginning of Pearson’s training at the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts coincided... Read more

The King's Rose

9 - 21 Feb 2016 Cruz Jimenez’s latest series departs from the densely worked surfaces of previous work to embrace a minimal, line-focused style. The scroll-like forms of The Kings’ Rose present washi ink on fields of crisp white paper, with simple, deftly-rendered ink forms that resonate in their clarity. Rather than subtly emerging from... Read more

New Work

9 - 21 Feb 2016 John Oxborough’s latest paintings examine and challenge the conventions of portrait painting in the artist's characteristic Expressionist style. Fragmented figures are the centrepiece of each painting, with plains of colour, sinuous line, distinctive objects, and abstract forms uniting on the surface. Throughout the works Oxborough waivers between figuration and abstraction,... Read more

Movement

19 Jan - 7 Feb 2016 Bringing together the talents of Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara, the artists' present a unique body of collaborative paintings. The Japanese-born husband and wife duo each have successful independent artistic practices, having gained degrees in Fine Art in Tokyo prior to their emigration to New Zealand. Despite possessing obviously disparate working... Read more