Exhibitions

Summer Showcase

17 Dec 2018 - 27 Jan 2019 Summer Showcase presents a forecast for 2019, 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 2019 includes major new exhibitions from our stable, curated group shows, and exhibitions from guest artists, as well... Read more

Craggy Range Pop Up

1 - 19 Dec 2018 We are delighted to be popping up at Craggy Range Vineyard. This year we have set up an outdoor sculpture trail which will be live from the 12th December 2018. We launch our pop-up exhibition in the stunning industrial Chardonnay Room the first weekend of January 2019. The indoor exhibition... Read more

Tio

27 Nov - 9 Dec 2018 Kaan’s work has previously been described as “contemporary and timeless,” a notion that seems to fit well with many of the indigenous relationships referenced in his artmaking. Like Chinese ink and wash works, Kaan’s paintings and prints are not just straightforward reproductions; his work is more of an attempt to... Read more

Florence & Florence other textile histories

27 Nov - 9 Dec 2018 Julia Holderness has explored her own textile making alongside that of Canterbury artist and teacher Florence Akins (1906 – 2012). Re-working a range of archive materials from the Macmillan Brown Library & Heritage Collections that relate to Akins and her teaching of textiles at the Canterbury College School of Art,... Read more

Looking Up

6 - 25 Nov 2018 While it is easy to draw out the individual artists from their collaborative works – colour from Shintaro and black line work from Yoshiko – the “third artist” is actually inseparable. The collaborative works form themselves on the canvas, often ending in unexpected outcomes. Yoshiko starts the process with her... Read more

Achromatic

6 - 25 Nov 2018 Ray Haydon is known as a master of materials- he seemingly effortlessly sculpts fluid forms from the most rigid and unforgiving materials. ‘Achromatic’ sees Haydon, as the title suggests, focus on recent developments in black and white acrylic finishes to carbon fibre relief sculptures. Each sculpture’s surface is embedded with... Read more

Kakapo

16 Oct - 4 Nov 2018 Kākāpo (Night Parrot) The colours of each painting do not refer to the colours of vegetation or birds as in previous works but more to the music of people such as Fats Domino, or Howard Morrison and Gerry Merito of the Howard Morrison Quartet, who were popular in the 1950/60’s.... Read more

A Curious Pursuit

16 Oct - 4 Nov 2018 Originating in childhood via potent experiences with her grandparent’s geologic samples, Ellis found herself in a stratified world of taxonomies, of specimens, of identification and the display of lithic forms. This delight from collecting and looking would eventually be coupled with picturing masculine beauty. Her photographic practice has since amassed... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Headforemost

25 Sep - 14 Oct 2018 Stephen Ellis’ newest body of work Headforemost is a suite of four large scale, intricate ball point pen drawings that capture and comment on local history. Ellis’ works are awe inspiring. With a commitment to both process and the research grounding the work, he layers meaning and technique to create... Read more

Elements of Euclid

25 Sep - 14 Oct 2018 In this new body of work, ‘Elements of Euclid', Taylor is pushing colour more than ever before as she explores wave-particle duality, the concept in quantum mechanics that every particle or quantic entity may be partly described in terms not only of particles, but also of waves. The differing wavelengths... Read more

Sydney Contemporary

13 - 16 Sep 2018 Sanderson Contemporary is thrilled to take part in Australia's premier art fair, Sydney Contemporary. We will be presenting new works from Paul Hartigan, Alan Ibell and Karyn Taylor. You will find us at booth A08. Saturday 15th September ALAN IBELL discusses his latest body of work and the concepts that... Read more

SAMPLER

11 - 23 Sep 2018 This exciting exhibition offers you with a Sampler of artwork from a selection of Sanderson’s stable of artists. Sampler presents highlights of both new and existing work from Kevin Capon, Scott Eady, Ben Foster, Wanda Gillespie, Paul Hartigan, Ray Haydon Damien Kurth, Paul Martinson, Brendan McGorry and Jon Tootill. Read more

Fertile Ground

11 - 23 Sep 2018 A selection of 20th-century Pakeha women painters have served as the starting point for Paris Kirby’s latest exhibition Fertile Ground. Small-scale painted reproductions of iconic works by artists including Rita Angus, Dorothy Richmond and Doris Lusk are inset in each of Kirby’s large-scale paintings. The inserted reproductions serve both as... Read more

Selves

21 Aug - 9 Sep 2018 Scott Eady’s new exhibition Selves is an exploration of identity both personally and collectively, physically and online. Eady’s self-identity has largely been constructed through more than 20 years of exhibiting and making art, in particular sculptural works. In this new series of works, Eady reconsiders the self-portrait through the medium... Read more

Here Comes the Sun

21 Aug - 9 Sep 2018 Here Comes the Sun is a firm return to painting. The exhibition is a selection of Kawabata's recent investigations into color, light, and textile structure within abstraction. These paintings of polygonal cairns, bucolic settings, and geometric networks, are colorful totems made to empower and charm. Apart from when polygonal cairns... Read more

Melbourne Art Fair 2018

2 - 5 Aug 2018 One of Australasia's leading contemporary art events, the Melbourne Art Fair, showcases outstanding work from the region's best galleries. Sanderson Contemporary Art will be presenting an exciting selection of new work at this year's Melbourne Art Fair. Featuring work from Meighan Ellis, Scott Eady, and Kate van der Drift. Read more

Thread

31 Jul - 19 Aug 2018 John Oxborough’s works draw on nostalgia, the visceral feelings and memories connected to familiar places and moments and while the subjects of his work embody his personal nostalgia, they too stir these feelings within the viewer. Throughout his practice, Oxborough alludes to the long-standing tradition of New Zealand landscape painting,... Read more

End of the Night

31 Jul - 19 Aug 2018 The poetic title of Cruz Jimenez’s new exhibition, End of the Night, encapsulates the emotive and personal nature of his work. While many of Jimenez’s paintings have contained the narrative of finding light in the dark and the shrouding darkness of nighttime, this exhibition suggests a new light, perhaps a... Read more

GLAISTER ENNOR GRADUATE ART AWARDS

24 - 29 Jul 2018 Oliver King, Sholto Buck, Aydriannah Kataraina Tuiali’i, Monique Lacey, Hannah Rose Arnold, Alexander Schipper, Arapeta Ashton, Abbey Lyman, Chervelle Athena, Hannah Valentine, Scarlett Cibilich, Mish O’Neill, Yvonne Abercrombie, Danae Ripley, Priscilla Hunter, & Vaimoana Eves. Each year, Auckland Art schools are asked to nominate their top Honours and Masters students... Read more

Tino Talk

3 - 22 Jul 2018 Tino Talk, a series of photographic portraits by Vaimaila Urale, documents an exploration of Polynesian symbology through the act of marking the body. Extending her art practice into the process of hand poke tattooing, Urale has inked Polynesian symbols directly into the skin of three young Polynesian males, all of... Read more

Problemata

3 - 22 Jul 2018 Fans of Ibell’s spare, questioning canvasses will instantly sense the connection as he continues to explore themes of the unconscious, dreams, psychological space and the fractured reflection or shadow double. “I am currently interested in the subtle deconstructing of figurative elements within the works to pose a kind of compositional... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Water Slows as it Rounds The Bend

12 Jun - 1 Jul 2018 Water Slows as it Rounds the Bend is part of an ongoing investigation into the fragile ecology and transformation of the Hauraki Plains. The groundwater of the present day Plains is tightly controlled; few clues remain of the great fertile wetland, yet concealed in the centre of the gridded farmland... Read more

Portraits 1984 – 85

12 Jun - 1 Jul 2018 This is a small selection of works from a wider body of forty photographic portraits that Kevin Capon shot throughout 1984-85. The black and white portraits captured prominent figures within the arts at the time, a snapshot of New Zealand’s creative face of the time. The portraits are close up... Read more

Auckland Art Fair 2018

23 - 27 May 2018 We are pleased to be presenting artist's Paul Hartigan, Alan Ibell, and Karyn Taylor at the 2018 Auckland Art Fair. We will have a body of new works from each artist created specifically for the Auckland Art Fair. Paul Hartigan is a long-standing contributor to the visual arts in Aotearoa;... Read more

RESERVE

22 May - 10 Jun 2018 RESERVE is a subsidiary to our presence at the 2018 Auckland Art Fair, features exciting work from Sanderson Contemporary's stable of artists. Including work from Liam Gerrard, Karyn Taylor, Meighan Ellis, Damien Kurth, Paul Hartigan, Alan Pearson, Kevin Capon, Alan Ibell, Josephine Cachemaille, Simon Kaan, Jon Tootill, Cruz Jimenez, Paul... Read more

Dream of Heaven

1 - 20 May 2018 Lee paints with gestural energy in a manner which suggests wildness and humanity of his subjects - be they figures, landscapes, or fantastical abstracts. His improvisational approach to oil paint leads to works that are semi-sculptural with relief-like finishes. This spontaneity is juxtaposed with a thoughtful adherence to the five... Read more

Animal Life

1 - 20 May 2018 What makes a fish, a fish? Why is a light-bulb not a fish? How does a bird relate to a fish? These types of questions, although ridiculous on first reading, reveal a quest for epistemological knowledge, that is to say an appetite for the knowledge of knowledge itself. Martinson boasts... Read more

Tropicana

10 - 29 Apr 2018 Damien Kurth is sitting in a small ordered room adjacent to a garage in suburban Mt Albert. He’s relaxed, at home. This is an efficient workspace. Bottles, jars, and other objects rest on a ledge. Paints, brushes, solvents and sketches sit upon a table. Much of the wall space is... Read more

Mother and Daughter on Hiatus

10 - 29 Apr 2018 Mother and Daughter on Hiatus is an ironic collection capturing the rivalrous and friction-run relationship that one has with their mother; in this case my own. Unapologetically domestic, these frieze-like structures create a coliseum for my mother and I to compete in. When we argue, often I think the lack... Read more

Noir

20 Mar - 8 Apr 2018 In this new body of work Noir, McGorry offers the viewer an almost cinematic experience. Each of the works have interwoven elements, connected subject matter and a strongly defined palette. The viewer is immersed in this stylistic approach which acts as a reel of celluloid film flicking a repeated protagonist... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

Full Bleed

20 Mar - 8 Apr 2018 There is something afoot … head, tooth and nail, in the work of Liam Gerrard. Beautiful, brutal, and unflinching visages arise out of black dust, taking form through lost rituals of conjuring. With deft and sensitive acuity Gerrard calls forth visions which unveil subject matter that communes and conspires in... Read more

The Dérive

6 - 18 Mar 2018 Anita Levering’s painting-based research explores issues connected to chance and intentionality, examining the unpredictability of external forces and chance procedures in the creation of abstract paintings. In her practice, Levering investigates the materiality of paint using addition, dissolution, accumulation, and subtraction or un-doing. This methodology allows freedom but also creates... Read more

JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

My Relics Not My Relics

6 - 18 Mar 2018 Josephine Cachemaille latest body of work illustrates the artist’s grapple with a collection of concerns about ownership, our psychological histories and experiences, and the capacity of the materials and objects involved in art-making processes to share authorship of the artistic output. My Relics Not My Relics, signals Cachemaille’s conflicted confessional... Read more

People's Choice

20 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 People's Choice brings together the works of some of our favourite artists, as nominated by the Sanderson team. This exhibition is a celebration of our diversity of taste and curatorial insight, encompassing highlights from our stable of artists as well as new pieces from guest artists. Including work from Danial... Read more

Flows

20 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 Winner of the 2017 Glaister Ennor Award, Jordan Davey-Emms explores concepts of gap and transfer, linkage and porous networks in relation to place-making and materiality. Flows is an exhibition of new work that looks at structuring and movement. In Flows, eight pavers with altered faces are laid out in a... Read more

Tidal Ballets

23 Jan - 18 Feb 2018 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

Midnight Love

23 Jan - 18 Feb 2018 Midnight Love is a selection of new works in ink on paper by artist Cruz Jimenez. Read more

Craggy Range Pop Up

18 Jan - 25 Feb 2018 Sanderson Contemporary recently announced a new partnership with Craggy Range, an iconic New Zealand brand based in the Hawkes Bay. Craggy Range produces internationally acclaimed fine wines that are a unique expression of New Zealand’s terroir. To celebrate this new partnership Sanderson Contemporary are 'Popping Up' with a temporary exhibition... Read more