Exhibitions

Summer Exhibition

Group Show

29 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 Sanderson are pleased to announce the opening of their annual Summer Exhibition for 2022. The exhibition will be a group show featuring new and significant works from a selection of the gallery’s represented artists. This will include works by: Josephine Cachemaille, Kate van der Drift, Stephen Ellis, Liam Gerrard, Ray... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2022

Group Show

16 - 20 Nov 2022 Sanderson were pleased to participate in the 2022 edition of the Aotearoa Art Fair. The fair ran from 16th of November to the 20th of November 2022 Exhibiting in Booth C8 the gallery showcased works by Kāryn Taylor, Mickey Smith, Katherine Throne, Wi Taepa, Natasha Wright and Simone Rosenbauer. Thank... Read more

RAY HAYDON

Voyage

25 Oct - 27 Nov 2022 Art critic and academic Rosalind Krauss, wrote that all contemporary sculpture is concerned with the idea of passages.[1] This is certainly true of Haydon’s art, which interrogates the concept of temporality in a multiplicity of ways. Exemplified by simple curvilinear lines that either unfold horizontally or are worked into continuous... Read more

SCOTT GARDINER

Fingers Pointing at the Moon

25 Oct - 27 Nov 2022 “I have thought about this passage a lot during the past year, while sitting out in the ocean on my surfboard in the cold light of a winter’s dawn, watching the colours change and the sun breach the horizon. I have always lived a life in search of purpose and... Read more

SIMON KAAN & WI TAEPA

Maumahara

27 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 Sanderson are pleased to present Maumahara, an exhibition featuring the work of Simon Kaan and Wi Taepa. Kaan and Taepa are two of the most influential senior artists working in ngā toi Māori and Aotearoa today. Kaan (born 1971, Otepoti/Dunedin) is a celebrated painter and print maker. As a third-generation... Read more

TERESA HR LANE

Here for Ages

27 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 Lane revisits the frame, readjusts the lens, holding it on drained wetland, on erosion and the artificial emerald of paddocks pumped with superphosphate. Here For Ages remaps the landscape, readjusts our perception, abstracts the nostalgic and the familiar, and questions the way that farmland sits within the frame of Aotearoa.... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

Wilt & Wing

30 Aug - 25 Sep 2022 Gerrard is an artist whose practice offers a contemporary take on the 17th century still life vanitas. Closely related to memento mori still lifes, vanitas gently remind us of the fragility and transience of life. Most recently Gerrard has explored this theme through the depiction of plants and flowers, and... Read more

MOLLY TIMMONS

Hybrid Gardens

30 Aug - 25 Sep 2022 Sanderson are pleased to present Molly Timmins Hybrid Gardens. Timmins (Ngāpuhi, Pākehā) is interested in exploring heritage and the natural environment. From a family of many generations of gardeners this has provoked Molly’s fascination with the natural wonders of Aotearoa New Zealand and the women who have painted this before... Read more

JON TOOTILL

Whakamoe Tau / The Seasons

2 - 28 Aug 2022 Building on previous botanical inspired series Jon Tootill has now expanded his attention. His 2022 exhibition Whakamoe Tau, features a pou species. Perhaps however the exhibition is less about that tree, than it is about the observed effects of that rakau through time. Tootill appears to be more engrossed by... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Unfolding

2 - 28 Aug 2022 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Unfolding by Stephen Ellis. The exhibition will feature a suite of six drawings by the artist, which are part of his ongoing project exploring themes of environmental degradation and climate change. Each of the drawings will be coloured pencil on paper, 300mm square.... Read more

DAMIEN KURTH

Reverb

5 - 31 Jul 2022 Representational images such as a teacup or a paint jar at first glance seem like straightforward and immediate subject matter to the artist in his studio. Instead, Kurth’s skilful and subtle paintings are deeply committed to close observation and theory of the way we relate to and see the everyday... Read more

KATHERINE THRONE

Rebels and Romantics

5 - 31 Jul 2022 Watercolourist Madeleine Lemaire (1848-1928) who illustrated Marcel Proust’s Pleasures of Days in 1896 was known in Paris as the Empress of Roses. A feast for the eyes, her blowsy flowers, tumbling forth from vases and urns, appeal to other senses as well. You can imagine them scenting the pages with... Read more

JULIA HOLDERNESS

Schemes for Vibrant Living with Florence Weir

7 Jun - 3 Jul 2022 Marking her first exhibition with Sanderson after several years of dedicated research Schemes for Vibrant Living with Florence Weir develops from Julia Holderness' recent final PhD exhibition at Auckland University of Technology. In privileging design, decorative and domestic categories, Holderness’ installation practice traces alternative histories of modernism in Aotearoa, in... Read more

Matariki : Te whakanui I te tau hou

Group Show

7 Jun - 3 Jul 2022 Sanderson are pleased to present an exhibition celebrating Matariki, curated by Jon Tootill (Ngāi Tahu). The exhibition will bring together artwork from artists across several generations, and with different cultural backgrounds, expanding on what it means to celebrate Matariki in contemporary Aotearoa, while giving important acknowledgement to tangata whenua. Artists... Read more

ALAN PEARSON

Nudes

10 May - 5 Jun 2022 Sanderson are pleased to present Nudes: an exhibition of works by Alan Pearson that focus on the human form and the nude as subject. The show will feature a range of paintings and works on paper, some of which have never been exhibited before in Aotearoa or internationally. In the... Read more

SHINTARO & YOSHIKO NAKAHARA

Affection

10 May - 5 Jun 2022 In their exhibition Affection, Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara look to the current season of spring in their first home, Japan. This is a special time of the Sakura or cherry blossom flowering season, one of celebration associated with new beginnings. Cherry blossoms are a symbolic flower in Japan, representing renewal... Read more

KĀRYN TAYLOR

It's All Relative

12 Apr - 8 May 2022 Room of Reality Kāryn Taylor’s Room of Reality reminds me of what Duchamp once said about the fourth dimension. The idea of ‘dimensions’ first came about in the 1750s but it wasn’t until the 1880s that the notion of an ‘unseen’ distance could form a 4D cube known as a... Read more

JOSEPHINE CACHEMAILLE

Be Soft Be Strong

12 Apr - 8 May 2022 Cachemaille’s installations are driven by her desire to work through questions and scenarios from her life, often central to her family dynamics. In recent exhibitions This Way, That Way at The Dowse Art Museum 2021, and She’s a Force at Sanderson in 2020, the artist focused on exploring a scenario... Read more

PHILLIP KELLY

RPM

15 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 These images may be viewed as analogous to chords or sound effects. The distortions and treatments in the paint signal the processing of the sonic qualities of recorded sounds, like effects pedals used to treat guitars or keyboards. The watercolours are composed with the use of a turntable as a... Read more

MICKEY SMITH

New Outlook

15 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 Sanderson are pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Mickey Smith - New Outlook. This new body of work is a continuation of Smith’s ongoing project Volume, which documents bound periodicals and journals in public libraries. Smith’s photography is a striking and poignant reflection of contemporary times through her... Read more

JULIE CROMWELL

Origins and Evolution

15 Feb - 13 Mar 2022 This new body of work acknowledges the lineage and historical aspects of the artists chosen medium, drawing on forms from antiquity and the age-old ideals of harmony and proportion. Cromwell marries the contemporary techniques of the textured crawl glaze with the reference to the passing of time; surface tensions peel... Read more

PAUL MARTINSON

Huia

15 Feb - 13 Mar 2022 Huia were once found throughout the North Island from North Cape to Wellington but extensive hunting by Māori and the subsequent introduction of pacific rats saw the birds population contract almost entirely to the Tararua and Ruahine ranges. Then a wave of European immigration to Aotearoa in the 18th century... Read more

Emerging Artists 2022

Group Show

18 Jan - 13 Feb 2022 Sanderson’s annual Emerging Artists exhibition supports promising new talent - this year showcasing a collection of works from recent graduates of AUT, Massey University, Toihoukura, Ilam and Whitecliffe. This exhibition provides a platform for emerging New Zealand artists, giving viewers insight into the practices’ of these talented artists, whose careers... Read more

NATASHA WRIGHT

After Party

18 Jan - 13 Feb 2022 Sanderson is pleased to announce a new exhibition of paintings by New Zealand born, New York-based artist Natasha Wright. Groups of women gather, celebrate and commiserate. Wright clearly isn’t interested in making pretty paintings. Her larger than life women balance a complicated dichotomy of the grotesque and the beautiful. Gender,... Read more

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