Exhibitions

Summer Exhibition

Group Show

28 Nov 2023 - 21 Jan 2024 Sanderson are pleased to present their annual Summer Exhibition for 2023. The exhibition is a group show featuring new and significant works from a selection of the gallery’s represented artists and guest artists. This includes works by: Josephine Cachemaille, Scott Cai, Julie Cromwell, Zara Dolan, Kate van der Drift, Stephen... Read more

ZARA DOLAN

Tempo

24 Oct - 26 Nov 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Tempo, featuring a suite of monotype prints by Zara Dolan. Zara Dolan is an Irish born, New Zealand artist, based in Otautahi Christchurch. Her new body of work is a selection of unique prints created on a large traditional printmaking press – the... Read more

RAY HAYDON

Endurance

24 Oct - 26 Nov 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Endurance by Ray Haydon. Haydon is an artist and sculptor with a career spanning more than twenty years. Responding intuitively to space, the artist creates works of refinement and precision. His pieces retain a lyricism and freedom of line that evoke a sense... Read more

JULIA HOLDERNESS

Villa Margaux

26 Sep - 22 Oct 2023 As a gathering point in the South of France in the 1930s, Villa Margaux functioned for Florence Weir and others as an artistic residence for social occasions, holidays and respite. Later in the 1950s, Weir produced a range of tableware named Margaux which was possibly named after the villa. Surrounded... Read more

FREEMAN WHITE

Salt

26 Sep - 22 Oct 2023 White is one of New Zealand’s pre-eminent landscape painters. The artist’s works are known for their visceral effect; connecting the viewer to Aotearoa’s timeless and ever-changing beauty with a contemporary perspective. Formerly focusing his practice on portraiture, White started his career as a prominent New Zealand portraitist winning first prize... Read more

LIAM GERRARD

Unfulrling

29 Aug - 24 Sep 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Unfurling, an exhibition of new works by Liam Gerrard. Gerrard is an artist whose practice explores the fragility of existence. Known for his depictions of the hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) in various states of blossom and decay the artist produces works in meticulous detail,... Read more

SUSURRATIONS

Group Show

29 Aug - 24 Sep 2023 In our image dense culture we tend to both produce and consume what could be termed ‘fast photography’. We can lose the ability to enjoy photography as a process, as well as the capacity to deeply notice what it can show us; visual overwhelm doesn’t encourage careful observation. As the... Read more

STEPHEN ELLIS

Lamp Black

1 - 27 Aug 2023 Lamp Black is a carbon black traditionally produced by collecting soot from oil lamps. Ellis enjoys the contradiction in its name: we think of a lamp as producing light, not something black – or can it? Crude oil and coal – the dark icons of fossil fuels – still power... Read more

SCOTT CAI

Idle Plot

1 - 27 Aug 2023 Scott Cai is a contemporary photographer living and working in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. With a discerning eye for detail and a talent for uncovering hidden beauty in the mundane, Cai's work delves into the essence of suburban corners, capturing the subtle energies that define our existence. Idle Plot is an... Read more

SIMON KAAN & WI TAEPA

Te Au

4 - 30 Jul 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Te Au by Simon Kaan (Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, KāiTahu) and Wi Taepa (Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Āti Awa) ONZM. The exhibition will span across both gallery spaces and will feature a range of the artists’ works from the past to the present... Read more

JON TOOTILL

Te tae o te raumati / The Colours of Summer

6 Jun - 2 Jul 2023 Tootill has been celebrated as a master of contemporary geometric abstraction in Aotearoa[1]; the precision and lucidity of the artist’s imagery being compared with New Zealand masters Gordon Walters and Theo Schoon. This exhibition is an exciting continuation of the artist’s practice and exploration into the seasonal colours in Aotearoa’s... Read more

STATES OF FLOW

Group Show

6 Jun - 2 Jul 2023 The exhibition brings together six contemporary artists working with clay to explore ideas relating to fluidity, materiality and corporeal interactions between the artist and medium. The title of the exhibition references the term ‘Flow State’; a mental state in which someone is absorbed and focused on a single activity. In... Read more

LLENYD PRICE

Secrets in the Array

9 May - 4 Jun 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Secrets in the Array, an exhibition of new paintings by emerging artist Llenyd Price. Price recently completed a Master of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe College of Arts and was part of Sanderson’s Emerging Artists exhibition in 2022. This new body of work continues... Read more

PAUL MARTINSON

Grey Ghost

9 May - 4 Jun 2023 Once common throughout the South Island and Stewart Island in prehistoric times; the species of South Island Kokako diminished significantly following the arrival of Maori settlements and the resulting forest clearance and human hunting, particularly on the East Coast. After the introduction of cats and ship rats via a second... Read more

KATHERINE THRONE

Verdant

11 Apr - 8 May 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Verdant, an exhibition of new works by contemporary painter Katherine Throne. The tenacity, vigour and beauty of nature has been motivating Throne’s practice for several years. The energy the artist feels within a wild garden she translates into large gestural marks and thick... Read more

DAMIEN KURTH

Thrum

11 Apr - 8 May 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present Thrum, an exhibition of new works by Damien Kurth. Thrum refers to the creation of a rhythmic sound using consistent, repeated humming. The exhibition title plays off the term ‘reverb’ - the title of Kurth’s previous show, which describes a persistence of sound or an... Read more

DANIEL KERR

Sathu

14 Mar - 9 Apr 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present Sathu - an exhibition of works by emerging artist Daniel Kerr. Daniel Thipbodee Kerr was born in Tāmaki Makaurau to a Thai mother and Scottish Pākehā father. The artist trained in musical composition, acoustics and audio engineering when he was younger. After major events took... Read more

ALAN PEARSON

Cadenza

14 Mar - 9 Apr 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Cadenza – a major exhibition of works by the late artist Alan Pearson. As the pandemic began to sweep the globe in 2020 Pearson had passed away at the age of ninety. Due to the social and political turmoil at the time the... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

Group Show

2 - 5 Mar 2023 Sanderson are pleased to participate in the 2023 edition of the Aotearoa Art Fair. The fair runs from the 2nd to the 5th March. Exhibiting in Booth C1 the gallery is showcasing works by Josephine Cachemaille, Kate van der Drift, Liam Gerrard, Julia Holderness and Simon Kaan. A sculpture by... Read more

LOREN MARKS

Here and There

14 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Amidst the fumes of oil paint, Marks takes up Pythia's mantle in a studio nestled into the industrial backlot of Te Atatu Peninsula. Marks makes paintings in continual flux, alive with the hum of her expressive application and electric colour, offering visions of form. After graduating from Whitecliffe with a... Read more

JULIE CROMWELL

Descendants

14 Feb - 12 Mar 2023 Sanderson are pleased to present a new exhibition of works by the award-winning ceramicist Julie Cromwell. Descendants is a new suite of works developed from the artists ongoing research into the historical linage of clay and ceramics, as well as a recent exploration into funerary ware. The transmutation of clay... Read more

KATE VAN DER DRIFT

Soundings

17 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 Close to this bank a lightproof case is partially suspended underwater; its oscillating movements belie the force of the currents below where freshwater microorganisms drift through organic detritus, algae and farm run-off. Within this case lives a 4x5” negative film sheet, protected from the light but exposed to the pollutants... Read more

Emerging Artists 2023

Group Show

17 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 The show provides a platform for emerging New Zealand artists; giving viewers insight into the practices’ of these talented individuals, whose careers are ones to watch. The exhibition is curated by Sanderson’s Li Si Rong, featuring work by Anna Bensky, Jay Juhye Kang, Kerin Casey, Li Si Rong, Mia Morris... Read more