April is here, and everyone is gearing up for the Aotearoa Art Fair – being held this year in the Viaduct Events Centre on Halsey Street.
Outside the supermarket walls the galleries are still humming. This month’s selection as follows.
Te Tuhi
Skin in craters like the moon
Susu
On until 28 April
Skin in craters like the moon is an exhibition featuring several recent works by Tāmaki Makaurau-based, Taiwanese (Han, Min-nan) artist, Susu 蘇綾誠, exploring associations between language and memories through objects, both physical and virtual.
Susu 蘇綾誠 is a Taiwanese (Han, Min-nan) artist living in Tāmaki Makaurau, working in digital fabrication, casting, moving image, and installation. In 2022, they completed their Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) at Elam School of Fine Arts, and were awarded the Iris Fisher Scholarship from Te Tuhi.
13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga
tetuhi.art
Melanie Roger Gallery
Just Looking
Patrick Pound
3-20 April
Asked how his practice of collecting began, Patrick Pound reflects, “I began collecting things to inform my work and what gradually seems to have happened is that the collections became the work.” Patrick Pound is a New Zealand artist based in Melbourne. Pound works with collections of found photographs and objects as if on a dare. He has worked with numerous museum collections, from Melbourne to Mannheim to Madrid, and has held over 50 solo exhibitions. His 2017 survey exhibition was held at the NGV, and in 2019 he was shortlisted to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. In 2021, he exhibited a major installation of found photos and objects at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York.
444 Karangahape Rd, Newton
melanierogergallery.com
Trish Clark Gallery
Slow Burn (Redux)
Stephen Bambury
On until 11 May
Significant new works explore themes of landscape, home and knowledge. 2030 marks the ‘tipping point’ beyond which planetary changes might well be outside human capacity for mitigation; as Bambury says, “The world is an idea, the planet is a reality. The planet will go on turning but the world won’t.” Born in Christchurch, Stephen Bambury has exhibited regularly in New Zealand since the mid-70s, and from the mid-80s has exhibited in the USA, Australia, France, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia. Working between studios in New Zealand and France since 2017, this exhibition is the veteran artist’s first in Auckland since 2019.
142 Great North Road, Grey Lynn
trishclark.co.nz
Starkwhite
Te Taha o te Rangi
Fiona Pardington
16-25 May
A new series of art work by photographer Fiona Pardington will be on show at Starkwhite’s Auckland and Queenstown galleries. Dr Fiona Pardington is of Māori (Ngāi Tahu, Kati Mamoe and Ngāti Kahungunu) and Scottish (Clan Cameron of Erracht) descent. At the heart of her practice is an abiding concern with emotion and affect. A practitioner with over three decades’ experience as an exhibiting artist, she has explored the ongoing capacities of photography by attending to that which is hidden or unseen in the photograph as much as what it may represent.
94 Newton Road
starkwhite.co.nz
Masterworks Gallery
A sequence or the Breaking of
Aaron Scythe
On until 27 April
A Sequence or The Breaking of reflects a shift from Scythe’s previous explorations to make way for a reconsidered approach to his practice. In this new body of work, he explores ways to break from past sequences of making, and at the same time, how the process of breaking sequences can lead to creating new sequences. Scythes’ ceramics offer a refreshing cultural fusion of East, West and Māori influence.
71 Upper Queen Street, Newton
masterworksgallery.co.nz
Bergman Gallery
Aotearoa Art Fair
18-21 April
Luise Fong, Tanja McMillan (Misery), Benjamin Work, Telly Tuita, Sylvia Marsters, Mahiriki Tangaroa, Louie Bretaña, Rhea Maheshwari, Luke Thurgate, Lucas Grogan, Joan Gragg.
Featuring a vibrant and diverse collection of international and Pacific artists, Bergman Gallery is pleased to return to the Aotearoa Art Fair, New Zealand’s premier annual showcase for contemporary art. Artists from the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, the Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia.
Viaduct Events Centre, 171 Halsey Street, Stand G23
bergmangallery.com
