Savour these halcyon days of March as they linger with tungsten warmth, like a buttery chard upon the tongue. Soon its hues will curdle to rust, and nip your palate as you search for its softness, and the autumn winds will bristle with the rustle of the leaving season.
MASTERWORKS GALLERY
A Sequence Or The Breaking Of
Aaron Scythe
On until 9th March
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
STARKWHITE QUEENSTOWN
The Moon and the Flowers
John Reynolds
On until 16th March
Reflecting on a haiku by Japanese master Issa, this new exhibition by Reynolds moonlights on themes of passing time, lunar cycles, and the pungency and maddening beauty of our fleeting world. Known for paintings rich with literary, art historical, and architectural references, Reynolds’s practice frequently interweaves everyday and epic references.
Over three decades John Reynolds has established a practice investigating mark making and some of the greatest enquiries of our time. He employs aspects of drawing and alternative types of representation for poetic effect.
1–7 Earl Street, Queenstown
EDITOR’S CHOICE
ArtSelect Gallery
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Barbara Ruhdorfer
Solo Exhibition
Until 16 March
Elegant Floral Group Exhibition
Opening 19 March 6-8pm – 27 April
19A Osborne Street, Newmarket
SANDERSON CONTEMPORARY
Damien Kurth
20th March – 14th April
Kurth examines ideas and subjects through meticulously rendered ‘trompe l’oeil’ paintings of everyday objects from his studio. This latest exhibition does not disappoint. Through jars, bottles and paint pots, Kurth interrogates Deleuze’s interpretation of the ‘eternal return’ – the idea that while everything returns eventually, what returns will always be different.
Osborne Lane / 2 Kent Street, Newmarket.
FOENANDER GALLERIES
Perennial Prescence
Andrea Bolima
On Until 28th March
Andrea Bolima’s paintings sit in an ambiguous zone between abstraction and representation, her works are led by sensation, inspired from memory and the natural world. Bolima paints ambiguous organic forms, of unspecific places and moments that are simultaneously personal, private and universal. Informed by colour field painters such as Helen Frankenthaler, as well as landscape expressionism such as Toss Woollaston, Bolimas’ sensitive, spontaneous and colourful works give space for the viewer to include their own personal associations.
455 Mount Eden Road, Mount Eden.
MELANIE ROGER GALLERY
Recent Paintings
Henrietta Harris
On Until 28th March
This new series by Henrietta Harris delves deeper into the timeless themes of portraiture and landscape/humanity and nature, as we grapple with the ever-growing spectre of unpredictable weather and climate change. These new works capture the profound emotions that arise in the face of these changes, a mixture of awe, fear and a longing for a world that once was.
444 Karangahape Rd, Newton.
