May rolls in and offers us a plethora of visual delights. This month’s curatorial pick must be Studio One Toi Tū, the artist hub at the Karangahape Road end of Ponsonby Road, which just keeps delivering exciting bodies of fresh work from emerging artists.
Opening Event
11am May 5pm. All welcome.
12 May – 9 June
Studio One, Toi Tu
From art exhibitions to designer markets, there’s always something to take part in at 1 Ponsonby Road. Their purpose-built galleries run monthly exhibitions and activations from the Grey Lynn/Ponsonby creative community. This month features a group exhibition where each artist is the subject of another artist’s work. Featuring established and emerging artists. Artists showing: Kate Rampling, Logan Moffat, Cėline Sayė,
Bill Riley, Bonco, Naomi Azoulay, Lucie Blaze, Gavin Chai, Abhi Chinniah, Paul Darragh, Mariadelle ‘Abbey’ Gamit, Lindsey Horne, Téhlor-Lina Mareko, Riley Martinez, Stjohn Milgrew, Sara Moana, and Vicktoria Johnson.
1 Ponsonby Road, Grey Lynn
studioone.org.nz
New Work
Matt Palmer
22 April – 11 May
Foenander Galleries
A background in filmmaking informs Palmer’s painting practice. His compositions are cinematic, atmospheric, and narrative driven, while his brushwork plays in the space between the painterly and photographic. His highly personalised landscapes capture a moment in time where light and spatial arrangement work together – tapping into something distinctly New Zealand, yet strangely universal.
455 Mt Eden Road, Mt Eden
foenandergalleries.co.nz
Cumulus Wandering
Kirstin Carlin
11 May – 3 June
Melanie Roger Gallery
Kirstin Carlin’s small paintings present thick and heavy applications of paint and a loose technique. The artist uses recognisable subject matter and tested pictorial devices as her points of departure, pushing these further. Each painting moves at once towards and away from an abstracted image. Habitual images become almost unrecognisable, but not quite – an essence of a picture is maintained, with Carlin’s signature brushwork supplying the information.
444 Karangahape Road, Newton
melanierogergallery.com
Forms Within
Layla Walter
7 May – 4 June
Masterworks Gallery
Layla Walter is a New Zealand glass artist and maker who has gained significant recognition for her distinctive and individual works in cast glass. Forms Within will be a series of new cast glass vessels featuring the human form. Walter graduated with a BA in applied arts in 1998 and since her graduation, has worked concurrently in her own practice and as an assistant to some predominant glass artists, both in NZ and overseas.
71 Upper Queen Street, Newton
masterworksgallery.co.nz
Talisman
Fu-On Chung
22 April – 28 May
Two Rooms
“Fu-On Chung’s new painting is exploratory: it works itself out by figuring things out as it goes – things worth feeling, experiencing. Within these paintings the viewer can see traces of how that may have happened. They can trace gesture, chromatic adventure, along with layerings, recursions, serendipities – and how serendipity comes from happenstance” – Ian Jervis
16 Putiki Street, Newton
tworooms.co.nz
Oxerat – The Limitless Horizon
Featuring Peter James Smith, Tony Lane, Richard McWhannell, Martin Ball & John Madden
11 May – 4 June
221 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
orexart.co.nz
Sanderson Contemporary – Affection
Hintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara
10 May – 5 June
2 Kent Street, Osborne Lane, Newmarket
sanderson.co.nz
