Spring has sprung and rumour has it we are in for a divine summer, so enjoy this month with all of its push and pull, get your annuals in the ground and check out these shows!
Fresh Gallery Otara
The Strength Of Skilled Hands
Artists: Ofa Filoialii, Genevieve Pini and Ioana Schwalger
On until 9 September
The Strength of Skilled Hands is a collaborative exhibition by three Pacific artists from Tāmaki Makaurau; Ofa Filoialii, Genevieve Pini, and Ioana Schwalger. Through their use of various mediums such as textiles, printmaking, painting, and photography, these artists explore the process of creating art, drawing from the skills passed down through generations.
5/46 Fair Mall, Ōtara, Auckland. facebook.com/FreshGalleryOtara
Studio One Toi Tu
The Eternal
Casey Carsel
On until 21 September
Jewish text and textile artist Casey Carsel asks: what has their community worked against all odds, to carry through the difficult journey from 4,000 years ago to today? And what of it should Carsel embrace at this juncture?
1 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby.
Melanie Roger Gallery
Salad
Erica Van Zon
On until 23 September
In Salad, Erica van Zon makes the mundane a bit more magical through her harmonious blend of hand embroidery, beading and photography. No stranger to a cobbled-together or expertly executed salad, van Zon is a master forager and her keen eye spies ingredients in the world around her.
444 Karangahape Rd, Newton. melanierogergallery.com
Sanderson Contemporary
Unfurling
Liam Gerrard
On until 24 September
Unfurling will present a new body of work by the artist; including three large-scale moths and a cluster of roses sighted in Haggerston Park, London. Gerrard is known for the exquisite, meticulous detail with which he paints and draws. Notions of the passing of time are made apparent not only through his subject matter and its life cycle but also within these processes the artist employs.
Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street, Newmarket. sanderson.co.nz
Anna Miles Gallery
Angiosperm Whale
Johanna Pegler
On until 14 September
The mysterious paintings of Pegler feature unsung aspects of the artist’s local Whanganui landscape. Inhabited by multitudinous flocks of tiny brushstrokes her work has the effect of slowing time.
10/30 Upper Queen St.
Tautai
Good Hair Day
Bai Buliruarua, Māia Piata Rose Week, Nââwié Tutugoro, Karlin Morrison Raju and Peter Wing Seeto.
On until 23 September
Curator Luisa Tora presents five contemporary Moana artists in an exhibition that explores cultural and personal connections to hair. Good Hair Day concepts across photography, embroidery, illustration, and sculpture.
Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road.
Foenander Galleries
Material/Object
Michael Dell & Chancey Flay
7-24 September
The presentation features a suite of new works by Michael Dell and Chuancey Flay, two critically acclaimed artists known for their attention to material and surface, which shift between modes of representation and abstraction.
Pop Up Space: 1 Bowen Avenue (Auckland CBD).
Bergman Gallery
Kindred
Alison Leauanae and Linda Va’aelua
7-30 September
Kindred speaks to the familial relationships and connections to ancestral homelands for sisters Linda Va’aelua and Alison Leauanae. This body of work is an exploration of the artists’ mixed Samoan, Scottish and English heritage through abstracted motif, using non-traditional materials.
2 Newton Road, Karangahape End.
