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Gavin Hipkins: The Homely II

Gavin Hipkins' The Homely II is showing at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery to 2 June 2019. Read more… Image: Gavin Hipkins, The Homely II, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, installation view

John Reynolds Missing Hours at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery

John Reynolds has completed a 23m x 7.5m painting titled The Falls on the Big Wall at the Dundedin Public Art Gallery. Read more…Image: John Reynolds, The Falls, 2019 (detail) at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Fiona Pardington at the Musee du Quai Branly

Six portraits from Fiona Pardington's The Pressure of Sunlight Falling series are showing in the exhibition Oceania at Musee du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris to 7 July. Read more… Image: Fiona Pardington, Portrait ofalife cast of Tou Taloa (painted),Samoa, 1010,pigment inks on Hahnemuhle photo rag, dimensions variable,curtesy of the Musee de l'Homme, Paris

Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

Srarkwhite will present an exhibition on the intersection of modernism and contemporary Maori art at Art Basel Hong Kong from 29-31 March 2019, featuring works buy Paratene Matchitt and Gordon Walters. Read more… Image: Parartene Matchitt, Quorum 2019 (detail) and Gordon Walters, Untitled, 1978, actylic and PVA on canvas, 1500 x 1200 mm. Walters courtesty of Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

Coming Up at Starkwhite

Ani O'Neill: Classic Hits opens on 14 March from 5.30pm. Image: Ani O'Neill, Tivaevae For Bottled Ocean, 1996 (detail)

Starkwhite at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2019

Starkwhite will present an exhibition of portraits by Billy Apple® and Michael Zavros at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 13 – 18 February 2019. Read more…

Coming up at Starkwhite

Alicia Frankovich opens at Starkwhite on Friday 8 February, 2019. Read more…Image: Alicia Frankovich, Microchimerism, 2018, gold and pink adhesive vinyl, dimensions variable, installation view, Can Tame Anything, curated by Melanie Oliver, The Dowse Art Museum (2018). Photo: John Lake

et al. at Griffiths University Art Museum

et al. is represented in the exhibition Boundary Lines at the Griffiths University Art Museum, Brisbane with an installation titled No Good Common (2018). Curated by Angela Goddard, the exhibition runs from 20 November 2018 to 23 February 2109. Read more…   Image: et al., No Good Common, 2018, installation view, Griffiths University Art Museum

Gavin Hipkins selected for the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial

Gavin Hipkins will present a new vidoe installation in the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. In his new two-channel video, utopian and dystopian visions collide in a futuristic novel from Australia's colonial past. This link takes you to a video of the artist discussing his work. Image: Gavin Hipkins, The Precinct, Gavin Hipkins selected for the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial

Coming up at Starkwhite

Our next exhibition, Block Units by Gavin Hipkins, runs from 14 November to 8 December. Read more… Image: Gavin Hipkins, Block Painting XXVI, 2018, unique-state archival print

Laith McGregor: Borrowed Time

Curated by Hamish Sawyer, Laith McGregor, Borrowed Time is showing at the Tweed Regional Museum (NSW) to 2 December. Read more… Image: Laith McGregor, St Petersburg, 2014, wood, plastic, clay, steel, 28 x 30 cm

Billy Apple at the Mayor Gallery, London

Billy Apple's exhibition THE ARTIST HAS TO LIVE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE is showing at the Mayor Gallery London. Read more…

Alicia Frankovich at MUMA

Alicia Frankovich's Exoplanets is showing at Monash University Museum of Art to 15 December, 2018. Exoplanets presents a new work commissioned by MUMA alongside a temporal exhibition experience from her recent major solo show at the Kunstverein fur die Reinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND, 2017. Both elements are linked by a specially devised Alicia Frankovich at MUMA

Last weeks to see Gordon Walters: New Vision

The survey exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision closes at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki on 4 November. It's a must-see exhibition. Read more… Image: Gordon Walters, Gouache, 1957-58, courtesy of the Walters Estate

Fiona Pardington & et al. at Murray Art Museum, Albury

Fiona Pardington and et al. are represented in Immortality at the Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, the exhibition runs to 4 November, 2018. Read more… Image: et al., en_cryptions, instance 3 (2011-18), installation detail

Fiona Pardington in Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts

Fiona Pardington is represented in the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London with 5 large format photographs from her series The Pressure of Sunlight Falling. Curated by Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas, the exhibition runs to 10 December 2108, after which it will be seen at the Musee du Quai Branly Fiona Pardington in Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts

Starkwhite at Sydney Contemporary 2018

This year we present an exhibition of works by Rebecca Baumann, Seung Yul Oh, Len Lye and Michael Zavros at the 2018 edition of Sydney Contemporary. Read more… Image: Starkwhite booth at Sydney Contemporary 2018

The Estate of L Budd / Embodied Knowledge

The Estate of L Budd is represented in the exhibition Embodied Knowledge at the Dowse Art Museum. Curated by Melanie Oliver, the exhibition runs to 28 October, 2018. Read more… Image: The Estate of L Budd, installation view, Embodied knowledge, Dowse Art Museum

Alicia Frankovich at the Dowse Art Museum

Alicia Frankovich is represented in Can Tame Anything at the Dowse Art Museum. Curated by Melanie Oliver, the exhibition runs to 25 November 2018. Read more…  Image: Alicia Frankovich, installation detail, Can Tame Anything, Dowse Art Museum, 2018

Billy Apple® at Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong

Billy Apple® Six Decades 1962-2018 is showing at Rossi & Rossi gallery Hong Kong. Read more… Image: Class 31. Billy Apple Cultivar (Red), Painted polyester cast, 97 x 85 mm

Soap Box Symposium at the Auckland Art Fair

John Reynolds will run a soap box symposium at the Auckland Art Fair where visitors can engage in one-to-one encounters and conversations with the artist in a booth designed with architect Malcolm Walker. The conversations will be fueled by ‘The Think Drink’ (aka coffee by Coffee Supreme). Read more… Image: John Reynolds' booth at the Soap Box Symposium at the Auckland Art Fair

Billy Apple in curated section of Auckland Art Fair

Billy Apple's site specific wall work FROM THE COLLECTION has been selected by curators Francis McWhannell and Gabriela Salgado for the Projects section of the Auckland Art Fair. Read more… Image: Billy Apple, From the Collection 2018

Starkwhite at the Auckland Art Fair

We will present an exhibition of works by Gordon Walters at the 2018 edition of the Auckland Art Fair (24-27 May), in conjunction with the Walters Estate. Read more… Image: Gordon Walters, Study for No. 2/Tirangi 1979, acrylic on paper, image size 250 x 200 mm, courtesy of the Walters Estate

Billy Apple: Icon

Congratulations to Billy Apple who was named as an Arts Foundation Icon at an award ceremony at Government House on 16 May 2018. Apple is one of a living circle of 20 artists.

Laith McGregor shortlisted for two prizes

Congratulations to Laith McGregor who has been shortlisted for the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and the Paul Guest Prize. Image: Laith McGregor, Long Song, 2017, oil on canvas and wood carvings, 2010 x 1560 mm

Rebecca Baumann at Te Papa

Rebecca Baumann is represented in the Toi Art opening exhibition at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, with Automated Colour Field (Variation 8), 2018. Read more…

Gavin Hipkins in This is New Zealand

Gavin Hipkins's latest project The Homely II is showing at the City Gallery Wellington in the exhibition This is New Zealand. Read more… Image: Gavin Hipkins, The Homely: Clandon (Hinemihi), 2015

Laith McGregor: Borrowed Time

Laith McGregor's solo exhibition Borrowed Time runs at the Coloundra Regional Gallery, Queensland. Read More… Image: Laith McGregor, St Petersburg (2014), wood, plastic, steel, clay, acrylic and enamel

Billy Apple billboard project

The steps taken by Billy Apple to become a registered brand are documented in a billboard project outside a shopping mall in Pakaranga, which runs to 6 May. The project has been organized by Te Tuhi Pakaranga. Read more… Image: Billy Apple, Art Brand Logo

Rebecca Baumann & Brendan van Hek at the Auckland Art Gallery

This installation by Rebecca Baumann and Brendan van Hek features in the exhibition Other People Think: Auckland's Contemporary International Collection at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. The artwork was gifted to the Gallery by the artists and Starkwhite. Read more… Image: Rebecca Baumann & Brendan van Hek, Untitled 

Billy's Apple at the Dowse Art Museum

The exhibition Billy's Apple at the Dowse Art Museum looks at personal branding and the construction of identity. Read more… Image: Billy Apple, Untitled (2102)

Fiona Pardington in This is New Zealand

Fiona Pardington is represented in This is New Zealand at the City Gallery Wellington. The exhibition explores the role art has played in forming and contesting ideas about national identity. Read more… Image: Fiona Pardington, Quai Branly Suite iof Hei Tiki

Coming up at Starkwhite

Our next exhibition (opening 13 March) features works by Alicia Frankovich, Ani O'Neill, Estate of L Budd (with Martin Popplewell), et al. (with PANiA Marama Inc.) Image: et al. with PANiA Marama Inc. (foreground) and Ani O'Neill.

Jim Speers and Clinton Watkins at St Paul St

  Field Recordings by Guo Zixuan, Li Xiaofei, Tu Rapana Neill, Jim Speers and Clinton Watkins runs at St Paul St Gallery from 23 February to 6 April 2018. Read more… Image: Len Lye Fountain 1959-60, Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Coming up

We open our 2108 exhibition programme at Starkwhite with Len Lye: Love Springs Eternal, an exhibition produced with the support of the Len Lye Foundation, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and Nga Taonga Sound and Vision. Image: Len Lye Fountain 1959-60, Len Lye Foundation Collection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Art Los Angeles Contemporary

Starkwhite presents Laith McGregor and Danie Mellor at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 25-28 January 2017.Images: (top) Laith McGregor, Untitled 2017, carved wood, clay, chalk board paint, 240 x 75 mm and (bottom) Danie Mellor, The pleasure and vexation of history 2017, wax pastel, wash with oil pigment, watercolour and pencil on paper,  2200 x Art Los Angeles Contemporary

Dialogues, London Art Fair

Former Artspace director Missal Adnan Yildiz with Fiona Pardington in the Starkwhite booth at the London Art Fair (17-21 January), which is part of the Dialogues section curated by Ylidiz. The booth features a selection of photographs from Pardington's series Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle.

Richard Maloy's long-duration video

On Friday 22 December – the longest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere – Starkwhite will screen Richard Maloy’s video Things I have Seen, (14hr 03min 32sec), an outcome of his three-month residency at the Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo from May – July 2017. The video screens from 5.28am (sunrise) to approximately Richard Maloy's long-duration video

Michael Zavros limited edition book

We are delighted to announce the release of a new book on Michael Zavros, published by Manuscript in association with Starkwhite and Philip Bacon Galleries, and designed by Inhouse. We have a limited edition of the book, which includes an etching by the artist, either in electric blue (as above) or monochrome. Please email contact@starkwhite.co.nz Michael Zavros limited edition book

Billy Apple's altered staircase at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Curated by Wystan Curnow, the exhibition Billy Apple: Further Alterations runs at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery to 11 February 2018. Read more…