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“The images in Bill Henson’s cinematic new book The Liquid Night, derive from work the highly acclaimed artist shot on 35mm colour negative film in New York City in 1989. They present a kaleidoscopic, nocturnal journey through the frenetic, neon-lit streets of a long-lost America.” – Peter Craven Contact Starkwhite to secure your copy, limited … New Publication: Bill Henson ‘The Liquid Night’

Applications close Friday 27 October

After 23 years at our current site at 510 K’rd Starkwhite is delighted to be moving to a new purpose build gallery at 94 Newton Road. The gallery opens with a Jonny Niesche exhibition 12 May 2023. The new gallery, spread over 3 levels and having multiple galleries will allow us to present larger and … Starkwhite Auckland moving to 94 Newton Road

Starkwhite Auckland will be closed from 5pm 23 December and reopening 9 January. Starkwhite Queenstown will be closed from 5pm 22 December and reopening 4 January. We wish you a safe and happy holiday season.

Starkwhite will partner with Glorious to release an exclusive Fiona Pardington NFT, Manawarahi: Female and Male Huia Lovers MTG Hawkes Bay 2022. The release goes live on the Glorious platform at 6.00pm NZT on 1 July.  Manawarahi takes advantage of the flexible potential of NFTs to evolve and respond. The work is a diptych divided … Fiona Pardington to release an NFT, Manawarahi: Female and Male Huia Lovers MTG Hawkes Bay 2022. ,

Starkwhite will present a joint booth with Melbourne based 1301SW at Sydney Contemporary 8-11 September 2022. The presentation will feature key works from gallery artists including Billy Apple, Petra Cortright, Mikala Dwyer, Bill Henson, Ann Veronica Janssens, Gerold Miller, Fiona Pardington and others.  Image. Gerold Miller, TO 25, 2020, lacquered aluminium, 36.5 x 36.5cm

Applications close Friday 13 May

With this new project John Reynolds mixes rainwater with acrylics, gallows humour with dead seriousness, and ponders the seemingly simple question, ‘are we there yet?’ Slogans and provocations quoting activists, notably Greta Thunberg, spill across a wordy array of paintings and placard installations. A major solo show, Smoke & Mirrors claims that creativity is activism, … John Reynolds ‘Smoke and Mirrors’, The Wallace Arts Centre, 10 March – 12 June 2022

A witness to the pandemic at its most harrowing, when it first swept through New York City in the winter of 2020…Suddenly Still Life is the outcome of this experience, building on the artist’s exploration of the floral still-life. The botanical forms that have proven a well-spring of motifs, associations and compositional elements for Basher’s painting … Martin Basher, ‘Suddenly Still Life’ in Sculpture on the Gulf, 4 – 27 March, 2022.

Starkwhite is delighted to participate in Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020, an online edition of Sydney’s annual international art fair, with works by Martin Basher, Whitney Bedford and Seung Yul Oh. The fair runs from 1 – 31 October, 2020.

As the exhibition Rebecca Baumann + Brendan van Hek: Colour Restraint draws to and end at Campbelltown Arts Centre, the Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that Baumann will curate the next MCA Art Bar which takes place during VIVID, Sydney’s festival of light, music and ideas. Working with a collective of artists, Baumann has also created … Rebecca Baumann's Sydney projects

Jim Speers’ exhibition Long Days is showing at Shanghai’s Fei Contemporary Art Centre (FCAC) in October/November, timed to coincide with the 9th Shanghai Biennale. Long Days features recent video work by Speers including Night Barges, a new work filmed in Shanghai earlier this year. Fei Contemporary Art Centre is a not-for-profit space run by artist/curator Li Xiaofei, one of … Jim Speers at the Fei Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai