Starkwhite is pleased to present Len Lye: Love Springs Eternal from 7 February to 7 March 2018. The exhibition is produced with the support of the Len Lye Foundation, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. The Len Lye Foundation will also launch a new book at the opening … Len Lye | <em>Love Springs Eternal</em>
24 May – 25 June 2016 ‘Well, now that we have seen each other,’ said the unicorn, ‘if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.’ –Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, 1871 Fiona Pardington’s menagerie of glass unicorns perform several functions in the context of the still life. Traditionally glass objects frequently appeared in … Fiona Pardington | <em>100% Unicorn</em>
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 | <em>Things I have Seen</em>
7 June – 8 July 2016 Layla Rudneva-Mackay presents a new suite of paintings of flowers that are reminiscent of Post-Impressionist works and recall their observation of what has been traditionally considered a less lofty artistic genre. They also reveal her continuing interest in form and patches or fields of colour, employed in a way … Layla Rudneva-Mackay | <em>Running Towards Water</em>
17 November – 24 December, 2017 RocksInTheSky… is the third exhibition from Reynolds’ larger, ongoing exploration of Colin McCahon’s ‘missing hours’ when McCahon tragically went missing in the Botanical Gardens on the eve of the launch of his 1984 Sydney Biennale satellite retrospective I Will Need Words. He was found the next day disoriented and … John Reynolds | <em/>RocksInTheSky…</em>
Starkwhite is pleased to present Devil at the Gates of Heaven by Martin Basher from 6 October to 4 November 2017. First presented at the University of Auckland’s George Fraser Gallery as the practical component of a 4-year fine art doctoral thesis, this sculptural installation follows our recent presentation of Hawaiian Tropic at Starkwhite (1-26 … Martin Basher | <em>Devil at the Gates of Heaven</em>
Starkwhite is pleased to present Luminous Figures by Daniel von Sturmer from 2 – 30 September 2017. The exhibition is presented in association with Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. In Electric Light (facts/figures/starkwhite) a single robotic light scans the room, tracing the space and highlighting the features and facts of the architecture. Galleries are charged spaces, … Daniel von Sturmer | <em>Luminous Figures</em>
Starkwhite is pleased to present Hawaiian Tropic by New York–based artist Martin Basher from 1 – 26 August 2017. Basher debuts a new series of landscape-based paintings that make clear the formal genesis of the ultra-saturated, hard-edge abstractions for which he is best known. In four of these new works, photo-real paintings of beaches at … Martin Basher | <em>Hawaiian Tropic</em>
As the most famous novelist of his time, Vladimir Nabokov often featured on the cover of or inside Time, Life, Vogue, and the like, catching butterflies—and so became also the most famous lepidopterist of his time. Most assumed he was just a hobbyist, although a few specialists realized he was a world class scientist, as has been … Fiona Pardington | <em>Nabokov’s Blues: The Charmed Circle</em>
‘Here we go round the mulberry bush‘ – T.S. Elliot Sixty odd years ago while living in Titirangi’s French Bay, Colin McCahon briefly adopted the habit of rising early at dawn, and as Gordon Brown relates, ‘he would then contemplate the bush with all the intensity he could muster so that the forms of the … John Reynolds | <em>FrenchBayDarkly…</em>
Hana Aoake Billy Apple Fiona Clark Ayesha Green Gil Hanly Ngahuia Harrison David Hatcher Ana Iti John Miller Fiona Pardington John Pule John Reynolds Natalie Robertson Peter Robinson Salome Tanuvasa The Estate of L. Budd Matavai Taulangau Matthew Ward Co-conceived by Bridget Riggir-Cuddy and Misal Adnan Yıdız On the grounds … We are on our … Group Show | <em>On the Grounds</em>
8 February – 4 March Starkwhite presents Billy Apple: Art Transactions – an exhibition which features P.O.A. and N.F.S. along with an original 1961 drawing for the artist’s proto-conceptual work For Sale, which was recently acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Apple commented that “FOR SALE was a signifier for something that was happening everywhere. You … Billy Apple® | <em>Art Transactions</em>
17 November to 17 December 2016 Starkwhite is pleased to present Beyond Landscape from 17 November to 17 December 2016. The exhibition explores approaches to landscape informed by place, culture and history, through the photographs of Danie Mellor (AUS), Jin Jiangbo (CN) and Gavin Hipkins (NZ). Danie Mellor’s work has addressed Australia’s colonial past and … Gavin Hipkins, Jin Jiangbo, Danie Mellor | <em>Beyond Landscape</em>
30 August – 24 September, 2016 ‘Colin McCahon lost his mind in the palm grove of Sydney’s Botanical Garden’, according to cinematographer Leon Narbey in conversation with writer Martin Edmond, following their chance encounter with the artist near the corner of K Rd and Ponsonby Rd, sometime in the mid-1980s. In his book Dark Night, … John Reynolds | <em/>WalkWithMe…</em>
“Budd made a decision to trust the words given to her and in the best way possible she allowed them to be spoken. The art was rigorous in what it excluded and was exciting in how it mobilised a kind of contradictory reduction. It was not bored.” Extract from Ursula Bloom’s forward to The Estate … The Estate of L. Budd et al. | the artists in conversation
Seung Yul Oh is well known for whimsical art works that toy with scale and exist somewhere between spectacle and participation. Incorporating painting, installation, sculpture, video, performance, and public art, Oh works seamlessly across media. Long resisting a conventional approach to form and material, he redefines and challenges ordinary objects and spaces in ways that … Seung Yul Oh | Horizontal Loop
Starkwhite is embarking on a new collaboration. Together with Kemp Wine Merchants, this October we will present Art of Wine, an event that combines the best in wine from top international vineyards and contemporary art. Bringing together visionary winemakers from over 40 artisanal producers and more than 100 exceptional wines under one roof, The Art … John Reynolds | The Art of Wine
In partnership with the Walters Estate, Starkwhite will present pioneer abstract artist Gordon Walters at the Auckland Art Fair from 23 – 27 May 2018 and at the gallery from 29 May to 16 June. Gordon Walters (1919-1995) is best known for his paintings employing the koru, the curving bulb form from Maori moko and … Gordon Walters | From the Walters Estate
We are pleased to present FLAGGED, a project by Billy Apple® and Tāme Iti, from 8 -12 October. Both artists will attend a function at the gallery on Thursday 10 October from 5.30pm. FLAGGED is part of a new series of short-run exhibitions presented by Starkwhite that will feature periodically in the gallery schedule, providing … Billy Apple® and Tāme Iti | Flagged
Starkwhite will present a group exhibition titled Sampler from 17 April to 26 May, 2018, comprising new works by represented artists such as Martin Basher, Gavin Hipkins, Layla Rudneva-MacKay, Seung Yul Oh, Fiona Pardington, John Reynolds, et.al., and others. It will also feature works by guest artists, such as Korean painter Min ha Park who is represented by … Group Show | Sampler 2018
binary an ongoing investigation of raw and processed materials The exhibition opens on Thursday 19 September 2019 at 5.30pm with a sound performance by Watkins that continues throughout the opening. The exhibition runs to 3 November. You can read an interview with the artist at: Limited Means = Maximum Result: an interview with Clinton Watkins … Clinton Watkins | binary
Starkwhite is pleased to present the exhibition Crisis of the Ordinary by Yuk King Tan from 21 August to 14 September 2019. Around the gallery objects bound in brightly coloured thread sit on shelves. Presented as artefacts in a museum or objects at a market, a closer look reveals them to be loudspeakers, batons, cameras, … Yuk King Tan | Crisis of the Ordinary
Starkwhite presents a group exhibition (upstairs and downstairs) titled Sampler 2019, from 23 July – 15 August 2019. The exhibition includes artworks by represented artists and features works made for this exhibition along with others dating back to the 40s and 60s. Two new works by Fiona Pardington and John Reynolds are the centerpieces of … Group Show | Sampler 2019
Starkwhite is delighted to present TIKI: Orphans of Māoriland, by Fiona Pardington, from 12 June – 11 July, 2019. When Fiona Pardington found these unusual objects from the Wellcome Collection in London, which are on loan to the Science Museum Group, she was struck by their mystery. Neither taonga, nor mass-produced trinket, they are as … Fiona Pardington | TIKI: Orphans of Māoriland
Starkwhite is pleased to present AM/PM/AM by Australian artist Laith McGregor from 9 May – 8 June 2019. McGregor’s practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, and video. For this exhibition at Starkwhite he presents new body of work continuing his research and exploration of the grey area between real and illusion. Presenting drawings, oils on canvas, … Laith McGregor | AM/PM/AM
As Billy Apple I have continued to use my identity as art object and my life processes as art work -March 1974 The exhibition Billy Apple® is N=One has its origins in a ground-breaking body of work produced and exhibited in 1970 in New York; and his controversial 1974 survey exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, … BILLY APPLE® is N=One
Starkwhite is delighted to welcome Ani O’Neill and present her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Classic Hits, from 14 March – 10 April 2019. When Ani O’Neill graduated from Elam in 1994 her work immediately found prominence. Using wool, fabric, florist ribbon, and items from clearance stores and op shops, she made objects that … Ani O’Neill | Classic Hits
Starkwhite presents new work by Berlin / Australian based artist Alicia Frankovich. In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery Frankovich continues her exploration into the possibilities and interactions of the body. A multi-dimensional practice at the intersection of sculpture, video, performance and installation, Frankovich’s work pits the design and impulses of our primal bodies … Alicia Frankovich | Microchimerism
We are pleased to open our 2019 season with a one-week project show by Martin Basher from 24 January – 2 February, 2019. The project inaugurates a new short-run exhibition format that will periodically feature in the gallery schedule, providing artists with shorter exhibition periods for experimental projects and smaller presentations. Featuring five new oil … Martin Basher | One Week Stand
Upstairs at Starkwhite a curious exhibition fills one large room. Although there is a visual aesthetic linking the art works it is not a solo show, but the work of multiple creators: The Estate of L. Budd and the collective known as et al. Downstairs a short black and white film plays, it too shares … The Estate of L.Budd_et al.
Starkwhite is pleased to present John Stezaker: Collages from 9 October to 3 November 2018, in association with The Approach, London. John Stezaker is a celebrated British conceptual artist known for deceptively simple collages that introduce unlikely contrapositions. Drawing on old film stills, old actor headshots and even older postcards, Stezaker makes collages that … John Stezaker | Collages
Australian artist Grant Stevens is perhaps best known for his pithy text-based videos that mine sources such as television, film, and the internet. Recalling advertising, screen savers, and online-confessionals, these works trade in clichés, platitudes and stock phrases, while cleverly exploring the way human psychology and communication are being shaped in the digital era. Through … Grant Stevens | The Mountain and the Waterfalls
American painter Whitney Bedford creates portraits and landscapes with emotional charge as to embolden her archetypal subjects with memory and paint. Bedford uses iconic public figures and the popular mythology of recent academia to create a personal encyclopedia of references. The metaphors and visual symbols in her practice form a rich and potent landscape from … Whitney Bedford | Bohemia
We’re delighted to announce that we will be able to present our TENT project, a preview of Fiona’s Pardington’s incredible new Still Life series Torota, at Parlour Projects in Hastings. Matching the indomitable spirit of the TENT organisers themselves, who have simply refused to allow COVID to halt this project, we have somehow been able … Fiona Pardington | Tarota Preview
Starkwhite presents a new photographic work by Richard Maloy. Maloy’s practice is attuned to the politics of space and time and explores process and production within the creative process. He works across a range of disciplines including sculpture, photography and video. Material Routine (2019–2020) was developed when Maloy was the Martin Tate Wallace Trust Artist … Richard Maloy | Maternal Routine
Bill Henson is an internationally renowned Australian artist who uses photography to capture the human condition in visual form. Drawing on his early training as a painter, Henson employs the history of art, particularly portraiture and landscape painting, to create large scale works that blend formal techniques with cinematography and dreamscape, skilfully evoking mood and … Bill Henson | 1985-2021
Martin Basher’s latest solo exhibition at Starkwhite introduces a new body of work to a New Zealand audience. Large-scale paintings build graphic layers of hard-edged and linear botanical shapes into stark, sumptuous forms hovering somewhere between floral still-life — that traditional genre of painting steeped in allegory and moral contemplation — and hybridised, layered abstraction. … Martin Basher | Birds of Paradise
Starkwhite is pleased to present Every Door is a Wall, a solo exhibition of new work by Australian artist Will Cooke. Although two-dimensional, Will Cooke’s paintings conjure an immersive environment that revels in theatrical lighting effects and unexpected materials. Across this new body of work created for his first exhibition in New Zealand, Cooke’s use … Will Cooke | Every Wall Is A Door
Starkwhite is pleased to present Poikilos, a solo exhibition of new work by Jonny Niesche. Poikilos is a spatial, immersive experience. Carefully constructed from the ground up, white vinyl blankets the gallery floor creating an ethereal tone within which sit three tall block-like sculptures, a mirrored diamond that spins in front window, and three new … Jonny Niesche | Poikilos
Starkwhite is delighted to present Thin Air, Australian artist Gemma Smith’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and the beginning of an ongoing relationship with Starkwhite. Gemma Smith’s painting has presented colourful compositions of geometrical shapes and crystalline forms, bold and gesturally painted surfaces that create a dialogue between colour, form, and surface. Thin Air … Gemma Smith | Thin Air