Starkwhite will present a group show at Art Basel Hong Kong (2017) exploring various approaches to composing or choreographing color, motion and movement. It will feature the work of pioneer experimental filmmaker Len Lye (NZ/US), along with works by contemporary practitioners Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS/NZ) and Alicia Frankovich (DE/NZ), who are all represented by Starkwhite. Like our recent exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, it will provide an historical context for a slice of contemporary practice in the region, this time by a group of innovative Australian and New Zealand-born artists who push boundaries in their work and view Lye as a source of inspiration.  Our presentation is with the generous support of Creative New Zealand.
Image: detail of one of Rebecca Baumann's automated colour field works

We'll be presenting a group show at Art Los Angles Contemporary (26-29 March 2017), LA's international art fair. Our lineup includes: Billy Apple (NZ), Martin Basher NZ/US), Rebecca Baumann (AUS), Daniel Crooks (AUS), Laith McGregor (AUS), Seung Yul Oh (NZ/KR), Gordon Walters (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS). Our presentation is with the generous support of Creative New Zealand.
Image: Richard Maloy, Blue (bag with air), 2106, digital photograph, 850 x 1000 mm

Starkwhite will be closed from 24 December to 10 January when we will be open by appointment to the end of the month. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Image: the flower of New Zealand's Pohutukawa, also known as the Christmas Tree

Starkwhite presentS 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).
Image: Danie Mellor, on a noncorrelationist thought IX (2016), C-print on metallic paper, 80cm diameter

Fiona Pardington is in the exhibition On the Orgin of Art which opens this weekend at the Museum of Old and New, Hobart. Her works are in a section curated by Brian Boyd, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, University of Auckland. Read more…
Image: Fiona Pardington, Portrait of a life-cast of Matoua Tawai, Aotearoa/New Zealand 2010, pigment inks on Hanhnemuhle Photo Rag. Courtesy of the Musee de l'Home, Paris

The Walters Estate has issued a limited edition screen print of the Painting No. 7. which is in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. For further details, including price, please email contact@starkwhite.co.nz or call +64 9 3070703.

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery (DPAG) has acquired Seung Yul Oh's interactive sculpture Periphery, seen here at Art Basel Hong Hong (2013) in the Encounters section curated by Yuko Hasegawa. The work also featured in the survey exhibition MOAMOA (2014) organised by the DPAG and the City Gallery Wellington.

Two paintings from John Reynolds' recent exhibition WalkWithMe… have been acquired for the Chartwell Collection which is housed at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki,
Image: Unhinged Text (Dark Night) #1, 2016, acrylic paint marker on acrylic on canvas, 2100 x 1520 mm, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Huia winery has introduced a limited edition label from a commissioned photograph by Fiona Pardington and translated into the wine label by Neil Pardington. The label adorns the Huia Millennial Brut 2000 and the Huia Blanc de Blanc.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Inseparable Huia (2016)

 
Laith McGregor's exhibition Swallow the Sun opens on Saturday 1 October 5.30 – 7.30pm.

John Reynold's exhibition WalkWithMe… continues this week, closing Saturday 24 September. Upstairs we have a new suite of works from his ongoing exploration of Colin McCahon's missing hours. Read more…
Image: John Reynolds, Field Notes 5 (2016), acrylic paint, acrylic paint stick and graphite on paper, field notes board.

Upstairs at Starkwhite we are showing Matt Henry's Analogues to 14 October. Previously shown at Goya Curtain in Tokyo, the works in the exhibition appropriate specific graphic motifs found in the artist’s collection of video and audio media. 
Image: Matt Henry, Psycho (2016), acrylic on linen, cedar stretcher, 382 x 468 mm

On Thursday 22 September, 5 -7.30pm, we are co-hosting with AUP the launch of Anthony Byrt’s new book THIS MODEL WORLD: TRAVELS TO THE EDGE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, published by Auckland University Press.

John Reynolds and Laurence Simmons will be in conversation tonight in WalkWithMe.. 5.30-7pm.
Image: John Reynolds, WalkWithMe…2016 (detail), acrylic paint and oil stick on linen, 2.1 x 10 metres.

Rebecca Baumann's Once more with feeling in Set in Motion. an exhibition exploring light, sound and motion through the work of Len Lye and four contemporary artists. Read more…
Image: installation view of Rebecca Baumann's, Once more with feeling (2014)

Fiona Pardington's Phantasma 2011 opens tonight at Parlour Projects and runs to 1 October 2016. Read more…
Image: Fiona Pardington Trompette des Mortes/Craterellus cornucopiodes 2011, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, collection of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle (Musee Baria) Nice, and Musee du Quai Branley, Paris,

Matt Henry's Long Division opens today at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and runs to 27 November. Read more…
Image: installation view of Matt Henry's Long Division

In 1984 Colin McCahon tragically went missing on the eve of his survey exhibition I WILL NEED WORDS, staged as a satellite show of the 1984 Biennale of Sydney, In his new project WalkWithMe… John Reynolds speculated on the passible nature of those missing hours. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 30 August 6 – 8 pm.
Image: John Reynolds, WalkWithMe… 2016 (detail), silver marker and acrylic paint on linen, 2.1 x 10 meters

The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation has purchased Michael Zavros' Bad Dad for the gallery's permanent collection. Considered to be one of the artist's finest (and most famous) paintings, Bad Dad was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald Prize (Art Gallery of New South Wales) and featured in the exhibition Bad Dad at Starkwhite in 2014 and in our solo show of Zavros' work at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015. 
Image: Michael Zavros, Bad Dad, 2103, oil on canvas 110 x 150 cm

The Auckland Art Gallery has acquired 49 works from John Reynolds Epistomadolgies series through a part purchase/part gift arrangement, adding to a suite of  22 works already in the gallery's collection.
Image: John Reynolds, Epistomadologies (32) 2001, oil stick on paper, 1000 x 700 mm

Alicia Frankovich's Earth is a Home Planet is showing in this year's TarraWarra Biennial, Endless Circulation, curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes. Read more…
Image: Tarrawarra Museum of Art

Starkwhite has been listed in the 500 Best Galleries Worldwide for the third consecutive year.

Gavin Hipkins' Romance (Tiger) ia showing in Beasts at the Christchurch Art Gallery. Read more…
Image: Gavin Hipkins, Romance (Tiger) 2004, C-type photograph, 1500 x 900 mm. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Cell Culture by Billy Apple and Dr Craig Hilton is being presented at the Suter Gallery from 27 August to 4 September 2016 in conjunction with the Queenstown Research Week staged this year in Nelson.

Photographs from Jin Jiangbo's series Shanghai Ye! Shanghai are currently showing at the National Art Museum of Chin at, Beijing.
Image: installation  view of Jin Jiangbo's Shanghai Ye! Shanghai at Starkwhite (2010)

Laith McGregor is in SIRENS (I HEARD VOICES IN THE NIGHT) at Gertrude Contemporary's Glasshouse, Melbourne. In this exhibition initiated by singer/songwriter Ben Abraham, artists respond to tracks on his debut album Sirens. The show runs from 13 August – 3 September 2016. Read more…

In his exhibition Long Division, Matt Henry responds to the architecture of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (27 August – 27 November 2016). Read more…
Image: Matt Henry, installation detail, Vernacular Painting, Starkwhite 2011

Rebecca Baumann is represented in the Set in Motion at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, an exhibition exploring light, sound and motion through the work of Len Lye and four contemporary artists. Read more…
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Once more with feeling (2014)

Upstairs at Starkwhite: works by Billy Apple, Whitney Bedford, Alicia Frankovich and David Scanavino.

Daniel Crooks exhibition Vanishing Point runs to 27 August. Read more…
Image: installation views of Vanishing Point 

Daniel Crooks' Vanishing point runs at Starkwhite from 3 August. Read more…
Image: Daniel Crooks, Vanishing Point (2015), video still

The Analysis of Billy Apple's Genome is running at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to 14 August. Developed by the artist and Dr Craig Hilton, it is an extension of The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® which has been staged at Starkwhite (Stage 1 and Stage 2) and also by Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong in 2013. Read more…

Laith McGregor's Modern God is showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne in Basil Sellers Art Prize 5.
Image: Laith McGregor, Modern God, 2016 (detail) pen and ink on paper

Daniel von Sturmer's installation Electric Light 2016 closes this weekend at Anna Schwartz Gallery and our exhibition Material Candor (which includes three of his videos) also closes on Saturday.
Image: Electric Light, 2016, Installation view, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

The Christchurch Art Gallery will host a function tomorrow night (15th) to celebrate the launch of  Fiona Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation and Great Britten! A Work by Billy Apple. Both run to 6 November.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Heartsick (1994), from Medical Suite 1994-1999

Billy Apple blurs the line between art and life with an installation at the Christchurch City Gallery celebrating the record-shattering 1995 campaign of the Britten V1000 motorbike. Great Britten!: A Work by Billy Apple opens on Friday evening 16 July.  Read more…
Image: John Britten with his motorbike (1995)

Material Candor continues at Starkwhite through to 23 July. Richard Maloy will continue to develop his Yellow Structure (Variation) installation through the duration of the exhibition.  Read more…
Image: Material Candour, installation view, Starkwhite 2016, Richard Maloy's Yellow Structure (Variation) made with the support of the Asia/NZ Co-commissioning Fund, part of CNZ's Focus on Asia Initiative 

The Christchurch Art Gallery has acquired Fiona Pardington's Still Life with Wild Wheat and Freesias (2011). The photograph is showing at the Gallery in Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation.

Fiona Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation opens at the Christchurch Art Gallery on Saturday, following presentations at the City Gallery Wellington and Auckland Art Gallery. The exhibition runs alongside Great Britten: A Work by Billy Apple. Both exhibitions run to 6 November.
Image: Still Life with Young Kahu, Hag Stone and Paper Nautilus, Ripiro Beach, 2014

The Newcastle Art Gallery (NSW) has acquired two paintings by Michael Zavros, both presented by Starkwhite in his solo show at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in January.
Images: The Mermaid (2015), oil on panel, 220 x 300 mm (top) and The Sunbather (2015), oil on canvas, 1800 x 1800 mm (bottom)