CURATED BY —
LUCY KENNEDY
Melanie Roger Gallery
Dark Matter
Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy, Simon Endres, Kirsten Roberts
8 May – 6 June
Dark Matter brings together four contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, each exploring the gothic and uneasy in their practises. Pōneke-based artist Simon Attwooll’s recent housefire series layers charcoal scraped from a burnt out house. Harry Culy’s work is openly influenced by the Antipodean Gothic art movement. Simon Endres presents recent work from his menagerie of anxious misfits. Kirsten Roberts has made a new series of postcard-sized monoprints, powerful in the expression and emotions that Roberts captures within her figures.
444 Karangahape Road
melanierogergallery.com
Turua Gallery
Vintage
Jody Hope Gibbons
15 – 27 May
This deeply personal exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience The Jody Hope Gibbons Archival Collection – a curated body of works spanning decades. Vintage traces the evolution of Gibbons’ signature style, revealing the enduring threads connecting her work. Visitors will experience a unique gallery setting, with a selection of Gibbons’ vintage collection incorporated into the exhibition design. Known for her richly layered works spanning abstract painterly forms, contemporary landscapes, and assemblage, Gibbons’ practice is driven by an innate need to create.
10A Turua Street
turuagallery.co.nz
Frame Workshop and Gallery
Natural Phenomena
Melanie Field
29 April – 16 May
Bringing together approximately 30 new works, Natural Phenomena spans large-scale canvases and more intimate paintings, each developed over extended periods through a process of layering, removal and reworking. Field’s practice is deeply intuitive; rather than working toward a fixed result, each painting evolves through a dialogue between control and surrender. Melanie creates realms that breathe, vibrate and shift; subtle phenomena that invite the viewer into a deeper kind of seeing.
182 Jervois Road
frameworkshop.co.nz
Flagstaff Gallery
Socialite Society
Ingrid Boot
Auckland artist Ingrid Boot has been invited to join DTR Modern, one of the United States’ most established contemporary art galleries, with locations in Palm Beach, Boston, New York and Washington DC. To mark the partnership, she is unveiling a new body of work in a dual launch – five paintings debuting at DTR Modern Palm Beach, with two works retained for exhibition at Flagstaff Gallery in Auckland. The series draws on Slim Aarons’ iconic visual language, reimagined through Ingrid’s distinctly cinematic, feminine lens.
6 Victoria Road, Devonport
flagstaff.nz
Studio One Toi Tū
White Blood
Yin-Chi Lee
21 May – 3 June
White Blood is a multi-channel installation exploring the intimate legacies of migrant labourers within imperial structures. Weaving together diasporic memories of rubber plantations in Malaysia, camphor extraction in Taiwan and the history of Manila Hemp in the Philippines, the work reflects on migratory labour, colonial economies, and the inherited systems that shape bodies and memory. Through everyday objects, White Blood examines how imperial power operates beyond territorial conquest, embedding itself in domestic and bodily rituals, manifesting in routine acts of surveillance.
1 Ponsonby Road
studioone.org.nz
Auckland Festival of Photography
Highlighted: Portrait of Mayumi Suzuki
Mayumi Suzuki
29 May – 14 June
Since 2004, the annual Auckland Festival of Photography has been celebrating emerging and established photographers. Founder and CEO Julia Durkin MNZM defines this year’s theme of movement (Kori) in photography as “…the measure of change – within the body, the home, the landscape, and the world. To photograph movement is to acknowledge nothing stands still… The still image becomes paradoxical: a pause within motion, a fragment of time that continues to move within us.”
Gow Langsford
Protest Paintings
Jacqueline Fahey
23 May – 20 Jun
Over an almost seven-decade-long career, Jacqueline Fahey has been an icon of feminist painting in Aotearoa. This exhibition explores the artist’s unwavering commitment to visually expressing her worldview, from politics through to family dynamics and the domestic sphere.
Onehunga Gallery
gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz
