Bringing together standout works and emerging voices from across the city’s best spaces.
CURATED BY —
LUCY KENNEDY
Artspace Aotearoa
Group Admits Mistake
Lolani Dalosa, Ken Faber, Lily Greig, Ton Ray, Rangi White
10 October – 19 December
The exhibition features new work
by five emerging Tāmaki Makaurau artists who have worked with the Artspace Aotearoa team throughout the year as part of their annual Chartwell Trust New Commissions programme. Through sculpture, film, and painting, they explore semi-fictional worlds, authority, unexpected encounters, and what happens when things do not go to plan.
292 Karangahape Road
artspace-aotearoa.nz
Charles Ninow Fine Art
Photography exhibition
Gil Hanly
Until 17 October
Now in her early 90s, Gil Hanly is an important cultural figure in Aotearoa. Her photographs read almost like a national archive, yet they offer insights absent from the mainstream record. This exhibition presents seven of Gil Hanly’s photographs from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. Mostly set in Auckland, they tell the stories of Hanly’s lived experience and Aotearoa’s identity.
102/203 Karangahape Road
charlesninow.com
Bergman Gallery
What Remains
Kay George
19 October – 7 November
Created following the passing of the artist’s mother, the exhibition acknowledges grief not as an ending, but as part of a continuing relationship with the past. Alongside these reflections are celebrations of friendships that have sustained the artist across decades – women whose companionship, humour, and support have become woven into the fabric of George’s everyday life. Warm, personal, and deeply human, the exhibition reflects on the people who accompany us through life, those we lose, and those who remain.
3/582 Karangahape Road
bergmangallery.com
Melanie Roger Gallery
Orbit
Emily Wolfe
23 September – 10 October
For her new solo exhibition, Emily Wolfe presents a body of work that navigates the unstable territory between intimacy and distance, memory and materiality. Wolfe’s recent work, developed while living between London and Rome, explores the relationship between painting, archaeology and the fragment. Rather than offering resolution, the exhibition creates a rhythm of encounter. Textures, repetitions, and subtle shifts in scale draw attention to the physical act of looking, asking viewers to slow down and inhabit moments of uncertainty.
444 Karangahape Road
melanierogergallery.com
Studio One Toi Tū
Coexisting Reflections
Kate Bedford
8 October – 5 November
Coexisting Reflections brings together a series of abstract collage works and mixed-media paintings exploring the natural world. The exhibition celebrates the meeting of different materials and processes, exploring the ways they reflect, absorb, and respond to light. Floral forms unfold among planetary spheres, where opposites meet and coexist. Bright, luminous passages sit alongside the quiet mystery of matte surfaces. While calm, still spaces are punctuated by vibrant bursts of colour.
1 Ponsonby Road
studioone.org.nz
Studio One Toi Tū
Stray Thoughts
Linley Wilkinson
8 October – 5 November
Stray Thoughts illustrates our connecting thoughts, dreams and memories as we journey through life. Linley Wilkinson uses hemp woven with a wool overlay to explore how these connections do not always take a straight path, instead becoming a tangled mass that forms our present identity and what we may become. When viewed closely, we can see that this tangled mass is a sophisticated arrangement of lines and spaces, nature working at its best inside us all.
1 Ponsonby Road
studioone.org.nz
