Exhibition Archive 2022
1 December – 5 March, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 30 November, 6-8pm
Ground Floor Galleries
Midnight Cowboy focuses on works that harness the power of neon as their primary material. Drawing on works held in public collections and the Arts Trust Collection, with works by Bill Culbert, Paul Hartigan, Robert Jahnke, Gregor Kregar and Paul Johns, the exhibition also includes recent explorations by Mary-Louise Browne, Jacquelyn Greenbank and Bruce Parker.
3 November – 12 February, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 2 November, 6-8pm
Photography Gallery, Upper Foyer and AV Room
Listening to a Wet Land is a research project comprising an essay film and a series of large-scale prints made from camera-less ‘river exposures’. Situated in the fragile waters of the Hauraki Plains, the visual research is primarily field recordings. Both the digital moving image and analogue photographs explore stories of loss, of damage incurred in the politics of land use, as well as stories of hope and the potential for repair through agency of the more-than-human.
3 November – 12 February, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 2 November, 6-8pm
Master Bedroom Gallery
Tess Wing is the 2020 recipient of the Wallace & Jan Warburton Graduate Exhibition Scholarship.
Nature is violent and cruel; there are no fairy tale endings such as presented in children’s stories like the Ugly Duckling. Cutting the cord (2022) centres on shared behaviours exhibited by humans and birds and the social dynamic of the brood within a ménage. My anthropomorphic human-animal-hybrids highlight the similarities between the fledgling stage in birds and transitional adulthood in humans.
12 October 2022 – 12 February 2023
Exhibition Opening: Sunday 16 October, 10am-11.30am
Little Gallery
The Artist in Residence programme at Auckland Studio Potters (ASP) invites applications from national and international potters and ceramicists to spend up to three months working in one of ASP’s two pod studios on the Centre’s grounds in Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau. The inaugural AiR1 exhibition presents the eleven artists who, since the residency’s inception in 2019; through the difficult Covid years to the first semester of 2022; participated in a residency. Included artists span the full range from young graduates to traditional artisan master craftsmen and modern table and homeware specialists.
8 — 26 October 2022
Photography Gallery
A photography exhibition from Rex Oddy reveals the interior of Pah Homestead prior to its major refurbishment in 2006, alongside images taken again in 2022.
This exhibition is part of Auckland Heritage Festival 2022
8 — 30 October 2022
AV Gallery
A fleeting glimpse into life as it might have been for the Williamson family in 1883.
This exhibition is part of Auckland Heritage Festival 2022
5 – 30 October 2022
Exhibition Opening Afternoon Tea and Winners Announced: Wednesday 5 October, 3.30-5pm
Boardroom
The Secondary School Art Awards recognise and celebrate emerging artistic talent in New Zealand. These are the young artists to look out for in the future. Artworks in the mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture make up the works on show.
5 October – 30 October
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 5 October, 6-8pm.
Master Bedroom Gallery
Māpura Studios presents Just My Imagination, the annual Pah Homestead exhibition. The video projections and largely abstract paintings reflect feelings observed and passionately executed. These abstractions result from the unique artistic sensibilities and imaginations of selected Māpura artists. This year marks eight years of the annual exhibition at Pah Homestead.
Image Credit: Maununu Ama, Lungs, mixed media on paper, 2022
23 September – 27 November
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 22 September, 6-8pm
Ground Floor Galleries
Crosses and Losses is a view of contemporary practice featuring six artists from Aotearoa, working in drawing, painting and textile. The art works on display present forms of abstraction with some vibrant colour. Shapes and hues appear throughout in various media, from the miniature to large scale. Featuring the work of Alice Alva, Helen Calder, Emma Fitts, Julia Holderness, Miranda Parkes and Krystie Wade.
12 August - 2 October 2022
AV and Photography Gallery
Special Brain Island Event, Performance and Artist Talk: Thursday 22 September, 6pm
THE GENERATION OF THE HYPERREAL exhibition includes Xi Li 's animated digital media work Spirit Ether (2021) and two works from her long-term project 'Brain Island' (2019-present): Brain Island: Hyperreal City (2019) and Brain Island: Hyperreal City II (2020). Using digital video, 3D animation and games as their main media, these works present a series of imaginative images of symbols, power, structure, culture and technology, and an intertwined hyperreal world of reality and illusion.
Watch Online: Brain Island: Neo-Existentialism, Brain Island: Hyperreal City and Spirit Ether are available to view.
11 August – 2 October
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 10 August, 6pm
Galleries: Master Bedroom, Boardroom and Little Gallery
Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett QSM is an artist who is an outspoken voice on social issues that have shaped our nation's identity over 70 years of change, addressing waves of feminism and institutional patriarchy, tackling the shame of apartheid, and inspiring the Visual Artists Against Nuclear Arms movement (VAANA). Most recently her works touch upon global environmental concerns from the New Zealand perspective.
13 July — 7 August
AV Gallery
Cuisenaire is an exhibition by artists Kahukuranui and Suzanne Tamaki. Cuisenaire rods are mathematics learning aids that became a tool for Māori language learning within the revolutionary Ataarangi movement. Kahukuranui’s artwork Cuisenaire presents the history of colonisation by word and media, and the decolonisation by kōhanga and whakaata. Tamaki’s artwork is centred on Manu, the fantastic plastic Māori, commenting on the colonisation and decolonisation of the Reo. Both works are presented as part of CineMarae, an annual exhibition presented by Wairoa Māori Film Festival at the Pah Homestead.
23 June — 7 August 2022
Little Gallery
This exhibition is part of the Matariki Festival 2022
Sibling artist collaboration Yllwbro reflect on a formative learning experience that first introduced them to the science of astronomy. As small children, Yllwbro were encouraged by their Koro to “Titiro ake!” or “Look up!” In Little Dog Laughed the artists remind us of the beauty of the night sky and the insight to be gained when our consciousness is raised.
23 June — 7 August 2022
Boardroom
In Right Ascension, Warkworth based social practice artist and inclusion advocate, Ursula Christel explores a number of astronomical connections. She also proposes the possibility of a new, more equitable “space” – a realm where those with disabilities are elevated, respected and valued as stars in their own right.
17 June – 18 September
Exhibition Opening 17 June, 6-8pm
Ground Floor Galleries
A presentation of selected works by artists connected in practice, METHOD is about making as a habit - or as a love affair - supported by key pieces from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and housed at the Pah Homestead. METHOD is also an exhibition of rapture, of the artists featured, and of the artist-curators Eliza Webster and Michael Prosee.
2 June – 7 August
Exhibition Opening 17 June, 6-8pm
First Floor Galleries
This exhibition is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2022
Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Awa is one of Auckland’s longest urban streams, flowing from Hillsborough through Mt Roskill, Owairaka and Waterview to the Waitematā Harbour. The creek’s rich Māori and European heritage and abundance of native and exotic flora and fauna makes it an important natural asset.
In this series, photographer Tony Nyberg documents the environmental and cultural changes of the creek and its surrounds throughout the seasons, over a three-year period. Tony’s attentiveness to this local ecology over several years highlights the richness of life around this urban waterway.
Join the Friends of Oakley Creek for a guided walk along a section of Oakley Creek / Te Auaunga Awa. Book Here.
7 April - 29 May 2022
First Floor Galleries
Opening Night: Wednesday 4 May, 6-8pm
This exhibition is part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2022
The photographic portrait has often been seen as a way of revealing the true identity of the sitter and photographers have been commended for their ability to capture the inner character of the subject. However contemporary photographic portraiture does not strive for this moment of truth. Instead it advances the notion that it is no longer, and maybe never was, attainable.
Featuring the work of seven established and emerging Auckland artists in an ambiguous set of images.
Ziggy Bond, Christine Jeffs, Kim Lu, Timothy Mackrell, Saynab Muse, Yvonne Shaw and Christopher Young.
10 March - 12 June 2022
Closing Night 25 May, 6-8pm
Ground Floor Galleries
Presented in association with Auckland Arts Festival 2022.
A major solo show, Smoke & Mirrors claims that creativity is activism, and has a vital role regarding catastrophic climate change. Delayism/denialism, smoke and mirrors, however you slice it, the fateful Anthropocene is upon us. John Reynolds mixes rainwater with acrylics, gallows humour with dead seriousness, and ponders the seemingly simple question, “are we there yet?”
Read the Interview with the Artist: John Reynolds’ Provocative Solo Show Aims to Clear the Smoke on Climate Change.
17 February – 3 April
First Floor Galleries
Opening Night: 16 February, 6-8pm
CONTAINMENT / UNCONTAINED - Working Across Borders is both an experience and expression of lockdown intimacy with bounded restraints. Our attempts to present an exhibition can be futile as Covid disrupts traditional ways of presenting and experiencing art. The subsequent uncertainty presents us with the challenge and opportunity to explore what a jewellery ‘exhibition’ could look like.
Read the Interview with the Artists: Restrictions Inspire Creativity in Lockdown Collaboration NEED LINK
17 February - 3 April 2022
AV Gallery
Book Launch on 26 March: Info Here LINK
Countdown Mountain explores a sprawling city, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, over a 'lost year', 2021. Short monologues, recorded on a cell phone camera by a wanderer are alphabetically indexed as a video encyclopaedia. The entries reimagine the mundane world, subjecting it to ultramundane interpretations that can be dark, lyrical, or hilarious.
Read the Interview with the Artist: Gabriel White Counts Down the Days in Lockdown NEED TO ADD LINK
Read Matthew Wood’s Interview on Circuit- Gabriel White: Requiem for a City
Feb 17, 2022 – Mar 8, 2022
Tāmaki Makaurau artist, Gabriel White takes a different perspective on lockdown, using it as an opportunity to discover the quirks of a quiet city. His upcoming exhibition, Countdown Mountain presents a “meditation” of the 2020 lockdown in the form of a quasi-encyclopaedia.
Ground Floor: 3 December - 6 March 2022
First Floor: 3 December - 13 February 2022
Ground Floor and First Floor Galleries
Fumbles for Rhymes explores the use of humour by Aotearoa New Zealand artists - senior, mid-career and emergent. Presented through works from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection, this exhibition begins with several artists who established themselves in the 1980s and employed a number of humorous motifs. They received recognition partly due to elements of witticism in their work. Fumbles for Rhymes shows how contemporary artists have used humour repeatedly in their practice.
Featured Image:
”Paradise Mound”, Laura Williams, 2021
Image courtesy of Laree Payne Gallery
Photo credit to Mark Hamilton
Featuring work from Laura Williams, Tawhai Rickard, Glen Hayward, Dick Frizzell and more.
Dec 3, 2021 – Mar 6, 2022
Mount Eden artist Laura Williams provides insight on her Catholic upbringing and love of op-shops that inspired her piece, Paradise Mound, featuring in the exhibition, Fumbles for Rhymes.
Extended until end of February
3 November - 28 February 2022
Online Exhibition
A Multiplicity of Voices celebrates the perspectives of our Pasifika artists at Māpura.
Māpura Studios, based in Tāmaki Makaurau, is a creative space that provides programmes and activities in visual arts practice, creative expression, dance-movement, music and art therapy for people living with disability and diversity.
This year marks seven years of the annual exhibition at Pah Homestead.
Image Credit: “Moana”, Maununu Ama