Exhibition Archive 2023
1 December 2023 – 3 March 2024
Curator Talk: Wednesday 6 December, 11am
Artist Talk with Finn Ferrier: Sunday 11 February, 10am
Ground Floor Galleries
If you’re a yachtie and you’re “luffing”, your sail is flapping – you’ve gone too far easing out the sheet, and you’re no longer harnessing the wind – out on the water, an encounter with this term is familiar, known, and informative. Here in the gallery, the word comes across unexpectedly, cute, and perhaps with a hint of intrigue. The idea of the four seasons served as a guide in our summer major exhibition.
23 November 2023 – 18 February 2024
Little Gallery & Boardroom
Clouds reign over us in the sky. They seem too far from our reach when in fact, they may be much closer to us than we think. In this exhibition, artist Orimi explores the relationship between our emotions and the clouds. Reflect deeply on your true emotions and feelings that you may have hidden amongst the clouds.
3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6-8pm
AV Gallery
As a city awakens, early morning hues colour an increasingly busy scene. The dawn chorus, having just completed their concert, is now busy foraging. Animalia, human, are also beginning the day. Ensconced in moving metal cages, they follow each other in a ritual resembling ants.
In this delicate dance of survival, it is essentially a human decision determining where these spaces converge, forcing other species to adapt or perish. Morning Commute offers a view where the seemingly opposing worlds of urban and natural environments collide.
3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6-8pm
Master Bedroom Gallery
Deceased Estate (2023) invites us to “move into” a space not entirely our own; vacated family homes, mysterious rental properties, storied shared flats, or one’s first home. These works speak to the precarity of an object’s value, and how legacies can persist unseen in the “stuff” we inherit.
Dillon Gamble is the 2023 recipient of The Arts House Trust & Jan Warburton Graduate Exhibition Scholarship.
3 November – 18 February, 2024
Exhibition Opening: Thursday 2 November, 6pm
Curator Talk with Richard Penn: Saturday 17 February, 10.30am
Photography Gallery
AiR2 is Auckland Studio Potters’ second Artist in Residence exhibition. This year, it showcases the work of the seven ASP residents during 2023. Established in 2019, the resident programme welcomes applications from national and international potters to spend up to three months in one of ASP’s two pod studios. The artists include young graduates, PhD candidates, traditional artisan master craftsmen through to contemporary exhibiting artists and modern table and homeware specialists.
21 September – 29 October
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 20 September, 6-8pm
Master Bedroom and Photography Galleries
This year’s annual exhibition from Māpura Studios presents an eclectic selection of abstract and expressionist mixed media works from Māpura artists.
Finalists’ Exhibition: 20 September – 15 October
Exhibition Opening Afternoon Tea and Winners Announced: Weds 20th Sept 3:30pm -5pm
Boardroom & Little Gallery
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.
20 September — 29 October
First Floor Foyer
Chattering Creases is a collection of experimental photographic prints that investigate environmental physics. Daisy Nicholas’ pieces explore the salty coast and exposed bedrock of the East Auckland shoreline.
1 September – 26 November, 2023
Opening Night: Thursday 31 August, 6pm
Ground Floor Galleries
Friends + Family is a group exhibition that embodies a kaupapa Māori and kaupapa Moana Oceania way of educating our youth in the visual arts. Featuring the work of emerging artist Ercan Cairns —with Fatu Feu’u, Emily Karaka, Donn Ratana, Tēvita Lātū, Taniela Petelō, Terje Koloamatangi, Alexis Neal and Colin Gibbs.
17 August – 17 September, 2023
Opening Night: Wednesday 16 August, 6pm
Curator Talk and Walk Through: Saturday 26 August, 11am
First Floor Galleries
This annual exhibition showcases and awards the outstanding pottery and ceramics of members of Auckland Studio Potters (ASP). ASP is delighted to announce the selector and judge this year is Ceramic Artist, Peter Hawkesby.
17 August – 29 October, 2023
AV Gallery
closed circle is a video and sculpture exhibition by Niamh Maher, examining how individual identity is closely associated with our production of knowledge.
11 July – 13 August, 2023
AV Gallery
Kahungunu Marae in Nūhaka is unique amongst marae in Aotearoa in having a featuring role in Broken Barrier by John O'Shea. The Cinema Marae exhibition presents archival footage and photographs of Kahungunu Marae and the Nūhaka community in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, in addition to work by media-artist Jordan Koziol-Repia, photographs from the Wairoa Māori Film Festival and an artistic response to the recent Cyclone Gabrielle impact.
5 July – 13 August, 2023
WHISKY LOUNGE is a collection show with a difference… domestic, nostalgic and with Nana at the core, this show challenges the notions of contemporary art on a plinth.
28 June – 9 August, 2023
First Floor Galleries
Our Place presents film and photography by Karen Crisp, Sarah Davis and Russ Flatt (Ngāti Kahungunu). These artists explore concerns of whenua at locations in Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, giving views of both the past and our present situation. Whenua is that which bonds us, our grounding, our place. It has deep layering through time and linkages, it can be often contentious and fraught. The flooding events of the 2023 Auckland Anniversary and Cyclone Gabrielle were traumatic events for many, highlighting that whenua continues to be a significant national issue.
2 June – 27 August, 2023
Ground Floor Galleries
Curated by Peter Shaw
Pauline Thompson, first exhibiting at the age of sixteen, trained at Elam where she found herself somewhat apart from the prevailing current of modernism. Undeterred, and determined to follow her childhood ambition, she continued painting. This is the first retrospective of her work since the artist’s death in 2012.
20 April – 2 July, 2023
AV Gallery, Little Gallery and Conservatory
Ever wondered what’s at the end of Colonial Road? It’s not a carpark or failed monument to imperial ambition but more a surprising, self-determined community of seabirds living in sight of the city. A.A.M. Bos’ film Colonial Road (2020) is an intimate, uncensored, harbourside view of the lives and crimes of The Real Shags of Chelsea Heritage Estate.
20 April – 25 June, 2023
First Floor Galleries
In the summer of 1984, Wellington photographer Peter Black toured the North Island with writer Mark Scott, photographing kids dancing on the streets of Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, and Wellington, to produce a photo essay for Scott’s book Street Action Aotearoa. Shot on a 35mm camera with a wide-angle lens, Black's black-and-white photos captured the Break Dancing craze of the period. His images show local dance teams—including the Megazoids, Te Puke United, and the Midtown Breakers—performing in malls and outside takeaway bars.
11 March – 28 May, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday 14 March, 6-8pm
Ground Floor Galleries
This exhibition affirms the pioneering legacy and leadership of senior Māori artist, broadcaster, playwright, orator, teacher, musician, and repository of tribal knowledge - Selwyn Muru.
Artwork credit: Selwyn Muru, Te Whiti with the Sacred Birds of Taranaki, 2003. Private collection
Toured by The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata and presented in association with the Auckland Arts Festival. Curated by Dr Moana Nepia.
1 March – 16 April, 2023
Exhibition Opening: Tuesday 14 March, 6-8pm
AV Gallery and Upper Foyer
DISASTROUSFORMS.COM is a body of ceramic and clay works ‘excavated’ from a faux sci-fi disaster. The works are archived on an online platform to explore the thematic of natural disasters, natural history, and the process of archiving itself. Disaster as the mother of revolution. This project was inspired by a field trip to Pompeii with artist Mark Dion and team, and Auckland Museum’s Natural History Collections Online.
17 February – 16 April, 2023
First Floor Galleries
The Adam Portraiture Award is New Zealand’s most prestigious and popular portraiture prize.
This exhibition is toured by The New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata
Artwork credit: Sacha Lees, See Me, 2022, oil on board (Nicora Taylor)
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.