Philippa Blair – Jungle Puzzles
Oct
5
to Oct 29

Philippa Blair – Jungle Puzzles

5 – 29 October 2023

Philippa Blair is an architect, surveyor, scientist, sculptor, dancer, horse rider, musician, linguist, teacher, mother; in truth she is an artist who brings all the attributes of the former to the table of the latter. Moreover, she is fearless, always has been, still is, her life is tied to her art.

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Kathy Barber – Peripheral
Sep
7
to Sep 30

Kathy Barber – Peripheral

7 – 30 September 2023

The paintings of Kathy Barber are derived from a montage of memories just out of reach, swirled together as a type of utopian landscape. The large sweeping gestures she has affectionately coined as ‘sidewinders’ help flood all the works with a light reminiscent of Turner.

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New Paintings by Prakash Patel
May
16
to Jun 3

New Paintings by Prakash Patel

16 May – 3 June 2023

Prakash Patel describes himself as feeling out of place – everywhere. At first glance, his paintings appear deeply and consciously steeped in his Indian heritage, with their repeating patterns and motifs and the bright, iridescent colours. On closer inspection, they offer something more universal.

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Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck – falanoa
Feb
9
to Mar 4

Dagmar Vaikalafi Dyck – falanoa

9 February – 4 March 2023

Dagmar Dyck's work is inspired by her cultural heritage and explore textile practices of Tonga including bark cloth mats, baskets and clothing. In this exhibition, falanoa, Dagmar examines the construction methods used in the Tongan feminine art forms, called koloa. She translates some of this ancestral knowledge into contemporary art forms and colours using the medium of painting and weaving to voice her own story of ‘being Tongan’ in Aotearoa. The title itself, devised by the artist, draws together the concept of talanoa (storytelling) with fala (woven textiles).

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Martin Ball – Homage
Nov
15
to Dec 10

Martin Ball – Homage

15 November – 10 December 2022

Memories, and the experiences that trigger them, provide the backdrop for Martin Ball’s new paintings. As a youth growing up in West Auckland in the 1960s he was familiar with the tracks, and the waterfalls and streams in the Waitakere Ranges. In those formative years his interest in painting such scenes was informed by artists such as Petrus van der Velden and Diego Velazquez. Over fifty years later he has revisited the images.

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Richard Adams – Goat Island
Oct
25
to Nov 13

Richard Adams – Goat Island

25 October – 12 November 2022

Goat Island or Te Hawere-a-Maki, the marine reserve, is close to Richard’s studio. Are these a painterly response? Perhaps it is as the painter Brett Whitely said, “I’m not going to talk to you about my paintings, just look at them if you want to know about them”. Orexart is very pleased to show these new paintings by Richard Adams.
Take your time to ‘know about them’.

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Marilyn Murphy – Drawn from Life
Oct
8
to Oct 22

Marilyn Murphy – Drawn from Life

8 – 22 October 2022

The perfect antidote for these times, Murphy’s drawings are exquisitely drawn in pencil as to be almost photographic. Her reimagined adverts play with notions of domestic bliss enhanced by the candy-floss clouds of new products. But there is ambiguity: Are they to be read as symbolically or literally present?

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Tony Lane – Paintings
Sep
6
to Oct 1

Tony Lane – Paintings

6 September – 1 October 2022

Lane’s visual language is deeply connected to painting’s history, from thirteenth century Italian painters such as Giotto to the Spanish still-life painters of the seventeenth century and through to his New Zealand upbringing and exposure to New Zealand as a place that would imprint its landforms into his psyche.

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The Limitless Horizon
May
12
to Jun 24

The Limitless Horizon

11 May – 4 June

The landscape is one of New Zealand’s most beloved, and enduring subjects, with generations of artists helping us to interpret and understand our environment, celebrating both the prosaic and the sublime. Among them are Richard McWhannell, Tony Lane, Martin Ball, Peter James Smith and John Madden, and we are very pleased to present a few of their recent paintings.

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Siân Quennell Torrington
Apr
9
to May 7

Siân Quennell Torrington

9 April – 7 May

Siân Torrington’s organic, playful and vaguely disturbing three dimensional works quite literally thread together everyday materials, found objects, scraps, fabric to create highly tactile and colourful assemblages. Her paintings, more like drawings on a collision course with colour and dimension, are equally bold, colourful and full of energy.

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Jacqui Colley
Feb
8
to Mar 6

Jacqui Colley

8 February – 6 March 2022

After several covid-related delays, we are delighted to finally present a solo exhibition by Jacqui Colley, whose paintings and drawings we have long admired. The deep connection to drawing is clear in each and every one of the paintings that make up this extraordinary new collection.

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Twelve | Summer Show
Dec
21
to Jan 24

Twelve | Summer Show

21 December 2021 – 17 January 2022

Interesting things come in twelves: days of Christmas, apostles, eggs, cases of wine, glazed donuts – and, in the case of 2021, twelve of the strangest months we have known. To finish off this remarkable year, and carry us into the next one, we have assembled a collection of twelve new and vintage works for your viewing pleasure over the holidays.

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