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Daphne Mason
20 May - 10 June 2023 Daphne Mason: On the Margins Daphne Mason (1928 - 2020) belonged to a generation of artists who recast this country's aesthetic landscape, spurring an era of art making that drew stylistic and formal inspiration from trends in European modernism; much to the ire of the New Zealand art world. At... Read more

Sefton Rani: Urban Camouflage [The Chaos of Hope]
20 May - 10 June 2023 SEFTON RANI: Urban Camouflage [The Chaos of Hope] by Andrew Paul Wood Sefton Rani was based in Piha, Auckland. He is of Cook Island heritage through his father. His work is an ongoing exploration of his Pasifika identity in the context of working class and industrial Auckland. Sefton sees his... Read more

Brett a'Court: Two Prophets, Two Angels.
20 May - 10 June 2023 Brett a'Court: Two Prophets, Two Angels. 'Over the past four years I have been working on woollen blankets stretched on canvas supports. The blankets are the connection and metaphor between colonisation, Christianity and the Maori prophets. The woollen blanket series was inspired by a Maori prophecy which was proclaimed... Read more

Xi Li: Unveiled Realms
6 - 16 May 2023 Xi Li - Imagined Realms Xi Li (李曦) is an interdisciplinary artist from Harbin, China, based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photo Media) from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design in 2019. In 2021 she received Master of Fine Arts (with first class... Read more

Ken Robinson: The Drop Series (selected works)
15 - 29 April 2023 Without a splash: Ken Robinson's 'Drop' series Auckland schoolboy diving champion Ken Robinson has gathered himself on the board, run, jumped, bounced and arced through the air. Upwards, a folding, and then down. A well-taken photograph would have captured that moment of suspended equilibrium. The balance, beauty and posed stillness-in-motion... Read more

Gryffin Cook: Moonshot
15 - 29 April 2023 Moonshot navigates the conflict between the promise and threat of new technology. This collection of self-critical works of art explores virtual worlds, currencies, blockchains, simulations, and artificial intelligence to make sense of our current inflexion point between technology, art and culture. Virtual realities, Artificial Intelligence, Web 3.0, Cryptocurrencies and Non-fungible... Read more

John Bailey: Gymnosphere / Notes for the well-tuned piano
25 March - 8 April 2023 Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2023
2 - 31 March 2023 Kulimoe’anga Stone Maka and Andrew Rankin, AAF23 'A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff' – Doctor Who Artists are Timelords. One might be forgiven for thinking that artists Kulimoe’anga ‘Stone’ Maka (born Patangata, Tonga, based in Ōtautahi Christchurch) and Andrew Rankin (based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland), but Scott... Read more

Coady: Bauhaus Blues
25 February - 18 March 2023 We're delighted to welcome Naarm/Melbourne based artist Coady for her first ever solo show in New Zealand. Fresh from stellar shows at the recent (sold out) Australian art fairs and Finkelstein gallery, Coady's work is seriously good, and great fun to explore! These perfect pill-shaped 3D works are the tonic... Read more

Benjamin Aitken
25 February - 18 March 2023 BENJAMIN AITKEN: You're so vain, you probably think these paintings are about you There are seven small works in the show that spell out OPIATES. 'I've always struggled with sobriety,' says their creator, Melbourne-based Benjamin Aitkin, 'and I remember making these works at 500 x 500mm based on Scott's floor... Read more

Inga Fillary: Rally
25 February - 18 March 2023 Squandering ooze to squeezed / dough, crust, dust; stanches, starches Squadroned masks and manmarks / treadmire toil there Footfretted in it. Million-fuelèd, / nature's bonfire burns on. But quench her bonniest, dearest / to her, her clearest-selvèd spark Man, how fast his firedint, / his mark on mind is gone!... Read more

Cruz Jimenez: 52 Miles West of Venus
28 January - 18 February 2023 Cruz Jimenez: The Sky We Remember - 53 Miles West of Venus Our understanding of what constitutes tradition when referring to contemporary art practice develops from the interrogation of individual works and what we know of the maker. Like memory, tradition and the conventions informing it are in a state... Read more

Maui Ofamooni: Mānava
28 January - 18 February 2023 Maui’s practice comes from a life of drawing. He grew up in Mangere Central and has painted in garages, makeshift studios under the stairs, and sometimes in rented studios. Now, after a career as a teacher then an architect, and raising six kids, he’s focusing on his painting. (Bravo I... Read more

Jeremy Piert: Wild Roses
14 - 24 December 2022 Read more

Epilogue - A Group Show
14 - 24 December 2022 Read more

Ivan Lupi: Salut
1 December 2022 - 28 January 2023 Salut, hi, is an informal welcome derived from the Latin salve, a greeting originally meaning be well, good health. Saluto, salutations, the greeting works in many languages, and is an appropriate title for Ivan Lupi's performance at the Scott Lawrie Gallery on December 1st, World Aids Day. Save, and salve,... Read more

ROY GOOD: 50 YEARS (Aotearoa Art Fair)
21 November - 12 December 2022 New Zealand modernist abstraction is undergoing something of a resurgence right now, with prices rocketing and paintings coveted by private and institutional collectors alike. Perhaps this is in response to the younger generation's love of loose expression and raw gesture - something you won't find much of in the respected... Read more

Hye Rim Lee: White Rose
19 November - 10 December 2022 Read more

Marie Strauss: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
22 October - 12 November 2022 Marie Strauss | Sympathetic Magic 'In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy.' - Jenny Holzer Marie Strauss works proficiently across multiple media, from painting to ceramics to printmaking, her work united by a common iconography of wild animals, both real and... Read more

Ara Dolatian: Entities
22 October - 12 November 2022 Entities Ara Dolatian, October 2022 Entities examines cultural ecologies associated with lost and stolen artefacts within the Al-Jazira region, the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers also known as Mesopotamia. The work is a tangible visual memory of sculptural deities, architectural forms, and vessels; the intentions are not... Read more

Nicholas Ives: Natural Intensities
22 October - 12 November 2022 Nicholas Ives: Natural Intensities By Andrew Paul Wood We must take quite literally the idea that man is a face drawn in the sand between two tides: he is a composition appearing between two others, a classical past that never knew him, and a future that will no... Read more

[MOANA ARTISTS]
24 September - 15 October 2022 A unique and exciting group show of artists – emerging and established – from the wider Moana region, curated by Sefton Rani. Read more

Marcus Hipa: Native Practitioner
24 September - 15 October 2022 Marcus Hipa: Native Practitioner The street art edge, as much via Diego Rivera as modern graffiti artists, and island soul are strongly evident in the paintings of Niue born and raised Aotearoa artist Marcus Hipa (b.1980). The origins of his practice begin with making do with whatever improvised resources were... Read more

Brett a'Court: Redemption Songs
24 September - 15 October 2022 This delightful small show was prompted by an image posted by Brett on his Instagram, featuring the Maori prophet Te Whiti. As Brett explains, 'Over the past three years I have been working on woollen blankets stretched on canvas supports. The blankets are the connection and metaphor between colonisation, Christianity... Read more

THE FALL OF ROME
27 August - 17 September 2022 THE FALL OF ROME By Andrew Paul Wood The curatorial provocation for The Fall of Rome is the 1947 W.H. Auden poem of the same name, an allegory filtered through Petronius' Satyricon (late first century CE) about how modernity could collapse around us at any time, with one eye looking... Read more

Bonco: Ladder
27 August - 17 September 2022 Ladder Andrew Paul Wood Since the eighteenth century, art has aspired to the Sublime, the state of spiritual transcendent awe in the presence of something greater than ourselves. The Romantics sought it in dramatic landscapes full of tempests and volcanic eruptions. The Symbolists tried to hotwire it by being as... Read more

Linda Va'aelua: Gafa
30 July - 20 August 2022 Read more

Louise Blyton: And The Dawn Lasted All Day
30 July - 20 August 2022 Read more

Roy Good: Squares Cascade
30 July - 20 August 2022 THE GREAT AND THE GOOD: AN UNBROKEN LINE 'The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.' - Mondrian 'All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.' - Walter Pater In Aotearoa New Zealand, modernist painting... Read more

THE CONFESSIONS
10 - 23 July 2022 I have something of an obsession with the infamous Scottish witch hunts conducted in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were desperately cruel, barbaric events of mass hysteria and misogyny - resulting in thousands of innocent women being cruelly strangled and then burnt at the stake. One of these women... Read more

Toby Raine: Iconic
2 - 23 July 2022 Read more

Cruz Jimenez: Recent Work
2 - 23 July 2022 Read more

Brit Bunkley: How They Dream / The Gilded Age
2 - 23 July 2022 Brit Bunkley: How They Dream / The Gilded Age Born in New York City, Brit Bunkley immigrated to New Zealand in 1995 to take up a teaching position as head of sculpture at the Quay School of the Arts, Whanganui. He has multiple accolades to his name - a US... Read more

Oliver King: Everything's Gonna Be Ok
4 - 25 June 2022 Dress Code: Beyond the Limits of the Canvas by Dina Jezdic 'Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.' - Mark Twain Every day we judge others. We gaze at the clothes people wear as if they are a reliable social, cultural and economic barometer.... Read more

Megan Archer: Malleable
4 - 25 June 2022 Read more

Elyss McCleary: Fandangle Chroma/s (Highlights)
4 - 25 June 2022 A small show of recent work from this stellar Australian painter Read more

Clare Brodie: Elusive Forms
7 - 28 May 2022 CLARE BRODIE'S FLOATING WORLD Andrew Paul Wood, May 2022 There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be… - Thomas Hood, 'Silence', 1823. Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus... Read more

Rebecca Wallis: Void of Meaning (Pt.2)
7 - 28 May 2022 Rebecca Wallis, and how to keep making new paintings Edward Hanfling, December 2021 The art of Rebecca Wallis has three defining qualities. One is growth, which comes from the artist repeatedly effecting risky changes, reaching for new levels of experience. Another (related) is what could be called aesthetic difficulty, which... Read more

Iokapeta Magele-Suamasi: Dāta Seki
7 - 28 May 2022 Iokapeta Magele-Suamasi is a relatively new exhibiting artist in Aotearoa. In this exhibition she reshows the 4-part lenticular body of work called, Dāta Seki. This work was the outstanding artwork that recently debuted in the annual three-day Pop-Up all women exhibition, 'Sunday Girl' curated by founder Leela Bhai. Dāta Seki... Read more

SENSATION_22
New art from New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Region 9 - 30 April 2022 Read more

Monique Lacey: Half Truths
12 March - 2 April 2022 Read more

Rebecca Hazard: Honey, you're caving in
12 March - 2 April 2022 Cathedral of Flesh Rebecca Hazard's paintings are making their mark at a time of ecological, social and technological transition. Deliberately attempting to reorient us towards a more connected human dimension, the work zeroes in on our relationship to capitalism, extractivism, consumerism - our relationship with the 'other' and our often-uneasy... Read more

Sefton Rani: Industrial Plantations
12 February - 6 March 2022 In the first chapter of his book Pacific Postmodern (2000), American poet and educator Rob Wilson, distinguishes between two postmodern movements in Pacific writing. The first is what he calls postcolonial 'identity lyrics' which he likens to a kind of kitsch, under-theorized response to the touristic gaze. This might be... Read more

Rebecca Harris: Reflect What You Are
12 February - 6 March 2022 Read more

Rebecca Wallis: Void of Meaning
3 December 2021 - 30 January 2022 Rebecca Wallis, and how to keep making new paintings The art of Rebecca Wallis has three defining qualities. One is growth, which comes from the artist repeatedly effecting risky changes, reaching for new levels of experience. Another (related) is what could be called aesthetic difficulty, which comes from a refusal... Read more

Monique Lacey: The Truth of the Matter
10 November - 1 December 2021 Created in the post-post-post-truth dystopia of 2021, the whitewashed opacity of these lumbering forms alludes to a popular mediascape rife with supposition and fear. No matter where you turn, the discourse sounds the same. All surface, no substance: these narratives do not stand up well to interrogation, but nevertheless they... Read more

TENT
Aotearoa's biggest online art event 3 - 18 November 2021 Read more

Toby Raine: Reverent
Recent studio work 17 October - 14 November 2021 Toby Raine Reverent Being a fan of Christopher Hitchens, and a somewhat suspicious atheist, I often surprise myself with my obsession for the power and majesty of religious subject matter. Coming from a European art tradition, you can't really escape it growing up. That stuff is everywhere. From the Giotto... Read more

Jeremy Piert: The Golden Brook
3 - 19 September 2021 Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Jeremy is a consummate painter, and an extremely good draughtsman. It shows in the work. Endearing, playful and elegant - his subject matter in this series consists of birds and animals, painted in an imaginary setting at dusk, within a rich, moody, and magical landscape.... Read more

Kirsty Lillico: Carpet Burns
31 July - 22 August 2021 Kirsty Lillico, Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland Read more

Cruz Jimenez – Candide
3 - 25 July 2021 Read more

Te Tai-o-Rēhua (The Tasman)
A Group Show of Australian and New Zealand Artists 5 - 27 June 2021 We are delighted to have commissioned Andrew Paul Wood to write the essay for this magnificent show with his usual flair and insightful panache. Enjoy! Presently [Alice] began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right THROUGH the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that... Read more

Nicholas Ives: The Crudes
8 - 30 May 2021 'Art history and human memory wend their ambiguous, and sometimes ambivalent traces through the paintings of Melbourne-based Nicholas Ives. Along the way he tunes into contemporary anxieties, freezeframes the ephemeral moment, and plays the flaneur amid the detritus of pop culture to create his unsettling, visionary otherworlds. It is too... Read more

Toby Raine – The last innocent thing left
12 March - 4 April 2021 Toby Raine is one of the hottest young painters of his generation. His in-your-face, expressive style has graced the walls of collectors both here and overseas - each show practically selling out. So I'm really excited and honoured to have a show of powerful - yet sensitive - new work... Read more

Auckland Art Fair 2021
Enjoy our online experience! 28 February - 7 March 2021 Read more

Patricia Piccinini
13 February - 10 March 2021 Patricia Piccinini is one of the most popular - and controversial - artists in the world. She has had over 55 solo shows in the past 13 years including Brazil (where over 1.2 million visitors came to see her show), USA, Germany, UK, Finland, Australia, Sweden, Slovenia, Ireland, Lithuania and... Read more

Julian McKinnon
Elysium Mons 16 January - 6 February 2021 We open our 2021 show calendar with Julian McKinnon's Sc i-fi meets AI, painter meets machine, knockout show! Read more

New Collectors 2020
20 December 2020 - 14 January 2021 Read more

Oliver King
I am the man I am 28 November - 19 December 2020 Oliver King - I am the man I am I'm delighted to announce that we're now formally representing Oliver King - and kicking off our partnership with an outstanding show of new work on now from Thursday to Saturday, 11-5pm until 19th December. I've been a massive fan of Oliver's... Read more

Ivan Lupi - Display
Sunday 22 November 11-5pm 22 November 2020 Ivan will perform 'Display' at Scott Lawrie Gallery in November 2020, a unique one-day extension of the performance event originall commissioned by COCA in Christchurch in 2017. Since 2001 Ivan has been an active member of the collective Amae and has taken part in various collaborations and exhibitions in Asia,... Read more

Rebecca Wallis
With the Absent Other 28 October - 21 November 2020 Rebecca Wallis is an artist who is gaining significant international attention for her work. After completing her Masters in Visual Arts at Goldsmiths College in London, she’s practiced between London and Auckland. Her third solo show with us is one of her most dynamic and exciting yet – paintings on... Read more

Monique Lacey
Bipartiss Solucius 3 - 24 October 2020 Monique Lacey, Bipartiss Solucius “My sculptures begin with new commercial packaging materials purchased at local hardware stores which offer structural givens of both volume and surface. These flat-packed materials are assembled and then covered with plaster, paint, resin, rubber, wax, varnish and pigments which act as both binding agents... Read more

Hello Again
A group show for a new space 5 - 26 September 2020 After COVID-19 brought The Vivian in Matakana to a close in April, Director Scott Lawrie has arrived at the heart of Grey Lynn with a new gallery space and a new name - Scott Lawrie Gallery. This group show features all our represented artists (except the wondderful Patricia Piccinini who... Read more