Exhibitions

Spring/Summer Edition

18 Nov - 3 Dec 2025 Earlier in the year the gallery took part in the Spring 1883 Art Fair in Melbourne. This presentation was so warmly received that we are delighted to bring an iteration back to home soil. Spring/Summer Edition 26 contains new works which explore themes of desire, tradition, longing and loss -... Read more

Lottie Consalvo - Tis Waking That Kills Us

23 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 ​Foenander Galleries is thrilled to present ​Lottie Consalvo's debut solo exhibition in Aotearoa: Tis Waking That Kills Us Opening: Thursday 23rd October: 6-8pm Until: 15 November Lottie Consalvo is one of Australasia most thought-provoking contemporary artists. Her practice challenges conventional notions of reality and urges us to embrace what is... Read more

Michael McHugh - New Paintings

4 - 20 Oct 2025 Morphogenesis —the biological process that gives rise to the form and structure of living organisms—serves as a fitting conceptual foundation for Michael McHugh’s latest body of work. Drawing on the literal meaning of the word, 'creation of form,' McHugh engages with the natural world through a deeply intuitive, research-driven practice... Read more

Gavin Chai - Poesies

20 - 29 Aug 2025 Posies is a new series of atmospheric paintings and ceramics which capture the essence of the human condition and the impact of the modern world on individuals. Despite their often stark realism, Chai’s masterful work have a an eerie sense of the surreal, inviting viewers to contemplate the themes of... Read more

Spring 1883 Art Fair

14 - 16 Aug 2025 Föenander Galleries is please to participate in the ninth edition of Spring 1883 Art Fair. The gallery will occupy Suite 303, presenting new works by: Andrea Bolima Lottie Consalvo Nick Herd Monique Lacey Jess Swney Jess Swney + Roger Mortimer Monica Rani Rudhar Each of these contemporary practitioners is renowned... Read more

Natalie Guy - Freestyle

1 - 26 Aug 2025 Natalie Guy is a sculptor working across the mediums of bronze, steel, wood, glass, and plastics. She has a particular interest in the legacy of mid-century modernism and how our memories of the stylistic cues inherent in architecture, art, and objects, from that era. can be engaged and defamiliarised through... Read more

Neal Palmer - Modernist Tendencies

1 - 20 Aug 2025 Modernist Tendencies: Between Seeing and Looking By Dina Jezdić A pale ribbon of lavender cuts across the canvas, slicing through a sea of olive green and into soft charcoal shadow. In Modernist Tendencies , Neal Palmer transforms flax, rendering it as a glowing fragment, pulsing with concentrated intensity. The plant... Read more

Cathy Carter - Breath of Time

11 - 18 Jul 2025 Cathy Cater’s new exhibition A breath of Time was born out of her recent experience at the Nocefresca artist residency in Sardegna and explores both the impact and appeal of tourism, along the coastline. Her new series employs intricate digital collaging techniques, to create highly constructed worlds of 'hyper reality'... Read more

Chauncey Flay - Seawall

11 - 28 Jul 2025 The Art of Holding Back the Sea By Dina Jezdić Coral is not a rock. It is an animal most closely related to jellyfish, a colony, and a slow-moving architecture of survival. A reef is a city teeming with marine life, a breathing archive shaped over centuries by the quiet... Read more

Echo Bravo

28 Jun - 8 Jul 2025 Michael Dell Lottie Consalvo Gavin Chai Nick Herd Richard Penn Andy Leleisi'uao Read more

Belinda Griffiths - Listening for the Quiet

5 - 25 Jun 2025 Towards the end last year Belinda started a work depicting a standing figure, eyes closed against and amongst sweeping gestural brushstrokes. She was struck by the two realities that exist side-by-side in her work - the dynamic movement produced by the mark making and the quiet stillness which is wrestled... Read more

Roger Mortimer - East of Kaipara

15 May - 3 Jun 2025 Roger Mortimer's new exhibition East of Kaipara features eight new jewel-like paintings. which will be exhibited alongside Roger’s largest work to date - a 9.8 meter jacquard weaving. The smaller paintings, despite their relative size to the giant weaving hold their own in its presence – and span the duel... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2025

1 - 4 May 2025 Föenander Galleries is presenting a series of new works by leading contemporary practitioners, each of them renowned for their exceptional skill and strong conceptual foundation. While their practices are diverse, themes in the work proposed for the fair explore themes of desire, tradition, banality and memory; navigating ideas of disconnection... Read more

Ngā Hau e Whā | Tāmaki Makaurau

23 Apr - 13 May 2025 Ngā Hau e Whā | Tāmaki Makaurau The Four Winds | Auckland Preview until 29 April - 5 Gore Street, the Pavilions, Britomart Viewings from 1st May - 1 Faraday Street, Parnell For centuries, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland has been a site of convergence. This is a place where people, ideas... Read more

Billy McQueen - Back and Forth

10 - 30 Apr 2025 Back and Forth Forestry state houses. Pastel pinks, yellows, turquoise. Brown doorsteps. The smell of pine. The sound of the trees. They swing back and forth. No ocean, just ponds, streams and dams. Iwitahi is gone. Doorsteps remain. Memories go back and forth. Our new home is further north. Near... Read more

Nick Herd - The Light of Day

3 - 25 Apr 2025 POP UP | NICK HERD | THE LIGHT OF DAY Location : 5a Gore Street, The Pavilions, Britomart Duration : 3 - 18th April 2025 Open Daily : 9.30am - 4.30pm The Light of Day is an offsite presentation of figurative paintings by Nick herd. Painting from life, Herd captures... Read more

Simon Ogden - Diving for Pearls

13 Mar - 2 Apr 2025 Crafted from and on linoleum, here are works in bitumen and flocking, paint, pollen, paperback bark, beads, pearls, willow charcoal, accents of copper, gold or silver leaf and varnish. Caches such as these intrigue and invite the eye to travel slowly because these are shifting surfaces. Experiences made visible. Move... Read more

Matthew Carter - Unscripted

20 Feb - 10 Mar 2025 Matthew Carter’s new body of work: Unscripted is a continuation of his documenting of the city and . In contrast to previous works where the sense of time and space was deliberately ambiguous, these pieces are grounded in more precise contexts. There’s a palpable sense of being 'in the moment'... Read more

Andrea Bolima - Dusk Till Lawn

29 Jan - 18 Feb 2025 Föenander Galleries is thrilled to present Andrea Bolima’s stunning Dusk Till Lawn 'Bolima’s paintings assert their physical presence but perhaps more importantly, they allow dreamy associations to be made in the paint. Bolima’s paintings sit in an ambiguous zone between abstraction and representation and as such one can find themselves... Read more

The Daylight Show

6 - 24 Dec 2024 The Daylight Show | 13 Emerging Artists “[It is] the interaction of the onlooker which makes the painting…It’s always based on the two poles, the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from that bipolar action gives birth to something—like electricity. Don’t say that the artist is a... Read more

Michael McHugh - The Accidental Garden

14 Nov - 4 Dec 2024 Michael McHugh’s paintings reflect an instantly familiar vision of pacific forms and nature’s exuberance, as well as a highly personal perception of subject matter. The paintings in McHugh’s new series: The Accidental Garden are distinguished by their playfulness, obsessive detail and lush imagery; with every inch of these expansive compositions... Read more

Neal Palmer - Connections

24 Oct - 12 Nov 2024 Neal Palmer is one of New Zealand’s leading botanical painters, known for his large scale paintings of native fauna. His new exhibition: Connections explores our relationship with the montane forests of Aotearoa: 'There is an inner sense of wellbeing that comes from spending time among trees and plants - a... Read more

Bonco - Citizen Account

24 Oct - 6 Nov 2024 In the Galleries Library Space – we are presenting a series of new paintings by Bonco Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based artist Bonco has long been interested in the metaphysical possibilities of grids and geometric abstraction, taking his cues from the early history of the avant-guard and its close relationship with esoteric... Read more

Backlit Fields + Truth Untold

4 - 24 Oct 2024 Foenander Galleries is proud to present two independent exhibitions by Michael Dell & Monique Lacey - two artists known for their abstract logic and attention to material. Michael Dell | Backlit Fields Michael Dell’s paintings shift from subject to non-subject, from representation to abstraction, where both modes of visual discourse... Read more

Nick Herd - In Love but Lazy

12 Sep - 1 Oct 2024 Following Nick Herd’s sell out presentation at the 2024 Aotearoa Art Fair, Foenander Galleries is proud to his debut exhibition at the gallery. Known for his thick application of paint, Herd has carved out a recognisable style which is distinctly his own. Herd’s exhibition ‘In Love But Lazy’ features a... Read more

Black Books

24 Aug - 10 Sep 2024 Black Books explores the role the unconscious plays in the practice of three significant contemporary practitioners: Lottie Conslavo Roger Mortimer Ramon Robertson The exhibition takes it’s title from a collection of private journals – referred to as the Black Books – which document Carl Jung’s ‘confrontation with the unconscious’. Each... Read more

Rupert Travis - Indiscreet Tourist

1 - 20 Aug 2024 Rupert Travis is a New Zealand-born artist who resides in Ōtautahi Christchurch. His work explores parallels between medium, materiality and subject matter, his compositions engage a mix of collected memories and image, breaking up everyday scenes and reconstructing them within a lyrical dreamscape. By linking suggested narrative to the application... Read more

Cathy Carter - Fluid Alchemy

11 - 30 Jul 2024 Fluid Alchemy ‘We sweat and cry salt water so we know that the ocean is really in our blood” Teresa Teaiwa Alchemy: the process of taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary sometimes in a way that cannot be explained. Chemistry’s medieval forerunner explored the transmutation of metals... Read more

Tori Beeche - Tori Beeche

11 - 29 Jul 2024 Tori Beeche deftly manipulates visual and material culture to create works that are nostalgically astute and optically glorious. Curious souvenirs, ceremonial objects and decorative patterns fill these grand domestic interiors which have all been carefully captured by Beeche’s diversified practice. Combining the familiar and imagined, she presents and explores the... Read more

Vishmi Helaratne - Holy Crops

31 May - 26 Jun 2024 Holy Crops Vishmi Helaratne “Holy Crops presents an intimate series of sculptural paintings by Vishmi Helaratne, the presentation offers an emotion of their fluid ambiguity and forecasts a sense of freedom while harvesting their intense obsession with colour theory and investigation of external and internal matter. Helaratne generates a foundation... Read more

Paul Woodruffe | Quiet Places

2 - 21 May 2024 Paul Woodruffe’s instantly alluring but ambiguous, paintings require a long, slow viewing to appreciate their complexity of composition, games of relationships and abundance of symbols. His richly coloured and elaborate paintings, contain an assemblage of settings, characters, and motifs – with both disparate and overlapping spaces and forms. They forge... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2024

18 - 21 Apr 2024 Föenander Galleries presented new works by Gavin Chai, Lottie Consalvo, Nick Herd, 박성환 Sung Hwan Bobby Park and Roger Mortimer. The practitioners delve into the theme of Interior Life. Through allusions to the body, community and everyday spaces, each artist will intricately navigate the interplay of identity, self-discovery, psychological transformations,... Read more

Belinda Griffiths & Garry Currin

14 Mar - 9 Apr 2024 Foenander Galleries presents exhibitions by Belinda Griffiths & Garry Currin Griffiths & Currin are both process led painters who utilise the expressive power of the gestural mark, alongside a limited palette to great effect. While their work is pictorial in appearance, it’s emphasis is underpinned by evocative mark making, that... Read more

Andrea Bolima - Perennial Presence

28 Feb - 19 Mar 2024 Andrea Bolima | Perennial Presence – Victoria Munn, 2024 “The natural world influences much of Andrea Bolima’s work, but this is particularly pronounced in her latest series, Perennial Presence , painted during her residency at Fortland Park, Karaka. The Fortland Park studio is surrounded by thriving gardens and, with windows... Read more

Matt Palmer - Twelve paintings

8 Feb - 4 Mar 2024 Matthew Palmer: 12 Paintings – Toni MacKinnon, 2024 Landscape painting is not without its risk. For a start, the artist is up against history, four to five hundred years of it. Beginning in earnest when artist Joachim Patinir (c. 1480 d. 1524) first made landscape more than just the background... Read more

Michael McHugh - Archipelago

7 - 28 Dec 2023 McHugh’s paintings reflect an instantly familiar vision of exotic forms and nature’s exuberance, as well as a highly personal perception of subject matter. His playfulness is complemented by an abstract logic, which breaks forms down into layered and lively compositions of geometry, pattern, texture and colour. His distinctive botanical language,... Read more

Neal Palmer - Reaction and Reflection

26 Oct - 14 Nov 2023 Föenander Galleries is proud to present Neal Palmer’s new body of work ‘Reaction & Reflection’ which responds to his recent artist residency at Auckland Botanic Gardens: “I started the groundwork for this exhibition at the beginning of 2023 while I was Artist in Residence at the Auckland Botanic Gardens in... Read more

Cathy Carter - Liminal Blue

6 - 24 Oct 2023 “I’m fascinated by how we perceive liquid spaces in the world – how we interact with water, with the vast open ocean and in contrast, the confined constructed swimming pool. Both share similarities in the way we experience these spaces but there are also huge differences in the intensity of... Read more

Ramon Robertson - Red Moss

14 Sep - 3 Oct 2023 Robertson's new exhibition: Red Moss exhibition circles around themes of research, public art and public accessibility in and around different areas of Auckland. Within these themes are concepts looking at people and environment, and the nature of society. One of the central ideas behind several works in this exhibition is... Read more

Material Object

7 - 25 Sep 2023 The presentation features a suite of new works by Michael Dell Chauncey Flay and Lætitia Jacquetton, three artists known for their attention to material and surface. A palpable stillness runs through the surfaces of Dell’s work, which seemingly provides the viewer a sense of static and unoccupied space. Subject and... Read more

Simon Ogden - Dancing on Quicksand

24 Aug - 12 Sep 2023 Dancing on Quicksand is Simon Ogden’s latest exhibition in Tamaki Makaurau. His practice encompasses painting, printmaking, assemblage and sculpture and is one of the few artists in the world working with antique and ‘found’ linoleum to produce striking landscapes. The exhibition comprises a new series of linoleum constructions, presented alongside... Read more

Debbie Harris - Corpse Flowers & Chewing Gum

4 - 22 Aug 2023 Debbie Harris: Corpse Flowers and Chewing Gum -Maya Love, 2023 Some months ago, Debbie Harris received a photo of a rafflesia from a friend. Commonly known as a corpse flower after its powerful stench, the rafflesia is a plant species in Southeast Asia formed of five petals around a circle... Read more

Billy McQueen - Archive 04

15 Jul - 1 Aug 2023 This exhibtion was presented in tandem with new works from Jamie Chapman. Chapman & McQueen are both process led painters who retain something of a strong sense of narrative. While their work is pictorial in appearance, it’s concerned with the evocative potential of paint, embracing both the recent history of... Read more

Jamie Chapman - Cloud Watching

13 Jul - 1 Aug 2023 This exhibtion was presented in tandem with new works from Billy McQueen. Chapman & McQueen are both process led painters who retain something of a strong sense of narrative. While their work is pictorial in appearance, it’s concerned with the evocative potential of paint, embracing both the recent history of... Read more

Gavin Chai - Strange Paradise

22 Jun - 11 Jul 2023 Strange Paradise is a new series of atmospheric exterior paintings which capture elements of domestic life. Chai’s paintings evoke a sense of introspection, capturing the essence of the human condition and the impact of the modern world on individuals. Despite their often stark realism, Chai’s masterful paintings have a an... Read more

Richard van der Aa - Before You Know It

15 Jun - 3 Jul 2023 Richard van der Aa ‘s exhibition Before you know it is a series of reductive paintings that examine the point of tension between painting and sculpture, as well as object and image. The title of the show relates both to the way an image might communicate information before a viewer... Read more

Chauncey Flay - One Million Marks

1 - 20 Jun 2023 Chauncey Flay ’s One Million Mark s, is a fascinating and uncompromising project, that began with the question ‘What is infinity?’ and eventuated into a process of making one million marks from stone pigment. For the project, Chauncey collected, sculpted and polished 100 stones from across the South Island and... Read more

Belinda Griffiths - Traces

11 - 31 May 2023 “We need the terrain of the half solved and the half solvable, of the distance between knowing and not knowing, seeing the trace in the ground and being still somewhat uncertain of what it is, of not having a clear label that tells us everything ”- William Kentridge Belinda Griffiths’... Read more

Adrian Jackman - Jungle Arcade

21 Apr - 9 May 2023 Jungle Arcade is a new exhibition of works by Adrian Jackman. He sees the artists role as one to make sense of their surroundings, navigating through new technological or environmental systems to suggest a new psychological space, much as we do in the cinematic world. Always looking forward to making... Read more

Facing North

1 - 22 Apr 2023 This showcase represents diversity of generations, approaches, and viewpoints, as artists embark on spatial journey by exploring notions of place; physically, metaphorically and temporally. Read more

Matthew Carter - New Wave

10 - 30 Mar 2023 The term mise-en-scène is often used in discussion and criticism of cinema. The term literally translates from French as ‘setting the stage’, though it has a nuanced meaning when used in the context of film. In such it includes stage design, arrangement of the actors, props, and lighting. It is... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

2 - 5 Mar 2023 Föenander Galleries is presenting a series of new works by Lottie Consalvo Chauncey Flay Michael Dell Roger Mortimer Each of these contemporary practitioners are renowned for their exceptional skill and conceptual prowess. While their practices are diverse, themes in the work proposed work for the fair will explore – the... Read more

Future Nostalgia

16 Feb - 7 Mar 2023 Future Nostalgia features new works from three artists. Each artist art draws from the past to speak to us in the present, reformulating objects, ideas and moments from personal and historical archives. The result is works which invite viewers to consider the value of nostalgic reflection through our connection to... Read more

Cathy Carter - We Are Water- offsite exhibition

4 - 15 Feb 2023 At the time of the first European arrivals to Aotearoa, Waiheke was known as Motu-Wai-Heke, “island of trickling waters”. With an art practice centred on bodies of water Carter’s work has a natural synergy with Waiheke. Her pop up exhibition: We are Water looks to make new connections between bodies... Read more

Summer Presentation

10 Jan - 6 Feb 2023 Cathy Carter Ramon Robertson Billy McQueen Hamish Allan Neal Palmer Adrian Jackman Peter Gibson Smith Chauncey Flay Read more

Michael McHugh - The Island

1 - 20 Dec 2022 McHugh’s paintings reflect an instantly familiar vision of exotic forms and nature’s exuberance, as well as a highly personal perception of subject matter. His playfulness is complemented by an abstract rationale, which breaks forms down into layered and lively compositions of geometry, pattern, texture and colour. Works are sometimes sombre... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair 2022

16 - 20 Nov 2022 Föenander Galleries is presenting a series of new works by Andrea Bolima, Roger Mortimer, Michael McHugh & Ramon Robertson Read more

Neal Palmer - Under the Surface

10 - 29 Nov 2022 When our borders re-opened in 2022, I took the opportunity to travel to Europe and the UK to reconnect with family and friends and to visit as many galleries and exhibitions as I could get to. Big shows in big galleries. Scale was the thing that really jumped out. It... Read more

Michael Dell - Sunday Morning

6 - 26 Oct 2022 The landscapes in this new exhibition are views from what is essentially the same location at Riverside Community in the Moutere Valley. Paintings based on field photographs taken at various times of the day, over a long period of time. A single location as a repository of ideas for art-making... Read more

Gavin Chai - Interior

15 Sep - 4 Oct 2022 Edward Hopper famously said: “great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this inner life will result in his (sic) personal vision of the world .” This is true on a number of levels for Gavin Chai’s interior paintings. Chai’s mostly empty interiors, set... Read more

Roger Mortimer - Hauraki: Northerly Wind

25 Aug - 13 Sep 2022 Hauraki ii by Jade Kake (2022) “The image is revealed in parts, emerging from each detail. Smaller details are visible at first. There are many unique features within these images. The eyes flit from one object to another, like the movement of a pīwakawaka. Most of the symbols are drawn... Read more

Playground in a Lake

4 - 22 Aug 2022 Roger Mortimer ‘s extraordinary new exhibition: Hauraki: Northerly Wind is comprised of four beautiful jewel like paintings, which are exhibited alongside Roger’s largest work to date – a 7.5 meter jacquard weaving. The four smaller paintings, despite their relative size to the giant weaving hold their own in its presence.... Read more

Andrea du Chatenier - I am a Mermaid

14 Jul - 2 Aug 2022 Andrea’s new exhibition is principally a consideration of the potential and vast possibilities of clay as a material. Du Chatenier’s curiously abstracted forms and dripping structures are at once both archaic and futuristic – and move between the organic and artificial. There is an irresistible playfulness and seductive tactility to... Read more

Cathy Carter - Goldilocks Zone

23 Jun - 12 Jul 2022 Cathy Carter ‘s new exhibition Goldilocks Zone is an exploration of the relationship between people, place and water This new body of work opens up alternative vantage points on a micro-scale, drawing attention to our planet’s privileged position in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ – an area of our solar system, where... Read more

Paul Woodruffe - Pop Tones

12 - 31 May 2022 Recent experience has shaped the domestic subject choices for this body of work, with the intent of making these paintings to imbue the ordinary with a sense of the extraordinary. Woodruffe has created a retinal experience that is coupled to a suggestion of narrative, with both the still & contemplative,... Read more

Andrea Bolima - Dandelion Street

30 Apr - 12 May 2022 Following her sell out debut exhibition, Föenander Galleries is thrilled to present Andrea Bolima ’s second exhibition at the gallery. Bolima’s paintings assert their physical presence but perhaps more importantly, they allow dreamy associations to be made in the paint. Bolima’s paintings sit in an ambiguous zone between abstraction and... Read more

Matt Palmer - Stories End

21 Apr - 10 May 2022 Palmer’s New Zealand is iconic, yet intimate. His paintings explore the role desire and intimacy play in the development of memory and recall of personal history. Memories of his past are reshaped and retold from a sense of developed personal mythology and the experience of his present circumstance: an expat... Read more

Belinda Griffiths - Exhale

2 - 19 Apr 2022 Belinda’s latest body of work takes inspiration from a series of small monotypes made towards the end of last year. The monotypes – for the most part – depict figures within a landscape, surveying an approaching storm or navigating an overgrown path. There is a sense of reflection but also... Read more

Roger Mortimer & Thomas Newman Pound - Lost Pages

12 Feb - 8 Mar 2022 Radiant Objects: Roger Mortimer and Thomas Newman Pound 'At its best, collaboration produces something greater than the sum of its parts. This is a timeworn saying of course, though in this instance it is entirely true. In this collaborative effort, Roger Mortimer and Thomas Newman Pound have created artwork that... Read more

Ramon Robertson - Natural Habitats

2 - 23 Dec 2021 The title “Natural Habitats” usually resonates with ideas of nature, eco systems, land and water; something different to a world we share together in our built environments. I prefer to look at it in terms of our everyday living environments and the world we inhabit here and now, together with... Read more

Neal Palmer - On Track

12 Nov - 2 Dec 2021 The exhibition title On Track is at the same time a statement, a description and a question. As a description, the paintings in ‘On Track’ are a development from work I started during an art residency at Karekare House in 2018, for which my proposal was to explore and visually... Read more

Billy McQueen - Archive 03

26 Oct - 15 Nov 2021 The subject matter of McQueen’s new paintings is largely drawn from domestic scenes of family life or imagery of, or connected to, ancestral land in the Kaingaroa Plains. His choice of subject matter quietly biographical – not political – and really secondary to his central aim, which is concerned with... Read more

Caught up in Circles

6 - 26 Oct 2021 Caught up in Circles features a suite of new works from three significant female artists: Tori Beeche | Andrea Bolima | Marinda Vandenheede Each artist art draws from the past to speak to us in the present, reformulating objects, ideas and moments from personal and historical archives. The result is... Read more

Simon Ogden - Digging in the Dirt for Diamonds

9 - 25 Aug 2021 Digging in the Dirt for Diamonds is Simon Ogden’s latest exhibition in Auckland. His practice encompasses painting, printmaking, assemblage and sculpture and is one of the few artists in the world working with antique and ‘found’ linoleum to produce striking landscapes. The exhibition is comprised of a new series of... Read more

Gavin Chai & David Shennan

15 Jul - 3 Aug 2021 Gavin Chai ’s practice draws upon a rich history of cultural heritage and painting techniques and to represent contemporary experiences. Chai’s current works focus’ on interior spaces and are a blend of historical, making allusions to classical & biblical themes with timeless allegories. Chai’s hauntingly vivid works with their humble... Read more

Queenstown - Dell + Kube

9 - 24 Jul 2021 The presentation features a suite of new works by Michael Dell (Föenander) and Timo Kube (CHAUFFEUR), two critically acclaimed artists known for their attention to material and surface, which shift between modes of representation and abstraction. A palpable stillness runs through the surfaces of Dell’s work, which seemingly provides the... Read more

Andrea Bolima - The Colour Before Colour

3 - 21 Jun 2021 Andrea Bolima’s paintings assert their physical presence but perhaps more importantly, they allow dreamy associations to be made in the paint. Bolima’s paintings sit in an ambiguous zone between abstraction and representation and as such one can find themselves in flux between ‘here’ and ‘there’, in focus and out of... Read more

Matt Palmer - Stories End

21 Apr - 10 May 2021 Palmer’s New Zealand is iconic, yet intimate. His paintings explore the role desire and intimacy play in the development of memory and recall of personal history. Memories of his past are reshaped and retold from a sense of developed personal mythology and the experience of his present circumstance: an expat... Read more

Belinda Griffiths - Inflection

11 Feb - 9 Mar 2021 Inflection is the latest body of work by Belinda Griffiths. During the first lockdown Belinda began a series of daily paintings of the blackbirds in her garden. These works were small and immediate and were both a way of maintaining some semblance of routine but also became a form of... Read more

Michael Dell - Even Now

5 - 24 Nov 2020 A palpable stillness runs through the paintings by Michael Dell in his third solo exhibition with Föenander Gallery. Next to his subtle gradient paintings, Dell’s eerie landscapes are static and unoccupied. Subject and non-subject are rendered with the same meticulous treatment, where the formal distinction between representation and abstraction becomes... Read more

Matt Palmer - Inland From Here

13 - 31 Aug 2020 Matt Palmer’s stunning new exhibition Inland From Here was due to open at the gallery on Saturday 15th August. Due to the changing lockdown situation, the exhibition was launched online in our virtual viewing room . Once we are able to open our doors again, we will organise a post-opening... Read more