Erica van Zon has new and earlier work in a new exhibition curated by Megan Dunn at the Nairn Street Cottage, 68 Nairn Street, Mount Cook, Wellington from 1 August - 31 October 2026.  

Seven artists. One house. Multiple histories. 

“Learn ...

Gallery artist Layla Rudneva-Mackay has work in a new group exhibition MOTHERMOTHER – an exhibition that investigates mother-centred frameworks and matriarchal futures; reflecting on the intricate, joyful, and vital systems on which society depends.

Mothering is not only biological, it is ...

Darryn George has a new outdoor lightbox exhibition outside the Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.  

The Tribute paintings draw their inspiration from Tukutuku patterns, particularly the Poutama (Stairway to Heaven) design. These works are named after the first Māori to ...

‘A Drawing for a Group Show’ is, as its title suggests, a group exhibition celebrating the diverse practice of drawing across Aotearoa. Artists have been invited to contribute works at a uniform scale, with each piece exhibited unframed as part ...

Photographic work by Layla Rudneva-Mackay is featured in the new exhibition "Not a Solitary Feeling" at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington 04 July – 11 October 2026.  

Curated by Susan Ballard and Sophie Thorn, the exhibition includes work by Fiona ...

Patrick Pound has created a new "Museum of Loneliness" to be featured in the new exhibition "Are you lonely tonight? I'm so lonesome I could cry" at Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, Australia from 3 July - 30 ...

Visiting Kirstin Carlin in herstudio ahead of her inclusion in our new exhibition "Other People's Flowers" openung late August.

Emma Fitts sits down with Graeme Douglas from The Good Oil as part of a season to support the McCahon House Parehuia Residency, celebrating their 20th Anniversary.  Emma Fitts was theri artist in residence in 2018.

Her work is held ...

As a local Karangahape business owner and as a board member for the Karangahape Business Association, I am joining the 2026 Big Sleep Out to support the work Lifewise does in our community. 

We have been on Karangahape Rd around ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is returning to the Aotearoa Art Fair this year 30 April - 3 May.  We know that art fairs can be overwhelming, so – based on conversations at previous fairs - this is our survival guide....

We recommend you buy ...

Emma Fitts has new work in the exhibition "Home Studio" at Objectspace in Christchurch from 2 May - 28 June 2026.

"Home Studio" explores the blurred boundaries between domestic and working spaces, bringing together artists who produce work from, within, or ...

Congratulations to Claudia Jowitt who is one of two recipients of the Tylee Cottage artist residency programme with Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui.



Claudia Jowitt will be in residence at Tylee Cottage from April 2026 and is ...

A Summer visit to Martin Poppelwell's pottery studio in the Hawkes Bay.  

A visit to Rosa Allison's Island Bay studio in Wellington ahead of her new solo exhibition in April.  To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

A peek inside Grace Terry's studio ahead of her solo exhibition "To Look Twice".  To enquire about works: info@melanierogergallery.com

Tessa Laird has new and recent work in "A velvet ant, a flower and a bird" at the Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne Australia.  evokes a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant ...

We have a new selection of iconic moustaches by Gavin Hurley available now at the gallery in our stockroom for $250 each.  Each is unique and hand stitched onto a mounted found postcard just in time for Christmas.  We asked ...

We are doing something a little bit different with our gallery window space this month….a donation drive for our block neighbours Lifewise.

Being on Karangahape Rd, we have seen the extreme rise of homelessness and hardship this year. It ...

"Near & Far" is an exhibition of recent work by Stanley Palmer at the Waiheke Community Gallery over the Summer period from 12 December 2025 - 1 February 2026.

The exhibition consists of paintings and printmaking and includes works depicting Waiheke, Mercury ...

Concurrent to her new solo exhibition with Melanie Roger Gallery, Georgia Arnold has earlier work in 'Pleasure Garden' 8 November - 4 December 2025 at Sir Miles Warren Gallery in Christchurch as part of Objectspace's programme.

Ōtautahi Christchurch’s title ...

A visit to Georgia Arnold's studio ahead of her first solo exhibition with Melanie Roger Gallery in early November.  To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

Join artist Gavin Hurley for a 2-hour portrait collage workshop at Melanie Roger Gallery at 11am on Saturday 1 November as part of FAM on Karangahape Rd. This workshop coincides with Hurley’s exhibition “Still Growing Up” which will also ...

Please join us to celebrate the publication launch of Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film (University of Minnesota Press) by Tessa Laird.

This event will include a special screening of films by Nova Paul, Corinne and Arthur Cantrill, Sriwhana Spong ...

DEMO (3 Water St, Grafton)
17 September
5-7pm (drawing event 5.30-6.30pm)

In this latest body of work, and as part of his PhD entitled “Expanded Drawing and the Gallery as Site: From the Drawing Lesson to the Pensive ...

Patrick Pound's eclectic collecting that informs and is his own artistic practise, is the subject of a new publication "Double Feature" edited by Mark Alice Durant  and published by St Lucy's Books.  

Over 200 vernacular images from the ...

In her first solo exhibition in a public gallery, Auckland-based artist Claudia Jowitt dives deeply into the sculptural possibilities of paint. The exhibition "Uana: Carried by the Waves" is a luminous celebration of materiality, memory, and cultural resonance—gathering together ...

A peek inside the Wellington studio of Kathy Barry ahead of her solo exhibition "We Went to the Edges of Time" openng 13 August.  To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

Tessa Laird releases a new book - "Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film".  Published by University of Minnesota Press, the publication is a foray through the wilds where experimental films and animals collide.

Like the flash of a tropical bird’s ...

John Brown speaks with Graeme Douglas on The Good Oil podcast from his home and studio in the Hawkes Bay.  In the episode you’ll hear John speak about the thorough conceptual approach he takes with a subject before he ...

Photographer Richard Brimer visits painter John Brown in his Hawkes Bay studio ahead of his solo show "Fore & Aft" with Melanie Roger Gallery in July 2025.  To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

Patrick Pound has opened a major new exhibition at the Woolongong Art Gallery in NSW, Australia.  Dream Vitrine runs from 17 May - 16 November 2025.

Imagine if artworks could dream. In Dream Vitrine, artist and collector Patrick Pound reimagines selected ...

Darryn George speaks with Graeme Douglas on The Good Oil podcast.  In the episode you’ll hear Darryn speak about reconnecting with Maoridom and marae, developing his language through a combination of American minimalist abstract painters, kowhaiwhai patterns and Maori ...

Kathy Barry is featured in the new issue of Art New Zealand magazine with a new text "Healing Tools: Recent Work by Kathy Barry" by Robyn Maree Pickens.

To read more, pick up a copy of issue 194, Winter 2025 ...

Erica van Zon has recent work in the new exhibition "Enmeshed: Feminist Modes of Information Sharing" at the Ashburton Art Gallery 11 May - 22 June 2025.

To be ‘enmeshed’ is to be entangled or immersed. Mesh itself can also be ...

"The Tranquility of Solitude" by Derek Henderson
Introduction by Derek Henderson
Poem by David Merritt
Editor Chris Corson-Scott
Text Editor Chris Holdaway
Published by Compound Press
ISBN: 978-1-9911541-5-6

"This book came about while I was staying in a small cabin ...

IT WAS AN APRIL MORNING is a contemporary painting exhibition featuring works by Anoushka Akel, Kirstin Carlin, Georgie Hill, Milli Jannides, and Jennifer Mason. Held in the historic Kinder House, built in 1857 it runs from  6 - 27 April 2025 ...

Te Papa Press has released a new publication "Central Otago: The Eden Hore Collection" by Jane Malthus and Claire Regnault and featuring photography in the landscape by gallery artist Derek Henderson.

In 1975, a makeshift museum opened on a farm ...

Congratulations to Henrietta Harris who has been announced as the winner of The People's Choice prize at the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards in Whakatāne with her work "Quack" - a portrait of rangatahi Māori activist Quack Pirihi (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai ...

As part of our ongoing but occasional series of public programmes events at the gallery, we are hosting a LISTENING EVENT: Saturday, 29 March, 3-6pm when artist Philip Kelly will play records from his collection as an audio response to ...

Our B/W exhibition includes the release of a new monograph on the work of James R. Ford.  The accompanying limited edition screenprint is in our office space.  Orders will be taken on both print and book and freight / postage ...

Henrietta Harris has been commissioned to create portraits of Lorde, Sam Smith, Jamie Demetriou, Lontalius, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Chelsea Jade - as well as portraits of children. 

Mostly these have been made for friends and family (yes - her friends are cooler ...

Melanie Roger Gallery returns to the Aotearoa Art Fair with two group presentations.  You'll find us at Booth G34.  

The first will include work by Roberta Thornley, Robin Neate, Gavin Hurley, Veronica Herber, Kirstin Carlin and Emily Wolfe. 
The ...

Gavin Hurley has a major solo exhibition of works at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington from 20 Februrary - 11 May 2025.

Gavin Hurley’s portraits substantiate, interfere and play with the role of portraiture as a tool for the ...

Erica van Zon has new and recent work in the exhibition Soft Spot at Te Uru Gallery from 16 February - 20 April 2025.

Soft Spot highlights three artists working with fibre-based materials in a range of forms, including rug making ...

A new body of work "Falling if not Flying" from Ōtepoti Dunedin-based painter Michael Greaves will be shown at the Ashburton Art Gallery from 9 December 2024 - 7 February 2025.  The exhibition is a continuation of the last four years ...

Henrietta Harris has teamed up with Checks to create a new capsule collection of clothing featuring her distinctive artwork.  The range includes a shirt, jacket and pants and comes in a range of sizes designed to be unisex.

Pieces are ...

Patrick Pound presents "The Museum of Falling" at City Gallery in Melbourne Australia from 30 September - 14 November 2024.

"The Museum of Falling" unpacks the material history of civic space and the all-too-human experience of navigating it. Presenting a ...

We were pleased to be at the recent re-opening of Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui.  The gallery project is billed as the largest arts development in the Lower North Island since Te Papa opened, in 1998. One ...

Gavin Hurley is featured in the major new publication "About Face: Contemporary Portraiture in Australia and New Zealand.  Publisjhed by Thames and Hudson, it is a vibrant survey of contemporary portrait painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to welcome VERONICA HERBER to the gallery as a represented artist.

Veronica Herber is a full time artist based in Tamaki Makaurau who has exhibited throughout Aotearoa and internationally. Upon graduating from AUT, Herber was ...

A recent visit to the Wellington studio of Rosa Allison who will exhibit new work from mid-October at Melanie Roger Gallery as part of "The Secret Life of Plants". To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

A recent visit to the Titirangi studio and garden of photographer Ann Shelton who will exhibit new work from mid-October at Melanie Roger Gallery as part of "The Secret Life of Plants". To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

A recent visit to the Mahurangi studio and garden of Sarah Smuts-Kennedy who will exhibit new work from mid-October at Melanie Roger Gallery as part of "The Secret Life of Plants". To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

Behind the scenes....Fiona Jack wood-firing new work at Paul Maseyk's Taranaki studio ahead of her exhibition "Public Record" opening 18 September.

Congratulations to Verronica Herber for her Highly Commmnded award at the Parkin Drawing Prize in Wellington this month.  Judge Justin Paton (Senior Curator, International Art, Art Gallery of NSW) says of the work - "Veronica Herber uses torn washi tape and ...

Claudia Jowitt has recent work featured in the new exhibition "Feminine / Abstract" curated by Sian van Dyk from 10 August - 17 November 2024.

Joyful and bright, tender and insightful, this exhibition explores abstract painting through the eyes, minds and hands ...

A visit to the West Auckland garden studio of Layla Rudneva-Mackay ahead of her August solo exhibition. To register interest: info@melanierogergallery.com

Patrick Pound writes in the latest issue of Art News Magazine.  "Collected Works" discusses his most recent exhibition  "Just Looking" at Melanie Roger Gallery as well as giving a wider insight into his overall studio and artistic practice.

"Like most ...

PODCAST: Emily Wolfe talks with Graeme Douglas from The Good Oil about her time at art school, her UK studio practice and her source material and influences.  Emily Wolfe’s solo show "Long Distance" ends this week with the last ...

As part of our ongoing series of public programmes, please join us Saturday 25 May at 3pm when artist KIRSTIN CARLIN will discuss her practice in conjunction with her current exhibition "Afternoon Sun". This will be a Q & A with ...

Patrick Pound is featured in the exhibition “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here? : Photography and Touch. ” at Princeton University Art Museum. 

Touch forms the conceptual and sensory thread linking “Don’t we touch ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased and proud to welcome Layla Rudneva-Mackay to the gallery family as a represented artist.

Rudneva-Mackay’s practice is not medium specific, having moved through sculpture, elaborately staged outdoor photography, pairing her subjects and photographing them ...

A visit to Kirstin Carlin's studio ahead of her solo exhibition "Afternoon Sun" opening early May.  Photography by Yasmine Ganley.

Artists Kirstin Carlin, Veronica Herber and Claudia Jowitt are included in the exhibition ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT at Northart from 7 May - 6 July 2024.  

'ABSTRAXT ABSTRAXT' is a dual gallery survey show of female-identifying contemporary artists working with abstraction from multiple ...

Henrietta Harris is featured in the latest issue of Art News (issue #201 , Autumn 2024).  The article "Youth Worship: Henrietta Harris' Dipped in Time" by Connie Brown, explores Harris' latest body of work in our current exhibition.

"In these works ...

A peek inside the Auckland studio of HENRIETTA HARRIS ahead of her solo exhibitiuon "Dipped in Time".  Photography by Scott Hsrdy.

LAUNCHING APRIL 2024 and coinciding with our solo exhibition by Patrick Pound....

SPECIAL EDITION
Perimeter Editions and the artist are producing a special edition of 50 copies, which include a signed and editioned archival Glicée print, approximately 19 x ...

Matt Ellwood’s exhibition brings together two contrasting approaches to drawing. His ongoing series of realist charcoal works replicate and juxtapose imagery gleaned from the advertising sections in high-profile international art magazines, and these are brought into conversation with a ...

In 1975 Sir Miles Warren designed a gallery that would adjoin his apartment and architectural offices at 65 Cambridge Terrace. Images from the time he lived there express a living space that fuses architecture, art and home; a shag pile ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN is interviewed about her life, art and artistic influences on The Good Oil podcast.  

Kirstin has a Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art.Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, and ...

Gallery artist SAM MITCHELL will exhibit new and recent work as part of the exhibition "Strange Friends" at The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt from 9 September 2023 - 28 January 2024.

Whether it’s the neighbours you’ve never ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased and proud to welcome Roberta Thornley with a solo exhibition of new and selected earlier photographic works in late September.

Roberta Thornley was born in Auckland in 1985. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine ...

STANLEY PALMER is interviewed about his life, art and his seven decades in the New Zealand art world on The Good Oil podcast.  Listen here - https://rss.com/podcasts/thegoodoil/1029412/

The Good Oil is dedicated to long form conversations ...

Visiting Gavin Hurley's studio ahead of his August solo exhibition.  To register interest: melanie@melanierogergallery.com

SAM MITCHELL discusses her life, her studio practise, artworks and the art world more generally in an extensive new artist interview online at the Cteative Matters podcast.  Listen online here - https://www.creativematters.co.nz/post/creative-matters-with-sam-mitchell?fbclid=IwAR0VZoU-jOVAxbzKgvnmVXHT9p0XPaDkCLxZkcyo7QW0Q_UMTxDXjmsVgeA

Sam ...

EMMA FITTS presents new work for the exhibition "The Air , Like a Stone" with Rosalind Nashashibi at The Physics Room in Christchurch.

Whakatau and opening: Friday 16 June, from 5:30pm
Exhibition runs: 16 June – 30 July 2023

"The air ...

A visit to John Brown's Hawkes Bay studio ahead of our June group exhibition.  Studio portrait by Richard Brimer.

Inside the Christchurch studio of Emma Fitts ahead of her April exhibition "PETAL".

Gallery artist Jennifer Mason has previously unseen and recent work included in the exhibition “Contemporary Figurative”  at Webbs Wellington from 22nd March - 15th April 2023.

“Contemporary Figurative” features work by Nick Cuthell, Loren Marks, Jennifer Mason, and Garth Steeper. Curator ...

Richard Orjis has a new video work in the exhibition "The Sentiment of Flowers" at the Gus Fisher Gallery 10 Februrary - 5 May 2023.

‘What queer can offer is the identity of I am also. I am also human. I ...

Visiting Martin Poppelwell's Hawkes Bay studio to select works for the Aotearoa Art Fair in November.  

Recent Work by EMMA FITTS is included in the group exhibition "Crosses and Losses" at Pah Homestead 23 September - 27 November 2022.

The exhibition features six artists from Aotearoa, working in drawing, painting, and textile - Alice Alva, Helen Calder, Emma ...

Visiting Kirstin Carlin's studio to select work for the upcoming Aotearoa Art Fair in November.

Congratulations to Claudia Kogachi who has won the Deborah Porch Award - a collaborative award between Artspace Aotearoa  and Australia Council for the Arts.  Kogachi will travel to Brisbane in early September for the residency at Artisan Queensland.  We are excited ...

CLAUDIA KOGACHI has collaborated with local clothing brand Checks, to create a three part capsule collection featuring her work.  The range includes a hoodie, a t-shirt and a knit.  Visit Checks to view and order: www.checksdowntown.com 

We will ...

A visit to Jennifer Mason's studio aheasd of her solo exhibition opening late July.

Claudia Kogachi - with her partner Josephine Jelicich - is the new artist in residence at Karekare House on Auckland's West Coast.  The two month residency supported by Eden Arts Trust aims to provide a supportive environment to encourage artists to ...

Gallery artist RICHARD ORJIS has curated a new show  - "twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects" for Objectspace running 4 June - 21 August 2022.

"twisting, turning, winding" assembles a temporary archive of takatāpui and queer objects. LGBTTQIA+ creative practitioners from the ...

A look into the Wellington studio of James R Ford ahead of his solo exhibition "Sophisticated Ignorance".

Kirstin Carlin has created a new digital exhibition "Standing in the Sun" for Te Tuhi Gallery 12 June - 4 September 2022.

Since completing her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2010, Kirstin Carlin has almost exclusively worked in ...

Melanie Roger Gallery welcomes James R Ford as a guest artist with his new solo exhibition "Sophisticated Ignorance" in June 2022.

James R Ford (b. 1980) is a British born conceptual artist currently based in Wellington. He studied at Nottingham ...

Jennifer Mason has curated an exhibition of figurative drawing, painting and sculpture at the Caretaker's Cottage in Albert Park running from 9 - 28 April.  It includes her own work alongside that by Hiria Anderson, Andrew Mcleod, Esther Deans, Tara ...

"Evolution of Galaxies" is a new exhibition by Christchurch Art Gallery curator Melanie Oliver featuring work by Ruth Buchanan with Lily Gentile, EMMA FITTS and Shannon Te Ao.  It runs from 8-23 April at Mada Gallery, Monash University in Melbourne ...

In 2020 Melanie Roger Gallery quietly turned 10. It was the 1st April and we had just gone into our first lockdown. We didn’t announce it or make a song and dance about it because we – my bubble, the ...

Emma Fitts unveils new work at Objectspace in Auckland from 2 April. A series of dyed and layered canvas panels attached to a tubular steel structure form a new architecture for Objectspace’s courtyard plinth in "Lapping at Your Door ...

Jennifer Mason exhibits one large work at Window Gallery, University of Auckland in March 2022.

Mason draws inspiration for her practice from the depiction of the female nude in art history. The paintings are delicate and refined technically using traditional ...

A visit to Kelcy Taratoa's Tauranga studio ahead of his solo exhibition in February.

Recent work by ERICA VAN ZON (bottom) and kAREN RUBADO (top) is included in the exhibition "1924" curated by Maddie Gifford  at Corbans Estate Arts Centre.

1924 marks the year that building on the Homestead at the heart of Corban ...

A virtual studio visit ahead of Gavin Hurley's solo exhibition late November.

Our group exhibition of work by Kirstin Carlin, Emma Fitts and the late Joanna Margaret Paul coincides with a major exhibition of her work at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 7 Auguist - 14 November 2021.

With a multi-disciplinary practice spanning ...

Henrietta Harris has been commissioned to create a new outdoor exhibition "By It's Own Light" at Britomart.  

Harris spends a lot of time fighting her perfectionist instincts. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, she’s been drawing ever since she ...

A visit to Sam Mitchell's studio ahead of her solo exhibition in September.

A visit to Martin Poppelwell's studio ahead of his solo exhibition in late September.

Gallery artists KIRSTIN CARLIN, ERICA van ZON and RICHARD ORJIS all have new or recent work in the exhibition "The Studio" curated by Julia Holderness for the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 10 July - 25 Octobver 2021.

In The Studio, Julia ...

DEREK HENDERSON has a new exhibition at The Corner Shop in Sydney, Australia

"In the summer of 1988 I went and lived in Munich for about 6 months after working as a stills photographer on a film shot in France ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to be included in the 2021 Auckland Festival of Photography with a new exhibition of rare and unseen images by the late Harvey Benge.  The exhibition runs from 16th June - 3rd July with an opening ...

A recent visit to the studio of GRACE BADER ahead of her solo exhibition in late May.

RICHARD ORJIS has new work in the exhibition "Aroha Mai" at Fresh Gallery 24 April – 29 May 2021.  Artists include Erin Forsyth, Donna Kerridge, Richard Orjis and Creature Post.

Recent work by Emma Fitts in the exhibition “Full House” 1-2 May - an artist-run exhibition staged in a home commissioned by artist Milan Mrkusich and designed by New Zealand architect Claude Megson. What a great combo of art and architecture ...

Henrietta Harris in her studio signing her two new print editions ahead of her four day only exhibition.

A recent visit to Matt Ellwood's studio ahead of his solo exhibnition in late April.

About walking: 15 months of artist walks in Tāmaki Auckland
Published by Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, 2021 

Contributors: Rodney Bell, Andrew Clifford, Suzanne Cowan, Christina Houghton, Melissa Laing, Lana Lopesi, Andrew McMillan, Molly Mullen, RICHARD ORJIS, Lea Schlatter, Val ...

Congratulations to CLAUDIA JOWITT who has jointly won the Arts Whakatane Award at the Molly Morpeth Canaday Aewards on the weekend with her work "Baka IV" from 2020.  

Guest judge Karl Chitham says - "The second work is a similar study ...

A recent visit to Karen Rubado's studio ahead of her March solo exhibition "soft ware".

ERICA VAN ZON has a selection of recent bead and tapestry based works in the exhibition "Homespun" at the Franklin Arts Centre from 30 January - 13 March 2021.

Homespun is group exhibition featuring artists working in a range of mediums ...

A recent visit to the Christchurch studio of ROBIN NEATE who will exhibit a solo show with us in August 2021.  Get in touch to register your interest.  Also in the images below - three earlier works frm the Ray series ...

A recent visit to see Emma Fitts in her Christchurch studio.  Get in touch to enquire about works by Fitts.

New work by gallery artist KELCY TARATOA is included in "Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art" which will be the largest exhibition in the 132-year history of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Featuring over 300 artworks by 110 ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to welcome Tauranga based artist Kelcy Taratoa.  

Kelcy Taratoa (b. 1972. Ngāi Te Rangi / Ngāti Ranginui / Ngāti Raukawa) is a New Zealand painter. His works are vivid, hard-edged, and graphic. Taratoa’s formative years were ...

From two past experiences and a shared love of merging concepts and experimentation, gallery artist Grace Bader and her studio partner Scrap Wall combine their practices that examine both delicate form and industrialism, balancing the masculine and feminine. 

All work ...

Curated by contemporary curator Melanie Oliver, "Touching Sight" is an exhibition of new photography, textiles and painting from three Ōtautahi artists. Working in photography, textiles and painting, Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu), EMMA FITTS and Oliver Perkins explore ideas of perception ...

Critically acclaimed New Zealand photographer Derek Henderson has collaborated with London based floral artist Simone Gooch on a new book to be published in 2021 by Perimeter Books - a specialised bookstore, award-winning publisher, distribution house and platform for various art ...

Melanie Roger Gallery returns to the Sapphire Room at Ponsonby Central for a pop-up exhibition as part of Artweek 2020 from 15 - 18th October.  This year we are showing alongside Whitespace, Masterworks and Gow Langsford Gallery with a changing presentation ...

Curated by A.D. Schierning, "Solvent" is an exhibition of watercolour paintings presented by Webb’s as part of Artweek Auckland 2020.

The exhibition explores the medium’s diverse usage and consistent relevance by pairing modernists like Doris Lusk and ...

A recent visit to Henrietta Harris' studio ahead of her solo exhibition "Burn for the Moon".  Get in touch to register your interest.

Reecnt photographic work by DEREK HENDERSON is featured in and on the cover of the brand new Index magazine in issue No. 1.  Henderson presents a visual essay on the changing landscape of Aotearoa featuring Kaitaia, Ahipara and Te Angaanga ...

A public project featuring work by KIRSTIN CARLIN has been unveiled at Britomart in Auckland as part of their ongoing commitment to working with contemporary artists.  "

The more than 20 Britomart flags consist of close-up details of eight floral still-life ...

Artweek Auckland 2020 programmes have arrived. Swing by the gallery to pick up a copy. Melanie Roger Gallery and our artists will be busy with a lot of exhibitions and events. A quick overview as follows:

PETER GOUGE, “Everything Stops ...

ROZANA LEE has just opened a new exhibition “Home is Anywhere in the World” at artist run space Meanwhile in Wellington.

"What makes a place a home? 
Is it the objects and furnishings we acquire; the woolen rugs, wallpaper and ...

ROZANA LEE's recent work has been purchased for the Christchurch Art Gallery collection. The work is currently on show as part of "Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania" exhibition (2020-2022). 

I first saw this work by Lee as part of ...

A look at Rozana Lee's studio practice.

A visit to Martin Poppelwell's Hawkes Bay studio ahead of his solo exhibition late August.

A recent visit to Stanley Palmer's studio. New work coming soon....please email us to register interest.

Gallery director Melanie Roger is featured in the latest Monocle magazine chatting about the Auckland art scene.  Grab a copy to read it.

Guest artist ROZANA LEE has new work in a group exhibition "Fluid Borders: Far Nearer" from 27 July – 20 September 2020 at the Wallace Trust Gallery, Pah Homestead in Auckland.

A multi-media exhibition, "Far Nearer", is the first in a ...

DEREK HENDERSON presents new work as a solo exhibition "Milk Run" from 4 July – 11 October 2020 at the Hastings City Art Gallery.

As a photographer, Derek Henderson has a broad ranging practice, working across the genres of fashion, architecture ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to welcome ROZANA LEE as a guest artist featured in our upcoming group exhibition opening mid-July.

Rozana Lee is an artist based in Auckland, of Indonesian-Chinese heritage. She holds an MFA from Elam School of ...

Melanie Roger Gallery welcomes back SANDRA BUSHBY as a featured guest artist in our upcoming group exhibition opening mid-July.

Sandra Bushby is currently a Doc FA candidate at Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland University. Her thesis title: ‘burrowing out ...

Richard Orjis' "Queer Pavilion" is featured in the latest issue of Art New Zealand magazine (Winter, number 174) with an article by Alys Longley - "Folds of Time, Blooms of Vibrancy: Queer Pavlion in the Park".  Queer Pavilion was a multi-disciplanary ...

LIYEN CHONG is based in Houston, Texas with her husband Alex so is having a different US based Covid-19 response experience to us in NZ. She describes her lockdown life – “Just before Houston's 'Stay Home Work Safe' order due ...

MATT ELLWOOD has been in his family bubble with wife Robyn, kids Koromiko and Toby, and their dog Bruno. Matt is also the head of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe so has been working full time from home planning and delivering ...

Newly returned to New Zealand PETER GOUGE shares his bubble with his wife Chloe and their young son as well as his parents at their family home. They arrived back from Florida - where they have been living for the past ...

CLAUDIA JOWITT shares her bubble in Avondale with her partner Johnny and their two rescue cats. “My studio has a window that looks out onto our collection of hibiscus and the flame tree in the centre of the cul-de-sac which ...

Artists in Isolation:
Melbourne based PATRICK POUND shares his bubble with his wife Juliet and although lockdown is slightly different for those living in Australia, it has impacted a lot on the multiple exhibitions he has work included in both ...

Christchurch based EMMA FITTS shares her bubble with her wife Tess and their cat Mu. “It's been a mixture of productivity and relaxation to be honest. I shifted my studio from The National back home and have set up ...

WITH NEW ZEALAND MOVING INTO LEVEL TWO, WE WILL OFFICIALLY BE ABLE TO REOPEN THE GALLERY ON THURSDAY 14 MAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND SUPPORT AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU BACK AT THE GALLERY.

Melanie Roger ...

Australian based NZ artist ALEXI WILLEMSON shares her Byron Bay bubble with her husband Simon and their 4 year old daughter Saskia in a “quiet albeit busy seclusion”.

“During this period I haven’t had much solid time in the ...

HENRIETTA HARRIS is in a bubble with her flatmate and his girlfriend in Grafton, so has been going for daily walks and runs in the nearby domain. “I do this anyway, but I need a routine or my brain crumbles ...

SAM MITCHELL shares her bubble with her partner Mike in Helensville just north of Auckland where they recently moved earlier this year. Isolation came early for them with a two week period before most and with her current exhibition just ...

“Level four for me feels like a time for growth and reflection” says gallery artist GRACE BADER. She shares her bubble with her partner Toby and is lucky enough to still have access to her studio.  She is starting her ...

Guest artist SANDRA BUSHBY shares her bubble with Bob, Henry and her dog Bennie. Lockdown daily life for her is mostly holed up in her home studio, completing her written Doc F.A thesis. For her daily exercise, she is ...

Gallery artist RUTH CLELAND is spending lockdown in her bubble which she shares with her husband and fellow artist, Gary McMillan. She has been keeping busy by working on her artwork, continuing her work for Auckland Libraries and painting her ...

Lockdown has come at a perfect time for RICHARD ORJIS, a self-described introvert with a PHD on contemporary art to write. His small bubble consists of himself and his cat Birdie in his beautiful garden. While in isolation he has ...

Guest artist JENNIFER MASON shares her bubble with her fur baby Wee Man Chihuhua who enjoys long socially distanced walks on the beach out at Piha where they live. Like many, food is a priority in their bubble and here ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN shares her bubble with her artist partner Dan Arps, their son Gus and their cat Lenny. Her studio is just next door but with an active four year old, it's challenging for her to get as much ...

GAVIN HURLEY shares his bubble with his partner Cameron above Flotsam and Jetsam on Ponsonby Rd. They are also keeping a close eye on a few free ranging neighborhood cats. He is using his lockdown period to make new work ...

"Additions + Alterations" presents new work by Wellington-based artist Emily Hartley-Skudder, alongside a selection of works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s contemporary collection includign by gallery artist ERICA VAN ZON. Using the notion of re-framing or re-positioning as a ...

Due to the Covid-19 crisis, we are closed till further notice.  As we move into level 3, we are hoping to be able to extend what we do a little - safely of course and with limitations.  We will keep you ...

"This is a library", curated by Hanahiva Rose, is an exhibition of work by Teuane Tibbo, Christina Pataialii, Salome Tanuvasa and CLAUDIA JOWITT.  It runs from 13 March - 18 April 2020 at Enjoy Gallery in Wellington.

In the early 1960s ...

Work by RUTH CLELAND is included in the curated exhibition "Analogue" at Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery from 5 March 2020. The exhibition brings together painting, sculpture and drawing to quietly celebrate the notion of analogue, not simply as a counterpoint ...

EMMA FITTS is one of a number of recent artists in residence whose work is being launched as part of the McCahon House editions series.  Others include Nicola Farquar, Jess Johnson, Tim Wagg and Wayne Youle.  Proceeds from these sales ...

PATRICK POUND has newly commissioned work in the 2020 Biennial for Contemporary Photography at Kunstalle Mannheim in Germany. Since its founding in 2005, the Biennial for Contemporary Photography has established itself as one of the most important curated photography events ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to be part of the Virtual Auckland Art Fair online from 30 April - 17th May 2020.  The initiative comes after the Fair was cancelled due to the current Covid-19 pandemic and is a great opportunity ...

Gallery artist KIRSTIN CARLIN has collaborated with local clothing designer Ingrid Starnes to create a beautiful new body of work for her Autumn 2020 collection.  This signals a new direction for the designer - limited edition and numbered pieces as an ...

Queer Pavilion is a drifting structure for art, performance and conversation that will reside in the Rangipuke Albert Park for six days Feb 1-7th during the Auckland Pride Festival. Queer Pavilion takes place on the site of Aotearoa’s first ...

"Paint etc." features the work of artists - including EMMA FITTS -  who challenge the notion of traditional painting. Using new mediums, techniques and objects to explore the extensive possibilities of contemporary painting, this show celebrates the multi-faceted potential of painting as ...

GRACE BADER is interviewed in the latest issue (Dec / Jan) of Homestyle magazine where she discusses her studio practise and the inspiration for her current body of work.  Grab a copy to read the interview! Melanie Roger Gallery will be ...

PATRICK POUND has a major newly commisioned work in the exhibition "Water" at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia from 7 December 2019 - 26 April 2020.

Visitors are invited to explore this vital element which sustains ...

RICHARD ORJIS presents new collaborative work as part of the exhibition "Civic Pride" curated by Millie Mitchell-Anyon at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 9 November 2019 - 8 March 2020.

November 26th 1889 marks the day that the New Zealand and ...

New and recent work by MARTIN POPPELWELL is featured in the exhibition "Unravelled" at City Gallery in Wellington from 30 November 2019 - 13 April 2020.  Curated by Robert Leonard, this exhibition ioncluides work by Peter Robinson, Kirsty Lilico, Isabella Loudon ...

RUTH THOMAS-EDMOND presents new work in the exhibition "Sympathetic Resonance" from 19 October 2019 - 9 February 2020.

"Sympathetic Resonance" is the eighth in a series of contemporary art projects at The Suter Art Gallery, beginning in 1999. This series of ...

35 Artists. 4 Galleries. 1 Amazing Art Experience.

Where: The Sapphire Room upstairs at Ponsonby Central
Opening Event: Thursday 10 October, 5pm to 7pm
Dates: Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 October (11-7pm daily)

Four of Auckland’s top galleries have ...

EMMA FITTS is included in the new exhibition "Softly Spoken: An exhibition of contemporary textiles" at the Hastings Art Gallery from 3 August – 3 November 2019.

Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua or more commonly said, ‘ka mua ka muri’, is ...

Wilde Projects presents "Walking in Trees", an outdoor art project connecting urban dwellers with the natural world around them. From 31 August to 15 September 2019, a specially constructed scaffolding staircase enables Aucklanders to walk, sit and relax in the ...

KRISTY GORMAN is included in the exhibition "The Decision to Drift" at Malcolm Smith Gallery from 9 September - 13 October 2019.  The exhibition features the work of three painters – Amy Blinkhorne, KRISTY GORMAN, and Emma Smith. These artists explore notions ...

The Artweek Auckland 2019 programme is now up and running on their website and Melanie Roger Gallery are pleased to be involved for another year with the following exhibitions and events....

STANLEY PALMER
Chart of Aotearoa II
Exhibition: 18 September ...

MATT ELWOOD received a highly commended award at the Parkin Drawing Prize this week in Wellington with this charcoal on board work "Autumn / Winter (Kobani)" from his recent exhibition at Melanie Roger Gallery. Congratulations Matt and all the winners.

To ...

"I just loved this show. Such a treat to see these 20-year-old works by Patrick Pound. They’ve aged very well, as full of wit and elegance as ever." - Francis McWhannell, curator / writer

As part of our ongoing series of ...

Coming to the 2019 New Zealand International Film Festival is "PETER PERYER: The Art of Seeing" - Shirley Horrocks’ richly illustrated portrait of the life and career of one of New Zealand’s most important photographers, who dedicated his life to ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN has recent work in the exhibition "You had fun experience" - a group exhibition of works influenced by the internet and digital technologies, in particular the way in which information and images circulate in patterns and the impact of ...

EMMA FITTS has arrived at her new residency studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA - a result of her winning the Fullbright Wallace Arts Award in 2018.

Fitts has a post residency solo exhibition scheduled ...

Patrick Pound has opened a new exhibition "Photography and Air" at El Museo Lazaro Galdiano in Madrid, Spain. The project is one of five exhibitions for the curatorial programme put together by Susan Bright and titled "Deja Vu?". It runs ...

As part of our ongoing series of public programmes, please join us Thursday 13 June, 5pm
when Sydney based New Zealand photographer DEREK HENDERSON will give a short artist talk and be available to discuss his recent work in our ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to once again be part of the Auckland Festival of Photography with a group exhibition of selected work by LIYEN CHONG, DEREK HENDERSON, RICHARD ORJIS and PETER PERYER (image).

Auckland Festival of Photography is NZ ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN has been commissioned to make a new tiny work for an exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery.  "19 Gallery: Relocating Frances Hodgkins" is curated by Sarah Hilary and runs from 4 May - 1 September 2019 on the mezzanine ...

TIFFANY SINGH has new work in the exhibition "In Motion: The Moving Parts of Contemporary Art" from 18 May - 22 September 2019.

The exhibition explores ideas of movement, motion and interactivity through the contemporary art practices of Sara Hughes, Tiffany ...

SAM MITCHELL has new work in the exhibition "Modern People" curated by Jaenine Parkinson for the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington 25 March - 9 June 2019.

Artists in Aotearoa New Zealand have increasingly used different styles of representation to ...

US based LIYEN CHONG presents a new body of work at Art League Houston in Texas, USA from March 22 - May 9 2019.

Chong’s art practice spans a diverse range of media and practices, including embroidery with hair, photography ...

Tributes to the late and great PETER PERYER are in both Art News magazine and Art New Zealand magazine. Peter passed away in late 2018 and is sadly missed as both an artist and a friend. We will include a ...

The latest Art News magazine (Autumn 2019) is out and has a fantastic new article on the work of CLAUDIA JOWITT. With new writing by Nansi Thompson, recent work and current practise is discussed including work from her 2017 exhibition ...

EMMA FITTS opens a new exhibition "Towards Another Figure" at the Ashburton Art Gallery.  The exhibition runs from the 1st March - 7th April 2019 andf includes new and recent work.

Emma Fitts has increasingly focused her attention on developing her ...

EMMA FITTS will be exhibiting new and recent work  at Te Uru Gallery, Auckland as a solo exhibition titled "In The Rough Parts 1,2 &3" from 16 February - 26 May 2019.  The exhibition is a result of work begunand ...

New Zealand lost one of the greats this week when Peter Peryer passed away. Peter had a way of making the everyday interesting - the unremarkable, remarkable. We have had the pleasure and honour of working with him, but also of ...

Drop in anytime between 11-1pm on Saturday 1 December and meet KIRSTIN CARLIN to chat with her about her current exhibition "Arrangements" over a coffee and cake made espcially by her Nana.  This will also be the last day of ...

ERICA VAN ZON has created new work for Scape Public Art in Christchurch where she has made a suite of new sculptures in metal, glass and mirror responding to the neo-classical conservatory Cuningham House in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, which ...

EMMA FITTS has been awarded the Fullbright Wallace Arts Trust residency at the 2018 Wallace Art Awards with her work "Unknown Cloak" (2018), hand-dyed woollen underlay, 1500 x 1100mm.

Emma Fitts receives a ten-week residency at the Headlands Center for ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleaased to be once again part of Artweek Auckland - an annual week-long festival celebrating the visual arts of Auckland from 6-14th October.  We have the following events and exhibitions available:

Saturday, 6th October, 11am
An artist ...

GAVIN HURLEY has new work in "The Rooms" - a Tauranga Art Gallery exhibition in partnership with The Elms Foundation who have invited nine artists to transform the rooms within The Elms historic mission house and library.

The artists will use ...

Ceramic book works by TESSA LAIRD are featured in the exhibition "In the Hand" at the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui from 18 August - 11 November 2018.  A group exhibition in the object-based gallery which will feature small ceramic, jewellery and ...

MARTIN POPPELWELL has recent work included in EAST at the Hastings City Art Gallery from 11th August 2018.

Twenty-three creative practitioners from across the country have been selected, ranging from recently graduated emerging artists through to acclaimed established practitioners. The ...

In McCahon's generous words "the door is always open, the light's on in the hall" ... join us for the inaugural Gate studio dinner between resident artist, Emma Fitts, and beloved local restaurant Orphans Kitchen, curated by Breakbread's ...

The Wallace Trust Art Gallery at Pah Homestead presents a selection of past works by LIYEN CHONG opening 23 July and running till 16 September 2018.  

This exhibition presents a selection of works from 2011; during the period Liyen Chong ...

McCahon House Artist in Residence EMMA FITTS has recent work in the exhibition "We Do This" at the Christchurch Art Gallery from 12 May 2018.

As Aotearoa New Zealand marks 125 years of women’s suffrage, the Christchurch Art Gallery ...

An exhibition that is a vast palindrome reflecting the collections of Patrick Pound and Te Papa Tongarewa.
Merging high and low, Patrick Pound creates wondrous ‘museums of things’ at City Gallery, Wellington from 11 August - 4 November 2018.

In 2013 ...

The Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA) in Christchurch presents a solo exhibition by Auckland-based artist TIFFANY SINGH featuring two recent large-scale installations JUne 9th - August 5th 2018.

"OM MANI PADME HUM" is immersive - over 1500 metres of silk ribbon installed ...

Coinciding with ERICA VAN ZON's new exhibition "Coffee Perhaps" at Melanie Roger Gallery - take a free tour through the K’ Road & Putiki Street art gallery precinct with art experts Emil McAvoy and Alice Tyler.

Trace artist Veronica Herber's ...

Recent work by KIRSTIN CARLIN and PETER GOUGE is in "White Rainbow" at Ramp Gallery in Hamilton. Featuring work by contemporary painters: Kirstin Carlin, Judy Darragh, Selina Foote, Peter Gouge, Saskia Leek, Cat Fooks, Johl Dwyer and installation by Richard ...

As part of our ongoing but occasional series of public programmes, STANLEY PALMER will discuss his new work in the exhibition "Chart of Aotearoa" on Saturday 28 April at 11am.

Meet and hear one of New Zealand's most renowned ...

TIFFANY SINGH has created a new installation based work "The Language of Light" as part of the exhibition "Art That Needs You" at the Tauranga Art Gallery from 23 February - 3 June 2018.

The exhibition asks viewers to think about ...

Check out these limited edition ceramic brooches by SAM MITCHELL! Each one is hand painted and unique. $100 each (cash only please) at the gallery while stocks last.

A selection of works pictured.  More available.

RUTH CLELAND has recent work in the exhibition "Urban Worlds" at Aigantighe Gallery in Timaru till 15th April 2018.

This group exhibition includes works by Ruth Cleland, Doc Ross, Murray Hewitt and Gregory Bennett and explores the complexities and histories ...

Gallery Director Melanie Roger is featured in the latest edition of Simply You magazine in "Life Imitates Art" which features three of New Zealand's leading art curators and gallery directors including Rhana Devenport, Director of the Auckland Art Gallery ...

For "Jade Tableau" ERICA VAN ZON directly engages with two sites; Te Uru's external Window Space and the Small Space located inside. Having printed images of Te Uru's distinctive aluminium cladding onto silk, van Zon converts the Window ...

As part of our ongoing but occasional series of public programmes, DEREK HENDERSON will discuss his new work in the exhibition "Are You Happy?" on Saturday 3 March at 11am.

New Zealand born Derek Henderson (b. 1963) currently divides his ...

You may not know (and don’t worry, a lot of us are only just catching on), but Auckland Art Gallery’s funding has already been cut dramatically over the last few years and needs to be remarkably increased from ...

We normally keep his art and commercial practises seperate, but this is just too damn good not to share!

This is Jacinda Ardern for Vogue shot by DEREK HENDERSON at Bethells Beach. So many great things about that!  Read more ...

HENRIETTA HARRIS has made a badge! A super affordable way to have a piece at only $30 each. Available at the gallery - correct cash only please, no postage available sorry.

Gallery hours are Wednesday - Friday 11 - 4pm and Saturday 11 ...

PATRICK POUND will present new work "The Point of Everything" at the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art from 3rd March - 3rd June at the Art Gallery of South Australia.  Curated by Erica Green, the exhibition will also include work ...

EMMA FITTS is featured as a one of four artists to watch in the 2018 Cool Hunter Predictions of Art Collector magazine. Lucinda Bennett writes - "Over the past few years Fitts has utilised fabric as a way of interpreting the ...

Abstract art is often presented as a 20th-century European invention, but Kaleidoscope turns that on its head and celebrates how the exploration of shape, colour, and pattern have captured our imaginations in the Pacific.

With toi whakairo (carving) by Anaha ...

"Index" toured by Hastings City Art Gallery, exhibits a new body of work from Hawke’s Bay-based artist MARTIN POPPELWELL and is at the Waikato Museum of Art and History from 24 October 2017 - 21 January 2018.

This idiosyncratic look ...

ERICA VAN ZON's exhibition "Opal Moon, Local Lime" originally made for and exhibited at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui is traveling to Auckland and will be exhibited at Objectspace as part of their Summer programme from 8 December 2017 - 17 ...

TIFFANY SINGH has been announced as the recipient of a 2018 Asia New Zealand Foundation Residency at Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan.

Singh’s time at the Taipei Artist Village residency will be centred on existing health frameworks and providing ...

Congratulations to TIFFANY SINGH who is a 2017 recipient of the New Generation Award from the NZ Arts Foundation.

MATT ELLWOOD has new outdoor sculptural work in the exhibition "The Future Machine" at the Tauranga Art Gallery from 14 October 2017 - 24 January 2018.

A group exhibition with works as diverse as the theme suggests, "The Future Machine" will ...

Recent work by KIRSTIN CARLIN (bottom), RICHARD ORJIS (top) and TIFFANY SINGH (middle) is included in the exhibition "Flora" at the Franklin Arts Centre as part of Artweek Auckland from 6 October - 11 November 2017.

To enquire about works: info ...

RUTH CLELAND's artistic practise is explored in the latest issue of Art NZ (#163, Spring 2017) with a feature by Matt Blomeley titled "Where the Suburbs Meet Utopia: The Art of Ruth Cleland".  

"Formal devices such as the grid ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to once again be part of Artweek in 2017 with the following exhibitions and events:

Saturday 7th October, 11am
Meet artist RICHARD ORJIS and hear him discuss his work in the exhibition "Salt Felix".  This ...

Congratulations to EMMA FITTS who has been selected as a 2018 artist in residence at McCahon House.  The highly sought after McCahon House Artists’ Residency, named Parehuia by local kaumatua Eru Thompson in 2008, is amongst the most prestigious artists ...

Congratulations to TIFFANY SINGH whose exhibition project (along with Jo Blogg)  "Indras Bow" at the MTG in Hawkes Bay has made the prestigious Best Awards finals in the category of "Exhibitions and Temporary Structures".

The Best Awards are run by ...

As part of an ongoing series of occasional rants...

At Melanie Roger Gallery we work with artists and strive to promote their work and their careers. We represent them and take a long term interest in the development of their ...

Congratulations to KRISTY GORMAN who this week received a Merit Award at the prestigious Parkin Drawing Prize 2017 for her work "Lacuna III". (top right)

For further information - www.parkinprize.org.nz

KRISTY GORMAN will exhibiting new work as a ...

ERICA VAN ZON exhibits recent sculptural work in the exhibition "Everyday Lines" at the Hastings City Art Gallery from 15th September 2017. 

"Everyday Lines" will be exhibited across all of the gallery spaces. The exhibition highlights art that is made ...

ERICA VAN ZON presents a new body of work as a solo exhibition at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui 26 August - 19 November.

Since the Tylee artist-in-residence programme began in 1986 over fifty artists have lived and worked at the cottage ...

As part of our ongoing but occasional series of public programmes, MATT ELLWOOD will discuss his work in the solo exhibition "The Germaine Greer Series" on Saturday 2 September at 11.30am.  

Inspired by what would soon be the 40th ...

SAM MITCHELL's diptych "Janus" from 2010 is included in the exhibition "25 Years of Winners" at the Wallace Trust Arts Centre from July 3 - September 4 2017.  Mitchell won the Wallace Art Award in 2010 with this work and ...

RICHARD ORJIS recently completed a three month Asia New Zealand Foundation residency in Malaysia and has made a new online publication documenting a former Leprosy Colony in Malaysia that became famous for its thriving plant nurseries. See it here - https ...

Recent work is included in the exhibition "Pack Lite" organised and curated by Stella Corkery and exhibited in New York, Los Angeles and soon Auckland.

To enquire: info@melanierogergallery.com

Work by LIYEN CHONG, RICHARD ORJIS and PATRICK POUND is included in the exhibition "Bright Light, Soft Launch" at the Malcolm Smith Gallery 1 May - 3 June 2017.

Contemporary art practice has expanded the genre of portrait photography past purely ...

Recent work by EMMA FITTS and KIRSTIN CARLIN will be exhibited at Crane Brothers in High St in associaton with Melanie Roger Gallery and Heart of the City from 30 March - 2 April 2017 with an event on the evening ...

New work by KRISTY GORMAN is featured in the upcoming exhibition "Fluid Structures" - a watercolour exhibition curated by Francis McWhannell for Parlour Projects in Hastings from 24 March - 22 April 2017.

Other artists include Georhgie Hill, Motoko Kikkawa, Denys Watkins ...

TIFFANY SINGH exhibits her major new social practise installation "The Journey of a Million Miles - Following Steps" at the New Zealand Maritime Museum in Auckland from 18 March - 3 September 2017.

The project is an important one and is inspired ...

"From Pressure to Vibration—The Event of a Thread" will engage the history of textiles in Aotearoa New Zealand through artist EMMA FITTS working in response to and alongside a selection of works from The Dowse Art Museum collection.  The ...

As part of the NGV Festival of Photography, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne presents a suite of contemporary photography exhibitions and including a newly acquired suite of works by DEREK HENDERSON.

Photography is one of the most diverse ...

"Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition" will be exhibited at The National Gallery of Victoria (Federation Square) in Melbourne, Australia from 31 March - 30 July 2017.  It is the first comprehensive exhibition of the New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist. An avid collector ...

Congratulations to RICHARD ORJIS who is the current Asia New Zealand Foundation Artist in Residence at Rimban Dahan in Malaysia.  The residency is for three months from February to April 2017.

"My artistic research is driven by an interest in ...

Congratulations to KIRSTIN CARLIN who last night was announced as the winner of the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award! The Award, presented and hosted by the Whakatane Museum of Arts has developed over 27 years and sits credibly within the New ...

Recent work by ERICA VAN ZON is featured in the new exhibition "WWWII Julian Dashper and Girlfriends" at Glovebox from 31st January - 4th February 2017.

The exhibition is a reboot of the exhibition "WWW" curated by Julian Dashper at Kaliman ...

Newly commissioned work by gallery artists TIFFANY SINGH (image) and MATT ELLWOOD is featured in Headland Sculpture on the Gulf 2017  from 27 January - 19 February on Waiheke Island.

Sculpture on the Gulf is New Zealand’s foremost outdoor sculpture ...

Recent ceramic work by TESSA LAIRD is featured in the exhibition "A Turn of the Wheel" at the Malcolm Smith Gallery from 23 January - 25 February 2017.


Curated by departing manager / curator Balamohan Shingade, the exhibition asks - With the radical ...

Work by KIRSTIN CARLIN (bottom image) and RICHARD ORJIS (top image) is included in "The First Flower People" from 8 December 2016 - 19 February 2017 at Nathan Homestead Gallery in Manurewa.

Curated by Annie Bradley for Auckland Council, the art ...

Melanie Roger Gallery re-opens in late March with a new location at 444 Karangahape Road in Newton. Director Melanie Roger says “After seven years in Herne Bay in was time for a change. We’re excited to be joining other ...

Recent work by ERICA VAN ZON is included in the exhibition "By The Laws of Chance" curated by Andrea Bell  at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery 10 December 2016 - 19 February 2017.

The definition of chance varies according to philosophical ...

Commissioned by Tauranga Art Gallery for the Tauranga Garden & Art Festival, RICHARD ORJIS' new project explores the history of meadows and wildflowers and how they can change the way we think about urban green spaces.

This offsite project has re-imagined ...

ERICA VAN ZON will be included in the exhibition "SOLO 2016 Six Wellington Artists" at the Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, from 18 November – 2 April 2017. 

Her new body of work entitled ‘Coffee Perhaps’ features newly commissioned works by ...

TIFFANY SINGH is known for her socially engaged practice that often manifests in colourful and large-scale installations. Her works draw on a variety of influences that include Eastern and Western spiritual beliefs, ancient culture, Jungian psychology and Modernism.

For the ...

Following his debut solo exhibition "Show me Something Quieter" with Melanie Roger Gallery, we are pleased to welcome ROBIN NEATE as a represented artist.

Currently based in Christchurch, painter Robin Neate has exhibited locally and nationally in both private and ...

Join us on Saturday 29 October at 11am to hear STANLEY PALMER discuss his new work in the exhibition "Chart of the Far North". 

This artist talk is part of our ongoing series of public programmes.  To enquire: info@melanierogergallery ...

‘Indra’s Bow’ is a new collaboration between gallery artist TIFFANY SINGH and Jo Blogg at the MTG Hawke’s Bay in Napier. The installation consists of two main elements, a mandala constructed upon the ground and a suspended work ...

ERICA VAN ZON will exhibit a selection of her hand-hooked rugs from the past ten years at Double Denim HQ (in association with Melanie Roger Gallery) in Wellington for one night only on Thursday 6 October from 5.30 - 7pm ...

Guest artist YOLUNDA HICKMAN exhibits new work alongside work by Gabrielle Amodeo in the two person exhibition  "Empty Orchestra / Rock Garden" at the Papakura Art Gallery from 8 October - 12 November 2016 as part of ARTWEEK 2016.

The two artists ...

"Through the Trees" sets gallery artist KIRSTIN CARLIN onto a collision course with one of Dunedin's favourite daughters, Frances Hodgkins. Interested in the familiar tropes of art history and image production, Carlin's paintings both celebrate and unravel some ...

The ART FOR FOOD PROJECT  aims to create lines of communication between artist, audience and community partners by making artworks accessible and available in exchange for food that is then gifted to the Auckland City Mission.

The ART FOR FOOD ...

MATT ELLWOOD has a new sculptural work "Maquette for a Monument to Global Capitalism and the Free World" as a finalist in the National Contemporary Art Award at Waikato Museum from 3 September - 4 December 2016.

This is the ...

Gallery artist TIFFANY SINGH and chef Ed Verner of Pasture restaurant in Parnell are collaborating to emphasize the ethics behind the sustainable future of food. Visually articulating the relationship between the garden and the table, Singh will create artworks that ...

"Painting: a transitive space" is initiated by Simon McIntyre (coordinator, facilitator, participant and curator) and includes new and recent work by gallery artists CLAUDIA JOWITT and PATRICK POUND.

This first event is an exhibition project with 21 participating artists opening ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to be participating in Art Week 2016 from 8-16 October.  The gallery will exhibiting a new series of works by Christchurch based painter ROBIN NEATE (image) - "Show Me Something Quieter".

Also on during Art Week ...

"Ocular Fusion" includes the works of Australian painters Jude Rae & Kevin Malloy alongside NZ painters Gary McMillan and RUTH CLELAND (courtesy of Melanie Roger Gallery). There are common threads in these works that allude to visions’ inherent instability and a ...

New work by SAM MITCHELL and GAVIN HURLEY will be exhibited at the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui from 13 August - 30 October 2016.  The exhibition "Beards, Boys, Platters, Shattered Dreams" includes work made during their time spent at Tylee Cottage ...

Saturday, 20 August 2016
11am

As part of our ongoing series of public programmes, join us to hear RUTH CLELAND discuss her new paintings in the solo exhibition "Concrete Abstraction" at Melanie Roger Gallery. This will be at 11am on ...

DEREK HENDERSON (top image) and PETER PERYER (bottom image) both have work in the exhibition "Ruminations in the Cloisters: Talking About Photography" at Old Bank Space (A Govett Brewster Gallery annex), 87 Devon Street West, New Plymouth.

An exhibition of ...

PATRICK POUND will exhibit new work at the Adam Art Gallery in Wellington from 30 July - 18 September.

"I started by collecting things in order to inform my work. What seems to have happened slowly is that the collections eventually ...

MARTIN POPPELWELL exhibits a new body of work as a solo exhibition "Index" at the Hastings City Art Gallery from 30 July - 24 October 2016.

This idiosyncratic look at the alphabet uses images and icons that Poppelwell has built up ...

Portrait paintings by SAM MITCHELL are included in the exhibition "Traits" at Corbans Estate Arts Centre from 22 July - 4 September 2016. 

Portraiture has a long tradition in the history of art as a commissioned mode of representation of an ...

Recent work by gallery artists KIRSTIN CARLIN (image), KRISTY GORMAN and PETER GOUGE is include din the exhibition "Painting Programme" at the Wallace Trust Gallery from 28 June - 11 September.

A common epoch connects the artists in this exhibition; however ...

New work by HENRIETTA HARRIS (top image), GAVIN HURLEY (bottom image) and SAM MITCHELL will be exhibited in "Rumours" at the Franklin Arts Centre from 9 July - 20 August 2016.

Curated by Kara Wallace, the exhibition explores contemporary portraiture and ...

New and recent work by PETER PERYER is featured in a photo essay and on the cover of the latest issue (#231) of of prestigious arts journal Landfall.  "When I was a young man and fancied that perhaps I could ...

PETER PERYER has a new exhibition with the Govett Brewster Art Gallery at their TSB annex in New Plymouth.

New Plymouth’s former TSB Bank has a new life as a temporary art space, with the iconic building housing exhibitions ...

Gallery artists GAVIN HURLEY, LIYEN CHONG and PATRICK POUND all have new or recent work in the  exhibition "Bad Hair Day" at the Christchurch Art Gallery from 4 June 2016. 

A 'bad hair day', according to the Compact Oxford English ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of emerging artist CLAUDIA JOWITT. 

Curator Francis McWahnnell writes in Art News magazine (Winter 2016) - "The recent pieces were exceptionally alluring, both because their subtle colours and elaborate surfaces made Jowitt ...

As part of the Auckland Art Fair, LIYEN CHONG has been selected to be part of Auckland Art Fair Projects: Pacific Real Time with "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (referencing Copernicus)". An Instagram feed created by the artist ...

Pick up a copy of the latest Art News New Zealand magazine (Winter 2016) to read about LIYEN CHONG's 2015 residency at Cemeti Art House in Indonesia.  Works from this residency were exhibited at Melanie Roger Gallery in late ...

Pick up a copy of the latest issue (Winter, issue 158) of Art New Zealand magazine to read "Creative Industry: MATT ELLWOOD Interrogates Art and Fashion" by Sydney based writer Anna Madeleine which explores his recent exhibition "Freize Saint Laurent ...

In 2014 STANLEY PALMER was one of a group of esteemed New Zealand and Australian artists, filmmakers and historians who travelled to the Gallipoli Peninsula to make work towards the exhibition entitled "Your Friend the Enemy". The work created as ...

"Visiting Asia" at the Hastings Art Gallery from 16 April – 17 July 2016 shares the perspectives of New Zealand artists who have undertaken residencies in China, Indonesia, India, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Through a wide variety of media including ...

The following is in response to the recent online commentary by Art Bank on BFM and Frances Morton on Vice.com regarding the representation of female artists by New Zealand galleries.

I believe the discussion is a valid one, but ...

The Auckland Art Gallery has released the catalogue publication to accompany their recent exhibition "Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show" curated by Natasha Conland.  The exhibition and publication feature new and recent work by KIRSTIN CARLIN and EMMA FITTS and a ...

Pick up a copy of the latest Art New Zealand Magazine (Number 157, Autumn 2016) to read about our recent exhibition "Iti" of work by TAME ITI and BIRGIT KRIPPNER.  The feature is written by emerging artist HEIDI BRICKELL and ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of US based New Zealand artist PETER GOUGE. 

Peter Gouge (Auckland, 1984) is currently based in Florida, USA. He has a Bachelor of Design from Unitec, Auckland. (2009) and is completing ...

Saturday 9 April | 11am
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DATE DIFFERS FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED.

Hear MATT ELLWOOD discuss his new body of work in the exhibition "Frieze Saint Laurent".

One year in the making, the exhibition "Frieze Saint Laurent" includes ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to announce participation in the 2016 Auckland Art Fair - New Zealand’s premier international showcase for contemporary art which returns this year after a three-year hiatus, from May 25th - 29th at The Cloud on Auckland ...

Ruth Thomas Edmond's major sculptural work "Sugared Heap" (2012) will be exhibited  in "Body | Memory" at Fresh Gallery in Otara from March 24th.

"Body | Memory" is a group exhibition about abstract painting and mark making in contemporary art practices ...

New York based New Zealand artist VICTORIA MUNRO is exhibiting her new project "Great White: Collapsing Spaces / Alternate Locations" at Staten Island Arts in New York from March 3 – May 14, 2016

Great White is an exhibit based on ideas ...

White Night | 12 March | 6pm - midnight
www.whitenight.aaf.co.nz
Although Melanie Roger Gallery will not be open for White Night, two of our artists are involved in projects as follows:

MARTIN POPPELWELL | A Storage Problem | Objectspace
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New work (bottom image) by VICTORIA MUNRO is included in the exhibition JULIAN DASHPER & FRIENDS at PS Project Space in Amsterdam.  A group exhibition featuring work by 18 international artists who all had a connection with the New Zealand artist ...

MARTIN POPPELWELL will exhibit " A Storage Problem" at Objectspace in Ponsonby from 5 March - 16 April 2016 as part of Auckland Festival 2016.

Collaborating with architect Ben Daly and photographer Derek Henderson, artist Martin Poppelwell’s installation "A Storage Problem ...

Each of the 14,000 flags in TIFFANY SINGH’s award-winning installation expresses the hopes and dreams of a child somewhere in New Zealand. Singh has been working with school children from Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch since 2012, helping them ...

Gallery artists GAVIN HURLEY and RICHARD ORJIS have new and recent work featured in the exhibition "Certainly Very Merry" at Tim Melville Gallery from 2 February - 5 March 2016 as part of Pride 2016.

The exhibition takes its title from ...

MARTIN POPPELWELL has new work and writing in "Empire of Dirt: Writing about Ceramics" at Objectspace in Auckland from 14 November 2015 - 19 December 2015.

Bringing new voices and perspectives to the appreciation of ceramics, Empire of Dirt brings together ...

RUTH CLELAND and RICHARD ORJIS have recent work in the exhibition "Suburban Dreams" at The Dowse Art Museum in Wellington from 30 January - 29 May 2016. The dream of the nuclear family in a brand new house on a quarter ...

"Enshrine" is the latest meditative and multi-sensory installation by TIFFANY SINGH and is influenced by the teachings of Anicca, or impermanence and the repeating cycle of life, death and rebirth.

This is played out literally and metaphorically within the work ...

LIYEN CHONG (image) and ERICA VAN ZON have work in the exhibition "Visiting Asia" that opens at Te Tuhi Gallery this weekend.The exhibition runs from 14 November 2015 - 21 February 2016

Artists are: Fiona Amundsen & Tim Corballis // Ben Buchanan ...

New York based VICTORIA MUNRO has new work featured in Minus Space's group exhibition "Fiber Optic", highlighting several generations of artists innovating at the intersection of geometry and fiber. The exhibition which runs from November 7th - December 19th 2015 ...

STANLEY PALMER will give an artist talk at the gallery on Saturday 21 November at 11am where he will discuss both his work in the exhibition and his personal connections with Gallipoli.

In 2014 STANLEY PALMER was one of a ...

New and recent work by KIRSTIN CARLIN and EMMA FITTS is included in "Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show" at the Auckland Art Gallery from 28 November 2015 - April 2016.

Discover a new vigour in recent New Zealand painting in this ...

A new catalogue publication has been produced to coincide with LIYEN CHONG's new exhibition "Practicing Colour" at Melanie Roger Gallery.  The catalogue titled "Teardrops, dingbats and chasing the unknowable: a conversation with Liyen Chong" contains an extensive interview between ...

LIYEN CHONG will discuss her new work in the exhibition “Practicing Colour” followed by a short paper marbling demonstration on Saturday 31st October at 11am at Melanie Roger Gallery. Numbers are limited.

She will also discuss the time she spent ...

Director Geoff Murphy’s 1985 cult sci-fi feature ‘The Quiet Earth’ turns 30 this year. This exhibition at RAMP Gallery, features new work by three artists including ERICA VAN ZON and two writers, all responding to ‘The Quiet Earth’.

The ...

"Florence & Friends" is a pop-up exhibition curated by RICHARD ORJIS and Julia Holderness at Flotsam and Jetsam from 26 September - 11 October. It  features the launch of ceramics by Florence Weir alongside selected pieces by Kirsten Dryburgh, Steve Lovett, EMMA ...

TIFFANY SINGH's new exhibition, "Mahābhūta", is a Sanskrit term translating to "the great natural element" at Malcolm Smith Gallery (26 September - 19 November 2015) as a joint project with Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, 16 Stancombe Road, Flat Bush ...

SAM MITCHELL will discuss her new work in the collaborative exhibition "Meet" with GAVIN HURLEY on Saturday 17th October, 11am at the gallery.  This will also be the final day of the exhibition.

GAVIN HURLEY and SAM MITCHELL have paired ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to be part of Artweek Auckland 2015 which runs from 10-18 October across the city.  Our collaborative exhibition "Meet" of new work by GAVIN HURLEY & SAM MITCHELL (image) will be part of this as well ...

New work by EMMA FITTS is featured in "Embodying the Archive" at The Physics Room in Christchurch from 5 September - 10 October 2016. 

Curated by Anneke Jaspers and Melanie Oliver, "Embodying the Archive" explores history mediated through the body. Rather ...

Congratulations ot ERICA VAN ZON who has been confirmed as one of the 2016 Artists in Residence at The Tylee Cottage in Whanganui from January - March.

"Over the past year I have conducted a number of trips to Whanganui. I ...

A full colour 6 page online catalogue publication "RICHARD ORJIS: GARDEN CITIES OF TOMORROW" has been produced by the Sarjeant Gallery to mark the exhibition of the same title.  It features a major interview between the artist and curator Greg ...

RICHARD ORJIS will discuss his recent work in his exhibition "Garden Cities of Tomorrow" on Saturday 29 August at 11am.

Work in this exhibition was made as a response to research carried out during his 2014 Tylee Cottage Residency in ...

STANLEY PALMER is featured in the latest Spring issue of Art New Zealand magazine with an extensive 9 page  interview by Richard Wolfe looking at both his recent work as well as the development and progression of both his painting ...

You asked for it so now Melanie Roger Gallery has a Vimeo channel!  We will update this where relevant with recordings (mostly audio) of our ongoing public programes series - artist and curator talks.  This is a great opportunity for collectors ...

Tiffany Singh’s collaborative project "Calling a Circle" initiated when 2013 McCahon House Artist in Residence, has now been re-homed at Hospice West Auckland where the project will continue to explore ideas of social wellness through a sharing and making ...

On Saturday 25th July at 11am as part of our ongoing but occasional series of public programmes at the gallery, GAVIN HURLEY and MARTIN POPPELWELL will give artist talks about their work in our current group exhibition. All welcome.

GAVIN ...

Congratulations to SAM MITCHELL who has been selected as the Tylee Cottage / Sarjeant Gallery Artist in Residence for late 2015.

Mitchell intends to immerse herself in, and explore Whanganui with its strong craft community and history as a continuation of ...

Melanie Roger Gallery is pleased to be working with UK based New Zealand artist EMMA FITTS as part of KIRSTIN CARLIN's upcoming exhibition "Pleasure Garden".  Carlin and Fitts have collaborated on exhibitions for the past few years and will ...

LIYEN CHONG exhibits new work at the Cemeti Art House in Indonesia in an exhibition titled "Infinate Horizontal and Vertical".  The work has been made while Chong was the 2015 Asia New Zealand Foundation Artist in Residence.

New work developed ...

TIFFANY SINGH is on a three month residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in California from March - May 2015.  The focus of her residency is "Food Justice" and Singh will be researching and working with local communities as well ...

As part of our ongoing but occasional series of public programmes at the gallery, STANLEY PALMER will give an artist talk about his current exhibition "Return - Otago Peninsula" on Saturday 13th June at 11am.  All welcome.

Image: "Stanley Palmer" by ...

The new Winter issue of Art New Zealand magazine includes a feature by Peter Wells on the recent work of GAVIN HURLEY.  He writes -

"I offer these interpretations as a personal response to Hurley's work.  I have to add ...

DEREK HENDERSON has new photographic work featured in "Lay of The Land" at Papakura Art Gallery from 2 May - 13 June 2015.  The exhibition features the work of contemporary New Zealand artists whose practices are centred on recording with a ...

PATRICK POUND exhibits his new installation based work "The Museum of Holes" at the Castlemaine Gallery and Museum from 13 - 22 March 2015 as part of the Castlemaine State Festival in Castlemaine, Australia.

Conjuring up a surprising range of meanings ...

Recent work by TESSA LAIRD is featured in the exhibition "Five by Five: New Conversations with Clay" at Te Uru Gallery in Waitakere from 11 April - 7 June 2015. 

In 1980, Denis Cohn Gallery in Auckland staged an exhibition of ...

Long time Workshop Clothing partners MARTIN POPPELWELL and Max Gimblett have collaborated to create a new conversation built on their experience of ceramics and painting.  Both Poppelwell and Gimblett place a high value on the daily practice of drawing and ...

In 2014 STANLEY PALMER was one of a group of esteemed New Zealand and Australian artists, filmmakers and historians who travelled to the Gallipoli Peninsula to make work towards the exhibition entitled "Your Friend the Enemy".  The work created as ...

From 14 March - 21 June 2015 at the Auckland Art Gallery, see the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of BILLY APPLE®, New Zealand's most important conceptual artist. Featuring everything from early pop art works to his latest investigations ...

RUTH CLELAND exhibits recent work in "New Urban Realists" at the Eastern Southland Gallery from 13 December 2014 - 15 February and later at the Millenium Gallery in Marlborough from 21 March - 27 April 2015. 

The exhibition explores aspects of everyday ...

GAVIN HURLEY has created a new series of works for the exhibition "Tranquility Disturb'd" at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington from 12 March - 31 May 2015.

Curated by Richard Wolfe the exhibition offers a unique view of ...

Recent ceramic wall works by MARTIN POPPEWELL are included in the new exhibition "Form", curated by AD Schierning for the Papakura Art Gallery.  "Form" is intended as a consideration of the perception of artifacts via the inherent qualities of materials ...

ERICA VAN ZON (top image), TIFFANY SINGH and LIYEN CHONG (lower image) exhibit work in "Imagine Asia" at Pataka Art Museum in Wellington from 22 February - 3 May 2015.  Since 2007, the Asia New Zealand Foundation has run a programme ...

MATT ELLWOOD exhibits newly commissioned work "Half a Pallet of Building Blocks" in Headland Sculpture on the Gulf 2015 on Waiheke Island.

Ellwood has created a plywood version of concrete mortar blocks on a pallet alongside individually available blocks.  The ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN exhibits new watercolour and gouache works alongside new work by Emma Fitts as a one night only collaborative exhibition -  "74 Heaton Street" in Christchurch on Friday 5 December 2014.

This is the third in an on-going series of ...

TIFFANY SINGH presents "Life is but a Vapour" at Waitakere's new contemporary art gallery Te Uru from 11 December 2014 - 15 February 2015.  The exhibition is the presentation of work developed during Singh's three month stay at McCahon ...

RICHARD ORJIS exhibits new work as a solo project "The Ark: Garden Cities of Tomorrow" from 28 February - 24 May 2015 at the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui.  The exhibition is a culmination of Orjis' recent interests in sustainability and the land ...

RICHARD ORJIS will exhibit new and recent work as a solo project "Home" at Corbans Estate Arts Centre from 23 January - 28 February 2015.  Invoking the familiarity and warmth of domestic with the hand-crafted and home-spun, Richard Orjis' latest exhibition ...

RUTH CLELAND is exhibiting new works from her "grid" series at Window Gallery at Auckland University from 28 October - 22 November 2014.

Recently Cleland has started to include within her works portions of grids, the very ones used to transfer ...

LIYEN CHONG has been awarded a three month Asia New Zealand Foundation Residency at Cemeti Art House in Indonesia from March to May 2015.

The residency will take place at Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, Indonesia which has been exhibiting ...

RICHARD ORJIS has collaborated with A.D. Schierning to create "Hauora Garden" as part of Pop Projects. Located at Studio One Toi Tū, 1 Ponsonby Road, the garden is an interactive and sensory space that aims to reconnect urban dwellers ...

Utilising a natural rainbow to explore ceremony and ritual in different cultures, TIFFANY SINGH’s latest installation, "The Revision of Optics" gathers materials from around Singapore that have relationships to healing the body and mind.  It is currently on exhibition ...

RICHARD ORJIS has collaborated with Sarah Smuts-Kennedy and Taariti Taiaroa to create a new series of "Pasture Paintings" around Auckland City as part of Pop Projects.  All three artists share interests in public space, social sculpture and environmetal histories and ...

New site specific work by RUTH THOMAS EDMOND will be featured in the exhibition Solo 2014: Five Wellington Artists from 18 October 2014 - 1 March 2015 at The Dowse Art Museum in Wellington.

"Solo" is a biennial exhibition that aims ...

ERICA VAN ZON will exhibit new work as a solo artists project titled "Dogwood Days" at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery from 29 November 2014 - 15 March 2015. 

Erica van Zon is the thirty-first artist to participate in Dunedin Public ...

TESSA LAIRD will exhibit new work as a solo exhibition "House of Bats" at Corbans Estate Arts Centre from 5 December 2014 - 18 January 2015 as a response to the plight of New Zealand's pekapeka, our only native land ...

Recent work by RUTH CLELAND is featured in the exhibition "Constant Practice" curated by Matt Blomeley for the Franklin Arts Centre.  The exhibition runs from 20 September - 1 November 2014.  Other artists include Phil Dadson and Denys Watkins plus more ...

LIYEN CHONG's solo exhibition "Dreams Circles Moons Fictions (and fragments found in the forest floor of disquietude)" which surveys the past ten years of her artistic practise is at The Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui from 27 September - 23 November ...

Renowned glass caster LAYLA WALTER’s latest exhibition "Pacific Flower" at Corbans Estate Arts Centre, features new works that have a strong focus on people and places that are personally known to the artist. This aspect gives the viewer a ...

To welcome Spring, we are teaming up once again with our neighbours to celebrate on Saturday 13 September from 10 - 3pm. 

As part of our ongoing occasional series of public programmes, SAM MITCHELL who will be exhibiting at the gallery ...

We are sorry to hear of the recent passing away of DICK LYNE. A self taught artist, Dick Lyne picked up a paintbrush for the first time at age 65, his work reflecting his knowledge and love of the bush ...

The Dowse Art Museum hosts a new exhibition of works by PETER PERYER from 23 August - 23 November 2014.  "Peter Peryer: A Careful Eye" features new and retrospective work from 1975 to 2013 and links to Peryer's first ever ...

A new catalogue publication on the recent work of KIRSTIN CARLIN has been published to coincide with her exhibition "Other Avenues" at Melanie Roger Gallery.  Includes full colour images and new writing by art historian and curator Victoria Wynne-Jones.

A5 ...

Papakura Art Gallery has released a new publication - LIYEN CHONG "Dreams Circles Moons Fictions (and fragments found in the forest floor of disquietude)" - the catalogue of her solo exhibition there earlier this year. 33 pages with full colour images and ...

SAM MITCHELL's six month residency in Invercargill as the William Hodges Fellow will culminate in an exhibition at the Southland Museum of Art and History from July 18th - 31 August 2014.

The exhibition "There is a Crack in Everything ...

On the shortest day of the year - 21st June, we are teaming up with our neighbours to celebrate Winter Solstice.  As part of our ongoing occasional series of public programmes, the Gallery will introduce new work  by Kirstin Carlin and ...

TIFFANY SINGH has begun a two month residency at the Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre in Nepal.  "The East will always have her pull. It's ten years since I lived in India and was overwhelmed by her spirit. Can't ...

ERICA VAN ZON will travel to Dunedin during July and August as part of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's visiting artist programme, where she will make a new body of work for a solo exhibition from 29 November 2014 ...

A new article by Cathy Tuato'o Ross on the work of LIYEN CHONG is included in the latest issue of Art New Zealand magazine (issue 150, Winter 2014).  Get your copy today to read this and more.

To enquire ...

We're doing Winter Wednesday hours over the colder months.  Starting from 14 May the gallery will be open 11 - 4pm.  We apoligise for any inconvenience this may cause but will be open our usual hours other days as follows ...

TESSA LAIRD, along with contemporary artists and designers Charlotte Graham, Philip Kelly, Natalie Robertson and Haruhiko Sameshima, have been commissioned to create new works addressing the social, cultural and historic value of the Kauri tree, one of our most beloved ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN has been invited to create a new edition for The Physics Room in Christchurch alongside Ella Sutherland and John Ward Knox.  The new work "Geranium" is a screenprint in an edition of 20 and all funds raised from ...

After working with Crane Brothers on their recent Winter 2014 campaign RICHARD ORJIS asked director Murray Crane if he could style and shoot his new jewellery campaign.  These are the results....

 
www.cranebrothers.com
To enquire about works by RICHARD ...

From 25 April - 4 May 2014 RICHARD ORJIS will present a new outdoor installation project - the first project presented by POP - a new artists collective to generate creativity, fun, connections and experiences for Aucklanders. 

Experience Auckland's park life as ...

Gallery artist MATT ELLWOOD is taking part in the 2014 Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt with his work "El Salvador".  The event will be the first of its kind in the southern hemisphere which invites the public to find 100 ...

A new publication on the recent work of MARTIN POPPELWELL has been published to coincide with his exhibition "Post Hole" at Melanie Roger Gallery. 

Limited edition of 50 copies
8 pages
210 x 210 mm, staple bound
Full colour with ...

At the request of Art New Zealand magazine we have recently removed links and PDF files to Art New Zealand magazine texts on our artist pages.  These include extremely good articles on the following artists:

KIRSTIN CARLIN
LIYEN CHONG
GAVIN ...

RICHARD ORJIS has collaborated with Crane Brothers Contemporary Tailors on their new Winter 2014 campaign. 

Photographing celebrated contemporary New Zealand dancer Thomas Fonua, Orjis captured him moving in a classic black tuxedo and bow tie.  "Using the technique of collage ...

TESSA LAIRD (bottom), RICHARD ORJIS and ERICA VAN ZON (top) have recent work in the new exhibition Slip Cast at The Dowse Art Museum from 15 February - 2 June 2014, timed to coincide with the opening of the New Zealand ...

In April this year STANLEY PALMER  and a group of esteemed New Zealand and Australian artists, filmmakers and historians will travel to the Gallipoli Peninsula to make work towards the exhibition entitled "Your Friend the Enemy".  This World War 1 ...

TIFFANY SINGH presents "Fly Me Up to Where You Are" at the PATAKA MUSEUM as part of the 2014 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS from 27 January - 4 May 2014.

Inspired by the ancient Tibetan tradition of prayer flags, TIFFANY ...

TIFFANY SINGH is the Brick Bay Sculpture Park Summer artist of 2014.  Her new work "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way" runs ...

LIYEN CHONG's work of the past ten years is the subject of a new solo exhibition curated by Tracey Williams for the Papakura Art Gallery.   The exhibition opens Saturday 1 February at 10.30am and runs till 15th March ...

MATT ELLWOOD presents working drawings and discusses his recent series "Smoking Tom Ford" at the Auckland Art Gallery as part of "On The Table" - a Drawing Center, New York initiative to bring drawing practise into public spaces throughout the world ...

SAM MITCHELL exhibits new work as a solo exhibition at Corbans Estate Arts Centre from 24 January - 2 March 2014  "First is Last, Last is First"utitlises eclectic motifs sourced from fairy tales, legends, urban myths and Corban Estate’s ...

Recent work by RUTH CLELAND is featured in the exhibition "As If You Were Bringing Back Dust From The Moon" at the Papakura Art Gallery 26 December 2013 - 25 January 2014.  Other artists include Kate Small, Edith Amituanai, Clinton Watkins ...

RUTH CLELAND and Gary McMillan’s exhibition "Inland Empire" was originally made for and exhibited at the University of Waikato in early 2013.  From 6 December 2013 - 19 January 2014 it will be exhibited at Corbans Estate Arts Centre. 

"Inland ...

Congratulations to RICHARD ORJIS who has been awarded the 2014 TYLEE COTTAGE RESIDENCY at the SARJEANT GALLERY in Whanganui.  The Tylee Cottage Residency is New Zealand's longest running artists residency.  Orjis will spend four months there from late February ...

PATRICK POUND has created a major new installation based work THE MUSEUM OF AIR for the exhibition "Melbourne Now" at the NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA in Melbourne from 22 November 2013 - 23 March 2014.  Read about the work and hear ...

Calling A Circle: He Karanga Pae by McCahon House Artist in Residence TIFFANY SINGH is about the concept of wellbeing in relation to the process of grief, death and dying. Leading researcher in the field of Positive Psychology, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly ...

Congratulations to SAM MITCHELL who has been awarded the prestigious William Hodges Fellowship for 2014. 

The William Hodges Fellowship artist in residence programme aims to bring significant New Zealand visual artists to Southland and allow them to work within and ...

ERICA VAN ZON presents a  solo exhibition of new work at the CITY GALLERY in Wellington from 12 November 2013 - 26 January 2014.


Functioning as an unconventional close reading, the exhibition sets about making material a series of objects from ...

KIRSTIN CARLIN is featured in the latest issue of ART NEW ZEALAND magazine (Summer 2013 / 2014) with an article "Rapture: The Flower Paintings of Kirstin Carlin" by David Lyndon Brown which explores her work of the past few years.

Get ...

Recent work from the series "Island" by RUTH CLELAND is included in the exhibition "Idyll" at the Franklin Arts Centre.  Curated by Matt Blomeley the exhibition is a visual critique and exploration of the lost paradise that was New Zealand ...

TESSA LAIRD is featured in the latest issue of ART NEWS magazine (Summer 2013) with an article "Rainbow Serpents and other Awakenings" by Virginia Were which explores her work of the past few years focusing particularly on her recent ceramics ...

Recent work by GRAHAM FLETCHER from his acclaimed "Lounge Room Tribalism" and "Sugar Loaf Waka" series will be included in the exhibition "Future Primitive" at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne from 4 December 2013 - 2 March 2014 ...

TESSA LAIRD will release her new artist book "A Rainbow Reader" on 10th November at the AUCKLAND ART GALLERY as part of a public programmes reading for the exhibition "Freedom Farmers". 

"A Rainbow Reader" is a work of creative non-fiction ...

New work by GAVIN HURLEY (top) and RICHARD ORJIS (bottom) is included in the exhibition "Man Made" at The Dowse Art Museum from 19 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.

Man Made features the work of twelve contemporary male artists who ...

Recent work by TESSA LAIRD (exhibited in early 2013 at Melanie Roger Gallery) is featured in "Freedom Farmers: New Zealand Artists Growing Ideas" at the Auckland Art Gallery 26 October 2013 - 2 March 2014. Curated by Natasha Conland, the exhibition ...

TIFFANY SINGH is artist in residence at McCahon House in Titirangi from November 2013 - February 2014. McCahon House Artists’ Residency, is amongst the most prestigious artists’ residencies in New Zealand. Three residencies a year, each of three months duration, are ...

Work by RUTH CLELAND (from the Waikato Trust collection) and MARTIN POPPELWELL is included in the exhibition "Architecture of the Heart" from 21st September 2013 - 2nd March 2014 at the brand new public museum for the Hawkes Bay - MTG Hawkes ...

MARTIN POPPELWELL has unveiled a new mural work at 33 High St in Auckland City at the site of the former Snakepit Gallery.  The project has been initiated and supported by Heart of the City and continues Poppelwell's large ...

Photographer Birgit Krippner presents her series “Private View”  at Melanie Roger Gallery as a pop up exhibition from 20 - 23 November 2013. 

Originally begun on June 5^th 2011 with an impromptu portrait of a Hawkes Bay based artist, she ...

GRAHAM FLETCHER's Untitled (Sugar Loaf Waka) is currently included in the exhibition "Place Makers: Artists and Iconic Landscapes" at the HOCKEN GALLERY in Dunedin where it can be viewed alongside works by Colin McCahon and Gordon Walters.  The work ...

TIFFANY SINGH presents "Fly Me Up to Where You Are" at the CHRISTCHURCH ARTS FESTIVAL from 22 August - 22 September 2013. 

Inspired by the ancient Tibetan tradition of prayer flags, TIFFANY SINGH has collaborated with Porirua secondary students (forthe Pataka ...

We are pleased to announce that the Melanie Roger Gallery website is a finalist in the small scale websites category of the prestigious Best Design  Awards.  Developed by Christchurch based SONS & CO. the website has been getting strong visitor traffic ...

New and recent work by LIYEN CHONG and SAM MITCHELL will be featured in "A Different View: Artists Address Pornography" at The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland from 23 August - 12 October 2013.  Curated by Linda Tyler in association ...

In their first collaborative project together, Auckland artist's MATT ELLWOOD and
Yoon Tae Kim produce a triptych work that acts as a critique on brand
recognition.  Here they collaborate to investigate the influence of branding in the concrete jungle ...

Recent works by both LIYEN CHONG and PATRICK POUND will feature in "Cross Over" at the Papakura Art Gallery from 27 July - 31 August 2013.

From 15 August at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, TIFFANY SINGH creates a new site specific community-connected project using wind chimes to focus on the potency, energy and meanings of colour. Ancient cultural beliefs inform Auckland-based artist ...

LIYEN CHONG exhibits "Resolution" - a new body of work at Corbans Estate Arts Centre from 2 August - 8 September.  Liyen Chong has built a multi-disciplinary art practice dealing with cultural generalisations and issues. In Chong’s latest exhibition, 'Resolution' she ...

A new publication has been released to coincide with GRAHAM FLETCHER's exhibition "Sugar Loaf Waka" at Melanie Roger Gallery.  Produced by Pania Press the Sugar Loaf Waka catalogue is 28 pages long, measures 280 x 205 mm, and includes ...

RUTH THOMAS-EDMOND exhibits newly commissioned vinyl work as part of the exhibition HOW TO FALL at the City Gallery in Wellington from 29 June - 25 August 2013.

The exhibition features site-specific work by Ruth Thomas-Edmond alongside Heather Harward, Marnie Slater ...

Ruth Cleland will exhibit new work alongside new work by Gary McMillan in a joint exhibition titled INLAND EMPIRE at the Calder and Lawson Gallery, University of Waikato.  The exhibition explores both artists highly detailed renditions of suburbia with a ...

Australian based artist Patrick Pound is featured in the latest issue of Art Collector magazine (issue 64, April - June 2013) with a six page article "Lost and Found" by Dan Rule and commentary from Dr Kyla McFarlane (associate curator at ...

Tiffany Singh and Peter Peryer are featured in the latest issue (Winter 2013) of Art New Zealand magazine. 

Tessa Laird writes an overview of Singh's diverse practise of the past few years including her recent exhibition Samsara at Melanie ...

Derek Henderson exhibits new work as part of RECENT AUCKLAND PHOTOGRAPHY at Northart from 20 May - 12 June 2013.  Curated by Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling, the exhibition surveys work by both established and emerging photographers includng Mark Adams, Edith ...

Darkness of Noon is a unique collaboration between photographer Derek Henderson and illustrator Kelly Thompson where photography and drawing intersect seamlessly. Featuring nudes of Zippora Seven the resulting imagery reflects Henderson’s democratic naturalism, where all phenomena is given equal ...

Melanie Roger Gallery will participate in the 5th Auckland Art Fair 7 - 11th August at The Cloud. The gallery will present a curated selection of works in various mediums exploring concurrently the themes of light and dark / beauty and deconstruction ...

Tiffany Singh is currently on a 3 month residency at the Montalvo Arts Centre in California, USA.  She will exhibit new work THE BELLS OF MINDFULNESS made during her time as an artist in residence, as part of the exhibition ...

The Auckland Art Gallery's Learning Centre currently features a year-long evolving exhibition by Tiffany Singh titled MAY THE RAINBOW ALWAYS TOUCH YOUR SHOULDERS. 

The sequence of colours here might not be the spectrum that you are most familiar with ...