Archive
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Tom Kreisler
Misrepresentations 2024年9月26日 - 11月2日 With a guest appeaRance by Mitch Cairns It is with great pleasure that Sumer announces its latest exhibition, Misrepresentations, featuring works by the late Argentinian-born New Zealand ar... Read more -
Sandra Bushby
Pouring Light 2024年8月14日 - 9月14日 It is hovering in a zone, between taking form, registering and becoming, while also simultaneously being stubbornly out of reach, slipping from view and residing in a neverland. This is the scape... Read more -
Brian Fuata
Intermission (seini_transmit) 2024年8月9日 - 8月10日 Featuring Ngāsti (Aroha Scott & Tyson Campbell), Observed by John Miller OPEN REHEARSAL: FRIDAY 9 AUGUST, 11AM–5PM PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY 10 AUGUST, 6:30PM Sumer is delighted to present ... Read more -
Gian Manik
MINE 2024年7月3日 - 8月3日 Sumer is pleased to present its latest exhibition, MINE, by Naarm-based artist Gian Manik. The exhibition comprises a series of thirteen new paintings (all 2024), twelve of which the artist... Read more -
Ruth Watson
Kosmos 2024年5月23日 - 6月29日 We have all had little souvenirs at some time, whether bought or gifted. Wherever they come from, some of them we love, some of them make us cringe. They raise some questions: do they do their jo... Read more -
Stephen Bram
2024年4月17日 - 5月18日 Coinciding with the 2024 Aotearoa Art Fair, Sumer is pleased to present its latest exhibition by Naarm Melbourne-based artist Stephen Bram. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery... Read more -
Michael Morley
After the War 2024年3月6日 - 4月13日 Painting’s usefulness appears to have evaporated. At the turn of the last century, there was a wonderful moment where the development of abstraction heralded a new understandi... Read more -
Ella Sutherland
Still Life with Argot 2024年2月2日 - 3月2日 Sumer is pleased to present Still Life with Argot, an exhibition of new work by Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist Ella Sutherland. A reworking of the artist’s exhibition at Künste... Read more -
SUMMMER
2023年12月13日 - 2024年1月27日 Over the summer break, Sumer will be presenting highlights from its recent program, together with previously unexhibited works from gallery artists. The exhibition includes work by Brook Andrew, Sandra Bushby, Hikalu Clarke, Andrew Hazewinkel, Lara Merrett, and Brontë Stolz.
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Georgie Hill
Venus Marina / The Roses Came Roaring 2023年10月27日 - 12月9日 It was the year he began to wonder about the noise that colors make. Roses came roaring across the garden at him. He lay on his bed at night listening to the silver light of stars cras... Read more -
Zina Swanson
Watering Shadows 2023年9月14日 - 10月21日 Sumer is pleased to present Watering Shadows, an exhibition of new work by Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Zina Swanson. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Tāmaki Maukaurau Auckland, and their third solo exhibition with the gallery. A series of new figurative paintings and polychromatic sculptures (all 2023), this exhibition is the latest instalment of a broad ongoing project that the artist has undertaken over the past decade. Read more -
Cindy Huang
Tracing a Gilded Trail 2023年8月9日 - 9月9日 Sumer is pleased to present Tracing a gilded trail by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Cindy Huang. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The exhibition comprises a large multi-component installation: lily flowers, buds, petals, leaves and stamen, that festoon, nay litter, the gallery floor—jettisoned, dismembered, discarded. These are all objects that have been rendered by the artist’s hand in porcelain clay, life-size and painted in true likeness. Read more -
Jan van der Ploeg
Homage to the Circle 2023年7月5日 - 7月29日 Sumer is pleased to present Homage to the Circle, an exhibition of new work by renowned Dutch painter Jan van der Ploeg; this is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition comprises a frieze 12 new small paintings (all 2022), together with a large-scale commissioned wall drawing, and a single small painting of matching motif and palette. Read more -
Nova
2023年5月31日 - 6月24日 Featuring new and recent works by Sandra Bushby, Xin Cheng, Hikalu Clarke, Ruth Cleland, Eleanor Cooper, Henry Curchod, Tjalling de Vries, Miles Hendricks, Yolunda Hickman, Jesse Hogan, Cindy Huang, M... Read more -
Ruth Cleland
Ground 2022年11月10日 - 12月17日 Sumer is pleased to present Ground, an exhibition of recent work by Tāmaki Makaurau-based painter, Ruth Cleland. This is the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery. Ruth Cleland&rsq... Read more -
Emily Ferretti
Hitting the Nail 2022年9月29日 - 11月5日 Sumer is pleased to present Hitting the Nail, an exhibition of new paintings (all 2022) by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Emily Ferretti. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Aotearoa.
Attuned to contemporary practice, Ferretti’s paintings engage with a history of picture making across genre and tradition. Influences of folk art and early modernist painting being clear to see (unashamedly so). Her work extends these artistic traditions, and in doing so makes her own indelible mark.
Dedicated to a full-time studio practice over the past fifteen years, Ferretti has exhibited widely and undertaken studio residences including Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Cite de Arts International, Paris, and Green Street, New York. Her work is held in numerous public collections across Australia and private internationally.
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Hikalu Clarke
Dredge 2022年8月25日 - 9月24日 Sumer is pleased to present Dredge, a new exhibition by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Hikalu Clarke. The show comprising of a series of new textile works, that the artist has worked upon ove... Read more -
Sandra Bushby
Sea Garden 2022年7月27日 - 8月20日 Sumer is pleased to present Sea Garden, an exhibition of new paintings by Tāmaki-based painter Sandra Bushby. The exhibition features paintings that formed part of her doctoral submission, ... Read more -
Natalie Guy
The Weight of the Door 2022年7月27日 - 8月20日 Sumer is pleased to present The Weight of the Door, an exhibition of recent sculptural works (all 2020) by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Natalie Guy. This is the first exhibition of the arti... Read more -
Ella Sutherland
At Once Bridge and Chasm 2022年6月2日 - 7月16日 Sumer is pleased to present At Once Bridge and Chasm, an exhibition of new paintings (all 2022), by Sydney-based artist, Ella Sutherland. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition a... Read more -
Zina Swanson
The First Stick I Collected Was a Tree 2022年4月21日 - 5月28日 It's true that the first stick I collected was a tree It was on Blenheim Road in Otāutahi I didn't drive at the time but I made James do a U-turn It looked lonely Dumped in an industrial area We hired... Read more -
Michael Morley
Faint Harbours 2022年3月16日 - 4月16日 Sumer is pleased to present Faint Harbours , recent paintings by Dunedin-based artist and musician Michael Morley. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Foremost ... Read more -
Andrew Hazewinkel
Journeys in the Lifeworld of Stones (Displacements I–X) 2022年1月29日 - 3月6日 Sumer is pleased to present the inaugural exhibition of its 2022 program: Journeys in the Lifeworld of Stones (Displacements I–X), a major body of recent photographic work by Athens... Read more -
Lara Merrett
Seventeen Days 2021年11月18日 - 12月18日 Sumer is pleased to present Seventeen Days, an exhibition of new paintings, all 2021, by Sydney and South Coast-based artist Lara Merrett. This exhibition is the artist’s first solo e... Read more -
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Joy Field 2021年10月2日 - 11月13日 Sumer is pleased to present Joy Field, a suite of new large-scale drawings by Sarah Smuts-Kennedy. The works are documents of a series of scripted automatic actions undertaken by the artist in her studio over the past year; expanding upon a project that she first commenced during her time as a McCahon House Artist in Residence in 2016. Following intuition and meditative practices, the works function as expressions of the artist’s desire to reveal fields of energy. The artist describes them as Joy Fields: images which embody the positive joyful life-giving energy of a given moment, space or time. Read more -
Henry Curchod
Sharing the Sky 2021年8月11日 - 9月25日 Sumer is pleased to present Sharing the Sky, an exhibition of new paintings (all 2021) by Sydney-based painter Henry Curchod.
Known for his large colourful figurative paintings, Curchod captures moments that are typically impressionistic, sensorial and fleeting. His work is one that also reflects his diverse cultural background. The son of Kurdish-Iranian and Anglo-American parents, his images reference a rich myriad of visual forms that are Asian, European and Oceanic in origin. Read more -
Julia Morison
Omnium Gatherum: Alembic 2021年7月7日 - 8月7日 Sumer is pleased to present Omnium Gatherum: Alembic, a group of ten new paintings (all 2021) by acclaimed New Zealand artist Julia Morison ONZM. The paintings are the latest in an ongoing series of work that the artist first began six years ago, but whose enquiry and methodology connects to much of the artist’s expanded practice, which spans five decades. Read more -
Julian Dashper
Autumn 1989 2021年6月3日 - 7月3日 Sumer is pleased to present Autumn 1989, an exhibition of paintings on paper by Julian Dashper. The exhibition comprises of a selection of previously unexhibited works which were produced a... Read more -
Sonya Lacey
Bathers 2021年3月17日 - 4月24日 Bathers presents footage shot at four pools located throughout the Wellington district: Freyberg Pools (Oriental Bay); Karori Swimming Pool; Tawa Pool; and the Wellington Aquatic Centre (Ki... Read more -
André Piguet, Kathy Temin
New Forest 2021年1月21日 - 3月6日 In the south of England there is a large wilderness which bears the name, New Forest. The placename alone is the best part of a thousand years old; the woodland is far older, ancient even. What is dee... Read more -
Zina Swanson
Any Plant Thought of Too Much Will Not Thrive 2020年11月19日 - 12月19日 Sumer is pleased to present Any Plant Thought of Too Much Will Not Thrive, an exhibition of new work by Zina Swanson. In these works (all 2020) Swanson draws on plant-related lore to inte... Read more -
Miles Hendricks, Lily McRae & Nichola Shanley
The Bower 2020年11月19日 - 12月19日 Read more -
Ella Sutherland
FOLDS 2020年10月17日 - 11月14日 Ivy In 1928 Stephen couldn’t find her room, while another contemplated the new words needed to describe it In the middle of the sixth arrondissement, in the middle of the night, a temple was rec... Read more -
Areez Katki
On Chroma 2020年10月17日 - 11月14日 A series of tableaus by Areez Katki that survey the psychological resonances of colour and form through modes of mark making and abstraction. The works regenerate Katki’s thread of ethno-socia... Read more -
Andrew Hazewinkel
Rushing Air, Flooding Light 2020年9月16日 - 10月10日 Sumer is pleased to present the first New Zealand solo exhibition by Athens-based Australian artist Andrew Hazewinkel, featuring two recent bodies of photographic work: The Antikythera Group (2017) an... Read more -
Julia Morison
Myriorama: 11 2020年7月31日 - 9月5日 Myriorama: a Victorian parlour game consisting of 16 to 24 pictorial cards of scenes with a horizon line that was consistent throughout. The cards could be assembled in a line, in any multitude of con... Read more -
Yolunda Hickman & Michael Kennedy
Zombies Everywhere 2020年7月1日 - 7月25日 Deserted streets and the walking dead: the end of capitalism as dreamed in our collective imagination… Sumer is pleased to present Zombies Everywhere, its first physical exhibition ... Read more -
Jan van der Ploeg
Ready or Not 2020年5月14日 - 9月20日 Sumer is pleased to present Ready or Not, an exhibition of new work by Dutch painter Jan van der Ploeg – his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a selection of works from the artist’s most recent series of paintings, all of which were produced over the past eight weeks in the artist’s Amsterdam studio whilst under Covid-19 lockdown. These works are accompanied by a new wall painting commissioned specifically for Sumer. Read more -
Ann Shelton
jane says 2020年4月30日 - 5月17日 Presented as part of Auckland Art Fair 2020 Virtual Fair jane says depicts plants, herbs and flowers as diverse as peony, rue, sage and pennyroyal, which feature in recipes for tonics and... Read more -
Ella Sutherland
Letters 2020年4月30日 - 5月17日 Presented as part of Auckland Art Fair 2020 Virtual Fair Equal parts historiography and explication of form, Letters delves into the intricacies of public and private language. Tracing a ... Read more -
Sam Rountree Williams
2020年3月7日 - 4月9日 I guess I'll start by stating something which is more an observation than a question: thinking back, what originally drew me to your work was that I found it to be different from a lot of painti... Read more -
Sandra Bushby
Painting Poems 2020年3月7日 - 4月9日 Through two language systems, painting's formal language of colours, spaces and lines, and the linguistic signs and structures of written (and spoken) poems - punctuation, line breaks, breaths - I exp... Read more -
Kelcy Taratoa
He Kauhanga Tawhiti 2020年1月25日 - 2月29日 Sumer is pleased to present its first exhibition for 2020: He Kauhanga Tawhiti; a painting installation by Tauranga-based artist Kelcy Taratoa. For this exhibition Taratoa presents a series of new pai... Read more -
Michael Harrison, John Roy
Can't Talk Now 2019年11月23日 - 12月14日 Sumer is pleased to present its latest exhibition Can't Talk Now, bringing together the work of painter Michael Harrison and ceramicist John Roy. The exhibition title, proffered by Roy and accepted wi... Read more -
Raukura Turei
Te poho o Hine-Ruhi 2019年10月19日 - 11月16日 It started with grief. Raukura Turei is candid when she talks about the origins of her art practice. Initially is was repetitive movement which found her drawing. Finding solace in repetitious action,... Read more -
Dan Arps, Shane Cotton, Simon Denny, Kate Newby, Michael Parekowhai, Sriwhana Spong & Peter Stichbury
Michael Lett at Sumer 2019年9月27日 - 9月28日 Sumer is pleased to present a joint presentation with our colleagues Michael Lett, Auckland. The exhibition features a selection of recent and historical works by artists that feature in Michael Lett'... Read more -
Henry Curchod
Bitter Winds 2019年8月24日 - 9月21日 In each of these works (all 2019), a scenario appears to be in play. Curchod's works invoke a clear sense of narrative, while remaining consistently opaque: as viewers, we are witness to neither intro... Read more -
MEATWARE
2019年7月21日 - 8月17日 Sumer is pleased to present its latest exhibition MEATWARE. The show brings together a group of practitioners from New Zealand, Australia, and the United States; included are works by Simon Denny, Lew... Read more -
Turumeke Harrington
2019年6月26日 - 7月19日 Design School taught me how to think about materials - how to consider us and our needs. It gave me the skills to figure out how to get things done. Art School taught me how to think about materials t... Read more -
Andrew Beck
Distortions 2019年4月26日 - 5月26日 Reflected morning light dancing on the ceiling of a bedroom; a crack of light spilling into a darkened corridor from a door left ajar; sunlight refracting on facet of glass - moments like these which ... Read more -
Elizabeth Thomson
2019年3月16日 - 4月20日 Working at the interface between art and various forms of natural science, Elizabeth Thomson can, at times, be described as a surrealist-at other times she is a detached observer/investigator of the a... Read more -
Dashper, van der Ploeg & Walters
2019年2月2日 - 3月9日 This exhibition brings together the work of Gordon Walters (1919-1995), Julian Dashper (1960-2009) and Jan van der Ploeg (b.1959). These artists' work shares common adherence to the aesthetic conventi... Read more -
Anoushka Akel, Richard Bryant, Miles Hendricks, Milli Jannides, Josey Kidd-Crowe, Lara Merrett & Séraphine Pick
The Widening Gyre 2018年12月1日 - 12月22日 Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve... Read more -
Fiona Pardington
2018年10月27日 - 11月24日 Dr. Fiona Pardington MNZM, Chevalier de l'Ordre Française des Arts et des Lettres (b. 1961), of Māori and Scottish descent (Kai Tahu, Kati Waewae, Ngāti Kahungunu, Clan Cameron of Erracht, MacD... Read more
