Billy Apple is currently presenting a collaborative work with Tame Iti at Ruatoki, coordinated by James McCarthy. Apple's contribution is installed in Te Ranimoaho, Te Rewarewa Pa. It's another iteration, this time in Maori, of his Basic Needs text work (food water shelter clothing), but this time he has added Tuamanako which introduces an element of hope.

Starkwhite will participate in Sydney Contemporary from 12-15 September 2019 with two presentations in adjacent spaces. In one space we'll present new works by Martin Basher (US/NZ) and Rebecca Baumann (AUS) and in the other a group show of works by represented artists including  Whitney Bedford (US), Ani O'Neill (CI), Fiona Pardington (NZ), Gordon Walters (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS).

Our next exhibition is by Hong Kong-Based artist Yuk King Tan. It was scheduled to open on Tuesday 20 August but the protests at Hong Kong airport are affecting flights out of the city and the artist is not sure when she will arrive to install. We'll be updating details as they come to hand.

On 1 August Starkwhite staged an event with Artspace, which was part of Whakamaui: Recovery Positions, a series of installations and events proposed by artist and academic Mark Harvey in collaboration with others that consider cultural and political tensions and disunity contextualised by the work of Guy Ngan. Read more… The Starkwhite event was a collaboration between Harvey and artist Adrienne Wong who recreated the signage of her family's grocery business on our window (her family's business was located in the space adjacent to Starkwhite) as a setting for a talk on their family history and the challenges faced by Chinese New Zealanders
me Anything, curated by Melanie Oliver, The Dowse Art Museum (2018). Photo: John Lake

Our current exhibition titled Sampler  (23 July-17 August 2019) presents works by represented artists including new work (Koru Huia 2019 by Fiona Pardington and a large-scale painting View from the top of a Cliff, 2019 by John Reynolds), recent works by other represented artists (Ani O'Neill, Seung Yul Oh and others) and early work by Billy Apple, Gordon Walters and Len Lye. Read more…
Image: John Reynolds, View from the top of the cliff, 2019, silver marker on acrylic on linen, 7m x 2.5m

Rebecca Baumann is represented in the exhibition Autoluminescent at the LaTrobe University gallery with an architectural intervention titled Light Moments, Light Movements, 2019, dichroic film on glass. The exhibition runs to 24 August 2019. Read more…

Fiona Pardington's exhibition TIKI: Orphans of Maoriland runs from 12 June – 11 July 2019, with thanks to Wellcome Collection/Science Museums Group. Read more…

In June, historic Alberton will host an exhibition of photographs and site-specific installation by New Zealand artist Fiona Pardington that speaks of what is precious and valued. Taku Toi Kahurangi / My Precious Jewel presents photographs of taonga Māori in Alberton’s opulent ballroom, an elegantly furnished parlour in the 1863 homestead. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see taonga/ treasures of two cultures together and re-presented from the viewpoint of one of New Zealand’s most celebrated artists. The photographs will be accompanied by a bespoke installation created by the artist in Alberton’s 19th century glass vitrine combining objects and artefacts from Alberton’s collection with treasures from Fiona Pardington’s personal collection. The project has been curated by Kelly Carmichael and coincides with Pardington's Starkwhite exhibition TIKI: Orphans of Maoriland.

Image: Billy Apple, MN+1 – an artist's micro biome, collection of the Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland

Gavin Hipkins' The Homely II is showing at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery to 2 June 2019. Read more…

Srarkwhite will present an exhibition on the intersection of modernism and contemporary Maori art at Art Basel Hong Kong from 29-31 March 2019, featuring works buy Paratene Matchitt and Gordon Walters. Read more…

Ani O'Neill: Classic Hits opens on 14 March from 5.30pm.

Starkwhite will present an exhibition of portraits by Billy Apple® and Michael Zavros at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 13 – 18 February 2019. Read more…

Our next exhibition, Block Units by Gavin Hipkins, runs from 14 November to 8 December. Read more…

Fiona Pardington and et al. are represented in Immortality at the Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, the exhibition runs to 4 November, 2018. Read more…

Billy Apple® Six Decades 1962-2018 is showing at Rossi & Rossi gallery Hong Kong. Read more…

The exhibition Billy's Apple at the Dowse Art Museum looks at personal branding and the construction of identity. Read more…