We open our 2108 exhibition programme at Starkwhite with Len Lye: Love Springs Eternal, an exhibition produced with the support of the Len Lye Foundation, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and Nga Taonga Sound and Vision.

Starkwhite presents Laith McGregor and Danie Mellor at Art Los Angeles Contemporary from 25-28 January 2017.
Images: (top) Laith McGregor, Untitled 2017, carved wood, clay, chalk board paint, 240 x 75 mm and (bottom) Danie Mellor, The pleasure and vexation of history 2017, wax pastel, wash with oil pigment, watercolour and pencil on paper,  2200 x 1400 mm

Former Artspace director Missal Adnan Yildiz with Fiona Pardington in the Starkwhite booth at the London Art Fair (17-21 January), which is part of the Dialogues section curated by Ylidiz. The booth features a selection of photographs from Pardington's series Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle.

On Friday 22 December – the longest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere – Starkwhite will screen Richard Maloy’s video Things I have Seen, (14hr 03min 32sec), an outcome of his three-month residency at the Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo from May – July 2017. The video screens from 5.28am (sunrise) to approximately 7.30pm. The artist wishes to acknowledge the support of Youkobo Art Space Tokyo, Asia New Zealand Foundation and Creative New Zealand
Image: Richard Maloy in the Youkobo Art Space studio

We are delighted to announce the release of a new book on Michael Zavros, published by Manuscript in association with Starkwhite and Philip Bacon Galleries, and designed by Inhouse. We have a limited edition of the book, which includes an etching by the artist, either in electric blue (as above) or monochrome. Please email contact@starkwhite.co.nz or call on 64 9 3070703 for further details.

Curated by Wystan Curnow, the exhibition Billy Apple: Further Alterations runs at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery to 11 February 2018. Read more…

John Reynolds' exhibition RocksInTheSky… runs in our upstairs gallery to 24 December. Read more…

The survey exhibition Gavin Hipkins: The Domain runs at the Dowse Art Museum to 25 March 2018. Curated by Courtney Johnston the exhibition surveys a range of media used by Hipkins ranging from slides, through photographs to the moving image. It is is also accompanied by an publication designed by Philip Kelly. Read more…
Image: Gavin Hipkins, The Sanctuary: Rotorua (Gateway), 2004

Our final exhibition for 2017 is Michael Zavros: The Silver Fox. Read more…

The survey exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision runs at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery until 8 April and then travels to the Auckland Art Gallery for a mid 2018 showing. The exhibition is accompanied by a substantial contribution and writing by the three exhibition curators Lucy Hammonds, Laurence Simmons and Julia Waite, along with pieces by other writers including Thomas Crowe. Read more…

Our next show by Martin Basher, runs from 6 October to 4 November 2017. First presented as a one-week exhibition at the University of Auckland’s George Fraser Gallery to mark the end of his doctoral studies, this sculptural installation follows Hawaiian Tropic at Starkwhite (1-26 August 2017) where the artist presented a new series of landscape-based paintings revealing the formal genesis of the ultra-saturated, hard-edge abstractions for which he is best known. The two exhibitions situate Basher’s painting and sculptural work in the lineage of display-based artistic practices.

Starkwhite will present a two-person exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong 2018, featuring Fiona Pardington (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS). This will be our fifth consecutive presentation at ABHK and follows The Immortalisation of Billy Apple in the inaugural edition of the fair (2013), Gordon Walters: Koru Paintings (2014), a solo show by Michael Zavros (2015), a group show – Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters and Arnold Manaaki Wilson (2016), and In Motion – a group show with Len Lye, Rebecca Baumann Alicia Frankovich and Grant Stevens (2017).
Image: Fiona Pardington, Lycaeides Melissa wing scales, 2, with thanks to Musee Cantonal de Zoolgie, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2016

We will present a two person exhibition at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in January 2018, featuring Australian artists Danie Mellor and Laith McGregor. 
Image: Danie Mellor, Queen of the river, pastel, wash with oil pigment, watercolour and pencil on paper 140 x 172 cm

We presented a two-person exhibition at this year's edition of Sydney Contemporary – photographs by Fiona Pardington (NZ) and paintings by Michael Zavros (AUS), and three of our artists – Richard Maloy, Grant Stevens and Clinton Watkins – were included in the Video Contemporary section curated by Serena Bentley.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has just opened Out of the Ordinary, an exhibition of works by Australian and New Zealand artists who engage with everyday materials and imagery in surprising and transformative ways. The lineup of artists includes Rebecca Baumann, Laith McGregor and Grant Stevens. Read more…

The Stedelijk Museum has commissioned a new performance work from Alicia Frankovich. Titled Atlas of the Living World the perfornmances take place at the Stedelijk on 1 and 2 September 2017. Read more…

Daniel von Sturmer's first solo exhibition with Starkwhite opens Friday 1 September at 6pm. Luminous Figures is presented in association with Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

The latest issue of ArtAsiaPacific magazine includes a review of  Billy Apple's career by Martin Patrick.
Image: Billy Apple, 2017, acrylic on linen, 800×800 mm

Don't miss the lecture by John Stezaker at Starkwhite tomorrow, Thursday 17 August at 6pm.

Fiona Pardington is represented in the exhibition Occulture: The Dark Arts at the City Gallery Wellington. Curated by Aaron Lister, the exhibition runs from 12 August to 19 November 2013. Read more…
Image: Fiona Pardington, Knight of Cups, Pomegranates and Pearls, Ripiro 2013, dimensions variable

Renowned British artist John Stezaker will present a lecture at Starkwhite on Thursday 17 August at 6pm. The lecture has been organized through a partnership between the City Gallery Wellington, the Elam School of Fine Arts (University of Auckland) and Starkwhite. Stezaker is in New Zealand for the exhibition John Stezaker: Lost World at the City Gallery Wellington. Read more…
Image: John Stezaker, Mask (Film Portrait Collage) CCVII 2016, courtesy of The Approach, London

Martin Basher's exhibition Hawaiian Tropic runs to 26 August. Read more…

The latest issue of Art Collector magazine (Australia) has a six-page spread on Starkwhite with an article by Sue Gardiner.

Martin Basher's latest show at Starkwhite opens on Tuesday 1 August 2017 from 6 to 8pm. Read more…

Clinton Watkins' video Hawk (2013) has been selected for the video section of Sydney Contemporary 2017 curated this year by Serena Bentley, curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. 

With two fairs under our belt this year (Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 2017 and Art Basel Hong Kong, March 2017), we are looking forward to Sydney Contemporary in September where we will present an exhibition of works by Fiona Pardington and Michael Zavros.

The latest issue of Paperboy includes an article by Glenn Fielding on Fiona Pardington and her Starkwhite exhibition Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle. Read more…

Fiona Pardington's exhibition Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle opens at Starkwhite on Thursday 22 June, from 5.30-8pm. Nabokov scholar Brian Boyd will speak at 7pm.
Image: Installation view of Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle at the Honolulu Biennial (2017). Fiona Pardington wishes to acknowledge the generous support of Creative New Zealand; Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd, University of Auckland; Macroscopic Solutions; Robert Dirig; Anne Freita; Vladimir Nabokov Literary Foundation; Anthony Marx, Carolyn Broomhead and Thomas Lannon of New York Public Library. With thanks to the Musée Cantonal de Zoologie, Lausanne; Cornell University Insect Collection, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection and the Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room for Rare Books and Manuscripts of the New York Public Library, NY.

Seung Yul Oh's Upon a Pond and Drop a Loop opens at the Albany Stadium Pool O Te Ha on Saturday 17 June. The new sculpture has been  commissioned by the Upper Harbour Local Board, Auckland.
Image: Upon a Pond photographed by Toaki Okano for Paperboy

Fiona Pardington's exhibition Nabokov's Blues: The Charmed Circle opens at Starkwhite on Thursday 22 June. The show features works from her presentation at the 2017 Honolulu Biennial, along with more recent images.
Image: a new work from the Charmed Circle series, with thanks to Creative New Zealand and Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne 

This week's edition of Paperboy includes an insightful piece of writing by Anthony Byrt on John Reynolds' exhibition FrenchBayDarkly… The show closes at Starkwhite on Saturday 17 June.
Image: John Reynolds photographed by Meek Zuiderwyk for Paperboy

Laith McGregor is one of five finalists for this year's Sidney Myer Fund Australia Ceramics Award. The winner of the $50,000 acquisitive prize will be announced on 17 June at the opening of an exhibition of the finalists work at the Shepparton Art Museum.
Image: Laith McGregor's Nassau (2014)

Fiona Pardington has been awarded an MNZM (Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit) . Announced in yesterday's Queen's Birthday honors list, the award recognizes Fiona's exceptional services to photography.
Image: Fiona Pardington

Contemporary HUM has published Nature at its Queerest, Ulrike Gerhardt's essay in response to Alicia Frankovich's solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND, curated by Eva Birkenstock. HUM is a new online publication dedicated to documenting New Zealand projects abroad.
Image: Installation view of OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf

Tina Barton will present Over and Over Again – The Legacy of Gordon Walters at the Auckland Art Gallery auditorium on Wednesday 17 May from 12 – 1.30pm. Her lecture is part of a post-graduatate seminar series presented by the Elam School of Fine Arts and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. The lecture is open to the public.
Image: photograph of Gordon Walters taken by Margaret Orbell

This link takes you to John McDonald's review in the Sydney Morning Herald of Michael Zavros' exhibition Magic Mike at the Newcastle Art Gallery.
Image: Michael Zavros, Phoebe is 8/Tom Ford, 2013, oil on board, 23 x 15.6 cm

Richard Maloy has been awarded an Asia New Zealand Foundation / Creative New Zealand residency at Youkobo in Tokyo, which he will begin in April.
Image: Richard Maloy, Blue Plane (2000), colour photograph