Cell Culture by Billy Apple and Dr Craig Hilton is being presented at the Suter Gallery from 27 August to 4 September 2016 in conjunction with the Queenstown Research Week staged this year in Nelson.

Photographs from Jin Jiangbo's series Shanghai Ye! Shanghai are currently showing at the National Art Museum of Chin at, Beijing.
Image: installation  view of Jin Jiangbo's Shanghai Ye! Shanghai at Starkwhite (2010)

Laith McGregor is in SIRENS (I HEARD VOICES IN THE NIGHT) at Gertrude Contemporary's Glasshouse, Melbourne. In this exhibition initiated by singer/songwriter Ben Abraham, artists respond to tracks on his debut album Sirens. The show runs from 13 August – 3 September 2016. Read more…

In his exhibition Long Division, Matt Henry responds to the architecture of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (27 August – 27 November 2016). Read more…
Image: Matt Henry, installation detail, Vernacular Painting, Starkwhite 2011

Rebecca Baumann is represented in the Set in Motion at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, an exhibition exploring light, sound and motion through the work of Len Lye and four contemporary artists. Read more…
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Once more with feeling (2014)

Upstairs at Starkwhite: works by Billy Apple, Whitney Bedford, Alicia Frankovich and David Scanavino.

Daniel Crooks exhibition Vanishing Point runs to 27 August. Read more…
Image: installation views of Vanishing Point 

Daniel Crooks' Vanishing point runs at Starkwhite from 3 August. Read more…
Image: Daniel Crooks, Vanishing Point (2015), video still

The Analysis of Billy Apple's Genome is running at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to 14 August. Developed by the artist and Dr Craig Hilton, it is an extension of The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® which has been staged at Starkwhite (Stage 1 and Stage 2) and also by Starkwhite at Art Basel Hong in 2013. Read more…

Laith McGregor's Modern God is showing at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne in Basil Sellers Art Prize 5.
Image: Laith McGregor, Modern God, 2016 (detail) pen and ink on paper

Daniel von Sturmer's installation Electric Light 2016 closes this weekend at Anna Schwartz Gallery and our exhibition Material Candor (which includes three of his videos) also closes on Saturday.
Image: Electric Light, 2016, Installation view, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

The Christchurch Art Gallery will host a function tomorrow night (15th) to celebrate the launch of  Fiona Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation and Great Britten! A Work by Billy Apple. Both run to 6 November.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Heartsick (1994), from Medical Suite 1994-1999

Billy Apple blurs the line between art and life with an installation at the Christchurch City Gallery celebrating the record-shattering 1995 campaign of the Britten V1000 motorbike. Great Britten!: A Work by Billy Apple opens on Friday evening 16 July.  Read more…
Image: John Britten with his motorbike (1995)

Material Candor continues at Starkwhite through to 23 July. Richard Maloy will continue to develop his Yellow Structure (Variation) installation through the duration of the exhibition.  Read more…
Image: Material Candour, installation view, Starkwhite 2016, Richard Maloy's Yellow Structure (Variation) made with the support of the Asia/NZ Co-commissioning Fund, part of CNZ's Focus on Asia Initiative 

The Christchurch Art Gallery has acquired Fiona Pardington's Still Life with Wild Wheat and Freesias (2011). The photograph is showing at the Gallery in Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation.

Fiona Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation opens at the Christchurch Art Gallery on Saturday, following presentations at the City Gallery Wellington and Auckland Art Gallery. The exhibition runs alongside Great Britten: A Work by Billy Apple. Both exhibitions run to 6 November.
Image: Still Life with Young Kahu, Hag Stone and Paper Nautilus, Ripiro Beach, 2014

The Newcastle Art Gallery (NSW) has acquired two paintings by Michael Zavros, both presented by Starkwhite in his solo show at Art Los Angeles Contemporary in January.
Images: The Mermaid (2015), oil on panel, 220 x 300 mm (top) and The Sunbather (2015), oil on canvas, 1800 x 1800 mm (bottom)

Daniel Crooks is in Bullet Time at the City Gallery Wellington. Curated by Robert Leonard, the show closes this weekend (10 July). You can read Leonard's catalogue essay here.
Image: Daniel Crooks, Static No. 11 (Man Running) 2008

Running Towards Water continues upstairs to 8 July. Read more…
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, A Breath of Fairies (2016), oil on canvas, 350 x 300 mm

The Art Gallery of South Australia has acquired Michael Zavros' painting The Phoenix, which featured in the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object. Read more…
Image: Michael Zavros, The Phoenix (2016), oil on canvas, 2200 x 2000 mm

Material Candour includes work by Gavin Hipkins, Richard Maloy and Daniel von Sturmer and runs to 22 July. Read More…
Image: installation view of Material Candour installation view, Starkwhite 2016, Richard Maloy's Yellow Structure (Variation) made with the support of the Asia/NZ Co-commissioning Fund, part of CNZ's Focus on Asia Initiative 

Seung Yul Oh's installation slit scan opened last night at the Tauranga Art Gallery and runs to 2 October.

Rebecca Baumann's Manoeuvres (2015) is in the exhibition New Romance: art and the posthuman at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.  The show, which has been curated by Anna Davis (MCA, Sydney) and Houngcheoi Choi (MMCA, Seoul), runs to 4 September. Read more…
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Manoeuvres ((2015), flip-dot boards, control hardware, custom software, vinyl, steel. Software and control engineering by Future Perfect. This work was originally commissioned by the Fremantle Arts Centre

Our next show features a variation of Richard Maloy's Yellow Structure, presented in the Encounters section of Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor. The presentation was with the generous support of the Asia Foundation and Creative New Zealand, delivered through their  Asia/NZ Co-comissioning Fund. The exhibition also includes Gavin Hipkins' The Port, a large 12-part photogram, and a suite of videos from Daniel von Sturmer's small world series (courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne). The exhibition runs from 28 June to 23 July.
Image: Richard Maloy, Yellow Structure 2016 (detail), cardboard, tape and acrylic paint, dimensions variable.

Fiona Pardington's survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation closes at the Auckland Art Gallery on Sunday and then moves to the Christchurch Art Gallery. You can catch Fiona in conversation with her brother Neil at the Auckland Art Gallery on Sunday at 1pm.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Moonlight de Sade, 2010, C-type, courtesy Musee de l'Homme, Paris

Alicia Frankovich presents World is home plant (2016) in Trans-Coprporeal Metabolism – 12th edition of the Performance Project, Liste 2016 on 18 June. Read more…
Image: Liste press image

An installation view of Gavin Hipkins photograph The Coil in Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Curated by Geoffrey Batchen, the show runs to 14 August 2016.

Layla Rudneva-Mackay's exhibition Running Towards Water runs upstairs at Starkwhite to 1 July.
Image: Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Pink and Peach Jubes with Brass Bowl, 2016, oil on canvas, 500 x 400 mm

100% Unicorn runs at Starkwhite to 25 June. Rather than running with an opening we will host a function on Wednesday 8 June, in Fiona's exhibition, to celebrate the honor bestowed on her by the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Fiona is a Knight in France's Order of Arts and Letters.
Images: Fiona Pardington, 100% Unicorn, Starkwhite 2016, installation views

This week we will be at the Auckland Art Fair (Booth C9) but the gallery will be open Tuesday – Friday 11am – 5.30pm and Saturday 11am – 3pm, or by appointment outside these hours.
Image: a new painting by Melbourne-based artist Laith McGregor for our group show at the art fair.

A collaborative work by Jim Speers and Clinton Watkins, with shanghai-based artist Li Xiao Fei (who was a guest artist at Starkwhite in 2013), features in the exhibition Tell Me A Story: Locality And Narratives at the Rockbound Art Museum, Shanghai. Curated by Amy Cheng and Hsieh Fong Rong, the exhibition runs from 28 May to 14 August.  Read more…
Images: Field Recordings, Let the Water Flow (2016) video stills

Rebecca Baumann presents new work in WA Focus at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 28 May to 22 August. Read more…
Image: Rebecca Baumann, Mixed Feelings, 2012, Arduino controller, drive circuits/electronics, remote control, IR receiver, dimensions variable. Commissioned by GOMA for Contemportray Australia: Women

Alicia Frankovich has taken up Creative New Zealand's 2016 residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) in New York. Her four-month residency runs to 31 August. Read more…
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Soft Water (detail) 2015, Olympic swimming pool steps and polished shells

Alicia Frankovich has been selected for Trans Corporeal Metabolisms, the 12th Performance Project of LISTE Art Fair Basel (14-19 June), curated by Eva Birkenstock. Read more…

Grant Stevens is represented in Pacific Real Time, the inaugural edition of Auckland Art Fair Project Programme curated by Jarrod Rawlins, curator at MONA, Hobart, and Simon Rees, Director, Govett Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth.

Two new paintings by Martin Basher on their way to New Zealand for our booth at the Auckland Art Fair (May 25-29).

Our next show by Fiona Pardington runs from 24 May to 18 June alongside her survey exhibition A Beautiful Hesitation at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Flora Unicorn (2016), C type photograph, dimensions variable

Alicia Frankovich is in the exhibition Le Limbes at La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris. Curated by Caterina Riva (former director of Artspace, NZ), the exhibition run from 20 May to 16 July. Read more…
Images: The Ghost and the Comrade (top) and Soft Water (2015), Olympic pool stairs, polished shells (below)

We're presenting a group show at the Auckland Art Fair (25-29 May) – one that evolves over the five-day event. By rotating artists and works we can present a representative selection of Starkwhite artists and give works room to breath, rather than opting for an all-in salon hang. Our lineup for the Fair includes Melbourne-based artists Daniel Crooks who will stage his first solo show at Starkwhite in June/July.
Image: Daniel Crooks, Static No. 3 (underwater flight recording), 2010, digital video 16:9, colour stereo sound

Clinton Watkins exhibition lowercase runs at Starkwhite to 14 May. You can read a review of the show here.
Images: installation views of lowercase by Clinton Watkins