Exhibitions

Kate Yesberg | Nina

{Suite} Wellington 1 - 23 Dec 2021 Pursuing a geometric mode of abstraction, Yesberg's paintings navigate dynamics between tension and release, finding a balance between these states to take on a meditative rhythm. Built layer upon layer atop a black canvas, vibrant shapes and patterns intersect and fuse together to form lilting compositions of colour, line, and... Read more

Richard Lewer | You don’t have to wake up fighting every day

{Suite} Ponsonby 10 Nov - 4 Dec 2021 Describing himself as a social realist, Richard Lewer’s art can often be seen navigating the complexities and idiosyncrasies of society - its moors, culture, and its people. Interwoven with socio-political commentaries are snippets of the artist’s own personal life alongside the histories of Aotearoa and his adopted home Australia; marrying... Read more

Ans Westra | TENT 2021

Ōtautahi Christchurch 7 - 8 Nov 2021 Never previously exhibited photographs of Ōtautahi Christchurch by Ans Westra w ill be shown in {Suite} Gallery's TENT presentation in a one-day only exhibition on Sunday, November 7. The exhibition will take place in Ōtautahi at the 65 Cambridge Terrace in the former Warren & Mahoney offices designed by New... Read more

Wayne Youle | TENT 2021

Ōtautahi Christchurch 5 - 6 Nov 2021 Wayne Youle will be exhibiting a selection of new paintings in Ōtautahi Christchurch and online as part of TENT 2021.⁠ The exhibition will take place at the 65 Cambridge Terrace in the former Warren & Mahoney offices designed by New Zealand Architect Sir Miles Warren. ⁠ On Saturday, November 6,... Read more

Daniel Unverricht | Interstice

{Suite} Wellington 3 - 27 Nov 2021 In his exhibition Interstice Daniel Unverricht presents a suite of nocturne environs: abandoned and derelict, permeated by a dense night that is punctuated only by the artificial glow of waning streetlights or flickering neon signs. Though the phosphorescence does little to inject any warmth into these compositions, illuminating the exteriors... Read more

Angela Singer | Zzzoonotic

{Suite} Wellington 3 - 27 Nov 2021 In her exhibition Zzzoonotic, Angela Singer explores a sleeping world waking to the consequences of destruction of habitats and the animal trade: infectious Zoonotic pathogens spilling from animals to humans, and animal to animals. As scientists seek the specific cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, Singer explores the ecological sources of... Read more

Bonco | Count the stars - if indeed you can

{Suite} Ponsonby 13 - 30 Oct 2021 The biblical story in Genesis 15 recounts an event known as ‘the covenant of the pieces’, in which God reveals himself to Abraham and forms a covenant with the Hebrew people. In response to God’s declaration that the Land of Israel will be inherited by his descendants, Abraham voices concern... Read more

Birgit Krippner | Horizont

{Suite} Wellington 13 - 30 Oct 2021 Born in Austria, award-winning photographer Birgit Krippner has lived in New Zealand since 2003. Her specialty is capturing candid images using only available light. She often works in low light situations. In 2016 Birgit Krippner travelled on the ‘Spirit of Auckland’ from Wellington to the Panama Canal en-route to Columbia... Read more

Trevor Moffitt

{Suite} Wellington 15 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 Trevor Moffitt (1936 – 2006) was one of New Zealand’s leading narrative painters. Moffitt was taught by Canterbury artists Bill Sutton and Russell Clark who, along with Rita Angus, searched for a particularly New Zealand style. Often confrontational in its honesty, his bold, direct expressionist style was considered almost primitive... Read more

Arie Hellendoorn

{Suite} Ponsonby 18 Aug - 11 Sep 2021 The hypothetical question of what is real and what is abstract offers itself in Arie’s painting through the use of human biology, something he has always been interested in, despite not having specialised medical knowledge. His intense background pattensmimic the appearance of human microbiology viewed under the microscope and look... Read more

Wayne Youle | From Then Till Now

{Suite} Wellington 11 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 If Wayne Youle hadn’t been an artist, he would have been an archaeologist. He has a love ofthe past, of digging things up in the ground and discovering. His cut out sculptures - composed of individual parts of powder-coated aluminium - act as multi-faceted self portraits, reflections of alter-egos or... Read more

Wayne Youle | National Fuckin’ Treasure

SPRING1883 24 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Wayne Youle has worked on both sides of the Tasman, exploring and paying homage to our countries’ most significant artists. Youle’s interest in Sidney Nolan’s series of paintings on Ned Kelly started during his three-month residency at Artspace in Sydney in 2012, when he saw the exhibition Sidney Nolan: Illuminations... Read more

Wayne Youle | You should of been here yesterday

{Suite} Ponsonby 22 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Wayne Youle’s new series of text-based paintings serve as an artistic diary. Reflections and meditations on daily life sit alongside art historical and literary references, as well as snippets of words and phrases that jostle for space in Wayne’s busy mind. Originally trained as a graphic designer and typographer, Wayne... Read more

Tia Ansell | Long Distance

{Suite} Wellington 7 - 31 Jul 2021 Tia Ansell's second exhibition at {Suite} Wellington presents an oeuvre of intricately patterned weaving paintings. The art of weaving is by nature algorithmic, involving a set of rules and processes to which the design is bound. Tia Ansell uses her own coding system beginning with an initial sketch of immediate... Read more

Richard Lewer | Dirty Cheating Dogs

{Suite} Wellington 9 Jun - 3 Jul 2021 Dirty Cheating Dogs is a suite of twelve lithographs by Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer, depicting prominent examples of cheating in sports, from cricket to boxing, cycling, swimming and yachting. The series was produced in collaboration with Australian Print Workshop printers as part of Richard’s Collie Print Trust Printmaking Fellowship in... Read more

Identity Parade

{Suite} Wellington 27 - 30 May 2021 For the Face To Face Portrait Festival (Suite} is pleased to present Identity Parade, featuring work by Are Hellendoorn, Simon Attwooll and Wayne Youle. Simon Attwooll's portraits derive from a set of negatives (c.1970s) of a young man in Hungary posing for his mugshot, from home, in his garden. The... Read more

Angela Singer | Who What Was

{Suite} Wellington 27 - 30 May 2021 In Animalia portraits, the animal is often symbolic; in Who What Was, Singer does not look to represent the lost or sacrificial lamb, nor the supernatural woodland goddess doe. Recycling vintage taxidermy with old and new mixed media, she creates a new way of seeing the animal. Since the mid-1990s,... Read more

Group Collage Exhibition

{Suite} Ponsonby 13 May - 6 Jun 2021 A medium comprised of a variety of images taken from different printed sources, collage has its modern origins in the 20th century. Artists including Picasso and Braque glued chopped up newspaper and other images of unrelated subject matter onto their canvases and charcoal drawings to introduce both a serious and... Read more

Ans Westra

{Suite} Ponsonby & Wellington 13 Apr - 8 May 2021 On show at both (Suite} galleries until 8 May are exhibitions of colour images by New Zealand Arts Icon artist Ans Westra. (Suite) Ponsonby is exhibiting a group of images made at a Ratana church event in 1965 at Te Rere a Kapuni, a waterfall on the slopes of Mt... Read more

Douglas Stichbury

{Suite} Wellington 10 Mar - 10 Apr 2021 Read more

Jeffrey Harris

{Suite} Ponsonby 25 Feb - 10 Apr 2021 (Suite} is honoured to present an exhibition of paintings by significant New Zealand artist Jeffrey Harris. This will be Harris's first exhibition of new paintings in 10 years and his first in Auckland in over 20 years. After more than 50 years with a paintbrush in his hand, Harris is... Read more

Douglas Stichbury & Tia Ansell | Auckland Art Fair 2021

Tāmaki Makaurau 24 - 28 Feb 2021 In these paintings made for the Auckland Art Fair, New York based artist Douglas Stichbury continues to explore his interest in speculative 20th century science fiction. Using industrial software Stichbury’s images are initially planned digitally through simulations, before being painted in dry brush oil on linen, a process inspired by... Read more

Arie Hellendoorn | Electro Fuzz

{Suite} Wellington 10 Feb - 6 Mar 2021 Read more

Kate Yesberg and Geoffrey Notman

{Suite} Ponsonby 28 Jan - 20 Feb 2021 Read more

Wellington Summer Series

{Suite} Wellington 13 Jan - 9 Feb 2021 Read more