Exhibitions

Kate Yesberg | Nina XVIII - XXIV

{Suite} Wellington 22 Dec 2022 - 3 Feb 2023 Read more

Wayne Youle | New Works (and not so new works)

{Suite} Ponsonby 2 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 'There is a sweet time in the studio when the sun is bright and the shadows are solid, before everything has to be moved and the sun is doing too much. Sometimes we stress and labour over work, doing and redoing, starting something only to start it again, yet every... Read more

Wayne Youle | New Works (and not so new works)

{Suite} Wellington 30 Nov - 22 Dec 2022 Wayne Youle is an artist who works adeptly across any medium he turns his hand to; but it is sculpture that has always kept him most engaged, cultivating his creativity and challenging his thought processes. ‘If I could choose only one medium for the rest of my time, it would... Read more

Ans Westra

{Suite} Wellington 16 - 26 Nov 2022 {Suite} Gallery Director David Alsop has had a long association with photographer Ans Westra, which began in 2007 after she was invited to exhibit prints at the newly-opened gallery. In 2012 they established Suite Tirohanga together to act as agent for Ans, with David taking on the role of manager... Read more

{Suite} Aotearoa Art Fair 2022 | Stand C9

The Cloud, Auckland 16 - 20 Nov 2022 {Suite} is pleased to present a selection of work by artists Wayne Youle, Richard Lewer, Tia Ansell, Georgia Spain, Daniel Unverricht, Angela Singer and Bruce Connew at the 2022 Aotearoa Art Fair. Stand C9: 16 Nov - 20 Nov, The Cloud, Auckland. Read more

Peter Peryer | Wanted Dead or Alive

{Suite} Ponsonby 3 - 26 Nov 2022 {Suite} Ponsonby is delighted to present Wanted Dead or Alive, the first solo exhibition of work by the late Peter Peryer at our Auckland gallery. Having begun his practice later on in life, Peryer was largely self-taught and developed a singular style that marked him apart from his contemporaries. Captured... Read more

Neil Pardington | Pūtahi / Confluence

{Suite} Wellington 26 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 Te whenua carries her stories in her belly—that great store-house of emotional memory—making a mockery of the settler state’s modus operandi, the art of forgetting. In P ū tahi/Confluence , Neil Pardington turns his gaze towards the sites of buried histories, both colonial and environmental. These images force pause... Read more

Wayne Youle

{Suite} Wellington 25 Oct - 9 Nov 2022 Read more

Ans Westra

{Suite} Ponsonby 25 Oct - 8 Nov 2022 {Suite} Gallery Director David Alsop has had a long association with photographer Ans Westra, which began in 2007 after she was invited to exhibit prints at the newly-opened gallery. In 2012 they established Suite Tirohanga together to act as agent for Ans, with David taking on the role of manager... Read more

Bill Hammond | Living Large 3

{Suite} Ponsonby 22 Oct - 3 Nov 2022 In 1989, Bill Hammond embarked on a journey that would influence both this work and many others to follow. 'Travelling to the otherworldliness of the sub-Antartic Auckland Islands south of Bluff with fellow artists Laurence Aberhart, Lloyd Godman and Gerda Leenards in 1989 initiated a transformation in Hammond's practice. The... Read more

Roger Murray | Inflection point

{Suite} Wellington 5 - 22 Oct 2022 In Roger Murray's latest series 'Inflection Point' elemental forces take sculptural form. Rendered in wood - with elements of brass, steel, and lacquer woven into their structure - the intricate forms transmute materials of the natural world into symbols of sublime interconnectedness. Beginning as simple geometries, the sculptures grow into... Read more

Roger Boyce | House of Games

{Suite} Ponsonby 28 Sep - 21 Oct 2022 “- when first we practice to deceive -” Deceit is a game artists play. One that painters are particularly adept at. Rendered in two-dimensions though determined to contrive a third, figurative art has been turning its hand to trickery since the 5th century, when the Greek painter Zeuxis depicted grapes... Read more

Richard Lewer | Misadventures

{Suite} Wellington 20 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Misadventures is an ongoing series of drawings revisiting some of New Zealand's grimmer news stories and moments in history. The majority of the pen drawings were made at the same time as Lewer's painting series NZ Disasters (2020), which is held in the Auckland Art Gallery collection. Like the... Read more

Tame Iti & Delaney Davidson

{Suite} Wellington 4 - 18 Sep 2022 'I Will Not Speak Māori' is a line Tame Iti was forced to write out hundreds of times by his school teachers. Now, following the kaupapa Tame has been working with for the last 50 years, Delaney and Tame collaborate to present I Will Not Speak Mā ori as a... Read more

Arie Hellendoorn | Future Days

{Suite} Ponsonby 31 Aug - 24 Sep 2022 {Suite} Ponsonby is pleased to present Arie Hellendoorn's latest series of work 'Future Days' a title drawn from the name of an album by a 1970s German prog-rock band CAN. This exhibition sees Hellendoorn move his subject matter away from an abstract figurative narrative to more formally constructed interiors which... Read more

Wayne Youle | DNA(EIOU)

{Suite} Wellington 10 Aug - 3 Sep 2022 A creative flat-patch at the beginning of 2022 led to a period of self-reflection for Wayne Youle. After a busy two years in 2020-2021 which produced a considerable amount of new work including Elevation from his McCahon House Residency, Wayne found himself returning to basics and falling back on what... Read more

Kenny Pittock | En Plane Air

{Suite} Ponsonby 3 - 27 Aug 2022 When the portable paint tube was invented in 1841 it meant that artists could make paintings while away from their studio, and since then artists have been doing a lot more moving about. En Plane Air is a series of drawings and sculptures that celebrate the joys of travel. Kenny... Read more

Rob Cherry | Image Problem

{Suite} Ponsonby 3 - 27 Aug 2022 In his first dealer gallery exhibition outside of Wellington, one of the 'least acclaimed artists of his generation,” Rob Cherry presents a set of drawings… 'My drawings are autobiographical, reflecting my experience of living in the world - for these drawings made over the last year including a 3 month... Read more

Arie Hellendoorn | Future Days Preview

{Suite} Wellington 2 - 27 Aug 2022 Read more

Jaimee Peters | Broken Spaces

{Suite} Wellington 13 Jul - 7 Aug 2022 {Suite} Wellington is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jaimee Peters (Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa). Jaimee's practice occupies a tenuous threshold between abstraction and representation, drawing from architectural structures – public buildings, galleries and brutalist edifices – to visualise domains at once real and illusory. Recalling... Read more

Kate Yesberg | Nina XIII-XVII

{Suite} Ponsonby 5 - 30 Jul 2022 This is Kate Yesberg’s first solo exhibition at {Suite} Ponsonby and a continuation of her series Nina. Comprising elaborate compositions of colour and strong geometric form, these new large-scale paintings pack a punch. Kate names each series for its intrinsic energy; a mood, feeling, or experience that emerges through the... Read more

Gary Freemantle | Blue Velvet

{Suite} Wellington 15 Jun - 9 Jul 2022 Shannon painter Gary Freemantle doesn't shy away from doing the 'hard yards'. From using paint made from earth pigments to painting on the notoriously difficult medium of velvet, Freemantle's work challenges both himself and the viewer to appreciate lesser used materials which the artist elevates to new heights. Blue Velvet... Read more

Angela Singer | Imagine What You Dread

{Suite} Ponsonby 9 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 A bold colourful future where flora and fauna lose their boundaries by adapting to survive fills Angela Singer’s new exhibition of arresting stitched wall works and sculptures of handmade and found materials, including vintage taxidermy. Beautiful yet also captivatingly strange, her work imagines how animals and plants might create new... Read more

Daniel Unverricht | Sleeping Village

{Suite} Ponsonby 12 May - 4 Jun 2022 Daniel Unverricht’s exhibition 'Sleeping Village' wasn’t intended to be a comment on New Zealand’s Covid lockdown, but like many artists he subconsciously found the idea seeping into his latest body of work. Daniel's painting has always featured ‘dramatically lit realism’, the derelict buildings and moody nocturnal streetscapes providing an eerie... Read more

Ans Westra | After HANDBOEK

Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom, Foxton 23 Apr - 19 Jun 2022 Born in 1936 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Anna Jacoba (Ans) Westra came to Aotearoa New Zealand in 1957. In a few short years she was to commence her life-long photographic journey documenting the lives and cultures of New Zealanders during a period of cultural, social, and generational change. The comfortable... Read more

Jeffrey Harris

{Suite} Wellington 12 Apr - 14 May 2022 For many artists, a drawing can be a preparatory study for a concept or a particular work, perhaps never intended to be seen by a wider audience, produced purely for the artist’s own contemplation. For Jeffrey Harris however, drawing has been an integral part of his practice, from his earliest... Read more

Tia Ansell | Red Light Horizon

{Suite} Ponsonby 6 - 30 Apr 2022 Red Light Horizon is Tia Ansell's third solo exhibition at {Suite} Gallery. Employing the loom to explore intricate weaving techniques, Tia threads together narratives of observational patterns that exist within her urban surroundings. The title and themes for this exhibition take inspiration from observations of social realities of the city... Read more

Wayne Youle | Short Attention Span

{Suite} Wellington 16 Mar - 16 Apr 2022 Wayne Youle's solo exhibition 'Short Attention Span' is now on show in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. ⁠ This exhibition comprises new neon light sculptures alongside pared back abstract paintings. Read more

Ans Westra

{Suite} Ponsonby 16 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 Renown for a prolific career as an iconic photographer, Ans Westra has amassed the most comprehensive visual documentation of life in Aotearoa New Zealand. This exhibition presents a selection of Westra’s most notable images from the 60's through to the 80's. The images were planned to be presented by {Suite} at the 2022 Aotearoa Art Fair. Read more

Katherine Claypole | Pareidolia

{Suite} Wellington 9 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 For this exhibition, Katherine Claypole explores the phenomena of pareidolia through her use of large scale hand stitched thread drawings, employing processes that are equal parts obsessive and meditative, repeating small actions, gestures, or marks until they coalesce into independent fields, flows, structures, or spaces. Read more

Jaimee Peters | Block Out

{Suite} Ponsonby 16 Feb - 12 Mar 2022 'Peter's work draws from architectural images - public buildings, galleries and institutional structures - whose linear planes are abstracted and reconfigured through unexpected colour to render new forms, part-real and part-imagined. Her selection of buildings range from local structures to examples of celebrated international 'destination architecture'. She is intrigued by... Read more