Exhibitions

Roger Murray | Anomaly

{Suite} Wellington 30 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 In his latest exhibition, Anomaly, Roger Murray ventures into a realm where art and science converge. Building on the thematic foundations present in his previous showcase, Procession, Murray explores concepts that encompass sacred geometry, unconventional numerical patterns, and the limits of cognition. Murray reflects on mathematical principles that extend beyond... Read more

Jaimee Peters | Tia Ansell

{Suite} Ponsonby 28 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 A selection of recent work by {Suite} artists Jaimee Peters and Tia Ansell will be on show at the Ponsonby gallery until Christmas. Jaimee Peters (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa) is an artist based in Wellington. Her practice aims to explore the tension between abstraction and representation... Read more

Amanda Gruenwald | Superimposed Fields

{Suite} Wellington 4 - 25 Nov 2023 {Suite} is pleased to present our first exhibition of work by Amanda Gruenwald. The exhibition title, Superimposed Fields, refers to a gradual shift within Gruenwald's practice toward openness, surface tension, and texture. Negotiating colour and form on a grand scale, Gruenwald creates distinct topographies that speak to a perpetual state... Read more

Daniel Unverricht | Full Dark

{Suite} Ponsonby 27 Oct - 25 Nov 2023 In Daniel Unverricht's new series Full Dark, we traverse a broken narrative, skirting the margins of a New Zealand town through places left behind. Dimly lit, Unverricht’s isolated spaces are bereft of human presence; doors are closed, windows latched, and yards vacant. In the work Shelter, shadow and light chase... Read more

Ives, Piert & Summerhayes | Unearthly Delights

{Suite} Ponsonby 27 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 {Suite} is pleased to present work by Nicholas Ives, Jeremy Piert and Chloe Summerhayes in an exploration of the metaphysical and the enigmatic. Each painter, through distinctive styles, conjures a world of dreamy contemplation, brought to life through evocative forms and gestural brushwork. Melbourne based Nicholas Ives transports us to... Read more

Rob Cherry | It's not the end of the world

{Suite} Wellington 20 Sep - 15 Oct 2023 'Like an open-mic on a psychiatrist's couch, Rob's drawings are a symphony of futile longing. A barium meal for the nation's soul. Cherry's crude characters revel in their despair'. Stuart McKenzie Read more

Kate Yesberg | Levi I - VII

{Suite} Ponsonby 30 Aug - 23 Sep 2023 {Suite} is pleased to present Kate Yesberg's new exhibition, Levi I - VII. This is Kate's fourth solo show at {Suite} and the first group of paintings in her new series, Levi. The artist describes her Levi paintings as being too fresh to have cemented meaning; they exist in... Read more

Jaimee Peters | New Works

{Suite} Wellington 17 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 {Suite} Wellington is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Jaimee Peters (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa). Jaimee creates energetic compositions based on brutalist architecture. Her paintings evoke a world of instability, and we are taken from abstraction to figuration and back again as... Read more

Spring1883 Art Fair | Melbourne

The Hotel Windsor 9 - 12 Aug 2023 For Spring 1883, Melbourne, {Suite} presents work by artists Ans Westra, Wayne Youle and Richard Lewer. Richard Lewer presents five new paintings on brass and copper alongside three mirror self-portraits created during Melbourne's fourth lockdown in 2021. Lewer described the works as a sort of “self-initiated therapy”, realized through the... Read more

Arie Hellendoorn | Breathing Room

{Suite} Ponsonby 2 - 26 Aug 2023 {Suite} is pleased to present Arie Hellendoorn Breathing Room. Hellendoorn was {Suite}‘s first represented artist in 2007, and Breathing Room will mark his 17th solo exhibition with the gallery. This latest work continues a transition away from the human figure toward formally constructed interiors. Rendered in thin, liquid acrylic paint... Read more

Tia Ansell | Ingresso

{Suite} Wellington 12 Jul - 5 Aug 2023 {Suite} is pleased to present Ingresso, a new series of work by Melbourne-based, New Zealand- born artist Tia Ansell. On show now, this is her third solo exhibition at {Suite} Wellington. Ingresso includes three sets of triptych weaving paintings, based on motifs existing within our urban environment. Tia begins by... Read more

Wayne Youle | it's not you, it's me...

{Suite} Ponsonby 5 - 29 Jul 2023 Wayne Youle is a shrewd social commentator whose subversive, often humorous art defies categorisation. He works across many disciplines and engages with a variety of themes, from popular culture to cultural stereotypes and Maori/Pakeha relationships. The simple forms of Youle's crisp, deftly made artworks often belie their complex underpinnings and... Read more

Angela Singer | Light Remains

{Suite} Ponsonby 22 Jun - 4 Jul 2023 The title of Angela Singer's latest exhibition Light Remains encapsulates many meanings. On the one hand, it may allude to the artist's use of smaller scale vintage taxidermy - the preserved remains of butterflies, ducks, kids and fawns which Singer sublimates with jewels, honouring and mourning their passing. It could... Read more

Jeffrey Harris

{Suite} Wellington 15 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 {Suite} is pleased to announce the arrival of two major Jeffrey Harris paintings at the Ponsonby gallery alongside a selection of work from the early 1970s. Religious and Allegorical Painting was created in Wellington in 1973 when Harris was 23 years old. The painting draws from Christian allegory and iconography... Read more

Bruce Connew | A Vocabulary

{Suite} Wellington 14 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Over several recent years, Bruce Connew has roamed memorials and gravestones of Aotearoa’s colonial wars, seeking out the texts on these testaments to folly. A vocabulary of colonisation. These remnants are scattered across mostly Te Ika-a-Māui North Island, residual memory, misremembered, not remembered. And there are those who know... Read more

Roger Murray | Procession

{Suite} Ponsonby 18 May - 17 Jun 2023 Procession, the idea of continuous movement, rhythmic cycles and the passage of time was the unifying thread that brought together the new works created for Roger Murray’s latest exhibition. Ideas around technology, spirituality and the physical nature of wood converging all feature in this new collection of wall mounted sculptures.... Read more

Wayne Youle | A decade of portraits

{Suite} Wellington 16 May - 10 Jun 2023 A decade of portraits is a mini-survey of Wayne Youle portraits, combining originals from the series with new works that draw on formal and stylistic themes present in his 2017 New Zealand Portrait Gallery touring show Strangely Familiar. With a nod to the Pop-Art aesthetic, Wayne’s portraiture utilises appropriated imagery... Read more

Georgia Spain | I'd rather be here than not

{Suite} Ponsonby 19 Apr - 14 May 2023 {Suite} is pleased to introduce Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Georgia Spain for her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Fascinated with the human condition, Spain's practice occupies a tenuous threshold between the known and the obscure, the familiar and the absurd - intermingling figuration with abstraction to visualise worlds where interior states... Read more

Daniel Unverricht | Shape of night

{Suite} Wellington 18 Apr - 13 May 2023 Daniel Unverricht’s latest body of work, Shape of Night, comprises a selection of nocturnal streetscapes and residential housing rendered in layers of oil paint on rough linen canvas. Operating in a similar formal and conceptual space as most of his work, Shape of Night imagines a time-sick town: abandoned, derelict... Read more

Ans Westra | Haere ra

18 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Ans Westra CNZM (1936 - 2023) was a pioneer of documentary photography and one of the first women to work in this space in Aotearoa. Self-taught, Ans was an expert at capturing what she called 'ordinary life': the casual, natural and human interactions of ordinary people and places. Mounted across... Read more

Jeffrey Harris | Jaimee Peters | Richard Lewer

{Suite} Ponsonby 1 - 17 Mar 2023 The current exhibition in Ponsonby showcases the works of three of the gallery artists, Jaimee Peters, Jeffrey Harris and Richard Lewer. The paintings on show by Jaimee Peters were created for an exhibition {Suite} held in collaboration with Maman Boutique in Remuera. Click here to read Jaimee's interview about the... Read more

Katherine Claypole | The Lounge Suite

{Suite} Wellington 22 Feb - 18 Mar 2023 For The Lounge Suite, Katherine has upsized her unique hand stitched collage drawings, working in a larger format with more intricacy and detail than previously rendered. 'I like to stitch my drawings with a needle and thread. I think it is the repetitive act of threading the... Read more

Serj Tankian | Kiwi in Pangea

{Suite} Ponsonby & Wellington 2 - 22 Feb 2023 Grammy Award winning Armenian American musician, artist and activist Serj Tankian is exhibiting at {Suite} Ponsonby and {Suite} Wellington in February 2023. On show now across both galleries, this solo exhibition will include a selection of paintings, each accompanied by a musical score composed by Tankian that is as integral... Read more

Kate Yesberg | Nina XVIII - XXIV

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