Exhibitions

Daniel Unverricht | Hollowed places

{Suite} Ponsonby 14 - 30 Nov 2024 Read more

Ans Westra 2024

{Suite} Wellington 3 Oct - 20 Dec 2024 For the final three months of 2024, {Suite} Wellington will celebrate the life and work of the late Ans Westra with a series of exhibitions and community initiatives. On show will be a large amount of previously unseen material, aligning with a public programme of talks and events relating to... Read more

Kate Yesberg | Fortune

{Suite} Wellington 11 - 28 Sep 2024 Kate Yesberg describes her new series Fortune as ‘big paintings about the future’. Her work is always deeply personal, often reflecting her current mood or energy. While creating the Fortune series over the past year, Kate has been thinking about the connection between individual and collective freedom, and between our... Read more

Tia Ansell | Building Patterns

{Suite} Ponsonby 4 - 28 Sep 2024 Tia Ansell's weaving paintings explore the language of abstraction, symbolism, material culture and architectural structures. Her practice deconstructs the fundamental elements of a painting, by revealing the foundations of the woven substrate and its relationship with the painted image. In Building Patterns, Tia approaches the paintings as a lens allowing... Read more

Angela Singer | Soft Star

{Suite} Wellington 20 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 Disenfranchised grief simmers at the heart of Angela Singer's new exhibition Soft Star. Singer, a mixed-media artist, explores the profound relationships we have shared with past animal family members, and the associated grief and mourning which is often not socially legitimatised. For Singer, companion animals are transitional creatures, crossing between... Read more

Katherine Claypole | Kodachroma

{Suite} Ponsonby 14 - 31 Aug 2024 Katherine Claypole is known for her hand-stitched drawings and intricately collaged artwork. In her latest series Kodachrome, carefully planned geometric patterns are first rendered on graph paper, then meticulously plotted on to painted canvas using a custom-made needle tool. Patterns are then hand-stitched in cotton thread; the resulting field of... Read more

Holly Greenwood | Here, there and everywhere

{Suite} Wellington 1 - 17 Aug 2024 Pub culture continues to be a source of fascination for Sydney-based Holly Greenwood. For the artist, this is a timely subject in a world where human connection has been eroded by the pandemic and where our reliance on technology has exacerbated a sense of isolation from each other. A pub... Read more

Richard Lewer | Confessions, Chalkboards & Bird Song

{Suite} Ponsonby 5 Jul - 3 Aug 2024 Read more

Chloe Summerhayes | Swamp Opera

{Suite} Wellington 3 - 27 Jul 2024 Swamp Opera explores the carnal and performative facets of life. Like representational painting, theatre is deceptive in nature. The common proscenium stage mimicking the picture frame, serves as a window between the audience and the drama. Informed by older, less sophisticated technologies of theatre such as drop cloths, trapdoors and... Read more

Jaimee Peters | New Paintings

{Suite} Ponsonby 10 - 29 Jun 2024 {Suite} Ponsonby 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 to visualise domains at once real and illusory. In this new series, Jaimee turns her attention to... Read more

Wayne Youle | Sticks & Stones

{Suite} Wellington 6 - 29 Jun 2024 Wayne Youle’s latest exhibition is a ten-work series titled STICKS + STONES. This work started over a year ago, the day after Cyclone Gabrielle hit, and its devastating impact was felt across the motu. The first painting began as a response to this major event - the series grew... Read more

Daniel Unverricht | Redux

{Suite} Wellington 4 - 25 May 2024 Read more

{Suite} Aotearoa Art Fair 2024 | Stand G13

Viaduct Events Centre 18 - 21 Apr 2024 {Suite} Gallery is delighted to present works by Victor Berezovsky and Anton Hart for the upcoming 2024 Aotearoa Art Fair, 18-21 April. With painting at its core, Victor has produced a diverse body of works for private galleries, institutions and public spaces. His work is often considered to have a... Read more

Ans Westra | Hei whakamahara

{Suite} Ponsonby 15 Apr - 25 May 2024 One year after her passing, Ans Westra's influence on the New Zealand art scene is stronger than ever. Renowned for her six-decade career as an iconic photographer, Westra amassed the most comprehensive visual documentation of life in Aotearoa. {Suite} Gallery will showcase 35 new prints of black and white images... Read more

Tia Ansell | Wayne Youle | Jaimee Peters | Jeremy Piert

{Suite} Wellington 27 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Read more

Kiran McKinnon | Cloudbreak

{Suite} Ponsonby 19 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 The works in this exhibition offer a snapshot of several facets of my practice - large scale sprayed works, smaller playful pieces, and soft and subtle inky surfaces of paint, soaked deep into the canvas ground. Linking them all are my use of unprimed canvas and linen, and my use... Read more

Wayne Youle | Vernacular

{Suite} Ponsonby 23 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 In 1976 Colin McCahon painted the Scared series in response to a photograph of two young Māori men apprehensively entering Peter McLeavey’s Wellington gallery to view an exhibition of his own work. McCahon was struck by the image, and noted in a letter to McLeavey ‘that boy to the right... Read more

Richard Lewer | What They Didn't Teach Me At School | The Waikato Wars

New Zealand Portrait Gallery | Wellington Te Whanganui a Tara 22 Feb - 12 May 2024 'I grew up in Hamilton, in the Waikato, but I had no idea about its history, no idea. I knew absolutely nothing and it’s embarrassing, it’s shameful'. 'As an artist, I place myself in environments that challenge me to confront who I am, and where I fit in the world,... Read more

Ans Westra | Hei whakamahara

{Suite} Wellington 13 Feb - 24 Mar 2024 One year after her passing, Ans Westra's influence on the New Zealand art scene is stronger than ever. Renowned for her six-decade career as an iconic photographer, Westra amassed the most comprehensive visual documentation of life in Aotearoa. For the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, {Suite} Gallery... Read more

Bruce Connew | Wayne Youle | Richard Lewer | Neil Pardington

{Suite} Ponsonby 23 Jan - 17 Feb 2024 This summer {Suite} Ponsonby is pleased to present selected works from our gallery artists. Included are images from photographer Bruce Connew's acclaimed series A Vocabulary which has been shown at various regional galleries in the North Island since 2021. Over several recent years, Bruce Connew has roamed memorials and gravestones... Read more