Past Exhibitions

This exhibition is a selection of artworks, acquired by the Wallace Arts Trust over the last 24 months, which incorporate text as a key feature. The seven artists who are represented can be considered as either emerging, mid-career or established practitioners.

This significant exhibition celebrates 20 years of Paramount Award Winning artworks from the Wallace Art Awards.

The Paramount Award is a premier prize for New Zealand artists who are awarded a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (ISCP). The Award has given significant credibility and prospects to the winning artists who have all gone on to successful artistic careers, both nationally and internationally. 

Exhibition Opening 31 January 6pm

In 2008 New Zealand digital artist Rachael Linton produced the short film Sound Vision. Sound Vision explores the physical and psychological affects of colour, light and sound vibration and how they may be used as a means of therapy through film. Linton's new works entice people to interact with physical and non-physical space with ease. The three spinning kinetic artworks titled ‘Turning Phenomena’ appear differently as changing vibrational frequencies alter peoples' perception of the work.

A contemporary jewellery show curated by Jo Mears.

Curator's and Artists' Talk: Saturday 10 March 10-12 noon.

RETROSPECT brings together the work of Peter Deckers, an important mid-career artist combined with a high-quality exhibition of New Zealand contemporary jewellery comprising of the work of a twenty-strong contingent of New Zealand emerging and established contemporary jewellers.

The 20 participating artists are: Debbie Adamson, Vivien Atkinson, Renee Bevan, Nadene Carr, Jacqui Chan, Kristin D’Agostino, Cath Dearsley, Gillian Deery, Sharon Fitness, Sunni Gibson, Victoria McIntosh, Ross Malcolm, Vaune Mason, Jhana Millers, Neke Moa, Shelley Norton, Lynsay Raine, Sarah Read, Nadine Smith & Raewyn Walsh. 

My Grandmother's House is a collection of artworks from the Wallace Arts Trust collection that takes you back in time to an era that celebrated the quaint and delightful. The exhibition lets you rediscover the manner of thought from a time that was filled with pleasantries and intriguing rustic sentiment. It has the intention of triggering memories from your own childhood when you may have spent time exploring your grandmother's house.

Gareth Watkins began the Street Adonis series in 1997. At that time he was interested in the idea of chance meetings on the street and the split-second decision he needed to make in order to approach a stranger and talk about the prospect of being a model.

This exhibition showcases works from Watkins' Street Adonis series as well as four works by Derek Henderson.

Shape It is an interactive exhibition that presents visitors with a chance to explore colour, shape and pattern. Through viewing works from The Wallace Art Trust Collection that show defined shapes and patterns, visitors will be given the opportunity to respond and collectively make an artwork by applying stickers onto a wooden board.

This collaborative process references the organic nature of patterns found in the biological world.

Curated by Miriam Harris and co-ordinated by Deborah Lawler-Dormer.

To follow on from part one of this exhibition (Czech and Polish Veteran and Mid-careerist Animators), the work of fourteen talented Czech and Polish animators from the younger generation is examined in this part of the show.

In March 2011, artist, actor, director and writer Grae Burton was invited by Sir James Wallace to become Artist in Residence as an art photographer at Rannoch. By Easter Burton had created the two triptychs called Easter Island Waiheke. During the past six months Burton has flourished in art photography creating six series of work containing over 50 images, most of which you will see in this Residency Retrospective exhibition.

Curated by Miriam Harris and co-ordinated by Deborah Lawler-Dormer.

The Czech Republic and Poland enjoy a particularly rich animation tradition, characterised by features such as absurdity, playful irreverence, black humour, and profound reflections on the human condition. Aided and abetted by the strong tradition of artistic disciplines in these countries such as puppetry and illustration, the animation scene post World War II was also ironically supported by governmental funding under Communism.

From the shadows of the Wallace Arts Trust Collection, Dark Arts shows works that are linked thematically by their reference to the darker subjects of death, fear and violence.

Please note that some images may disturb younger viewers and discretion is advised.

Denise Batchelor and Tanya Ruka present moving image works that relate to pelago - the sea.

Philip Trusttum is without doubt one of New Zealand’s most important living artists. The Wallace Arts Trust is proud to present the first major survey of Truttum’s work, and to have produced the only major publication dedicated to his practice, covering the art he has created over five decades.

In his debut exhibition, artist Chris Corson-Scott presents a series of large-scale photographic works. Completed over a two year period, the images depict the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden where the artist has lived since birth.

As part of the Auckland Heritage Festival, the Photography Gallery will exhibit a selection of photographs of the Mt Roskill, Three Kings and Onehunga region, kindly provided by Puketepapa Local Board. The images on display here provide a flavour of the rich and often quirky history of Puketapapa/Mt Roskill.

Winners and selected finalists chosen for the Travelling Exhibition were on show at the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre in Auckland from 6 September to 16 October 2011, and will be on show at The Dowse in Lower Hutt from 29 October to 4 December 2011.

The Wallace Arts Trust received 559 entries from which 117 entries have been selected as finalists. Sixty-one finalists have been chosen for the Travelling Show and the balance is represented in the Salon des Refusés.  The Awards were judged by three distinguished New Zealand artists – Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.

The Salon des Refusés exhibited the balance of the Finalists not chosen for the Travelling Show and was on show in the Long Gallery until 16 October.

The concept of the Salon des Refusés has a very honourable history: The first was held in 1863 and arose because the official exhibition sponsored by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris had been coming under huge criticism for rejecting new artists.

To celebrate the Rugby World Cup, the TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre is featuring rugby inspired works from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection including works by artists Philip Trusttum, Mark Braunias, Jacqueline Fahey, Kate Walker, Michael Shannon and Stuart Page.

The Wallace Arts Trust holds in its Collection a survey of works spanning the careers of many prominent New Zealand artists.

First Impressions is an exhibition designed to show visitors the earliest works purchased by James Wallace from a number of artists he has continued to collect. These works represent both the subjective tastes of a collector and the astute eye gained from years of participation in, and patronage of the visual art scene; they all have in common the fact that they made good ‘first impressions’.

Artist and curator Pippa Sanderson, brings together the work of twelve New Zealand artists in an exhibition that explores the possibilities of a psychic realm.

A mixture of believers and skeptics, the artists were asked to create work that examines and offers a wider view of the paranormal. Sanderson and others use a variety of techniques to question the viewer’s experience of the supernatural and the occult.  

The Blue Room features artwork from Andrea du Chatenier, e l. august and l. a Clifton, Lonnie Hutchinson, Saskia Leek and Violet Faigan, Louise Menzies, Dane Mitchell, Rebecca Pilcher, Johanna Sanders, Pippa Sanderson and Stuart Shepherd.

MIC Toi Rerehiko and the Wallace Arts Trust are proud to present Transformance, an exhibition of digital media by four graduate artists from Auckland University of Technology (AUT), with support from the Asia NZ Foundation, as part of the 2011 Auckland Festival of Photography.

Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography 2011.
Major photographs from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection will be on show in the Photograph Gallery at The Pah Homestead, featuring New Zealand artists Ben Cauchi, Glenn Jowitt, Hamish Palmer, Patrick Reynolds, Ross T Smith, Roberta Thornley and Christine Webster.

Opening: Tuesday 31 May 5:30pm onwards
Artist Talk: Wednesday 1 June 1:30pm

…Something lost and something found in the work of Scott Eady.  The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, is proud to present an exhibition of Scott Eady’s work, both from the Collection and on loan, from 31 May – 17 July 2011. Eady's large-scale sculptures predominantly challenge the New Zealand male stereotype, and more recently have focused on his dual role as a father and artist. His sculptures are playful, witty, insightful and often frustrating; with a sometimes ambiguous element of violence about them.

Mary McIntyre’s work has been in the public domain since 1967. She has exhibited prolifically over the past four decades, contributing to more than 50 group shows and mounting over 30 solo exhibitions. James Wallace has been collecting McIntyre’s work since the mid ‘80s.

This artist/patron relationship, nurtured for over 25 years, is represented here in an exhibition of paintings and drawings selected from the 54 McIntyre works in the Wallace Arts Trust’s collection.

An exhibition of ceramics curated from the Wallace Arts Trust Collection held in conjuction with the Big Smoke Conference.

All Fired Up celebrates the diversity, innovation and progressive nature of the Wallace Arts Trust ceramics collection, illustrating the depth and history of the Trusts commitment to ceramic practice in New Zealand.

Traditional and contemporary pieces will be juxtaposed to afford new readings, while the conversation between fine and applied arts is investigated with the inclusion of artists who traverse these practices.