Foenander Galleries

09/06/2024

23/05/2024

At 5:30 tonight we open our new gallery space on Faraday Street with Vishmi Helaratne’s solo exhibition’Holy Crops’ an intimate series of sculptural paintings. The presentation offers an emotion of their fluid ambiguity and forecasts a sense of freedom while harvesting their intense obsession with colour theory and investigation of external and internal matter.

Please join us to celebrate this space, Vishmi, and their work.

Kundalini, 2024
Acrylic & Acrylic Mediums and Epoxy on Board
800 x 600mm

30/04/2024

Unitec School of Creative Industries senior lecturer in Design and Contemporary Art, Paul Woodruffe has a new exhibition QUIET PLACES opening this week on Thursday, 2 May at Föenander Galleries in Mt Eden. The exhibition will run until 22 May.

Paul’s instantly alluring but ambiguous, paintings require a long, slow viewing to appreciate their complexity of composition, games of relationships and abundance of symbols. His richly coloured and elaborate paintings, contain an assemblage of settings, characters, and motifs – with both disparate and overlapping spaces and forms. They forge unexpected links between history, culture and place, making use of a wide collection of discrete references from the Italian Renaissance, Eastern fabrics, Popular Culture and South Pacific form.

Paul is a visual artist and multi-disciplinary designer who is represented by Foenander Galleries and has work in private and public collections in NZ, Europe, Australia, and the USA. Throughout the years, he has been selected as a finalist in many of New Zealand’s top art awards such as the Waikato Art Award, The National Portrait Award the Team Macmillan BMW Art Awards as well as having been commissioned for public artworks both in Auckland and Vienna. Woodruffe works primarily in resin, oils on canvas and in small scale sculpture. His work attempts to explain what it is like to live as a European migrant in the Pacific, especially Aotearoa and what makes a particular landscape, object, or concept significant to that experience. He has a strong interest in the use of pigments and pattern and their ability to facilitate storytelling through accidental or intended transference into human experience.

Find out more about the exhibition https://foenandergalleries.co.nz/exhibition/paul-woodruffe-quiet-places/

21/03/2024

Join us this evening from 5.30- 7.30pm to celebrate the opening of stunning new exhibitions by Belinda Griffiths & Garry Currin

Griffiths & Currin are both process led painters who utilise the expressive power of the gestural mark, alongside a limited palette to great effect. While their work is pictorial in appearance, it’s emphasis is underpinned by evocative mark making, that employs a form of form of lyrical abstraction, which is open to interpretation.

Their process led approaches to the language and medium of painting, allows each to create resonant and ambiguous images which shift between the real and imaginary – pushing at the medium’s potential for depth and meaning

Belinda Griffiths Art

06/02/2024

Join us this Thursday 8th Feb, at 6pm as we open the 2024 exhibition calendar with Matt Palmer’s anticipated solo: 12 Paintings.

“Navigating the interplay between external landscapes and the psyche, Palmer’s paintings function as a psychological anchor, through which he reinstates his relationship with home, from a distance.“ - Toni MacKinnon, 2024

26/12/2023

I'm teaching a two day Still life course at the Browne School of Art. 13th and 14th January. Go to the link in my bio for details.
school life

21/12/2023

Neal Palmer artist is running a workshop at Corban Estate Arts Centre's ‘Summer School’ 15th-19th January. �

The wokshop will expand painting and drawing skills through experimentation and guidance- and is a chance to get much deeper into the creative process, exploring drawing and painterly mark-making in reaction to the Corban Estate site.

You can sign up here:

https://ceac.org.nz/workshops/summer-school/marking-a-connection

07/12/2023

Michael McHugh invites art enthusiasts on a visual journey through his latest exhibition, a culmination of years of exploration and creative endeavour.