Trish Clark Gallery

28/07/2025

Mesmerising and otherworldly — Christine Webster’s Untitled, 1984, works offer a vivid glimpse into shifting realms of identity and desire.

Rich and evocative, and employing Webster's emblematic performative approach, these luminous digital archival prints from original 1984 colour transparencies are more intimate than her celebrated large cibachromes of the era that were included in the National Gallery's Content Context exhibition in 1986, the groundbreaking exhibition ‘Neue Mythen’ at Cologne’s Museum Ludwig in 1989, later exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia, and also in 1997 at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, and at MACBA, Barcelona, Spain.

Webster was also one of the eight (now noted) women artists featured in the ground-breaking Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the 90's, published in 1991 by Longman Paul with the Moet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation, co-edited by Professor Wystan Curnow and myself — indeed, her work graces front and back covers wraparound.

Webster's work is held in the Collections of Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France; LA County Museum, USA; The International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; MCA, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki; Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū; Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery; and others.

Once foundational in the art-world (the only way of sharing high-quality images of artworks around the world) and now rare as film heads to extinction, colour transparencies are viewed by light passing through the film, and noted for their exceptional clarity and saturated detail.

This rare edition, created in 2023, is now available in the Gallery or via our Gallery Store.
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Details:
Untitled, 1984
Digital archival print from original 1984 colour transparency
500 x 500mm
Edition of 5

15/07/2025

Founded by visionary intermedia artist Phil Dadson, experimental music and performance group From Scratch is currently rehearsing and hitting the road in a couple of weeks! Stay tuned for more details.

Legendary in Aotearoa and internationally for its groundbreaking performances and original compositions using invented instruments, From Scratch is a sonic and visual force like no other.

Gregor Nicholas' film of From Scratch "Pacific 3-2-1-Zero," which won the Croisette d'Or Grand Prix at the Cannes Music Film Awards, is in NYC's MoMA permanent Film Collection and can be watched through the NZ On Screen archive:

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/pacific-3-2-1-zero-1993

07/07/2025

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Stella Brennan | Memory Hole, 2015

Haunted by technology, fractured futures and the promise of progress, reimagined. Stella unearths the remnants of modernity, its myths, machines and unmet ambitions. At the time, this was her first solo show in years – and it still resonates. Good art always does!

Stella’s Phantasmagorias (pictured) were shown in her recent survey exhibition at City Gallery Wellington in 2023 and are available in the gallery now.

02/07/2025

ARTIST NEWS
Earlier this year, Sefton Rani spent three valuable months in residence at Parehuia, the McCahon House studio nestled in the native bush of Titirangi.

Sefton’s practice is deeply rooted in his Cook Island heritage and shaped by the industrial textures of Tāmaki Makaurau. His work is highly experimental, weaving together themes of labour, materiality, and Pasifika identity, and blurring the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and carving.

This residency marked a pivotal chapter. After losing both his home and studio to Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023, Sefton arrived at Parehuia in a state of rebuilding. What followed was a period of quiet reorientation and renewed momentum, where themes of displacement, resilience, and cultural inheritance subtly redirected the course of his practice.

We're thrilled to be showing this new body of work, alongside others, this September. Stay tuned for more details!

30/06/2025

NOW SHOWING | Second Sight

Reframing themes explored in Three Angles, this exhibition takes a sidelong glance at the present moment, bringing together work by Stephen Bambury, Alberto Garcia-Alvarez, Chris Corson-Scott, Alfredo Jaar, Marie Shannon and Christine Webster.

What do we see when we look ahead? What do we see when we look again? Second Sight moves between foresight and hindsight, ruminating on the past, the present, and the not-yet.

On now in the gallery. Come and spend some time with the work - time is a part of it.

📍Thu-Fri, 11 - 3 pm; Sat, 12 - 3 pm

02/04/2025

Make eye contact with some of Heather Straka’s stunning paintings, tonight!

Join the artist and us from 5:30-7:30pm.
straka

29/03/2025

A striking selection of Heather Straka’s portraits + peephole paintings, is around the corner!

Opening soon, April 3 - April 26
straka

01/02/2025

For your weekend watching- this mini doco from the Tate on Alexis Hunter- painter and photographer whose work is imbued with feminist theory

Born in New Zealand, artist Alexis Hunter moved to London in the 1970s. A painter and photographer who used feminist theory in her work, Hunter was political...

25/01/2025

For your weekend reading, this recent exhibition 'What If Women Ruled the World' from the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens.

Jennifer Higgie reviews the exhibition, 'What If Women Ruled the World?', at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens.

18/01/2025

For your weekend listening, dive into Phil Dadson's lifetime of adventures in sound.

The sonic explorations of From Scratch founder and intermedia artist Phil Dadson are explored in Simon Ogston and Orlando Stewart's documentary, Phil Dadson: Sonics From Scratch. Emma Smith talks to the subject of the film ahead its New Zealand International Film Festival screening.