Paul Nache Gallery

Paul Nache Gallery PAULNACHE brushes aside all the rules and formalities that come with being a dealer gallery in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Operating since 2009 under Director Matt Nache, the Gallery has set its own course and proposed a new model for the dealer gallery, blurring the lines between public and private gallery, between dealer and curator, house style and punk attitude. It offers less a consumable list or stable of artists than a family or community of artist/collaborators who come together and work with Nache to each ext

end their own practice, but also contribute to the greater whole which is the unrelenting forward momentum of this Gallery. Refusing to join the crowd and rejecting the received wisdom that says galleries belong in the big cities, PAULNACHE operates out of the coastal town of Gisborne, on the East Coast of Aotearoa’s North Island. Gisborne provides PAULNACHE with more than just its physical base – a gallery in a refurbished building on the city’s main street. At a time when many galleries claim noncommittally to ‘be based’ in a particular location, PAULNACHE draws its energies and ambitions from this city, and offers much in return. Committed to the local as well as the national, PAULNACHE has built a passionate community for contemporary art in Gisborne, and beyond. PAULNACHE may be rooted in Gisborne, but reaches much further. Regularly launching out from its physical base, the Gallery is renown from its innovative and often subversive presence at art fairs and other events. It holds and supports exhibitions of its artists in other cities and countries, and has a publishing wing which ensures that new thinking and writing on and around its artists is always present.

VL featured in today’s The Post, Arts by AndréChumko .chumko Thursday, October 30, 2025
30/10/2025

VL featured in today’s The Post, Arts by AndréChumko .chumko Thursday, October 30, 2025

in collaboration with presentsSometimes Hillary Mantel pops by to compare legs (2025)Clay, pure gold and resin 46 (H) ...
24/10/2025

in collaboration with presents

Sometimes Hillary Mantel pops by to compare legs (2025)

Clay, pure gold and resin
46 (H) x 43cm dia.

See, paulnache.com or DM for more info - Viewing at Quality, 1b Marine Parade, Abbotsford, Melbourne VIC is available Sat/Sun from 12-4pm IMG X courtesy of the artist and PAULNACHE

in collaboration with presents   Sometimes Lady Macbeth pops by to compare legs (2025)Clay, pure gold and resin 70 (H)...
20/10/2025

in collaboration with presents
 
 
Sometimes Lady Macbeth pops by to compare legs (2025)
Clay, pure gold and resin
 70 (H) x 60cm dia.
 
 
See, paulnache.com or DM for more info 📸 courtesy of the artist and PAULNACHE

Fantastically timed article with PAULNACHE The Consolation of Clay written by Melbourne based arts writer Inga Wal...
16/10/2025

Fantastically timed article with PAULNACHE The Consolation of Clay written by Melbourne based arts writer Inga Walton a day before our opening we look forward to sharing these phenomenal new works with you in

Congratulations to Virginia Leonard for winning the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2025! Awarded to Auckland-based art...
25/09/2025

Congratulations to Virginia Leonard for winning the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2025!

Awarded to Auckland-based artist Virginia Leonard for ‘Glad that you are not here all the time - an urn for unwanted limbs and other
things’, crafted from clay, pure gold and resin.
An internationally recognised ceramicist represented by leading galleries in Aotearoa, Australia, the USA and Switzerland, Leonard’s work is held in major public and private collections worldwide. Her winning sculpture channels personal frustrations into a layered form, combining glazed ceramics with resin casting to explore the tensions between opacity and transparency. On winning the Prize, Virginia Leonard said, “I am super grateful and honoured to win the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, and to be showing alongside some incredible works. It is such a massive feeling to be acknowledged with this new body of work, as I pour and cast resin in my garage late into the night hoping that what I see and feel, other people will as well.”

Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf has announced the winners of the 2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Australia’s most prestigious award for small-scale sculpture.

Founded by Woollahra Council and now in its 24th year, the Prize continues to celebrate dynamic and innovative approaches to contemporary sculpture, with this year’s winners highlighting the transformative potential of materials and form. The announcement coincides with the opening of the exhibition of finalist works, now on display until 16 November 2025.

2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Winner: Virginia Leonard. Photo by Jacquie Manning, announcement courtesy of:

https://www.woollahragallery.com.au/About/News-and-Media/Winners-announced-for-the-2025-Woollahra-Small-Sculpture-Prize

presents Sacred threads: Peata Larkin’s luminous meditationsIn the Sydney Contemporary 2025 Special Edition, Dina Jezdi...
14/09/2025

presents

Sacred threads: Peata Larkin’s luminous meditations

In the Sydney Contemporary 2025 Special Edition, Dina Jezdic explores how Peata Larkin (Te Arawa, Tühourangi, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Tuwharetoa) weaves ancestral knowledge into contemporary abstraction through te whare pora-“the house of weaving.”

Her latest work “Kei konei koe” (you are here) transforms paint and silk into fields of raised dots that recall tukutuku panels, knitted grids, and digitized code. Each mark is a devotional act, with white paint anchoring the work while ultramarine and yellows carry deep symbolic meaning.

“I never plan a painting,” says Larkin. “I just follow where the materials take me.” The result: luminous abstractions that exist “in a kind of stillness, but one that’s alive, vibrating.”

See this sacred practice with PAULNACHE and read the full feature in the FREE Sydney Contemporary Special Edition.



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Before returning to London, catching up with Sandy Angus, Co-Owner
12/09/2025

Before returning to London, catching up with Sandy Angus, Co-Owner

& Keys
12/09/2025

& Keys

& Kate
12/09/2025

& Kate

explains her process with the wonderful women
12/09/2025

explains her process with the wonderful women

12/09/2025

12/09/2025

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