Artist & Curator Walkthroughs at Gus Fisher Gallery & The Arts House Trust

Join Gus Fisher Gallery and The Arts House Trust for an afternoon of curator led tours through the exhibitions Dreaming from afar and A Moment to Hold, which both explore the evolving landscape of contemporary painting practices within and beyond Aotearoa. Curators Lisa Beauchamp (Gus Fisher Gallery) and Nicholas Butler (The Arts House Trust) will lead guided walkthroughs accompanied by insights from participating artist brunelle dias primbs, whose work features across both exhibitions.

Free transport by coach between galleries is available to the first 35 people to register.

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Schedule:

1.30pm – Tour begins at Gus Fisher Gallery, CBD

2.15pm – Coach departs for The Arts House Trust, Hillsborough

2.40pm – Tour begins at The Arts House Trust

3.25pm – Coach departs to Gus Fisher Gallery, CBD

3.45pm – Coach arrives to CBD, event ends

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Dreaming from afar brings together three artists from Aotearoa and overseas whose distinctive approach to painting depicts places both visited and imagined. From Seville’s customary Easter processions to the mythologised bathhouses of Orientalism and the communal mattress room of the wharenui, each of the artists probe what it means to encounter a place of tradition or history through their own contemporaneity. Featuring major new commissions by brunelle dias primbs (India, Aotearoa New Zealand), Gian Manik (Australia) and Tyrone Te Waa (Ngāti Tūwharetoa).

A Moment to Hold is a view of contemporary practice featuring seven women artists engaged in painting and drawing. The exhibition title draws on the evocative and intimate qualities inherent in their work. Through a range of subjects, including landscape, figuration and interiors, the artists highlight the nuances of memory — how it can be shaped in many ways. This exhibition reveals creativity as a deeply personal act, where the artist shifts between roles - firstly as a participant and observer, then later as the one who gives form to memory through the act of making. A Moment to Hold presents work by brunelle dias primbs, Ruby Wilkinson, Hannah Ireland (Ngāti Hina, Ngāpuhi), Barabara Tuck, Christina Pataialii, Johanna Peglar and Kate Small.