Honey Drawing

Kate van der Drift, Thinking of You, 2026

Kate van der Drift

Sanderson
Osborne Lane, 2-4 Kent Street\
Newmarket, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

11 November - 06 December 2026

Opening - Thursday 12th Nov, 5.30-7pm

Kate van der Drift (b.1985 Aotearoa, New Zealand) is an award winning contemporary photographer living and working in Aotearoa. Her practice is rooted in a deep engagement with ecological processes, human relationships to place, and the possibilities of photography as a form of attentive listening and collaborative storytelling.

In Honey drawing, van der Drift asks what endures when things cannot remain as we imagined them, in an intimate series of experimental photographs. The exhibition considers how rituals of care and making can offer solace amid uncertainty. Working with honey, candle smoke, pūriri leaves and withered flowers, van der Drift continues her practice of embracing the unpredictable collaboration between materials and photographic emulsion, light and time. Drawing inspiration from the fleeting life of the pūriri moth, these delicate works reflect on cycles of life, death and renewal, revealing the quiet beauty and tenderness found in moments of transformation.