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Kate van der Drift
Sanderson Contemporary
28 May – 22 June, 2025
PhotoForum re-publish Virginia Were’s essay which was first commissioned to accompany Kate van der Drift’s exhibition Dance, Dance at Sanderson Contemporary.
Luke Foley-Martin & Ben Lowe
Essay by Theo Macdonald for PhotoForum
January 2025
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George Funaki + Jolie Le Feuvre
The Grey Place
37 Scanlan Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland
5-11 July 2025
Opening Saturday 5 July, 4.30-6.30
Madeleine Slavick
Published by The Cuba Press, 2024
130pp
Reviewed by Michael Elvy for Landfall Review Online, 30 June 2025
Reviewed by Paula Green for NZ Poetry Shelf , 10 May 2025
a mixed media collaboration between photographer Tony Nyberg and artists Will Gresson and Iulia Boșcu
Audio Foundation
Parisian Ties And Belts Sub-Basement
4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland Central
3 July - 2 August 2025
Opening: Thursday 3 July, 5.30pm, with refreshments by @libertybrewingnz
Special event: Friday 4 July, 8pm
Neil Pardington
Jonathan Smart Gallery
Buchan Street, Sydenham Christchurch
27 June - 26 July 2025
Opening 5.30pm Friday 27 June
Andy Spain
National Library Wellington
corner Molesworth and Aitken Streets, Thorndon, Wellington
26 June - 10 September 2025
Lara Gilks
Design by Kyra Jensen, Text by Amy Stewart
Published by Lara Gilks and Murex Studio, March 2025
190x200mm, 82 pages
Section-sewn and foiled hardcover with inset photograph
Edition of 50
Book launch 29 August
Rice Pudding Gallery, Wellington
Ann Shelton
Jhana Millers Gallery
Level 1, Mibar Building, 85 Victoria Street, Te Aro
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington
12 June - 5 July 2025
Artist talk and book signing 4pm on Thursday 12 June
Online Auction including photographic work by Marti Friedlander, Shirley Grace, Paul Johns, Mark Kimber, Fiona Pardington, Rachael Rakena, Rosanna Raymond, Jono Rotman, Marie Shannon, Roberta Thornley, Yvonne Todd
Webbs
Online Auction 9 - 23 June 2025
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Julie Downie, Known treasure that can only be examined in a second life
Ryan Lindborg, The Big Island
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SKAR Image Lab, 1 New Bond St, Kingsland