RM Gallery & Project Space

RM's regular opening hours are: Thursday: 1pm - 5pm Friday: 1pm - 5pm Saturday: 12pm - 4pm Graphic by Holly Chev Gek Thai | @h0llythai

Call out for volunteers for RM Gallery and Project Space! RM is an artist-run space operating entirely on a volunteer basis. Volunteering with us is a rewarding way to be part of a community of artists in Tāmaki Makaurau’s longest running artist run space. If you have availability on Thursday or Friday afternoons, and would like to join our team of volunteers and help us keep the gallery doors open, email us a little bit about yourself at [email protected]. The archive room offers an ideal workspace between visitor interactions. Looking forward to hearing from you! Graphic by Holly Chev Gek Thai | @h0llythai

Call for Proposals for RM's 2027 Programme! Please include in your proposal: A written statement (500 - 750 words) A written outline of your proposed work, with a background of the participants and an overview of what you intend to present at RM. Ideally this text should be written and presented in a way that you feel best reflects your practice. Some outlines may be specific in terms of the installation and execution of the work, whereas others may tend to focus on the ideas and methods that will help generate the body of work. As practising artists, we understand that most shows will tend to develop and diverge from what has been suggested within the proposal - we see the proposal as a starting point for a conversation with you; an introduction into an exhibition that is still in the working phase. Visual/audio material Photographs of the work to be shown or documentation of recent work that clearly indicates the type of work that is intended. Performance, film, sound or video should be sent in an appropriate file type or via a link to a website where the work can be viewed. The Space Please consider the layout of the gallery when making your proposal. We ask that you consult the floor plan included on the 'Proposals' page of our website, and that you note in your proposal whether you prefer Space R or Space M. The Archive Room is not usually available for exhibitions. Artist CV An artist CV is not required, however applicants are free to include one. Contact details Please include a contact phone number and email address. Format Email applications as a single PDF document, preferably under 10MB to [email protected] Please name your file using the following format: YourName_proposal2027 Duration Exhibitions in 2027 will run for a period of six weeks. Please indicate in your proposal what quarter of the year you would prefer your exhibition to take place in. We will do our best to accommodate your preferred time period as we schedule our 2027 programme. Proposals are due by midnight Monday, 8 June 2026 Further info can be sought from the RM Collective: [email protected] Graphic by Holly Chev Gek Thai @h0llythai 1st image photo credit: Anton Maurer

Listen to Antonia Barnett McIntosh's interview discussing their exhibition 'A Ponder of Transported Local Delicacies' on @95bfm 's Various Artists show! Check it out via the 'Artist Interviews' section in our Linktree, linked in our bio.

Thank you to everyone who came out for the opening of 'A Ponder of Transported Local Delicacies'! Antonia Barnett McIntosh @antoni__abm This exhibition is open until 30 May, come on over and get amongst it! Photo Credit: Holly Chev Gek Thai @h0llythai

Thank you to everyone who came out for the opening of 'A Series of Completely Accurate Self Portraits'! Brittany Walker Smith @brittanywalkersmith This exhibition is open until 30 May, come on over and get amongst it! Photo Credit: Holly Chev Gek Thai @h0llythai

'A Ponder of Transported Local Delicacies' Performances Saturday 9 May, 2pm RM Gallery Antonia Barnett McIntosh presents a couple of new performances around 'A Ponder of Transported Local Delicacies'. In concert with Lisa Samuels, and drawing on the sonic-speech material in Antonia's 4-channel installation and in Lisa's accompanying exhibition text, the two will explore interiorizing channels, a low E, every memory of sound plies. Bring your reverberant body space for lists, there'll be lists and I have objects in my hands almost all times. you can look sound you can hear thought can. Goal gold stretch silver some — vocal shivers, the blue juicy. hm, yeah, strange storage... within that wideness — apples. @antoni__abm

Unfortunately RM will be closed today due to volunteer shortages. RM is an artist-run space operating entirely on a volunteer basis. If you have availability on Thursday or Friday afternoons and would like to join our team of volunteers and help us keep the gallery doors open, email us a little bit about yourself at [email protected]. The Archive room offers an ideal workspace between visitor interactions. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience to those who were hoping to see the current exhibitions today.

'A Ponder of Transported Local Delicacies' Antonia Barnett McIntosh @antoni__abm Opening Wednesday 22 April at 6:00pm 'A Ponder of Transported Local Delicacies' reflects on an in-between state of the live and the documented dwelling in one’s mind and body- [hm, yeah, the form is whole though.. consider the Mountain Apple Moss, or a low E]: a conceptual landscape of collections — of people, pursuits, memories, and objects we choose to live with and which choose us. A sound installation comprises speech and field recordings, traversing time, material, the body, motion, mapping, overheard snippets, and some exploratory natural history. Antonia Barnett McIntosh (Kāi Tahu) is a composer-performer, sound artist, editor, and curator. She collaborates in cross arts spaces, gently tapping on the borders between speech/music, performance/rehearsal, composition/writing, and juxtaposing the formalities of presentation with the aesthetics of failure. She has worked extensively with musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets, theatre and filmmakers. Antonia has presented work in Europe, India, Australia, Aotearoa, and the U.S.A.: at Barbican, Kings Place, Wigmore Hall, Spike Island, Café OTO, Theater im Aufbau Haus (TAK), DAAD Galerie; as part of City of London Festival, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Capital Fringe D.C., 4 Days Arnolfini, Weisslich, Kammer Klang, and BBC 3’s Hear & Now: Why Music?; at residencies Hubbub, Wellcome Collection, London (2014–16), Morni Hills, Chandigarh (2017), Te Kōkī-New Zealand School of Music (2018–19), Q-O2, Brussels (2019), Bundanon Art Museum, NSW Australia (2023), and EMPAC, Troy New York, U.S.A. (2023–24).

'A Series of Completely Accurate Self Portraits' Brittany Walker Smith @brittanywalkersmith Opening Wednesday 22 April at 6:00pm 'A Series of Completely Accurate Self Portraits' starts from an interest in fantasy as a way of making things more bearable. The figures in these works are not direct portraits, but closer to what appears when a moment is remembered or replayed - adjusted, stylised, slightly improved. They are me, but not exactly me. They could just as easily be you. That slippage feels important. The fiction is deliberate. It offers a version of events that is often more interesting, and easier to sit with, than whatever actually happened. Coping through aesthetic. Painted on velvet and framed with faux fur, rhinestones, and patterned surfaces, the works lean into glamour and excess without trying to stabilise the image. The scenes feel familiar but don’t fully land. Things are pushed a bit too far, or not explained enough. Nothing here is trying to resolve into something accurate in a literal sense. Instead, the works hold onto a version that has been edited, embellished, and kept at a slight distance, something constructed, but not entirely separate either. Brittany Walker Smith is an Auckland-based artist and Doctoral candidate at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Her work spans large-scale paintings and installations that combine text, hyper-feminine imagery, and tactile materials such as velvet, glitter, faux fur, and rhinestones. Drawing on ideas around emotional labour, aesthetic affect, and what she describes as the politics of frivolity, Smith uses excess, humour, and glamour to explore how people cope with the pressures of contemporary life. Personal anecdotes, pop-cultural references, and decorative surfaces are brought together to create works that are both seductive and quietly critical. Her practice positions pleasure, indulgence, and aesthetic excess not as distractions from serious thought, but as meaningful ways of processing exhaustion, negativity, and the expectations placed on everyday emotional life.

'Goldies Grove' Jude Stevens @judestevens_ 4 March – 11 April 2026 #rmgallery

'GRWM' Aria McInnes @ariamcinnes Keani Rewha @keanirewha Rita Takeuchi @ritatakeuchi 4 March – 11 April 2026 #rmgallery