Please join us this Friday evening for the opening of “Dark Matter” - an exhibition that brings together four contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand – Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy, Simon Endres and Kirsten Roberts - each exploring the gothic and uneasy in their practises.
All artists will be in attendance.
Works and further information can be viewed online. Link in bio. To request a catalogue price list, please DM or email us: [email protected]
Image detail: Simon Endres
Last few days of 3 Statues for a Square at @cassstreet.gallery Finishing up Tuesday 17th. If you’re up near Kororāreka stop by for a visit.
Thanks for the amazing manaaki @mikacotton@luannebond@shanecotton_
Props to @nathanpohio for the exhibition text and counsel. Check 🔗 in bio for pics and the text.
A peek under the blanket of Extinctions Alp, 2026.
Collected from industrial lots, backyards, crusty berms, and my own store of daily detritus. These 300+ objects form the rubble that is packed tightly under the gallery’s reclaimed Kauri bench seat, a ‘busy with his hands’ effigal figure, and a luxury woollen blanket.
Comprising of (very heavy) rocks, broken branches, old tech, rusty and soot laden pieces of the built environment and even the odd sun bleached bone (not human). These pieces have been gathered, lovingly painted in Porter’s Paints ‘Rubble’ (thanks @viv__teo ) and patiently placed in an ossuary-like cavity. They form a kind of tortured sediment laid down over centuries as a result of violence, greed, and capitalist plunder. Where indigenous knowledge is rendered invisible, where past (and current) horrors are swiftly buried, and our communities weft and warp is frayed by a thousand mean spirited cuts. All in the name of what?
This year let’s vote these selfish deluded men OUT.
3 Statues for a Square is on @cassstreet.gallery Kororāreka until March 17, 2026
More info 🔗 in bio
Two faces side by side Before a broken city,
And the devastation is beyond words.
Behind them are houses that were laughter
And have become memories.
They stand not because fear has vanished,
But because the brokenness
Has not broken them.🇵🇸💔
