It's a perfect winters day in Wellington today and it is the last day to view Steph Arrowsmith's works in the gallery foyer. The show closes today at 4pm.
This work: Sad Sun 2, 2025. Oil on canvas, carpet, framed. 53 x 41cm
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Steph Arrowsmith, Lucky Girls Leaving, 2025. Oil on cotton. 40 x 35 cm
"...these are idealisations of the
natural world, captured and framed to soothe a deeper, more persistent longing: for innocence, for beauty, for something gentler than what we’re given..."
On till 2 August
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Thanks to all those that came to the opening last night to celebrate the new work by Priscilla Rose Howe and Steph Arrowsmith's.
These two exhibitions are on until 2 August.
This image: Steph Arrowsmith, The Day is Waiting For You, 2025. Oil on canvas, custom frame. 65 x 47 cm
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Steph Arrowsmith
The day is waiting for you
Opens 5pm, Thursday 10 July — Foyer
Steph Arrowsmith paints like someone trying to hold light in their hands. Working pigment into silk, cotton, and canvas, she conjures scenes that hover between childhood memory and dream—seals mid-performance, a red star in freefall, a sad sun sinking into carpet.
In this new series of five works, too-pure forms drift through murky enclosures dressed up as paradise. The result is a world that feels tender and imagined, made to soothe a deeper longing: for beauty, for gentleness, for something better than what we’re given.
Steph lives in Tāmaki Makaurau and graduated from Toi Rauwhārangi, Massey University in 2021.
This work: Sad Sun 2, 2025. Oil on canvas, carpet, framed. 53 x 41.5 cm
@steph_arrowsmith
‘You’ve been here before, Bitch!’, ‘How to Glow Up?’, ‘On the Topic Of Milestones’, ‘ :- ( :- ( :- ( :- ( ‘, ‘Smaller Woman Eating A Big Apple’, ‘A Very Brave Choice’
A be(a)stie show by Steph Arrowsmith and Millie Dunstall.
Opening next Wednesday 28th of August @ 6pm. <<<333
Poster design by the great @rosepickk xxx
#piggygirls
