Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show at Auckland Art Gallery

Discover a new vigour in recent New Zealand painting in this ambitious multi-artist exhibition. Responding to the question 'What can painting offer that other art forms cannot?', the artworks selected and commissioned for this survey share a focus on material and form, and are deliberately open ended.
Through suggestion and proposition, the artists invite us into conversations that, rather than being constrained by the ties of narrative painting, are speculative and forward-looking. Experience diverse work by 20 established and emerging painters and witness a future for painting that's still in the making.
 

Image credits

Julian Hooper
Verse 2012
on loan from a private collection, Australia
Nicola Farquhar
Saas 2014
on loan from a private collection, Auckland
Stella Corkery
Smoke and Butterfly 2015
courtesy of the artist and Michael Lett
Kirstin Carlin
Pleasure Garden (seven) 2015
on loan from a private collection, Auckland
James Cousins
Arc 2014
courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery
Saskia Leek
Untitled 2014
on loan from a private collection

Necessary Distraction: A Painting Show
Sat 28 Nov 2015 — Mon 4 Apr 2016
curated by
Natasha Conland
Level 1
Free entry
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