New stunning scrolls from Gavin Chilcott available to view in the gallery.

Kon Dimopoulos’s new series of prints were created last year while in lockdown in New York. These images reflect living through a year that changed the world, in a city that became, for a time, the epicenter of the global pandemic. Experiencing both the ravages of an invisible enemy juxtaposed upon which were the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted in the streets of New York and the rest of America….

Local artist Robyn Fleet has proved very popular with her artwork often arriving into the gallery and leaving not long after. We are excited about these two new arrivals into the gallery titled ‘Zara’ and ‘Ataahua’.

Hawke’s Bay born, Robyn Fleet graduated with a Bachelor of Art and Design and works mainly in oil paints. She is obsessed with the materiality of paint itself and what its possibilities are….

Paper-Works Gallery is proud to be hosting a book launch for ‘Observations Of A Rural Nurse’ by Sara Mcintyre. Sara will be joining us on the day to sign copies of her book. Signed copies will be available for purchase, if you can't make it on the day and would like to purchase a book. Please get in touch and we can arrange payment/shipping and send out to you. The launch will take place on Saturday 20th June from 11-5pm at Paper-Works Gallery, 268 Clifton Road, Te Awanga, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. We would love for you to join us!….

These landscape paintings are based on her memory of places across New Zealand. The paintings provide a backdrop for a cast of characters, who combine and merge their shapes with iconic New Zealand ceramics. These hybrid creatures are bound by the push and pull of their relationships. The scenarios depicted blend historical ‘truths’ with fanciful, surrealist visions. Ceramic vessels, gravy jugs, urns and egg cups become containers for history, memory and meaning. She references existing ceramics and embellishes them, creating her own designs. The vessels are abundant with wildlife and also loaded with historic and cultural ideas…

This month we have some special new stock – A portfolio of prints made for and donated to the National Whale Centre project by Dick Frizzell, Greg O’Brien, John Walsh, John Pule and Michel Tuffery. The notion of a whale print series in support of the National Whale Centre, Picton, started in July 2012 after a discussion with a number of the artists who participated in the Kermadec — Nine Artists Explore the South Pacific exhibition in 2011 (Pew Environment Group). All five artists, including two associated with the Kermadec project, wholeheartedly endorsed the idea and over the succeeding months produced their prints with their favourite print workshops….

Keep up to date with what’s happening with our May News. Visit us this month to receive special discounts on Matthew Couper’s work as well as discover the work of NZ artists that are currently exhibiting around the country, Sara McIntyre and Piera McArthur….

Our Christmas Show is the perfect opportunity to get all your Christmas shopping done in one fell swoop! Choose from masses of artwork with prices ranging from $100 to $400. Join us upstairs at 27 Tennyson Street in our gallery space for the preview on Friday the 27th of November at 5pm….

Paper-Works Gallery are proudly exhibiting Martin Poppelwell’s latest suite of works from September 5th to September 26th….

Nigel Buxton: It is difficult to paint from a grounded meaning, and for me the search has been intuitive. Both my father and I were deeply influenced by James K Baxter (1926-1972).The experience of being read poetry ‘that handled ideas like bombs’ was a kind of conversion….

Dr. Christina Lanzl: When conceptual and environmental artist Konstantin Dimopoulos moved to Melbourne, Australia, from New Zealand, he was struck by the abundance of trees in his new surroundings. With a population of 4.25 million, Melbourne boasts 70,000 trees, which cover 20 percent of the city—and city planners hope to increase that ratio to 40 percent. Besides being a beautiful sight, trees have an increasingly important role in this age of global warming; they trade carbon dioxide for oxygen, provide welcome shade, and bring nature into the city. Yet primordial forests globally have been reduced to just 30 percent of their original area, robbing the earth of these positive environmental impacts….

Fiona Gruber & Michael Cathcart: Konstantin Dimopoulos is an artist who is passionate about global issues. His previous works have brought attention to various problems, from homelessness to deforestation, and he is currently planning to take on the British Government over its refusal to hand back the Parthenon marbles. Dimopoulos is a firm believer that art can change the world. I have long been fascinated with colour and light. These are part of my Greek Orthodox psyche, the enriched, vivid icons that line the inside of Greek churches counterbalanced with the humility of the home in which I was raised….