Image: Grace Wright, Great Cosmology, 2025, acrylic on linen, 2100 x 1500mm. Courtesy of the artist.

In recent years, Grace Wright has taken the New Zealand art scene by storm. Her large-scale gestural abstract paintings have found a wide audience of admirers, and they have become increasingly sought-after by collectors. Wright’s paintings are entirely abstract, yet they can feel representational – an effect of her skilfully attuned palette and mark making. They often have a sense of visual depth, though do not achieve this through traditional techniques of perspective. Instead, the artist creates layers of abstract gestures with dazzling tonal and chromatic contrasts. The resulting layered visual field has a surreal, atmospheric quality that would be equally at home in either a historical painting or a fantasy videogame.

Opening event: Saturday 28 June, 2-4pm