Group Exhibition: This is not a Painting

September 27 – October 21, 2023

Tim Melville

Sade Carrington, Untitled, 2022. Natural ochre and pigments on canvas, 60 x 60cm. Courtesy: the artist and Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland.

This is not a Painting brings together the different yet related organic practices of Māori uku (clay), Niuean hiapo (bark-cloth) and Aboriginal ochre painting.

A series of 5 new Hiapo artworks by Cora-Allan are presented alongside 6 sculptural ceramic vessels by Tracy Keith and a suite of ochre paintings by Gija artists from Warmun in the East Kimberley.

Opening Event: Wednesday 27 September, from 6pm.