With a career spanning more than twenty years, artist and sculptor Ray Haydon is now considered a totara of the New Zealand art world. His exhibition, Voyage, running from 25 October to 27 November at Sanderson Contemporary reflects the significant diversity in his work; combining a suite of newly developed colourful forms, with his classical ribbon-like reliefs in bronze, carbon fibre and wood.

Haydon acknowledges that he has a varied practice, but that the foundation of all his work lies in its fluidity; matter slipping through time, often illusory and unseen, but made visible in sculpture. The vivid colours and reflective surfaces seen in his recently developed style of relief (of which Voyage is an example), serve to activate the objects in a new and exciting way, where art stands in as a reflection of the pace of contemporary life and as gestures of an optimistic future.