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Philip Trusttum

Selected Reds.  29 March to 25 July 2021
Since Christmas 2000 Trusttum has made a startling, and for him, a rare group of flat area colour field Buzzy Bee paintings.  Quite different to his more usual expressively laid layers of gestural paint, these works have evolved with reference drawn from the inspired work of Ellsworth Kelly, though with a less exacting Trusttum take to polish and finish. Philip has selected for this show works that lay down thinly on the six 7ft by 6ft canvases strong shapes with a dominance of red.

These works sit alongside glass works by Gael Edmonds, sculptures by Lance Hayes and a rug by Tony Lane.

Enquiries to Bill Milbank  027 6286877
 

Peter & Kirk Nicholls - Genetics of Renewal 

8th February - 17th March 2019

It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to bring together the work of father and son, Peter and Kirk Nicholls. I have had a long  and productive engagement with Peter beginning in 1975 when as Exhibitions Technician at the Sarjeant Gallery the first show I installed  was a touring exhibition of Peter’s work.  Later as Director I organised several solo Nicholls shows and included him in various group shows.

Peter was born and lived for some time in Whanganui and by coincidence – or destiny his son Kirk settled here some years ago and is also a practicing sculptor.

Recent discussions with Peter and Kirk lead to the conception of this exhibition. While Peter's reputation is firmly based in his abstract structures, primarily large wooden and forged steel outdoor sculptures, in this exhibition he has included works with figurative elements and references to humanities and relationships with nature. This figurative approach was chosen to engage with Kirk's large figurative portraits, modeled in recycled milk bottles and other plastic objects. These dramatic portraits are both powerful expressions of humanity while also making a prescient environmental statement, referencing the impact of man-made plastic throwaways on natures survival.

While the work by each artist is significantly different and using materials of different generational practices the crafting by each of them is exceptional. 

Volker Hawighorst

Best Before. Revising the useless.  14th December 2018 - 3rd February 2019

Throughout his professional career, art and design has been the main focus of Volker's work. As a trained cabinet maker, he has a strong foundation of solid craftsmanship and a keen eye for detail. Art was always a presence in his daily life. He created his first large sculpture in the early 90's for Lufthansa German Airlines at the new Munich Airport. For several decades he worked as an architect in international environments, responsible for design and delivery of large corporate projects as well as tailored solutions for smaller ventures. After moving from Germany to New Zealand, Voker started exploring new media to express his creativity. The aesthetics of recycled materials became more and more significant and, he is intrigued by being able to give something that is considered useless a new sense of usefulness.
Miti Miti II 2018
Best Before X, 2017, $900
Digital Weaving V, 2018, $900

Martin Law - Painter of Paradise

This highly significant and stunning collection of pieces by Martin Law, Painter of Paradise are specially created paintings of Whanganui and Raetihi, and marks the beginning of a major project spanning the next two decades, to create 1500 paintings of New Zealand architecture in its landscape.
 

 “For me New Zealand is changing, we are losing our valuable architectural heritage at an alarming pace, time is against us, I have to capture and paint as much as possible before it is lost.” Martin finds great inspiration and hope in the buildings that we might forget, that we overlook in our haste of life, rustic lost corners and urban back streets, recalling shades of his rural upbringing; painting layers of glorious New Zealand greens amid searing skies.
 
Born in 1967 in England and growing up on a farm in the heart of the Cotswolds, Martin moved to New Zealand ten years ago and now brings this extraordinary collection of intricately detailed paintings to the WHMilbank Gallery. Martin studied in London at the Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, graduating in 1990. He then went on to develop a highly successful commercial career based in London, working as a concept designer and architectural and interior perspective artist. Drawing and painting has always been his life. He has worked on many prominent interiors including hotel, maritime interiors and palaces in the Middle East.
 
In this exhibition, Martin presents 35 original paintings of buildings from the Whanganui and Raetihi regions that in their collectiveness represent history and the glory of New Zealand architecture. These remarkable paintings reflect Martin’s great love of New Zealand, the land, and our unique architecture vernacular. His paintings capture and represent the connection we have with this land, our rural narrative, lost eras, abandonment, hope and love.


Scott McFarlane  -  Recent Paintings 14th July - 2nd August​
Scott McFarlane was born in Wellington in 1966 and lives in Northland. He completed a Diploma of Fine Arts, (Honours) Otago School of Art in 1993. He has exhibited regularly in New Zealand in private and public galleries and has works in numerous private and public collections.

Hamish Horsley - Earthwise
Sculpture and paintings
May 6th - July 9th 2017


Hamish Horsley’s work embraces the spirit and energy of nature, reflecting the harmony and change in landscape and culture. The rhythms, layers and forms that spring from the natural world are the underlying essence for his work as sculptor, painter and photographer.

His strong environmental and philosophical beliefs lie beneath his articulate creative vision. The accessibility of his work is one of its defining features.

“My work is a meditation on the continual process of change, the blending of earth, sea and sky, the patterns and symbols that are always in our line of sight.  Growing up in New Zealand has led to an enduring fascination for the shaping, scraping, uplifting of our world – the flow of water,  the evolution and formation of stone, soil and sand - the continuing metamorphosis of our earth”

Born and raised in Whanganui, Hamish was based in London for over 30 years working as a professional artist and teacher, building an impressive reputation with many significant and often monumental public art commissions and private projects. His work is found throughout the UK, Northern Europe, the Middle East and more recently India, Vietnam and Thailand (where he lives for part of the year).

Now based in Whanganui, this exhibition showcases new works in stone along with drawings and paintings on paper. 

Prices on application


Kendal Heyes  'Slow Drawing'
Selected from The Shape of Time, 2010 & The Sea of Possibility, 2016/17
17th April - 4th May, 2017

 
Kendal Heyes was born in New Zealand, and grew up in Auckland. In 1979 he moved to Sydney and has lived there since then.
 
His work covers a range of mediums including drawing, painting, printmaking and photography. He began exhibiting regularly in Australia in 1981, and in New Zealand in 1987, after returning to take up the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in that year. Since then he has held residencies at Nelson Polytechnic, Sydney Grammar School and Isis Gallery in Cumbria in the UK.
 
In 2007 he gained an Australian Post-Graduate Award to complete a practice-based PhD in drawing (2007–2010). In 2010 he won the Post-Graduate Tim Olsen Prize for Excellence in Drawing at the University of NSW College of Fine Arts. In 2017 he won the prestigious Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, PLC, Sydney.
 
His work has been included in many surveys of New Zealand art such as A Very Peculiar Practice: Recent Currents in New Zealand Painting (City Gallery, Wellington), the national touring exhibition Fear and Beauty, Bright Paradise: The 1st Auckland Triennial (Auckland Art Gallery), and mostly recently, Undreamed of … 50 Years of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, at the Hocken Collections and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
 
In Australia, his work has been included in Australian Art Now (Art Gallery of South Australia), Australian Printmaking: from Pre-settlement to Present (National Gallery of Australia), Australian  Photography: the 'Eighties, (NGA), Perspecta, (Art Gallery of NSW), and The Constructed Image (National Gallery of Australia),
 
He is represented in many public collections in New Zealand, including Victoria and Massey Universities, the Hocken Collection, University of Otago, the National Bank, Voyager NZ Maritime Museum, Fletcher-Challenge, and the Wallace Arts Trust collection.
 
In Australia he is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Grammar School, and the Adelaide Perry PLC Sydney Collection
 
In recent years Kendal has exhibited almost exclusively in Australia. However, his recent participation in the exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and an unplanned visit to Whanganui last year have drawn him back to New Zealand, and this show in Whanganui marks the beginning of an ongoing re-engagement with New Zealand.
 



​Simon Ogden  'Improbable Landscapes'
​3rd February - 10th April, 2017
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Simon Ogden was born at Bradford, England 1956. For three decades he has been passionately involved in the teaching of Fine Arts (including Painting, Drawing, Printmaking and Sculpture) at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

His studio practice is based in Christchurch but he spends a few months a year in Europe exploring ancient iconographies and contemporary cityscapes.

​He is especially interested in the interface between crafts and fine arts, the collection of objects their forms and their re-contextualisation.
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Simon OGDEN 'FLAG BIRD GOLD SMOKE' 2016 oil and mixed media 800mm x 800mmm framed $4,200.00
Simon OGDEN 'FLOATING EAST BUT LOOKING WEST' 2016 oil and mixed media 800mm x 800mmm framed $4,200.00
Simon OGDEN 'EROS and APHRODITE' 2016 oil and mixed media 800mm x 800mmm SOLD
Simon OGDEN 'P SNORT' 2016 oil and mixed media 800mm x 800mmm framed $4,200.00
Simon OGDEN 'BOLTEN LANDING REVISITED' 2016 oil and mixed media 800mm x 800mmm framed $4,200.00 (SOLD)
Simon OGDEN 'PINK VENUS' 2016 oil and mixed media 800mm x 800mmm framed $4,200.00 (SOLD)
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   Designed Scarfs by Simon Ogden
    Made in Lake Como and Bologna, Italy.
    10% cashmere & 90% micro-modal, washed, finished, pressed by hand.
    1480mm x 1480mm cut,
    $280.00 each [18 designs]
    www.wearetouchedbyfire.com​

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Richard Wotton - Selected Images
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Various Artists - Raetihi Ratana Church
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3rd January - 2nd February 2017

Richard Wotton was born in 1946 in Whanganui, where he still lives. A printer by training, his interest in photography began in 1967.

He produced a significant body of work during the 1970s and 1980s, when he worked almost entirely in black and white with medium and large format cameras.

Since embracing digital technology, he continued to take the same formal approach to his to his photography, applying the discipline of the view camera to a significant series of vernacular architecture.

His work is held in a number of private collections around New Zealand and also public collections of the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu; Te Manawa, Palmerston North; the Museum of New Zealand  Te Papa Tangarewa, Wellington; and Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui, which is a large holding.

Wotton is represented by the WHMilbank Gallery, Whanganui, which in 2012 exhibited Hidden in Plain Sight, a selection of 40 vernacular architecture images made since 2009.

He has also had solo exhibitions at Te Manawa, Palmerston North; MTG, Napier; and Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui; as well as being included in shows at the Sarjeant Gallery, Te Manawa and Te Papa.

Wotton has self-published two books, Glimpses of Vietnam (2010) and Hidden in Plain Sight (2012). Both are available through www.blurb.com.
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Concurrent with this show, the Sargeant Gallery is exhibiting Marking Time: Portraits of the Inked, a selection of 45 black and white portraits of tattooed people.
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Richard WOTTON 'Selected Works' - installation image

Raetihi Ratana Church

Janet GRUBNER 'Raetihi Ratana Church' 2016 digital print $1,500.00 unframed
John MCDERMOTT "Ratana Church, Raetihi" 2010 Colour Photograph 340mm x 520mm $1,600.00 framed
Sarah MCINTYRE "Ratana Church, Raetihi" 2010 colour photograph 360mm X 400mm $750.00
Richard WOTTON "Ratana Church, Raetihi" 2007 colour photograph 190mm X 290mm $300.00 unframed
Bob NEGRIN "Ratana Church, Raetihi" colour digital print from colour transparency 610mm x 460mm
Ans WESTRA 'Raetihi Ratana Church' 1984/2016/5 ectochromed negatve digitally printed $6,500.00 framed
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Laurence ABERHART "Ratana Church [1} and [2}, Raetihi" sivler gelatin, selenium toned 1982/2010/1 each $4,600.00 framed
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Roger DONALDSON " Ratana Curch on the hill, Raetihi" 1994 370mm x 420mm each $1,600.00 unframed

Tia Ranginui  - Hours Between Sleep

 10th to 24th December 2016

A series of limited edition photographs 500mmH x 750mmW
Tia RANGINUI "A truck stop Christmas" 500mmH x 750mmW Limited edition of six
Tia RANGINUI "Oasis" 500mmH x 750mmW Limited
Tia RANGINUI "A truck stop Christmas" 500mmH x 750mmW Limited edition of six
Tia RANGINUI "boyhood" 500mmH x 750mmW Limited
Tia RANGINUI "mister lonely" 500mmH x 750mmW Limited
Tia RANGINUI "Pavement" 500mmH x 750mmW Limited
Tia RANGINUI "She's filled with secrets" 500mmH x 750mmW
Tia RANGINUI "A Gonville Honeymoon" 500mmH x 750mmW
Tia RANGINUI "Red Room" 500mmH x 750mmW
Tia RANGINUI "Christmas greetings from the Cliff" 500mmH x 750mmW

James Robinson - The promised land Pokokohua

April to 30th June 2016

This exhibition of recent work by James Robinson - mainly paper constructed works - has been up a few weeks and receiving a good level of interest.
Speaking about the work 'flag' James ROBINSON created with Scot FLANAGAN 2015

“Scot lived opposite an old McCahon residence in Woolston, Christchurch – and the flag – it’s about corporate fascism and identity manufacture for total profit and slavery of planet and people…. I ripped up lots of old graphite drawings from ten years ago ….from a show called giants saints monsters ….and Scot wove the insert….Scot’s been working with flags for years ….notably having woven the terrorist suppression act text….JK Baxter poems and pornography …. into flag like art works.” JR

James ROBINSON & Scot FLANAGAN '[flag] - the promised land (POKOKOHUA)' 2015/16 mixed media on 6 paper panels 3,000 mm x 5,000 mm $10,000 or near offer
James ROBINSON Untitled 2015/16 mixed media on 7 paper panels 1000 mm x 3,500 mm $10,000 or near offer
James ROBINSON 'NIBURU' 2012 Mixed media on canvas 1850 mm x 1700mm $7,500
James ROBINSON 'Radical' 2015 Mixed media in paper 700 mm x 970 mm $3,000
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON untitled mixed media on paper 700mm x 500mm each $1,500 each
James ROBINSON
Untitled 2015/16

mixed media on 7 paper panels  1000 mm x 3,500 mm
$10,000 or near offer
Special note: The artist is keen to sell this set as one work but should that not happen by 30th June then individual panels con be sold at $2,000 per panel. your interest in reserving one or more panels can take place prior to 30th June. Each panel is 1000 mm x 500 mm
James ROBINSON
Untitled Framed drawings
mixed media on paper 280 mm x 230 mm size of frame.
$300 each


PhilipTRUSTTUM - ARMED TO THE TEETH

26th September 2015 - 30th April 2016

A significant selection of Trusttum’s 2014 paintings was assembled by Philip and the New Ashburton Art Gallery. They were shown mid 2015 under the title ‘Current Affairs’. I wrote an essay that accompanied their catalogue – one that walked viewers from Trusttum’s Rugby work through his turmoil in Christchurch through the quakes, the time spent drawing and then an assessment of this remarkable outburst of work made in 2014.

.In my back gallery under the banner ARMED TO THE TEETH I have gathered a selection of Trusttum fighter figures collaged to appropriated coloured canvas – the figures assembled from the positives and negatives of camouflaged guns uniforms and African masks –much mixing and matching creating dramatic postures and glares.

Philip TRUSSTUM "12 OF US" H3000 x W3700 $30,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "THREE WITH ONE" H1910 x W2500 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "x!!p?x!!" H2470 x W2470 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "GET" H2030 x W1600 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "IT"S A BLACK DAY" H2200 x W1910 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "WHO CARES" H3000 x W2950 $30,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "BROKEN" H1830 x W1680 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "HELLO HELLO" H1860 x W3070 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "CELEB" H1910 x W2000 $20,000.00

New @ WHM
Janet Grubner, Garry Freemantle
, Scott McFarlane, James Robinson,  Catherine MacDonald, Gary Currin, David Murray


22nd December 2015 - 22nd February 2016

Janet Grubner

Janet GRUBNER "Angel #1" Photograph on w/c paper Sept 2008 $1,400.00
Janet GRUBNER "Face of and Angel" Photograph on Canvas June 2010 $1,000.00

Garry Freemantle

Garry FREEMANTLE "Diagnostik Lake II" 2012 volcanic rock and vivianite on board 900mm x 1200mm $4,000.00
Garry FREEMANTLE "Untitled" 2013 NZ mineral pigment on canvas 1200mm x 900mm $4,000.00
Garry FREEMANTLE "Narcissus Lake" 2012 earth on canvas 508mm x 404mm $1,500.00
Garry FREEMANTLE "Terrain" 2015 NZ mineral pigment on plywood (2 panels) 1200mm x 1200mm $4,000.00
Garry FREEMANTLE "Quartz Cupid" 2012 quartz on canvas 150mm x 150mm $600.00
Garry FREEMANTLE -instalation view.

Scott McFarlane

Scott McFARLANE "Angels and Innocents 1" 2013 oil on canvas 401mm x 316mm $3,000.00
Scott McFARLANE "Angels and Innocents 2" 2013 oil on canvas 401mm x 316mm $3,000.00
Scott McFARLANE "The Old King (Every Nations Refugee)" 2015 oil on headboard 626mm x 1336mm $7,000.00
Scott McFARLANE "False Idols" 2013 oil on board 920mm x 730mm $3,000.00
Scott McFARLANE "Lipstick Index" 2012 oil on board $3,000.00
Scott McFARLANE "Assorted Ceramic Tiles" priced between $150.00 and $300.00

James Robinson

James ROBINSON "Tangaroa" 2013 mixed media on cut and sewed canvas 800mm x 900mm $3,500.00
James ROBINSON "Looping" undated mixed media on 'found pre-painted canvas' 290mm x 290mm $500.00
James ROBINSON "Untitled" 2013 mixed media on cut, stitched and taped paper strips 640mm x 500mm $1,500.00
James ROBINSON - instalation view

Catherine MacDonald

Catherine MACDONALD "you gonna sit" - chair 2015 1200mm H x 335mm W x 445mm D $800.00 SOLD
Catherine MACDONALD "a place for resting" - cabinet 2015 620mm H x 685mm W x 360mm D $800.00
Catherine MACDONALD "walking the park" - table 2015 410mm H x 793mm L x 390mm W $700.00
Catherine MACDONALD "darkness within" - cabinet 2015 550mm H x 335mm W x 335mm D $600.00
Catherine MACDONALD "night flyers" - lamp 2015 235mm H x 235 Dia $450.00
Catherine MACDONALD "pests & weeds" - lamp 2015 340mm H x 240mm Dia $450.00
Catherine MACDONALD detail of chair
Catherine MACDONALD - instalation shot

Gary Currin

Gary CURRIN "Salvage #IV" 2012 oil on tin, varnished 610mm x 1040mm $2,500.00
Gary CURRIN "In The Forgotten Calendars" 2015 (in 9 parts) oil on tin, varnished 600mm x 700mm $2,500.00

David Murray

David MURRAY "Clear Cast Glass" 2015 - 430mm H x 230mm Dia $7,850.00
David MURRAY "Purple Cast Glass" 2015 - 430mm H x 230mm Dia $7,600.00

Rachael Garland - I'll Come Following You

20th November - 13th December 2015

"Mysterious people, creatures and patterns emerge from the shadows in the latest exhibition from Whanganui artist Rachael Garland.

At first glance the works - paint on wood panels - appear to be layers of dark paint and muted patterns. However, a closer look reveals painted faces and creatures swimming in and out of view. The works were made by layering paint, sanding it back and layering more paint. She used wood stain, sandpaper, paint stripper, wallpaper and house paint to create the works.

"It was more like a building project than a piece of art," Ms Garland said.


Anne-Marie McDonald, Wanganui Chronicle Satuday 5th December 2015
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The Winter of Listening $5000 as one work
Title Painted Under My Eyelids (9 panels) panels 1- 5 note 1 & 2 Rachael's parents not for sale 3-5 priced $1500 each panel
Painted Under My Eyelids (9 panels) panels 6 - 9 priced $1500 each panel
The Trouble You Took From Their Eyes (9 panels) panels 3 - 5 priced $1500 each panel
The Trouble You Took From Their Eyes (9 panels) panels 6 - 9 priced $1500 each panel

The ideas behind the exhibition are equally layered. The works are Ms Garland's submission for her Masters of Maori Visual Art at Te Putahi-a-toi, Massey University.

As a Pakeha doing a Maori-focused course, Ms Garland found herself challenged in ways she hadn't expected.

"Being the only Pakeha [on the course] it was way out of my comfort zone. I was confronted with my own ignorance; it meant I had to do more research.

"And it meant that I wasn't confident in my work for the first time in a long time."


During her two years of study Ms Garland had to delve into her own family history and New Zealand history.
"I was trying to find connections, trying to find where I belong."

There are references to European architecture, visual culture, mythology, Victorian mourning rituals and family stories. The works are displayed like Maori tukutuku panels.

"The more I delved into my family history, the more I found ancestors stepping out of the shadows. That's what I was trying to show visually with these works," she said. Ms Garland studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Whanganui UCOL and spent 10 years as a working artist before enrolling in a Masters.

Anne-Marie McDonald, Wanganui Chronicle Satuday 5th December 2015


Philip Trusttum & Ross Mitchel-Anyon - Blink of an Eye
 
6th September – 15th November
2015


Philip Trusttum

Philip TRUSSTUM "NOT GOOD" H2490 x W900 $15,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "AGAIN" H1760 x W1840 $25,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "HAPPY HAPPY" H3000 x W1860 $25,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "SOMEBODY'S SONS" H2600 x W2870 $30,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "HERE WE ARE" H1910 x W2100 $20,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "FOUR" H1020 x W800 $4,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "LISTEN HERE" H800 x W740 $4,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "UP THERE" H2400 x W900 $10,000.00
Philip TRUSSTUM "SIX" H1300 x W1000 $5,000.00
2014 was a watershed year for Philip Trusttum. Trusttum’s life and painting routine was shattered by the two devastating earthquakes. The first in September 2011 caused considerable damage to their family home but repairs were completed by year’s end, only to have the home written off by the February 2012 quake that devastated Christchurch. Trusttum’s studio survived but that was quickly converted into their ‘new’ home.

To keep his artmaking and himself alive he began filling blank trade aid books with drawings fed first by delving into the strange world invented by Hieronymus Bosch and then enriched by Trusttum’s imagination and deft hand. By late 2013 the need to change scale had become obvious and a breakthrough with bureaucracy saw at the end of 2013 a new studio and painting store begin to take shape on the front of their section. By March Trusttum was back painting – first looking close to home at the workmen attending to the fractured roads and services in the streets nearby but soon the impact of the devastating atrocities taking place world-wide and in particular in the middle east.

He first created figures as fighting machines distanced by camouflaging and masking the perpetrators and then in the midst TV’s obsessive coverage of the ISUS be-headings he confronted that head-on making three remarkable works of the moments the cameras denied us.  In the repose of death the fear transposes to the perpetrator of death – responsibility now rests on his shoulders.

In the Front Gallery I gathered the ISUS paintings by Philip Trusstum with a title IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. I guess it comes as a stark reminder that abrupt change is how our existence so often does play out. And it was with our collective shock of recent local moment that so drastically impacted Ross Mitchell-Anyon and his family that lead me to feel just how relevant and significance each moment is, and the enormity of change just one can bring. It can impact many like in Christchurch, it can horrify the world when a life is brutally taken before our eyes, yet a town can be wiped out without the world hardly knowing.

I am so very grateful to Ross and Bobbie for letting me include this selection of works by Ross within the context of this exhibition. And that Ross is making his way back from the brink is both remarkable and wonderful.      

Ross Mitchell-Anyon

Anna Rutherford (and friends) - 'Remembering Anna'

Opening 7th August 2015 till 23rd August 2015


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Anna Rutherford died quite quickly on 7th August 2014 after a year’s struggle with cancer, retaining her vital personality and optimism to the end.

It had been the good fortune of this gallery to be the catalyst for Anna and her husband Ron to move from Ohakune to Whanganui in 2008. Anna had late in 2007 approached me to test my interest in exhibiting and selling a number of early to mid-19th century French gouache floral fabric designs that she had purchased and had framed. From the collection of French silk weaving house Bianchini Ferier these designs were by Robert Bonfils (signed) and probably Raoul Dufy. They were exquisite and I did not hesitate setting a date for showing them in April 2008.

Anna and Ron quickly became close friends with my wife Raewyne and I, and Anna’s keen interest in art, people and what was happening in the town made her a lively addition within this community and the art community in particular. Anna was keen to grow her artistic skills and made work for group exhibitions at WHMilbank Gallery and successfully entered work in the Sarjeant Gallery Annual Arts Review.  She joined the Sarjeant ‘Front of House’ team and her great enthusiasm and caring interest in visitors widened art interests and the circle that delighted in her colourful presence.

Months before she died Anna and I began planning the bones of this exhibition but her sudden departure pre-empted that, so now a year later I have fleshed it out in four parts. First a small selection of the Bianchini Ferier designs that brought Anna and this Gallery together provides an introduction to a selection of her brightly coloured oil pastels and acrylics. To stand alongside of Anna I have invited some of her closer artist friends to place an appropriate work on our walls. Finally Raewyne, Ron and I have gathered a small selection of photographs that chronicle friendships, mutual passions and the vibrancy of her all too short Whanganui years.

Most of the work is for sale at realistic prices as Ron is keen for those interested to share in the experience of Anna.



Anna RUTHERFORD - 'ROSETTA' $600
Anna RUTHERFORD - "VASE OF FLOWERS #2" Private Collection
Anna RUTHERFORD - "VASE OF FLOWERS #1" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD - "UNTITLED GREEN POT" $300
Anna RUTHERFORD - "UNTITLED FLOWERS IN POT" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD - "UNTITLED FLOWERS" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD "UNTITLED #3 '06" SOLD
Anna RUTHERFORD "ROSIE'S DRAWING ROOM #2" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD - "UNTITLED #1" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD - "UNTITLED - TOWER" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD "STILL LIFE - IRIS" Private Collection
Anna RUTHERFORD - "ROSIE'S DRAWING ROOM" SOLD
Anna RUTHERFORD - "OBJECTS FROM THE SHED" Private Collection
Anna RUTHERFORD - "GARDEN VIEW" $600
Anna RUTHERFORD - "COUCH AT THE SHED" Private Collection
Anna RUTHERFORD - "BROWN EYED COLLEEN" Private Collection

Guest Artists

Rachael GARLAND "Te Po Tango Tango" 2012 Acrylic 570mm x 500mm Frame $450
Richard WOTTON "Shrine Loreta ITALY" 1988 Photograph 570mm x 450mm Frame $2,500.00
Emma CUNNINGHAM "Little Deer" Oil & gold leaf on Hessian 200mm x 300mm Frame $300
Paul RAYNER "Richard Parker Vessel" w/c 500mm x 370mm Frame $450
Russell BROWN "Kahu & the Giant" Acrylic and dye transfer 600mm x 370mm $600
Ang TIER "Masked Mourning" 2015 photograph ​on ​Archival paper 290mm x 220mm $150
Craig WINTON - Jewelry left: Black onyx, square top sterling silver earrings $160 Centre back: Black onyx necklace, mother of pearl, pink tourmaline, silver& gold $1025.00 Centre front: Green tourmaline pearl ring, sterling silver and gold $650.00 Right front: Sterling silver cuff - roll printed and raised $700.


Tia Huia Ranginui
- 'The Intellectual Wealth of a SAVAGE Mind'

An exhibition of photographic works

3rd July 2015 - 2nd August 2015


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A Savage Artists Statement

Often the bad joke of ethnographic ideology Maori are frequently portrayed, in popular art and contemporary imagery, either as ‘piupiu’ wearing performers, staged characters with happy go lucky expressions or ... static characters, often posed with inappropriate props, and the blank expressions of a hyper native [noble savage].

My work is an inversion of our own cultural identity in image and art. A juxtaposition of local cultural iconography with historical contemporary narrative and character portraiture. An insight into the intellectual ‘strength’ of a Savage.

Tia Huia Ranginui



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"POWER" Tia Huia RANGINUI archival digital print framed 1m x 55cm
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"WEALTH" Tia Huia RANGINUI archival digital print framed 1m x 55cm
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"POVERTY" Tia Huia RANGINUI archival digital print framed 1m x 55cm
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"PROPERTY" Tia Huia RANGINUI archival digital print framed 1m x 55cm
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"DEATH" Tia Huia RANGINUI archival digital print framed 1m x 55cm
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"POISONING" Tia Huia RANGINUI Still from a cinemagraph gif video

SOLDIER BOY Photographs by Janet GRUBNER
25th April 2015 till 1st June 2015

A chapter of a story:
POETRY IN STONE

He has maintained a lonely vigil for the past 90 years, atop the obelisk,
calmly surveying the city of Whanganui and its awa.

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"Soldier Boy"


"Soldier Boy, lonely boy, standing there
all on your own
atop an obelisk made of stone.
Long have gone the fallen tears
with the passing of the years.
It has fallen on your head

to represent the fallen dead.
A farmer boy were you

before

death proclaimed you hero
of a war.


(From the poem) by:
Rowley Habib (Rore Hapipi) 16/4/2015




"Soldier Boy" is Janet Grubner’s first solo exhibition, shaped in response to a recent invitation to exhibit with the WHMilbank Gallery, located in close proximity to the monument dedicated to all Maori casualties of the First World War, in Pakaitore [Moutoa Gardens]. These 16 photographs are an astutely edited selection from the work made during countless return visits to the monument over the past eight years.

The statue itself, at the top of the monument's obelisk, and modelled on Herewini Wakarua, who served with A company of the first New Zealand Maori Contingent at Gallipoli, has great presence, which made him compelling for the artist, " the first time I came upon him, August 5 2007, 7.30 am, he was surrounded by an intense slate-grey fog, and within the first few seconds I knew 'I was in', and the project began".

The making of the photographs has been inspired by a respect for what the monument and statue represents, and by the stark solitude of the statue.

 In this artists practise, she would probably quote the great Henri Cartier-Bresson "photographs take me not the other way round". Her photography is less to do with camera dexterity, more to do with receptivity.

"Simplicity is the hardest thing, and simplicity is perfection.  'Soldier Boy' is a wonderful encounter with poetry in stone"

Janet Grubner presently lives in Whanganui, where she is based for family reasons. 

Selected works


Soldier Boy #8 November 2007 330 x250 mm [image size]Unframed $950.00 eight available
Soldier Boy And Half Moon 8 December 2008 740 x 470 mm [frame size] Framed $1950.00 unframed $1750.00 Five available.
Soldier Boy With Song Bird. October 2007 70 x 555 mm [frame size] Framed $1950.00 unframed $1750.00 seven available.
Soldier Boy #16 {SongThrush/Grace Note 4 July 2009 270 x 180mm [image size] Unframed $375.00 Nineteen available.

Exhibition installation.

GAME, SET & MATCH Philip TRUSTTUM 
12th July 2014 to the 31st March 2015

An exhibition from Philip Trusttum's 'Tennis Series' is now open at WHMilbank Gallery and runs in the Trusttum Room till the end of October. 
Philip TRUSTTUM Untitled "Tennis Series" 1994 in 3 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 1350mm $7,500.00
Philip TRUSTTUM Untitled "Tennis Series" 1994 in 5 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 1080mm $6,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM "Game On" Tennis Series 4/6.6.1994 in 8 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 3050mm $18,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM "White Net" Tennis Series 1994 in 5 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 1600mm $12,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM Untitled "Tennis Series" 1994 in 2 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 890mm $4,500.00
Philip TRUSTTUM Untitled " Early Tennis Series" 1991 reworked 2001, acrylic on canvas 1920mm x 800mm $6,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM "William with Racket" 2004, acrylic on canvas 2200mm x 1800mm $30,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM "Light Touch" Tennis Series 1994 in 5 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 1600mm $12,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM "Marking Out" 1983, mixed media 1800mm x 2400mm $24,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM Untitled "Tennis Series" 1994 in 5 parts, acrylic on canvas 1800mm x 1240mm $8,000.00
Philip TRUSTTUM Untitled "Tennis Series" 1993 in 3 parts, acrylic on canvas 2100mm x 4000mm $10,000.00

THE RIVER GOBLIN "Te Awa Tupua" A Super Wairua Production
7th March 2015 to the 26th April 2015

PicturePosters A1 $50 A2 $30 A3 $10
The Legend Begins "THE RIVER GOBLIN" an exhibition of Whanganui's leading contemporary Maori artists.

Isiaha BARLOW
Tia Huia RANGINUI
Aaron TE RANGIAO
Sonny BARLOW


Together these artists bring their voices to the Pākaitore commemorations with a current critique of the Te Awa Tupua River Settlement deal 2015 and ongoing currents...

Five Super Wairua characters struggle "Te Awa Tupua" (The River Goblin) as a malignant entity representing - greed, lust and envy.

The show includes individual character posters, a battle scene graphic and a stop motion video comentary centred around a three dimentional representation of the River Goblin.

As you enter this exhibition be sure to ask the real life hero Mahuruhuru (Bill Milbank) to share insights.


The Battle Scene (removing the gold) 100h x 420w $500 digital print with perspex frame
1200h x 600w $300 digital print with perspex frame
1200h x 600w $300 digital print with perspex frame
1200h x 600w $300 digital print with perspex frame
1200h x 600w $300 digital print with perspex frame
1200h x 600w $300 digital print with perspex frame
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Each of the five pieces is 1200h x 600w and may be purchased for $300 - digital print with perspex frame.
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Five Super Wairua characters including Te Mahuruhuru (Bill)
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