Current Exhibition
Scorched Earth
Opening 12th March 2026 at 5.30 PM
13-27 March
Essay by artist Holly Walker here
Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Will Bennett (b. 1994, Ngāmotu New Plymouth) is a Pākehā artist whose vivid, dreamlike paintings merge histories, mythologies, and personal memory. Drawing on figures from Anglo-Saxon legend and the tuna of Aotearoa’s waterways, his work folds ancestry and place into layered imagery that hovers between the familiar and the otherworldly. Will is a BFA Honours alum of Whiti o Rehua School of Art. His recent exhibitions include Community (Envy, 2023), Fauxktales (Twentysix, 2023), The Bush Points Back (Kingsroy, 2022), and Formations (Webbs, 2024). He was a finalist in the Adam Portrait Award (New Zealand Portrait Gallery, 2014)
Will Bennett
Recent Exhibitions
Te mātauranga o te Pākehā
Opening 26th Feb 2026 at 5 PM
Peter Simpson (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngāti Tamaterā, Pākehā) is a Māori artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. His recent exhibitions include Three Approaches, Three Rooms, Gus Fisher Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau (2024); from elsewhere, with Newell Harry, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, (2024); He Rāwaho, with George Watson, Coastal Signs, Tāmaki Makaurau (2023); Literature’s Arrival to the Pacific, Blue Oyster Project Space, Ōtepoti (2021).
Still image; Painting’s History, Painting’s Future (2024)
Peter Simpson
Read an essay by the artist