John B. Turner - 'Johnsonville in the 1960s - vintage prints' A selection of vintage silver-gelatin prints by John B. Turner is displayed in gallery room 1. The opening is on Saturday 13th April, 11.30am to 2pm, and the exhibition runs until 4th May, 2024. (John will not be attending the opening.) In 2019 I was involved in curating an exhibition of John's vintage photographs of Johnsonville for a display at Waitohi in Johnsonville  on behalf of Photography Aotearoa. The intention was to show vintage prints from this set of photographs at Photospace during the run of  'A Walk Down J ..read more

Mary Hutchinson 'Digital' poster, Photospace Gallery 13 April-4 May 2024 'Digital' opens on Saturday 13th April, 11.30am-2pm in gallery room 1 along with vintage photographs of Johnsonville in the 1960s by John  B. Turner. Both exhibitions run till 4th May 2024.  'Digital' - Mary Hutchinson   "Human hands and feet, with their tones, textures and associated adornments, are recurring themes in my street photography. The variety of interacting gestures, skin surfaces, jewellery, body art, clothing, and objects such as bags, toys, and pets, which we carry around with us in public ..read more

Photo: Pascal Harris, from 'Tokyo, July 4, 2023' series I went to a show in Toyko last year. One of my friends was showing his photos. He'd made a photobook to go along with them. I liked this idea, so I determined that I would make a photobook too. I only had about a week left, then I had to return to NZ before my visa ran out. So, one day, I decided that I would take as many good photos as I could and make this into a photobook. This is that day. I was staying in a place called Nakano-Shimbashi, which is where I had my first job teaching English many years ago. I hadn't bee ..read more

1st exhibition opening at Photospace Gallery, 9/12/1998, for Kerry-Ann Boyle's 'The Mortal Dress'. Photo: Reg Feuz We're marking the occasion of the gallery's 25th birthday on 9th December 2023 from 12 noon till 2pm, cutting the cake at 1pm. There is a display of laser-copied photos from the history of the gallery showing in room 3. I'd like to acknowledge here the support the gallery has received from so many people, recently and over its quarter-century of existence. In particular, my wife Denise Durkin; Mark Marriott - who literally helped build the place, and for his solid ten-plus year ..read more

'The Supreme Court of New Zealand' - photograph by Thomas Slade from his exhibition 'Growing up in Silence' 'Growing up in Silence' opens on Friday 1 December at 5pm and runs until 27 January, 2024. The gallery will be closed over the Christmas-New Year period but viewing by appointment will be available on some days. The gallery website will have the dates on it in due course. 'Growing up in Silence' is Thomas Slade's second solo exhibition at Photospace Gallery, after 'What Brings You Here?' in 2017. He curated the exhibition 'Four x Five x Six' in 2018. Artist and exhibition info to com ..read more

'New Mythologies' - Ethan Kennedy, Hayley Kilgour, Lucy Pahina, Samuel Scully, 17-24 Oct. 2023 at Photospace Gallery, Wgtn NZ 'New Mythologies' continues Photospace Gallery's run of group exhibitions by select graduate students from Massey University's photography degree programme. The exhibition is only showing from Tuesday 17th to Tuesday 24th October, and will be closed on Sunday and Monday (Labour Day). Ethan Kennedy's video installation is in Gallery Room 3. Samuel Scully, Lucy Pahina and Hayley Kilgour,'s photographs are shown in Gallery Room 1. Untitled (boy in camo), photograph ..read more

'Where Music is Made' - Andrew Ross, 27 Oct-25 Nov 2023, Photospace Gallery, Wellington This exhibition by Andrew Ross was shown at The Pyramid Club, Taranaki St, Wellington in August this year, but a gap in the Photospace Gallery exhibition schedule came up so we thought it would be worthwhile to show 'Where Music is Made' so that more people can see the photos. The photos in this exhibition date from the 1990s to 2023. There was an article by Thomasin Sleigh - 'Background Spaces Revealed' - in The Dominion Post, Sat. 26/8/23 but it isn't online anywhere so I've scanned the text and added ..read more

'Habetebel' poster, Clayton Morgan, Photospace Gallery 16 Sept-7 Oct, 2023. Image: '8.456e-18ly' Project Statement: Habetebel is a photographic project that explores the relationship between the historic Apollo 14 mission to the Moon and the new era of space exploration underway. The project draws attention to the growing influence of commercial spaceflight as a way to highlight the often conflicting views on the future of space exploration. Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell had two very significant and different experiences during their mission to the Moon. While Shepar ..read more

'End Of Decade - 1979' exhibition and book poster, Colin W. Anstis 'End of Decade - 1979' opens in Room 3 of Photospace Gallery on Friday 11th August, 5pm-7pm. You are most welcome to attend. (Alannah Gunter's exhibition 'Travelling Light' is also opening in Gallery Room 1.) Colin's exhibition includes A2-sized archival pigment prints of 11 of the photos from his book of the same title. Copies of the book are available for $45.00 - payment by Eftpos, Paywave, Visa, Mastercard. Photographer's statement: The origins of my exhibition have their foundation in my book " End of Decade 1979" being ..read more

Alannah Gunter 'Travelling Light' exhibition poster, Photospace Gallery, 11 Aug-9 Sept 2023 Travelling Light - artist's statement The digital interconnection of the world has effectively erased geographical barriers, as a virtual map of webcams allows us to connect in real-time with remote, yet carefully framed, landscapes. For over a decade, my art practice has delved into the spatial and temporal poetics of remote, networked cameras, primarily through photomedia and live-streaming video installations. These artworks reflect upon the transportive capabilities of outdoor cameras, not only ..read more