Gus Fisher Gallery - Dreaming from afar

The exhibition includes a new suite of paintings by Mumbai-born artist brunelle dias made following her travels in Europe. Through a decentering of the figure, Dias renders observations of deceptively familiar scenes from elsewhere with those known to her to blur perceptions of origin and place.

Melbourne-based artist Gian Manik complicates notions of native and foreign, local and global, self and other, in new paintings that address his interest in the dialectics of Orientalism and queerness.

Tyrone Te Waa (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) probes the relationship between Te-whenua-moemoeā (the dreamscape) and Te-ao-kikokiko (the physical world) through painting. Referencing the mattress storage room often found in a wharenui, Te Waa translates memories of dreams onto bed sheets evoking collective sleeping and dreaming in the safety of the marae. Also, Rangi White (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) presents a major new commission as part of The Changing Room 2026.

Other Events

Film Screening: Worlding and Unworlding: living with whenua through video art, a screening programme curated by Noel Meek for Circuit Artist Moving Image. Saturday 14 March, time TBC.