UPCOMING EXHIBITION
October 2nd-1st November
Before Me | Charrette van Eekelen
Van Eekelen contemplates her relationship to local landscapes through materiality and form and considers its inhabitants, past and present.
The cottage is punctuated by a powerful suite of small scale, texture rich paintings. These perform like stations around the walls and work as series. Each, a nocturnal meditation distilling a quiet reverence and introspection one can feel in the safety of a familiar landscape, transformed by night.
The central work for Before Me is a large scale mixed media textile painting, made from carefully curated fabrics and textures. This work is a study of Margaret Stoddart's 1908 watercolour painting, Bushfire at Paraparaumu.
‘I use textiles, knitting, embroidery and paint to explore materiality, memory and a sense of home. In this work, I have been looking at the landscape around me through my own experience, while also imagining what Margaret might have seen from this place before me. Our lives are separated by time, circumstance and experience, yet there is something familiar in the act of looking. She looked at what was before her; I look at what is before me. Across time, we are not so different.’
Charrette van Eekelen.
Before Me opens Saturday October the 3rd at 4pm. All welcome.
Charrette van Eekelen, Sweet Dreams My Darling, 2026
Charrette van Eekelen, Fall of Moondust, 2026
Exhibitions Programme 2026
January: 2nd January–25th January: Print Council Association of New Zealand, Small Print Exhibition.
February: 31st January– 1st March: Anita De Soto, She Does not Fit the Frame.
March: 6th March– 29th March: Kyla Cresswell, Emma Kitson and Kim Lowe, Powhiwhi.
April: 3rd April–26th April: Sarah Rowlands and Wendy Barbour-Clarke, Cycles of Return.
May: 1st May–31st May: Tim Holmes, Stoddart Cottage and its Contemporaries. Threatened by Their Environments.
June: 5th June–28th June: Jane Venis, A Little Bit of Pāua Goes a Long Way.
July: 3rd July–26th July: Lucy Matthews, Common Thread | Marie Celeste Lawrence, The Future Was a Feeling.
August: 1st August–30th August: Lucy Dolan-Kang, Rebecca Smallridge and Tamara Rookes, The Radical Art of Enough.
September: 4th September–27th September: Katharina Jaeger and Shannon Williamson, HOST.
October: 2nd October–1st November: Charrette van Eekelen, Threads of Home: A Journey of Materiality, Landscapes, and Portraits.
November: 6th November–29th November: Ani O’Neill. Stoddart Cottage Gallery Artist in Residence, Ani O'Neill, exhibits artworks made during her March 2026 residency.
December: 4th December–26th December: Artisan’s Exhibition and Sale.
Exhibitions Programme 2027
January: Gavin Bishop (2nd-31st January)
February: Luca Warnock (6th-28th February)
March: Brooke Georgia (6th-28th March)
April: Jacquelyn Greenbank (3rd-25th April)
May: Lisa Banks and Port Levy Group inc Jim Barribeau, Jacqui Gibbs-Chamberlain, Karyn Davis, Maria Lee and Verity Scarlett. (1st-30th May)
June: Layla Rudneva MacKay (5th-27th June)
July: Sage Rossie-Tong (3rd July-1st August)
August: Sam Towse (7th-29th August)
September: Miranda Parkes (4th-26th September)
October: Jeffrey Harris (2nd-31st October)
November: Maurice Lye and Justine Ottey (6th-28th November)
December: Artisans Exhibition and Sale