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01/09/2026

There is a kind of recognition that happens before we have time to understand what we are seeing. Something catches the eye so completely that we stop almost involuntarily; the moment before we know why we’ve stopped.

It is this fleeting experience that sits at the heart of Julie Battisti’s ‘There You Are’. The title speaks to that instant of recognition: the unexpected encounter with something that interrupts whatever else has occupied the mind.

The painting brings together an exuberant mix of spring flowers: poppies, parrot tulips, rhododendron, agapanthus, hyacinth, freesias, daffodils, and stocks. Battisti describes it as “loud and quiet at the same time”, with the flowers drawing the eye in different directions while the theatrical lighting brings some forward and allows others to recede.

“I wanted something that would make your eye move, almost that would refuse to settle,” she says, “and I wondered if that movement would keep the viewer still for longer.”

Something is compelling in that contradiction: the eye keeps moving, while we remain still. Perhaps that is the moment Battisti is reaching for; that brief interruption when something catches us before we have decided to look.

Julie Battisti
‘There You Are’
Oil on Linen
1482 x 1465 mm

We welcome you to join the artist and the gallery team for the preview of this exhibition on Thursday, 10 September, from 5.30-7 pm. DM to RSVP.

‘The More Things Change’ will be on view at Parnell Gallery from 10 - 24 September. View all exhibition works via the link in our bio. Please contact the gallery team at [email protected] with any queries.

30/08/2026

In ‘Sense Memory’, Julie Battisti captures the particular tactility of peonies later in their life; their petals beginning to soften at the edges, still holding their shape, but only just. There is something almost instinctive in the way we recognise that sensation: the feel of a petal at the precise point where beauty and fragility meet, when it still holds its form but is beginning to yield to touch.

Compositionally, the copper beech behind the peonies, dark and distinctive, provides a rich counterpoint to the flowers. In painting, white is never simply white, but a reflection of everything around it. Here, the beech pushes the peonies forward, allowing them to take on an almost luminous quality, as though they are emitting their own light.

Touch sits at the heart of the painting. As Battisti describes it, “That specific feeling where the flower is at its most beautiful and its most fragile at exactly the same moment. Your eyes tell your fingers that they know that sensation before you’ve even decided to remember it.” It is involuntary; a moment of recognition that arrives before thought, when the hand knows before the mind has had time to follow.

Flowers have a particular ability to draw us into memory: the ones we choose for ourselves, and those chosen for us, becoming gently entwined with the occasions of our lives. In ‘Sense Memory’, Battisti captures something even more immediate: the physical memory of a petal, recognised before we have consciously remembered it.

Julie Battisti
‘Sense Memory’
Oil on Linen
1250 x 1550 mm

We welcome you to join the artist and the gallery team for the preview of this exhibition on Thursday, 10 September, from 5.30-7 pm. DM to RSVP.

Battisti’s solo exhibition, ‘The More Things Change’, will be on view at Parnell Gallery from 10 - 24 September. View all exhibition works via the link in our bio. Please contact the gallery team at [email protected] with any queries.

26/08/2026

Upcoming Exhibition:
Julie Battisti: 'The More Things Change'' | 10-24 September

In 'The More Things Change', Julie Battisti presents a series of large-scale oil paintings centred on the flower as a subject of profound visual and emotional resonance. Familiar yet transformed through scale, these works invite a renewed encounter with the flower; the sublime intricacy of the painted surface reveals the depth held within a recognisable subject.

Through their expansive scale and exquisite attention to detail, Battisti’s paintings create an enveloping pictorial space in which the familiar is newly perceived. Forms extend across the linen, revealing the subtle interplay between presence and dissolution. What first appears as an arresting depiction gradually unfolds through the magnetism of illuminated passages, shifting surfaces, and the accumulated gestures of paint.

Emerging from carefully composed floral arrangements, Battisti’s paintings transform fleeting natural encounters into enduring studies of light, surface, and material presence. Removed from a specific setting or occasion, the flowers become open to interpretation, allowing space for memory, reflection, and individual response. In 'The More Things Change', the familiar subject of the flower becomes a point of continuity and transformation, revealing how the ways we see, interpret, and experience beauty evolve across time.

Constructed through successive layers of oil on linen, each painting reveals the material language of its making. Visible brushwork moves between passages of opacity and translucence, holding delicacy and strength within the surface. The works embody a relationship between immediacy and duration, where the physical presence of paint carries the trace of its own making.

Across the exhibition, Battisti invites a return to an earthly pace, where perception expands through continued engagement. The familiar flower remains, yet continues to change, revealing new possibilities with each encounter.

We welcome you to join the artist and the gallery team for the preview of this exhibition on Thursday, 10 September, from 5.30-7 pm. DM to RSVP.

'The More Things Change' will be on view at Parnell Gallery from 10 - 24 September. View all exhibition works via the following link -
www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/julie-battisti-2026/

Please contact the gallery team at [email protected] with any queries.

24/08/2026

Anna Stichbury describes herself as a colourist before anything else. A particular hue catches her, often informing how her compositions reveal themselves. From that single pull, a whole direction can follow, sometimes a full body of work growing out of one colour's hold on her.

It's been the constant across every facet of Stichbury's practice, whether abstracted landscapes, seascapes, or visions of flora. Over the many years Parnell Gallery has represented Anna, the colour leads the way.

Anna Stichbury's captivating exhibition 'Open Window' is on view at Parnell Gallery until 3 September.

View all exhibition works via the following link - https://www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/anna-stichbury-2/.

Contact the gallery team at [email protected] with enquiries.

Anna Stichbury Artist

19/08/2026

Anna Stichbury's latest exhibition is installed and on view in the upstairs gallery space. Eighteen paintings, seen together as a complete body of work for the very first time.

There is something about Anna's work that feels particularly well-timed this year. The blooms, the gardens, the colour, all of it carrying the promise of spring before the season has quite arrived.

Tomorrow evening we open the doors for our preview, and we would love to see you there. Join Anna and the Parnell Gallery team on Thursday 20 August, from 5.30 to 7 pm. While an RSVP is not essential, if you would like to register your attendance, send us a DM or email.

Stichbury's solo exhibition, 'Open Window', will be on view until 3 September.

View all works via the following link, or contact the team directly at [email protected]

https://www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/anna-stichbury-2/

16/08/2026

Inverlochy Art School is housed within an historic manor in Aro Valley, Pōneke / Wellington, a place that has nurtured artists for decades.

Long before Anna Stichbury exhibited her work, she first encountered Inverlochy as a teenager, attending evening life drawing sessions after school. The building was rumoured to be haunted, a detail that only added to its allure.

She has returned often since: for classes, events, and more recently, studio sessions shared alongside artist friends. The pull of Inverlochy extends beyond the physical space itself. As Anna reflects:
"The building and its grounds have that lovely, hazy history that I'm so drawn to. The patina of time. You can almost hear the ghosts of the original family living there, going about their day as you paint."

Her home studio is intimate. Inverlochy offers something different: space, movement, and community. Days filled with artists coming and going, a sunlit library for conversation, and moments of pause between making.

The works for Anna’s forthcoming exhibition were photographed at Inverlochy. For those familiar with her practice, the setting offers a new way to encounter them. Works usually held within the familiar surroundings of her home studio are now presented within the high ceilings and layered history of this remarkable place.
We are delighted to share them with you.

Stichbury's exhibition, 'Open Window', will be on view at Parnell Gallery from 20 August–3 September.

View all exhibition works via the link below, or contact the gallery team at [email protected] with any enquiries.

https://www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/anna-stichbury-2/

Join Anna Stichbury and the Parnell Gallery team for the exhibition preview on Thursday, 20 August, from 5.30–7.00 pm. While not essential to RSVP, if you would like to register your attendance, send us a DM or email the gallery.

14/08/2026

'With or Without You' brings together two recurring elements within Anna Stichbury’s practice: flora and water. Here, they meet in a composition that feels both expansive and immersive, with the boundaries between the natural forms above and the water below becoming beautifully fluid.

The work captures Stichbury’s interest in the interplay of colour, reflection and movement, creating a sense of a landscape that is at once familiar and dreamlike. Flora and water appear to mirror and transform one another, inviting the viewer into a world that feels suspended between observation and imagination.

Anna Stichbury
'With or Without You'
Mixed Media on Canvas
1030 × 1030mm

We welcome you to join the artist and gallery team for the preview of Open Window next Thursday, 20 August, from 5.30–7 pm. DM to RSVP.

Anna Stichbury’s solo exhibition, Open Window, will be on view at Parnell Gallery from 20 August – 3 September.

View all exhibition works via the link below, or contact the gallery team at [email protected] with enquiries.

https://www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/anna-stichbury-2/

06/08/2026

Upcoming Exhibition:
Anna Stichbury: 'Open Window'
20 August - 3 September

In her latest exhibition, Anna Stichbury presents a new body of paintings grounded in sensory engagement with memory, nostalgia, and the shifting nature of perception.

Throughout the exhibition, wild abstracted blooms in vibrant hues offer a textural immersion into Stichbury’s vision of the natural world. Gardens in soft, lush greens cradle tactile expressions of floral form, while eruptions of chromatic energy gather across gilded planes; each painting invites luminosity and gentle enchantment.

Stichbury draws on fleeting impressions and fragments of recollection, considering déjà vu and imagined moments through compositions that feel gathered rather than constructed. These paintings hold a softened visual language; forms remain partially resolved, edges left open. This approach reflects an ongoing interest in how experience accumulates over time, not as a fixed image, but as something that shifts and blurs as it returns to mind.

We welcome you to join the artist and gallery staff for the preview of this exhibition on Thursday, 20 August, from 5.30-7 pm. DM to RSVP.

'Open Window' will be on view at Parnell Gallery from 20 August - 3 September. View all exhibition works via the following link -https://www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/anna-stichbury-2/.

Please contact the gallery team at [email protected] with any queries.

04/08/2026

Light doesn’t just pass through these works. It lives within them.

Richard Landers constructs each sculpture through precise geometric forms, layering and laminating recycled architectural glass to explore the relationship between structure, transparency, and light.

Each work reveals a depth of complexity: surfaces that hold and transform light, colours that shift with their surroundings, and spaces that change with every moment of encounter.

Watch how stillness becomes movement. How the light gathers, reflects and refracts. How each sculpture contains an ever-changing dialogue between material, space, and perception.

Explore all available sculptures by Richard Landers via the link in our bio, or visit the gallery to experience the works in person. Our team would be delighted to share more about the artist and his practice.

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