Melanie Roger Gallery

29/05/2026

27/05/2026

CAN YOU HELP?

As a local Karangahape business owner and as a board member for the Karangahape Business Association, I am joining the 2026 Big Sleep Out to support the work Lifewise does in the community.

Melanie Roger Gallery has been on Karangahape Rd around eight years now. I have seen the extreme rise of homelessness and hardship over the past few years. It’s in the news and we can’t avoid it.

Lifewise are our neighbours directly opposite where they run Merge Cafe and we see too the great work they do in and for the community - through housing, meals and more general support for people who need it. The Big Sleep Out is a chance for me to try to help them to help in the community.

Please sponsor me if you are able to - no donation is too small and every little bit helps and is much appreciated. Link here - https://bigsleepout.org.nz/melanie-roger?edit=1

Ngā mihi,
Melanie

Portrait photo by Derek Henderson
Artwork by Georgia Arnold

24/05/2026

Rangi Kipa introducing his work shown with us recently at Aotearoa Art Fair

Thanks Current Art Magazine

Rangi Kipa discusses a new body of work presented by Melanie Roger ...

24/05/2026

A new exhibition coming soon to Te Papa and including contemporary mahi by Rangi Kipa.

To enquire about work by Rangi Kipa: [email protected]

Major showcase in Wellington will be the first time many of the taonga have been publicly displayed.

20/05/2026

Selected works by Simon Endres are in our current exhibition "Dark Matter" till 6 June.

These works were previously exhibited in “First Person (HardBoiled)” (2025) where Endres transformed a flood-damaged house in Ponsonby, Auckland, into a site-specific exhibition of life-sized sculptural figures, objects, and sound. Drawing on Māori and Pacific notions of community, ancestry, and spiritual presence, the work combined humour and theatricality to explore trauma, resilience, and multiplicity of self.

Read and listen to Mark Emery's piece on this project online here . To enquire about works by Simon Endres: [email protected]

A collection of "anxious misfits" created by artist Simon Endres has taken up residence in a vacant Tawariki Street rental property this month.

19/05/2026

Tessa Laird has new and recent work in "A velvet ant, a flower and a bird" at the Potter Museum of Art in Melbourne Australia. evokes a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant, a flower and a bird. These entities represent a parliament of beings, each carrying symbolic and metaphorical weight that encourage us to reimagine what intelligence means.

Drawing from the University of Melbourne’s Classics, Biology, and Art collections, alongside new commissions and performances; the exhibition co-mingles historic and contemporary art to envision intelligence as living, continually evolving, interconnected and interdependent.

Guest curated by Professor Dr Chus Martínez, Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland.

A programme of performances, talks and conversations will be held on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 February. Full programme details will be available on the Potter Museum of Art website.

Exhibition artists:
Adrian Mauriks, Agnieszka Polska, Alan Craiger-Smith, Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Alexandra Copeland, Ann Lislegaard, Anouk Tschanz, Anthony Romagnano, Archie Barry, Barbara A Swarbrick, Benjamin Armstrong, Brent Harris, Carol Murphy, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, David Noonan, Derek Tumala, Din Matamoro, Eduardo Navarro, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Harold Munkara, Heather B Swann, Helen Ganalmirriwuy Garrawurra, Helen Maudsley, Ian Wayne Abdullah, Inge King AM, Ingela Ihrman, Jane Jin Kaisen, Joan Jonas, John P**e, Josie Papialuk, Judith Pungkarta Inkamala, Julia Mensch, Kate Daw, Lauren Burrow, Liss Fenwick, Lorraine Jenyns, Malcolm Howie, Margaret Rarru Garrawurra, Marian Tubbs, Mel O’Callaghan, Mia Boe, Miles Howard-Wilks, Nabilah Nordin, Naomi Hobson, Neha Choksi, Noemi Pfister, Noriko Nakamura, Percy Grainger, Pippin Louise Drysdale, Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães, Rosslynd Piggot, Rrikin Burarrwaŋa, Salvador Dalí, Taloi Havini, Tamara Henderson, Teelah George, Tessa Laird, and Tony Warburton.

To enquire about works by Tessa Laird: [email protected]

10/05/2026

Documentation of “Dark Matter” is now online. The exhibition is a group presentation that brings together four contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand – Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy, Simon Endres and Kirsten Roberts - each exploring the gothic and uneasy in their practises.

Gallery hours are now back to normal post Aotearoa Art Fair. We are open Wednesday - Friday 11-4pm and Saturday 11-3pm.

All works can be viewed online with details - www.melanierogergallery.com.
To request a catalogue price list, please DM or email the gallery: [email protected]

Installation photography by Sam Hartnett.

09/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for last night’s opening of “Dark Matter” - a group presentation that brings together four contemporary artists from Aotearoa New Zealand – Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy, Simon Endres and Kirsten Roberts - each exploring the gothic and uneasy in their practises.

Gallery hours are now back to normal post Aotearoa Art Fair. We are open Wednesday - Friday 11-4pm and Saturday 11-3pm.

All works can be viewed online with details. Link in bio. to request a catalogue price list, please DM or email the gallery: [email protected]

07/05/2026

ARTIST PROFILE: Kirsten Roberts

Kirsten Roberts is a contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand artist, based in Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland. Roberts holds a BDes (Hons) 2009 and graduated with Distinction in 2014 with a practice-led MDes from Unitec.

Working largely across painting and printmaking, her practice is shaped by an interest in everyday rituals and forms of modern idolatry. Curious about the unseen aspects of consciousness that emerge through process-led making, ideas of belonging and estrangement are explored through subject and painting techniques that act as entry points into experience and may activate alternative ways of understanding.�
Roberts was recognized in 2007 as runner up in the Wallace Art Awards, 2008 as winner of the Glaistor Ennor Art Award for the top Auckland Art Graduate and in 2013 awarded supreme winner of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award. Roberts’ work has been exhibited in New Zealand and the UK and works are held by the Arts House Trust, Deercourt Trust, Vela Family Trust and in private collections both in New Zealand and overseas.��Kirsten Roberts will exhibit for the first time with Melanie Roger Gallery in "Dark Matter" opening this Friday. All works can be viewed online with details. Link in bio. To enquire: [email protected]

06/05/2026

ARTIST PROFILE: Simon Endres

Simon Endres is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, photography, drawing and sound. Of Ngāpuhi and Pākehā descent, Endres explores identity, cultural narrative, masculinity, and social power structures through humour, theatricality, and critical reflection. He lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), bringing a bicultural and Pacific-informed perspective to his contemporary investigations of self and society. �
Endres graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts (University of Canterbury) in the early 1990s and has exhibited widely in Aotearoa. After spending 21 years in New York working in design and branding, he returned to full-time art-making in 2020, producing work that examines personal and collective identity, social anxiety, and cultural memory. �
His recent installation “First Person (HardBoiled)” (2025) transformed a flood-damaged house in Ponsonby, Auckland, into a site-specific exhibition of life-sized sculptural figures, objects, and sound. Drawing on Māori and Pacific notions of community, ancestry, and spiritual presence, the work combined humour and theatricality to explore trauma, resilience, and multiplicity of self. �
Endres’s practice is materially inventive and conceptually agile, integrating found objects, sculptural figuration, and visual language drawn from Ngāpuhi and wider Māori traditions to investigate how identities and cultural meanings are constructed and contested. He has also contributed to community-focused projects such as the “Niu Dawn” mural on Karangahape Rd, reflecting his commitment to increase the visibility of Pacific People’s narratives and public art. �
Through his multidisciplinary work, Endres continues to explore the intersections of Māori and Pākehā identity, cultural history, and contemporary social experience, using humour, disruption, and performative installation to engage audiences in reflection on self, society, and shared memory.��Simon Endres will exhibit for the first time with Melanie Roger Gallery in "Dark Matter" opening this Friday. All works can be viewed online with details. Link in bio. To enquire: [email protected]