Tim Melville Gallery

Tim Melville Gallery Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art Auckland, NZ https://lnk.bio/timmelvillegallery/

GLENN HEENAN‘Broken Buddha’2026oil on linen525mm H x 425mm W (frame)DM for catalogueUntil Sat 27 June
19/06/2026

GLENN HEENAN
‘Broken Buddha’
2026
oil on linen
525mm H x 425mm W (frame)

DM for catalogue
Until Sat 27 June

GLENN HEENAN‘Waiting to wait on you’2026oil on linen525mm H x 425mm W (frame)DM for catalogueUntil Sat 27 June
19/06/2026

GLENN HEENAN
‘Waiting to wait on you’
2026
oil on linen
525mm H x 425mm W (frame)

DM for catalogue
Until Sat 27 June

Thank you for coming to the opening of Joe Sheehan’s ‘Line Drawing’ exhibition last Wednesday evening alongside Glenn He...
17/06/2026

Thank you for coming to the opening of Joe Sheehan’s ‘Line Drawing’ exhibition last Wednesday evening alongside Glenn Heenan’s ‘Ice Cream Monday’

It was a very full house 💥
co.nz were with us to capture the vibe - thank you Sait, as ever

Until Saturday June 27
DM for a Catalogue
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GLENN HEENAN is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau whose work explores the zone between realist representation and abstr...
15/06/2026

GLENN HEENAN is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau whose work explores the zone between realist representation and abstraction.

Heenan studied painting at Unitec, Auckland under Richard Fahey. In his final year he was invited by Te Arawa Master Carver Dr Lyonel Grant to assist in painting the kōwhaiwhai for the newly commissioned Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae on Unitec’s campus; a rare opportunity for a Pākehā art student.

“My paintings come from images sourced from the everyday”, he writes, “but I want to disrupt their potential readings […] My aim isn’t to paint a thing. Instead I am always attempting to glimpse and paint the space between a slowed-down moment and something about to occur [ …] The crucial part of my practice is that the painting somehow finds itself, distilled into its own singular statement.”

Writer Becky Hemus suggests that “… the painters Heenan returns to reveal clues in his methodology. In conversation he refers to Jasper Johns, who said that a painting should be not a deliberate statement but a helpless one — what you cannot avoid saying, rather than what you might set out to say.

Heenan, too, is careful to try to remove the ego when painting. Rather than tugging at marks that might be beautiful, or moments that might be technically brilliant, he asks the harder question of whether these elements serve the work as a whole.

When titling his works, Heenan jots down phrases that snag his interest — a mood, a social register, a small absurdity that captures an in-between space that finds its way in. He has little interest in capturing something literally, which is partly why he resists working in series.

But the titles do locate the work in a world of people with bodies and social lives and murky days in their topsy-turvy states.
‘Post Biological Optimism’
‘If It Moves Keep It’
‘Privileged and Protesting’

They are wry and a little sideways, like ice cream on a Monday — an off-schedule pleasure that makes you wonder why you ever waited for the weekend 🍦

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JOE SHEEHAN‘Line Drawing’Tonight 5.30pm 🍷 please join us!DM for Catalogue🙏🏼Stephen Brookbanks + Sam Hartnett
10/06/2026

JOE SHEEHAN

‘Line Drawing’

Tonight 5.30pm 🍷 please join us!

DM for Catalogue

🙏🏼Stephen Brookbanks + Sam Hartnett

JOE SHEEHAN‘Line Drawing’Opening Wed 10th June @ 5.30pmDM for Catalogue
08/06/2026

JOE SHEEHAN

‘Line Drawing’

Opening Wed 10th June @ 5.30pm

DM for Catalogue

Two (amazing) senior NZ artists in the same frame.Today is the second-to-last day of Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s exhibition...
05/06/2026

Two (amazing) senior NZ artists in the same frame.

Today is the second-to-last day of Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s exhibition … and in a beautiful surprise Maureen Lander has been visiting, working on a woven sculpture for our LAND / MARK group show in July.

Looking up from my desk I stole this shot of Maureen with her flame-orange weaving alongside Alberto’s sky-blue ‘Big Bang Space’ on the wall behind.

In another beautiful coincidence I’ve just heard that Alberto was Maureen’s print-making teacher at Elam in the 1980s!

He tohu tērā.

Tomorrow is the final day of Alberto’s ’nothing is finished while I am’.

Joe Sheehan’s ‘Line Drawing’ opens in the Main Gallery next Wednesday.
Glenn Heenan’s ‘Ice Cream Monday’ will open in the Office Gallery the same evening.

Images soon. Please join us!

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ 💙1. ‘Big Bang Space’, 2000, mixed media on canvas, 870mm H x 730mm W2. ‘2012-66’, 2012, mixed med...
04/06/2026

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ 💙

1. ‘Big Bang Space’, 2000, mixed media on canvas, 870mm H x 730mm W

2. ‘2012-66’, 2012, mixed media on canvas, 945mm H x 840mm W

3. ‘Adoneus’ Bed (black-blue)’, 1977, mixed media on canvas gifted t the artist by Colin McCahon, 390mm H x 300mm W, 540mm H x 450mm W (frame)

4. ‘Untitled’, 1993, mixed media on paper, 110mm H x 155mm W, 375mm H x 275mm W (frame)

It was in California, in the late 1960s, that Alberto Garcia-Alvarez began making painted wooden constructions.Over the ...
02/06/2026

It was in California, in the late 1960s, that Alberto Garcia-Alvarez began making painted wooden constructions.

Over the years he has produced more than 100.

Modestly built and casually painted (but finely honed) he describes them as ‘Crossings’.

“The title“, he says, “refers to the intersection points of objects, or to ideas crossing each other. It also refers to the act of crossing: the crossing over an obstacle or a prejudice.”

An exhibition of Crossings was curated by Robert Leonard at City Gallery Wellington in 2015 and was selected from a larger show of constructions from an exhibition at TMG in 2014.

We are pleased to include three ‘crossings’ in our current show, one completed in 2022 (SLIDE 1) and two in 2026 (SLIDES 4 and 12).

The remaining slides show a selection of images from Alberto’s 2014 exhibition at our gallery space in Newmarket.

We hope you can visit ’nothing is finished while I am” before the exhibition closes this Saturday.

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Some photos from Alberto’s recent opening 🍷Thank you .co.nz for the capture 📸
30/05/2026

Some photos from Alberto’s recent opening 🍷

Thank you .co.nz for the capture 📸

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