Tim Melville Gallery

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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 📸

In the current issue of the recently relaunched writer Dina Jezdic .interpretedd observes that “to write a preview of ...
28/05/2026

In the current issue of the recently relaunched writer Dina Jezdic .interpretedd observes that “to write a preview of [Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s] show is to confront the particularity of a practice that rejects the very idea of the preview.

No new body of work finished in preparation for exhibition.
No theme declared in advance.

Only this: 50 years in the same studio, sunk into the slope of a garden, light flooding in from high windows – and the continuous act of making that happens inside it.”

“All my life is here”, 98-year-old Alberto says, when she asks about the way a work from the 1970s might appear alongside something made last week.

“He means it structurally”, Jezdic explains.

“The experience of a life does not divide itself into periods, does not respect the historian’s desire for chronology, the collector’s desire for series, the critic’s desire for development. […] A canvas begun in one decade may be taken up again in another because the thinking it holds has returned – changed, deepened, made strange by distance.”

“[Garcia-Alvarez’s] paintings and constructions are not solved problems”, Jezdic suggests.

“Not objects to be judged against a standard of beauty or competence. They are, as he has written himself, moments of a life – “this moment or that moment years ago” – presented to a viewer who brings their own accumulated experience to meet them.
The encounter is always a crossing: his interior life and yours, finding each other somewhere in the paint.”

We hope you can visit the show.

Until next Saturday June 6th.

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ‘nothing is finished while I am’until 06 June DM for catalogue
23/05/2026

ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ
‘nothing is finished while I am’
until 06 June
DM for catalogue

Thank you for joining us last night for Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’ “Nothing is finished until I am”.The artist was present!...
14/05/2026

Thank you for joining us last night for Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’ “Nothing is finished until I am”.

The artist was present! 💥

Thank you to photographers .co.nz and for these great memories ♥️

Until Sat 06 June
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Please join us this evening 🍷‘nothing is finished while I am’ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZDM for catalogueWebsite at Link in Bo
13/05/2026

Please join us this evening 🍷

‘nothing is finished while I am’
ALBERTO GARCIA-ALVAREZ

DM for catalogue

Website at Link in Bo

Please join us tomorrow evening from 5.30pm for the opening of “Nothing is finished until I am” - an exhibition of new (...
12/05/2026

Please join us tomorrow evening from 5.30pm for the opening of “Nothing is finished until I am” - an exhibition of new (and old) work by 98-year-old Alberto Garcia-Alvarez.

The artist may be present!

Congratulations to Gaypalani Wanambi (SLIDE 1) who has just been awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne Prize...
08/05/2026

Congratulations to Gaypalani Wanambi (SLIDE 1) who has just been awarded the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Wynne Prize 2026 for her artwork ‘The Wanambi Tree’ (SLIDE 2)

She writes: “This work is about Wuyal, the ancestral honey hunter. Wuyal felled the ancestral Waṉambi tree, causing a river of honey and thus founded the Marrakulu clan homeland at Gurka’wuy.”

I was fortunate to be in Darwin last August at the Telstra NATSIAAs – the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards Awards - when Gaypalani received the main $100,000 Telstra Award for ‘Burwu, blossom’ - a composite etched-metal assemblage realised on a similar scale to her Wynne Prize work (SLIDES 3-5)

She accepted the award on stage with her baby in her arms ♥️ (IMAGE 6)

Working with the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala, Northeast Arnhem Land, Waṉambi is the leading female practitioner within the Found Movement, which was pioneered by her father, the late artist and cultural leader Mr Waṉambi, whom she assisted for many years and whose legacy she continues. 

We are proud to have two works by Gaypalani in our current exhibition, “Unceded”.
Each is on a reclaimed metal road-sign etched with her trademark ‘bee’ motif (IMAGES 7-10)

Final 2 days to view Aboriginal Group show ‘Unceded’💥⭐️🤩DM for catalogue
07/05/2026

Final 2 days to view Aboriginal Group show ‘Unceded’
💥⭐️🤩
DM for catalogue

We changed the booth on Saturday morning and installed a group show of work by Then we de-installed on Sunday e...
06/05/2026

We changed the booth on Saturday morning and installed a group show of work by











Then we de-installed on Sunday evening before treating ourselves to a drink.

The other post-Fair treat was a freshly baked loaf of bread
♥️🙏🏼 … the taste and smell of your secret recipe takes me right back to childhood.

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