The Forrester Gallery has a full suite of fresh and exciting exhibitions for the public to enjoy.

Running alongside the Uplifting Art Auction, which is raising funds for a new gallery lift, there is Audrey Baldwin’s THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHING’S FINE, MikiNobu Komatsu’s Classic Aotearoa and Fiona Frew’s Rubbish Bodies.

The exhibitions opened just over a week ago, and collectively offer a variety of mediums, intentions, and aspirations.

Baldwin’s THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHING’S FINE takes aim at ‘grind culture’, internalised capitalism, and the challenges of living within a media-driven society.

She is a Zimbabwe-born, Ōtautahi-based, multidisciplinary artist. Her work is thought-provoking, with playfulness and vibrant colours.

As part of her exhibition, a triple-channel video installation in the gallery’s vault - KPI’s (2023) - offers relatability, expressing common feelings experienced by those caught up in a monotonous corporate grind.

MikiNobu Komatsu’s Classic Aotearoa presents “New Zealand architecture through a photographer’s eye”, he says. 

Komatsu is a lens-based artist living in Sydney, Australia. His works in Classic Aotearoa feature notable land and cityscapes in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Many of the settings captured are no longer there, while others provide connections between place, people, and time. 

The photographs reflect Komatsu’s ability to capture light and shadow to reveal the buildings themselves as the grand protagonists of his imagery.

A piece of work from Fiona Frew's Rubbish Bodies. Photo: Supplied

Rubbish Bodies offers a glimpse into contemporary jewellery artist Fiona Frew’s everyday life in her local Kakanui environment.

She provides a significant body of work that reflects the ‘foreign’ objects found on her daily walks through the area, collaborating with Te Taiao (the natural world). Frew is a multidisciplinary artist working within the realms of photography, installation, and object making.

All four current exhibitions will be showing until September 1, before making way for the well-loved Burns Memorial Exhibition. 

All existing and upcoming events and exhibitions can be viewed on the Forrester Gallery website.