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Jhana Millers Gallery, Wellington, presents their fourth solo exhibition with artist Alan Ibell.

Alan Ibell: Ascendants April 20 - May 16 Alan Ibell, Landscape with Three Ascendants II, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 66 x 84.5cm (framed). Courtesy: the artist and Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland.   In Alan Ibell’s new exhibition, the exterior world of landscape and built environment suggests a correlation with the interior worlds of the figures that inhabit it. The looming mountains of the Landscape with Ascendants works invoke a sense of agoraphobia while the brick walls of the Home paintings impose contrasting claustrophobia, sensations in which the viewer is invited to share as they ...

The group plan is simple: for a specific period, members contribute an agreed amount each year to a fund for buying significant pieces of art. A buying committee, chosen from the members, makes the purchases. Coming to the end of its five-year run, Hume’s most recent group is one of the smallest she has been in, with 10 members. They each contribute $500 a year to the buying kitty. AUCKLAND ART FAIR/Supplied The Art Buying Group visits New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewser gallery. Left to right: Judith Lawson, Rosanne Keys, Sarah Hillman, Sue Hornblow, Sarah Kennedy, Julie Mason, Anne Marie O�...

First-time home buyer and entrepreneur Jessie Wong fills her house with locally made art and glass. Jessie Wong picks up the phone from a tent, where she is eating gingernuts for breakfast because the rain is too heavy to venture outside. The 27-year-old founder of luxury bag brand Yu Mei is holidaying with her friends in Hahei. After the holidays she will be returning to her first home, which she bought with partner Jack Fisher, just before Christmas. Their house is a 1904 character villa that sits on a sheltered hill between Oriental Bay and Roseneath, a short 1.3km walk down the waterfron...