"3 Blokes Show Up" runs at Photospace Gallery from 7th-15th November.
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Saturdays 11am-2pm. Closed Sundays.
Photographs by Chris Coad and Dean Zillwood are for sale, framed, open edition.

Dean Zillwood
Nature’s diversity is full of perfect imperfections; shells are a great example, each unique in pattern, colour and form, and once home to living creatures. Nature is the ultimate designer, creating beauty with purpose and inspiring humans through biomimicry in art, architecture and technology.
Spirals found in shells, galaxies and DNA reveal how nature optimises growth and energy. These patterns have inspired innovations from efficient city layouts to aerodynamic designs.
Shells, ancient and resilient, have existed for over 500 million years, used by humans for art, tools and adornment. Through these images, I celebrate nature’s ingenuity and remind us to care for this life force that sustains us.
46 x 46cm framed pigment prints, each $485.00
Top row, left to right
Silver Paua - Haliotis australis
Emerald Green Tree Snail (Yellow Morph) - Papustyla pulcherrima
Emerald Green Tree Snail (Manus Green Tree Snail) - Papustyla pulcherrima
Cake Urchin - Fellaster zelandiae
Houghton Bay, Sunset 1
Bottom row, left to right
Kina, Sea Urchin - Evechinus chloroticus
Paper Nautilus - Agonauta
Pacific Sea Urchin - Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Mole Cowrie -  Cypraea Talpa
Houghton Bay, Sunset 2
 
Special thanks to Oliver Zalava--Picaflor Fine Art Printing, Judy Hutt-- The Island Bay Marine Education Centre, James Gilberd--Photospace Gallery. 

Mike Clare
 
Mike's images are inspired by the posters of Hollywood and Spaghetti Western movies. Photographed at shooting ranges across Aotearoa, these are competitors in the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting. Each shooter must have period-appropriate clothing, accessories, and firearms, as well as a suitable alias for the score sheet. 
This is part of an ongoing series. 
 
Photographs are 500mm x 700mm inkjet prints. Not for sale.
 
Hick, Whanganui Range
Calamity Kate, Kaitoke Range
Outlaw, Gladstone County
Cowpat, Gladstone County
Young Phil, Purgatorie Range, Palmerston North
Big Sal, Taupō Range 
Uncle Buck, Whanganui Range.

Chris Coad

This body of personal work explores New Zealand’s distinctive architectural elements by extracting buildings or structures from their usual surroundings and reimagining them in entirely new environments. Each image captures these architectural features—often subtle or overlooked in their native context—and digitally places them into settings where they take centre stage. The transformation shifts the viewer’s perception, highlighting the design’s significance and aesthetic qualities. The outcomes vary from seamlessly fitting into their new scenes to entering the realm of surrealism, challenging traditional notions of place and architecture.
 
Photographs: all archival pigment prints, open edition, priced framed.
Cafe, Greymouth                                                                     $590.00
Dairy, Island Bay                                                                      $690.00
Nissen Hut, Rongotai                                                            $590.00
Caravan, Rangipo Desert                                                     $490.00
Lorne Street, Te Aro                                                               $490.00
Thorndon houses                                                                     $490.00
Art deco house, Whanganui                                                 $490.00
Cinema, Whanganui                                                                $690.00

'Don’t Look Down' is a collection of photographs by three of Photospace Gallery’s regular contributors; Gillian Eva Boyd (Gil Eva Craig in past exhibitions), John Williams, and James Gilberd. The group exhibition concentrates on subjects found by pointing the camera downwards. Often these images are of the mundane, the obscure, of things simply left behind, overlooked and forgotten.

Utilising a range of technologies from cellphone cameras and laser prints to medium format digital and high end inkjet prints, these images are playful, quirky, fun and often beautiful.

'Dont Look Down' opens on Saturday, 20th September, 11am-1.30pm. You are most welcome to come along. 
The exhibition runs until Saturday 11th October, 2025.
Gallery hours Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Saturdays 11am-2pm, closed Sundays and public holidays.

Gillian Eva Boyd (aka Gil Eva Craig)

Gillian  first started photography in the late 80’s, originally  as an adjunct to painting, but it soon became her primary medium. She refined her photographic and artist practice parallel to her career as a sound designer, composer and audio engineer.

Her first exhibition was  in January 2013 at Photospace as part of a group show called 17 Projects. She has since been part of 10 group shows and has had two solo exhibitions.  Gillian's work has been shown in Auckland, Wellington, Japan and in online exhibitions. 

She also produces her own photographic prints and has printed many exhibitions for other photographers. Gillian lives in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Don’t Look Down - Photographs by John Williams

The purchase of a new cellphone just before I travelled to India in 2015 was the beginning of these images. It’s not that these images are technology driven but rather that the new technology allowed me to make images of things I wouldn’t normally photograph. I could now photograph the small oddities of life that although I may have noticed previously, I may not have made a photograph of. Many of these small, humorous and mundane scenes just happened to be things that I found lying on the ground, so I began pointing the camera downwards more often.

This was something I became even more conscious of during the Covid 19 pandemic, something of a boon time for things found on the ground. With masks, lines, vinyl gloves and X’s littering the footpaths, beaches and gutters. The ephemera of a pandemic was a rich source of subject matter and the medical nature of a pandemic seemed to lend itself to the near forensic nature of photographing things on the ground, discarded and left behind. As usual a tension or a dance between art and documentary exists in these images. Am I  drawn to making a beautiful image of something or simply recording it? Indeed, are those desires mutually exclusive?

John Williams is a photographer and photographic educator who trained initially at Wellington Polytechnic and then Massey University Wellington. He holds Bachelor of Design (Hons) and Master of Education (Adult Education) degrees.

John’s work displays a strong commitment to the documentary tradition and he has exhibited regularly in Wellington and other centres over the past twenty years.

He is a longstanding contributor to the educational programme at Photospace Gallery and the Wellington High School Community Education Centre as well as having taught at a number of tertiary institutions.

James Gilberd

My contribution to 'Don't Look Down' comprises colour laser prints of photos taken with my cellphone, mostly between Photospace and where I park my car, so Courtenay Place/Majoribanks St/Hawker St over the last few years. There's a smattering of photos from other locations, too.
Someone said, 'The best camera to use is the one you have with you.' I've found that even fairly average cellphones (like my $500 Oppo) have sufficiently good cameras to render detail well, and they have the advantage of good close-up focus. I mostly use a phone for personal projects these days as using a 'proper' camera brings me too close to my day job.

James owns and has run Photospace Gallery since 1998 and only occasionally exhibits his personal photography work. He works as a professional photographer and plays drums in several local bands. Instagram: jamesgilberd_photospacegallery  and silverbadgerdrums

The photobook 'Incidentaloma' is available from Photospace Gallery for $NZ20.00
15x21cm, 38 pages, softcover. 100 only printed.

Mark Beehre has exhibited his photographic work at Photospace Gallery in solo and group shows since 2005. 'Incidentaloma' includes photographs by Mark, John Williams, Ross Scott, and an unidentified photographer. The exhibition opens at 5pm on Thursday 17th July and runs until 15th August, 2025 (extended).

Incidentaloma - curator's statement
 
"In medicine, an ‘incidentaloma’ is an unexpected finding on a scan done for some quite unrelated reason, small nodules that are usually nothing but need follow-up to make sure they don’t turn out to be cancerous. One day in the spring of 2010 when I got off my bike after cycling home my right thumb turned white, cold and painful. This was the third time that week, and the doctor in the Emergency Department suggested a CT scan of the aorta to see if there was anything there that might be causing clots to fly off and land in my thumb. There wasn’t, but what the scan did show was a small lesion, less than a centimetre, in the middle lobe of my right lung: an incidentaloma.
 
"‘It’s a scrappy little thing,’ said the respiratory colleague whom I consulted, but after the 18-month follow-up scan he was less sanguine. ‘This thing’s grown,’ he said in his mellifluous Welsh accent. ‘You’ll have to have it out.’ The surgeon I saw recommended a wedge resection, removing just enough lung to get rid of the lesion. Eleven days later my partner Ross and I sat in his office as he passed the pathologist’s report across the desk. ‘Sections of lung show adenocarcinoma … excision appears complete.’ He was kind and earnest in an awkward, schoolboyish sort of way, and later I said to my friends, ‘When I had cancer I didn’t want empathy or bedside manner. I wanted a surgeon with a sharp knife.’ 
 
"To maximise the chance of cure I was advised to go on and have a right middle lobectomy, removing all the part of the lung that had contained the tumour along with the regional lymph nodes. On 11 June 2012 I was back in hospital for this much bigger operation. I documented the whole process photographically. In the ward my friend John Williams and my partner Ross Scott took photographs, and in the operating theatre I gave a camera to the anaesthetic technician to record the surgery itself. The pictures tell the story. "

- Mark Beehre, July 2025