22/12/25 - Photospace Gallery has closed for the year. We'll re-open on Monday 5th January, but on reduced hours the first week back, 10am to 1pm only.
Thank you for your support and appreciation during 2025. It has been invaluable. See you in 2026.

Andrew Ross recently showed me a number of photographic prints that mostly predate his earliest exhibition work (mid 1990s). I hadn't seen any of the images before, and my immediate reaction was that they needed to be exhibited.

Andrew has reprinted a few of the photos for this show but most are the original prints that he made in his darkroom, or at the commercial photo lab he worked at in the 1990s, Level III Photography owned by Mark Graham. You will see that the photographs are experimental but also show the primary direction and style that Andrew was to adopt and stick with. These photos are from 35mm and medium-format black & white film. After this, Andrew moved up to large format cameras that use 4" x 5" and later 8" x 10" sheet film. 

The exhibition opening is on Thursday evening, 27th November, 5pm-7pm. You're most welcome to come along.
The gallery will close for Christmas and New Year and reopen in early January. I'll let the exhibition run through January but it will be closed on some days due to other commitments. Please check this website photospacegallery.com and the Photospace Gallery Facebook page for updates.

Photospace Gallery has exhibited Andrew Ross' photography since early 1999. Since then he has established a reputation as one of Aotearoa's leading photographic artists. His work is in the collections of Te Papa, The Sarjeant Gallery, Auckland City Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum, the Eastern Southland Gallery, and other public and private collection here and abroad. 

"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