Elizabeth Faye Riach, “Red Flags,” oil on canvas, 2025.
Art as a way of living — urgent, embodied, essential.
This exhibition gathers 11 local artists whose practices are driven by daily insistence, vital compulsion, or outright obsession. These are the works that keep them up at night: pieces pulled from the depths and heights of emotion.
Across painting, sculpture, woodcut, moving image and textile works, the show traces the continual reworking of ideas an artist can’t let go of — art as wild instinct, immersion and intensity. Some seek to capture or confront childhood memories; others to lean on whānau for artistic inspiration. Still others strive to find an authentic voice amid the overwhelming flood of mediatised images.
Eastside artists include: Anton Zamorkin, Deanna Morgan, Elizabeth Faye, Judy Rogers, Laurie Roodt, Nicholas Williamson, Nina Cook, Tom McCone and Xinran Yu.
Mini artists include: George Bassett-Smith and Olivia Mercer.
All welcome, free parking onsite.
31 March – 24 April 2026 at Eastside Gallery.
Note: 2026 openings have shifted to Tuesdays.