I’m pleased to say that I’ve won the Gordon Harris award at the Waiheke Walker and Hall Art Awards for a second time. Held at the Waiheke Community Art Gallery on Waiheke Island it is an annual art award the paramount winner being worth $10,000. There are four awards in total so thanks are due to the generous sponsors, Walker and Hall, Gordon Harris and The Skin Institute.

Many thanks also to the judge Julia Waite and the Gallery for hosting a memerable evening. Congratulations to the other winners and finalists.

My painting below titled ‘Steel Structures’ will be exhibited with all the works until 30th November. More info on the gallery website here: https://www.waihekeartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/exhibitions/walker-and-hall-waiheke-art-award-2025/

20th February is the date for the opening of my solo exhibition, ‘Unscripted’ at Föenander Galleries in Faraday Street, Parnell, Auckland.

A few of the works can be previewed on their website here.

If you can’t make the opening on the 20th, the exhibition runs until the 10th March.

Tangihua St / Beach Road, oil on board, 40 x 40 cm

A new gallery has opened on the North Shore run by Wendy Harsant. The first show will be ‘Index: small works’which is a cash and carry event. All works are one postcard sized card. Each artist is invited to exhibit 10 works in all. All the best for this new venture.

Photos of the opening are on Artsdiary by Sait Akkirman.

I was honoured to win the Gordon Harris award at the 2023 Walker and Hall Art Awards at the Waiheke Community Art Gallery last weekend.

Many thanks to the Gallery, the sponsors Walker and Hall, Gordon Harris Art Materials and the Cable Bay Vineyard for hosting the Gala dinner. A huge thanks to Lonnie Hutchinson the judge.

Also congratulations to the other award winners and all the artists who made for a wonderful evening.

Foenander Gallery hosted an exhibition of my recent work. ‘New Wave’ in March 2023. The opening was photographed by Sait Akkirman of artsdiary and you can view his photos here.

Photo credit Sait Akkirman of artsdiary

The list of works and text can be viewed at Foenander Gallery.

A review by John Daly-Peoples can be found at his NZ Arts Review website.

‘Post Box’ is part of the exhibition opening on Friday 14th October at the Waiheke Community Arts Centre in Oneroa and the winners will be announced on Saturday 15th.

Photographer Sait Akkirman documented the opening of ‘Outsider’ and his great photographs are on his website Artsdiary.

The opening of ‘Outsider’ is at 6.00 to 8.00pm on Friday 12th March at Föenander Gallery in Mount Eden.

The show represents my new work from the past year and it is my first true solo show at Föenander Galleries. Previously I have exhibited with the sculptor Ramon Robertson or had a joint show with another painter, photographer or printmaker.

Laurence Yep writes, ‘Despite the implication that the outsider is alone or excluded from the majority, the sense of being outside has a familiar ring for many of us. The outsider is a dominant theme in literature & film. Whether historical and contemporary fiction, science fiction, or fantasy, readers – and viewers – experience the magic and wonder in the world that can be found by shifting perspective and seeing things instead as outsiders.’

Yep, L. (2005). The Outsider in Fiction and Fantasy. The English Journal, 94(3), 52-54. doi:10.2307/30046419

Seeing things from the perspective of an outisder resonates with Carter’s reimagining of the everyday, and ordinary things around the city; rubbish bins, buildings ready for demolition, various bits of machinery and so on.  These things are the detritus of city life. Continuing with his search for discovering new ways to see the city as the ‘Flânuer’ – this series sees Carter introduce familiar characters and narratives from literature and cinema.

All are welcome. https://www.foenandergalleries.co.nz/

The opening can extend into Saturday for those that can’t make it on Friday night.

In March 2021 I’ll be having an exhibition of my latest work at Föenander Galleries in Mount Eden, Auckland. More details to follow.

Here is a new video I’ve made using some rather basic recording and editing equipment. Seven minutes long and posted on YouTube: The painting will be available for sale most likely at Föenander Galleries in the near future: https://youtu.be/mGS1aBX7YsI