Spring Sampler at Starkwhite Queenstown brings together a group of contemporary New Zealand and Australian artists in an exhibition that fills the gallery with sensory experience and colour. Minimalist and exacting colour field paintings by Seung Yul Oh are met by Ani O’Neill’s crochet baby octopi that flee across the gallery wall and disks from her Cottage Industry series. A large work from John Reynold’s Missing Hours series is fluid and painterly, while his ongoing Acronyms, etc… works bridge the verbal and the visual.

Australian artist Jonny Niesche presents his latest seduction in a series of paintings with chromatic fields and prismatic structures that riff on mid-century minimalism with formalism. Fellow Australian Rebecca Baumann presents delicate and minute traces that create gestural colour abstractions where mark making and sensory perception interconnect. Fresh, crisp and deeply set in the conceptual art making that guided his practice for over seven decades, Billy Apple’s screen print from his Forty Years series completes the exhibition with an exceptional art work from one of New Zealand’s most internationally significant artists.