Jhana Millers Art Gallery was established in 2018 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington to showcase compelling and innovative contemporary art and promote emerging local talents. Housed in the listed Mibar Building, fitted with large windows and a concrete ceiling, the gallery provides space for solo and curated group exhibitions.
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The majority of artists represented by Jhana Millers Art Gallery are based in Aotearoa New Zealand. These include Denys Watkins, one of New Zealand's most significant printmakers of his generation and who is also known for his abstract paintings. Younger artists of the gallery’s roster include Ayesha Green, a winner of the 2019 National Contemporary Art Awards and the 2021 Rydal Prize, who deploys repetition and mimicry to interrogate the power of cultural symbols; Claudia Kogachi winner of the New Zealand Painting & Printmaking Award in 2019, who depicts herself and members of her family carrying out everyday and leisure activities, using these to explore interpersonal dynamics and emotional states.; and Erica van Zon, who employs media that is traditionally considered as craft—embroidery, beading, tapestry, and ceramics — to create playful representations deriving from her personal experiences.
Jhana Millers Art Gallery artists engage with various processes and media. Harry Culy captures the quotidian in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in his large-format photographs; Christopher Ulutupu’s videos and performances examine the construction of colonial narratives; Jaime Jenkins’ stoneware pieces expand on the potential for ceramics to be both dense and fragile; Kāryn Taylor creates cast-acrylic, wall-based works depicting geometric abstractions in a study of perception; and Sydney-based Lucy O’Doherty works primarily with oil paint and chalk pastels to make her characteristically soft, dreamlike scenes.
Jhana Millers Art Gallery Exhibitions and Fairs
With a focus on uncovering and supporting young artists in Aotearoa, Jhana Millers has organised such group exhibitions as Fresh 2020/2019, which showed select works by recent art graduates in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the group show In the Right Place? At the Auckland Art Fair 2021 with Harry Culy, Ayesha Green, Will Bennett, Elisabeth Pointon, Tyne Gordon and Lucy O'Doherty.
Jhana Millers Art Gallery participates in Aotearoa Art Fair
