SÉRAPHINE PICK

Séraphine Pick is widely regarded as one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant painters and was recently named a 2025 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate. For more than three decades, Pick has explored the complexities of perception, working through figments of memory and positioning the body as a site of consciousness within her painting practice.

In Twenty 25 Pick presents a new suite of paintings that meditate on the arrival of a moment once imagined as distant and speculative — now realised and charged with presence. Drawing on her continued interest in memory, these works turn towards a complex present, shaped by digital image culture and a pervasive sense of temporal dislocation.

Twenty 25 illustrates Pick’s enduring sensitivity to instability within her paintings, privileging moments of ambiguity in which meaning remains unfixed and is continually renewed. The included works occupy a space of tension while offering a sustained and sensitive declaration of presence within our loaded contemporary moment.