TENSIONS AND TENDERNESS | 11 - 29 September 2025
TENSIONS AND TENDERNESS brings together three artists whose practices weave personal narratives of memory, emotion, and lived experience. Through painting and sculptural form, the exhibition explores how personal and imagined stories are expressed through material and gesture. Together, the works inhabit the space between tension and tenderness. Where form becomes a keeper of stories and emotions, and the personal unfolds into something shared.
182 Jervois Road, Herne Bay
Thursday 11 September
Doors open 5pm | Talk begins 6pm
ROBYN FLEET
Robyn Fleet is a Hawke’s Bay based artist working primarily with oil paint and oil sticks. Her practice explores the human condition through an open-ended, intuitive approach that embraces the materiality of paint. Robyn’s work invites reflection on identity and perception, inspired by a vision of a world where character transcends appearance. She holds a Bachelor of Art and Design from Ideaschool (EIT) and has been exhibiting her work since 2013.
We are proud to introduce two new artists to the gallery:
PIPPI MILLER
Pippi Miller is a visual artist and photographer whose work bridges painting, picture-book illustration, and photographic storytelling. A graduate of Otago Polytechnic’s Graduate Diploma in Visual Arts, she crafted the picture-book Headlands, exploring themes of loneliness, isolation, and the telling of personal thoughts through image and narrative.
SHA GANJALI
Sha Ganjali has a background in interior design and painting, she creates hand-built clay sculptures that evolve through an intuitive, tactile process. Guided by the material’s natural responses, her organic forms capture the moment of their making, revealing the quiet exchange between maker and medium.
