In NOW LOOK HERE [out on the shelf], Wendy Bornholdt considers the materiality of disappearance and non-disclosure through acts of paying attention. Long interested in the studio as a performative space, Bornholdt recently expanded her terms for making to encompass her external environment through a keenly focused practice of walking, looking and recording.

In this suite of works:
A text-based window work hails you, and requests attention.
In the gallery space down the hallway, The Redactions_Boxes 1-9 consider redaction as evidence.
Memory Sticks drawings are composed with elements of prior work.
Out On The Shelf photographic works deal with signposts of significance proving unreliable.
Bornholdt recently returned to Aotearoa New Zealand after more than two decades living and exhibiting abroad.
WENDY BORNHOLDT
NOW LOOK HERE [out on the shelf]
10 – 28 November 2026
BOWEN GALLERIES
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Aotearoa New Zealand
WORDS: SUPPLIED