Parnell Gallery

Upcoming Exhibition: Neil Driver | 11 - 25 June

We are delighted to announce an upcoming solo exhibition for contemporary Aotearoa painter Neil Driver.

Based in the South Island's picturesque Clyde, Driver

creates paintings that are defined by a strong sense of materiality and attentiveness, where ordinary objects and settings are rendered with tactile sensitivity and compositional care.

Through a balance of traditional and contemporary approaches, he sensitively guides the observer toward details that might otherwise be overlooked: the richness of everyday surfaces and objects, the way light settles across interior spaces, and the subtle material presence of familiar domestic environments and objects.

Although figures are absent, a persistent sense of human presence remains, suggested through arrangement, surface, and the inclusion of architectural features.

Each work in this collection arrives in a frame, hand-crafted and painted by Driver himself; a considered extension of the same attentiveness that defines his practice.

Neil Driver's new solo exhibition opens on 11 June and will run until 25 June. View all paintings online now by clicking the following link and contact the gallery with enquiries - https://www.parnellgallery.co.nz/exhibitions/neil-driver-2026/