As if we were an outsider looking in on a dream, Hugo Van Dorsser's paintings are a manifestation of nostalgia - emotionally charged, playful and surreal.
The Christchurch based artist merges his own personal history with imagined narratives, balancing his compositions between graphic and bold, to a more fluid movement and diffused brush stroke. Working with familiar objects from our collective childhood, naive stick figures and primary colours, Van Dorsser’s canvases invite us into a surge of memory, finding where these images live within our subconscious and where they stand now.
Exhibitions
Passing Through, Group Show, 12 June – 4 July 2026
Summer Season, Stockroom Display, 24 December 2025 – 20 January 2026
Thoughts That Make Us Think, Hugo Van Dorsser and
Catarina Correia Arnhold, 29 November – 20 December 2025
EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS
Learning to Speak (Hutch, 2026)
Home Editions and Renovations (Hutch, 2025)
Rear Window (The Green Room, 2025)
I Thought I Told You I Loved You, New Zealand (12 Gallery, 2023)
ARTWORKS
INSTALLATION VIEWS
