Collaboration Wines x Natasha Wright

Each month, Boutique Connection sponsors Sanderson Contemporary Art’s exhibition openings.

This is our inaugural collaboration of wine and art pairing where we pair a handcrafted New Zealand wine with the artist’s hero piece. The project explores how taste and texture can echo a visual experience and perhaps even enhance it.

I’m exploring the non-verbal dialogue between art and wine and pairing each artist’s hero piece with a wine that echoes its mood, energy, and emotion.

The aim is to translate visual expression into taste, inviting viewers to experience the artwork through another sensory lens. Each match is intuitive and collaborative, celebrating both the artist’s vision and the craft of our boutique producers.

Handful

For Natasha’s hero piece Handful, I was drawn to its quiet strength and sense of generosity … the way it holds something both tender and deliberate.

The wine I’ve chosen mirrors that balance: textural yet restrained, layered with warmth but grounded in subtle tension. It’s a wine that unfolds slowly, inviting reflection, much like Natasha’s work …a reminder that what we hold, and how we hold it, shapes the story we share.

Argent

Like Handful, Argent carries a dark brooding energy beneath its calm surface. Layers of black fruit, leather, and spice unfold slowly, balanced by fine tannins and quiet precision.

Winemaker Julz, whose time in Napa shaped her belief that “smallness is not a barrier but an asset,” brings a deft touch with oak and a gentle sensitivity to balance. Inspired by the parallels between art and wine, she has crafted a wine that is dense and powerful yet surprisingly light on its feet.

- Renée Dale

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NATASHA WRIGHT - Main Character

Opening Wednesday 15th October, 6-8pm
15th Oct - 9th Nov 2025

Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Main Character, featuring a new body of works by Natasha Wright.

The opening will take place on Wednesday 15th October 6-8pm, with wines from Boutique Connection and cheeses from Kāpiti. All Welcome.

Wright (b.1987 Aotearoa, New Zealand) is a New Zealand born artist based in New York City. Wright’s practice explores and redresses the depiction of woman-as-subject throughout history. Her large-scale paintings fuse figuration and abstraction in intricately layered compositions; referencing traditional modes of portraiture within contemporary contexts…

Read the full exhibition text by Evangeline Riddiford Graham here