Studies
Sanderson Studies is a curated exploration of art and wine, pairing boutique New Zealand wines with the hero works from Sanderson Contemporary’s exhibitions.
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Each release is a study in how the energy of the wine amplifies the solid form of each artist’s hero piece.
A monthly study in art and wine.
Each release features two small-batch wines, thoughtfully paired with the hero works from Sanderson Contemporary’s current exhibition. Chosen for how they echo mood, texture, structure and light, these wines are curated not just to match the artwork but to sit in conversation with it.
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Albariño Brothers x Sarah Treadwell
I’m exploring the dialogue between art and wine by 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.
Each month, Boutique Connection supports Sanderson Contemporary Art’s exhibition openings.
This is a 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.
Sarah Treadwell
Sarah Treadwell's practice explores the relationship between painting, language and material. In her work, the sea becomes more than a landscape... it becomes a surface upon which memory, place and experience are continually written and rewritten.
For Sea Texts, Sarah considers the sea as a liquid accumulation of stories, histories and imagined futures. Her paintings trace both observed inscriptions and underlying imaginary messages, where horizons become like the crease of a turning page, revealing and concealing narratives with each movement.
Working with unstretched canvas, Sarah embraces the physical qualities of the material itself. Edges fray, grids stretch and warp, light filters through, and the painting continues to respond to its environment. There is a quiet beauty in this uncertainty... an acceptance that meaning, like the sea, is always shifting.
Sea Text 1, Linear Animations
When Sarah spoke to me about Sea Text 1 Linear Animations, she described lines as "uncertain or partial communication." Like pages turning in a book or tide lines left upon a beach, they repeat, but never in quite the same way.
The painting feels both architectural and organic. There is structure within the composition, yet nothing feels rigid. Instead, the work seems to breathe through subtle movement, inviting us to slow down and notice how small changes accumulate over time.
It is a work that rewards patience, just like winemaking... revealing more the longer you spend with it.
The wine immediately mirrored the character of Sarah's work for me.
The Wild Ferment Albariño is textural, saline and expressive. Wild fermentation allows the vineyard and vintage to speak with minimal intervention creating a wine that unfolds gently. Bright citrus and coastal freshness are balanced by savoury complexity and a fine phenolic texture that lingers long after each sip.
What ultimately brought the pairing together was the idea that life is never static.
Every vintage tells a different story. Every tide redraws the shoreline. Both are shaped by time, place and the subtle marks left by nature.
Like Sea Text 1 Linear Animations, this wine asks us to observe and move with the tides and to discover beauty in the quiet details that reveal themselves over time.
Enjoy!
- Renée Dale
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Sarah Treadwell
Sea Texts27 May - 21 June 2026
Sanderson are pleased to present the exhibition Sea Texts
The title Sea Texts offers a conceptual frame through which to consider the practices of Janet Mazenier and Sarah Treadwell. In both cases, the sea operates as a field of inscription: a surface upon which memory, place, and material encounter are written and rewritten.
In Mazenier’s cold wax paintings, the sea emerges through processes of accretion, erasure, and sedimentation. Pigment is layered, scraped back, and reworked, producing surfaces that resemble tidal zones - threshold spaces where matter is continuously reconfigured. Her works read as palimpsests: gestural marks hover like half-erased scripts, suggesting that the sea itself “writes” through weather, erosion, and duration. The title Sea Texts thus resonates with her phenomenological concern for the space between - between land and water, presence and disappearance, material and memory. The sea becomes a temporal text, its surface carrying traces of atmospheric affect and lived encounter.
Treadwell’s paintings and drawings also posit the sea as a liquid accumulation of stories, hopeful projections and material uncertainty. Histories, dreams and nightmares thicken its depths and enliven the surfaces offering accounts of aquatic beginnings and future arid conditions. Treadwell’s Sea texts trace and repeat both observed inscriptions and underlying imaginary messages. Her work engages the horizon which, like the crease of a book that turns pages, in turning, cultivates the escaping narratives.
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