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.
You can follow along by subscribing to receive two wines monthly or a seasonal six-bottle collection below.
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.
Available until November 2026.
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2 NZ boutique wines
A note from the artists
5% discount off all shop wines
A seasonal study in art and wine.
Every three months, receive a curated bundle of six small-batch wines — each originally paired with the hero works from Sanderson Contemporary’s exhibitions from the three previous months.
Chosen for how they echo mood, texture, structure and light, these wines are selected not simply to match the artworks, but to sit in thoughtful conversation with them.
Available until November 2026.
Skip a shipment or cancel anytime.
Each quarterly release includes:
– 6 NZ boutique wines (three months, bundled)
– Notes from the exhibiting artists
– 5% off all wines in the shop
OMEO x Lang Ea
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.
Lang Ea
Lang Ea is an award winning Cambodian-born, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based sculptor and multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of memory, displacement, conflict, and human resilience. Having fled Cambodia with her family following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime and later settling in Aotearoa New Zealand, Ea draws on personal experiences of migration and historical trauma to create powerful sculptural and installation works that resonate on both personal and universal levels.
Fusion
Lang Ea's work explores the delicate balance between unity and separation, using the simple form of a water droplet to examine ideas of harmony, conflict and belonging. Her polished sculptures are elegant and fluid, yet held in moments of quiet tension, inviting us to reflect on the ways connection can be interrupted before ultimately being restored.
When I first saw the hero sculpture, I was struck by its remarkable sense of clarity. The suspended droplet felt almost weightless, its mirrored surface constantly shifting with the light around it. There is movement, precision and stillness all at once, creating a beautiful tension between flow and restraint.
Standing in the gallery, it became clear that this pairing needed a wine that embodied purity and precision rather than power. Something that carried quiet energy, crystalline clarity and an underlying tension... a wine that, like the sculpture, reveals its greatest strength through elegance rather than force.
The wine immediately recalled the atmosphere of the sculpture for me. Grown on a tiny one-hectare vineyard in Central Otago, the OMEO Riesling is defined by crystalline purity, piercing acidity and stony minerality.
The wine's name adds another beautiful layer to the pairing. Named after Omeo Gully, a landscape shaped by water during Central Otago's gold rush, it speaks of a place where flowing water was diverted and redirected in the search for something precious. Like all great wines, OMEO tells the story of the land from which it comes, making water not only a feature of the wine, but part of its history.
Together, the work and the wine remind us that the simplest forms can carry the greatest meaning. Both unfold slowly, revealing their strength not through force, but through balance, purity and the quiet power of place.
Enjoy.
- Renée Dale
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Lang Ea
Conflict to Fusion24 June - 19 July 2026
Sanderson are pleased to present Fusion to Conflict, a compelling new exhibition of sculptural works by award winning sculptor Lang Ea, which examine the delicate balance between unity and separation, harmony and discord, through the simple yet profound form of a water droplet.
At the heart of the exhibition lies a powerful metaphor - the water droplet, moving unerringly along its path and inseparable from the greater body from which it comes, represents a state of fusion - a condition of fluid connection, interdependence, and harmonious existence. In nature, the droplet's journey is effortless; it belongs simultaneously to itself and to the whole.
Yet Fusion to Conflict explores what happens when this natural state is interrupted.
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Read more here.