Kirsty Lillico: Heavy Falls / 4 July – 25 October 2026

Kirsty Lillico: Heavy Falls / 4 July – 25 October 2026 opens at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery

The Sarjeant Gallery is proud to open Kirsty Lillico: Heavy Falls on 4 July. Kirsty Lillico’s practice has long occupied the territory where sculpture, craft and drawing meet, Lillico works with materials sourced from the margins of everyday life – offcuts of carpet, building paper, rope, recycled fabric and fibres – natural and manmade. Previously she has reinterpreted architectural floor plans as wall-hung, suspended and freestanding forms, objects that carried the weight and ideology of modernist design made tactile and malleable. Lillico was the Sarjeant Gallery’s Tylee Cottage artist-in-residence from July-November 2024 and this provided a sustained period of research and making, during which time she pushed her practice into new territory, exploring weaving alongside the material inquiries that have defined her work. Heavy Falls presents the body of work that has evolved since her time at Tylee Cottage.

The Sarjeant Gallery’s artist-in-residence programme is generously supported by Creative New Zealand.