Upcoming exhibition — Sanderson Contemporary, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
11 November – 6 December 2026
Opening Thursday 12 November, 5.30–7pm
The show marks Ray Haydon’s twenty-one years with the gallery — sculpture that draws line through space, in wood, steel, bronze and carbon fibre.
“Imagine a ribbon thrown in the air, the way it loops and curves — that’s the effect I’m trying to achieve.”
b. 1950, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Represented by Sanderson Contemporary, Auckland
Ray is a sculptor with one enduring preoccupation: the movement of line through space. In bronze, corten and stainless steel, wood and carbon fibre, he makes forms of improbable fluidity — ribbons frozen mid-air, coils that seem to shrug off their own weight, kinetic works that turn to the wind’s whim. Each piece is a celebration of its material, and of the invisible engineering that lets the impossible stand still.
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