Ogle Gallery & Café Space
There’s always something special to discover in the Ogle Gallery & Café Space from beautiful art exhibitions through to interactive events and we’d love you to be part of it.
Our Current Exhibitions
Read about our upcoming and current exhibitions in our Main Building’s Ogle Gallery & Café Space – visit and sit down with a cup of coffee from the Cafe!
Call for Artworks! The Great Art Sale
Tuesday 9 December - Thursday 22 January
Click here to download the submission form – please attach this form to your artwork
Call for Artworks! Great Art Sale 2025
Lake House Arts invites artists of all backgrounds, experience levels, and practices to submit work for the Great Art Sale 2025.
This annual cash-and-carry, salon-style exhibition showcases hundreds of artworks. With no commission taken, the Great Art Sale offers artists an accessible, low-barrier opportunity to sell work.
We welcome submissions of 2D and 3D artworks across all mediums. Works should be priced to sell, presented to exhibition standard, and delivered ready to hang or display. Artists may submit multiple pieces.
Key Details
Delivery of artworks: 9am–3pm, Tuesday 9 December – 12pm, Friday 12 December
Unsold work collection: By 12pm, Friday 23 January 2026
No commission – artists keep 100% of the sale price
Cash-and-carry – sold works leave the gallery immediately
Submission fees and size limits apply (see Submission Form and Terms & Conditions)
Submission forms and full Terms & Conditions are available now.
Be part of one of Lake House Arts’ most popular annual events, and help us celebrate creativity, community, and the joy of original art.
Eli Gross – The Land Beyond the Lines
Saturday 22nd November - Sunday 7th December
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Exhibition date: Saturday 22nd November – Sunday 7th December
Exhibition Celebration: Sunday 23rd November, 4pm – 6pm
The exhibition “The Land Beyond the Lines” invites viewers on a journey between opposing extremes of human existence. We begin in the earth’s depths, in the complex lines of the subway, where human stories of longing, loneliness, and fragile connections are revealed. These are portraits that capture the essence of modern urban life.
From the pressure of the underground, we are drawn toward other lines—the open horizon of New Zealand’s wild coasts. In this “Land Beyond the Lines,” nature speaks in its own powerful language. The coastal paintings offer a dramatic contrast to the urban stories, revealing a raw, untamed beauty.
The exhibition explores the connection between these contrasts through contemporary paintings that represent a quest for meaning. This is an artistic search that attempts to break through familiar boundaries of style and color. It is a reference to the artist’s own creative journey, a constant pursuit of new meaning, influenced by the human stories beneath the ground and the powerful nature above it.
“The Land Beyond the Lines” is an invitation to examine how stories from a closed space intertwine with the wildness of nature, and how they converge on the canvas in a continuous search for new meaning.
About the Artist
“My art bridges past and present, merging traditional techniques with
contemporary narratives to create a harmonious visual dialogue. I studied under renowned painters in my youth and, after a 50-year career, returned to art post-retirement. My journey evolved from figurative to contemporary painting, leading to 50 exhibitions worldwide, including three in New Zealand.”
– Eli Gross
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37 Fred Thomas Drive,
Takapuna, Auckland 0622
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