For over twenty-five years, Andrew Drummond has consistently and inventively addressed both formal and lyrical qualities within his practice. Drummond's work is rich with associative, interactive possibilities that mediate understandings of space and material, land and body and place and time. Andrew Drummond: Observation / Action / Reflection is his first major exhibition – held in the city in which he lives and works.

A long-overdue survey of an important and formidably talented New Zealand artist, Observation / Action / Reflection features sculpture, drawing, installation and photography, dating from 1980 to the present day. It also presents a major new work, Viewing Device, Counter Rotating (2009–10), which, along with the highly charged Counter Rotating and Earthing Device (2000), is installed in the Gallery foyer.

Drummond's uncompromising practice has seen him prevail through many highs and lows to explore myriad genres. This exhibition highlights recurring facets in his work – the environment, the body, technology, space and the importance of the social. An exhibition that gives and receives energies, it leads viewers through key periods in the artist's career.

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