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Endgrained
Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
27 Mar–31 May 2026
Objectspace in Ōtautahi Christchurch
17 Jul-28 September 2026

Across a new body of furniture focused on chairs and tables, visitors to the gallery are invited to use the space to dwell, meet or play. As well as hosting a busy schedule of events within the exhibition, including live performance, talks and workshops, Objectspace and Gamper invite the public to book the gallery, for free, for their own use – be it for a rehearsal, family gathering or public meeting. Taking the form of a common space, the spatial layout of the exhibition changes over time, altered by the visitors who use it and shape the furniture into their own configurations.

Gamper’s new body of work was produced using a timber he designed in collaboration with Italian company ALPI. The material is made from the waste stream of industrial veneer production through a process of dyeing, press-bonding and compressing. This gives form to a new type of human-made timber – a reimagined material that possesses a language of grain and colour not found in naturally grown timbers.

Accompanying Endgrained is Wood from the trees, the result of a collaborative research project by Gamper, Objectspace and designers James Goggin and Shan James of Practise. Wood from the trees offers an ephemeral archive of timber histories in Aotearoa, drawn from a rich range of sources including journals, magazines, photographic collections and timber museums. The content explores the life of the tree, centring on the transformative moment of wood becoming timber as it is taken from its ecological context and placed in human hands.

Seen together the two projects express Gamper’s enduring love of timber and honour the decades he has spent working with this material that is as old as time.
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This project is made possible with support from Objectspace Strategic Partner ECC and Exhibition Patrons Tony Kerridge and Micheal Do, with accompanying public programmes supported by the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific.