A leading New Zealand artist is in a High Court fight with a gallery director who allegedly failed to pay commissions.
![Work by Stephen Bambury.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/HXWCHSGQNJV2FBBDIJNXKJURVM.jpg?auth=35cb7428a29d71a3de4a3b576bdd1a89e7e0225e685c662b116996e5abca8ecf&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Auckland-based artist Stephen Bambury - whose work has been exhibited in Germany, Austria, France, Australia, the United States and extensively in New Zealand - reportedly fell out with transtasman gallery director Andrew Jensen some three years ago.
Bambury has since filed a case in the High Court at Auckland and Associate Judge Jeremy Doogue described "the nub of the dispute" in a publicly-released court document last month:
"The plaintiff who is an artist alleges that the defendant who operates a gallery breached the terms of an agreement between the two parties by retaining completed works of the plaintiff when he was note [sic] entitled to, failing to pay commissions owed and breaches of other obligations."