MOUNT ALBERT GRAMMAR SCHOOL
fine art show 2014
Proudly and kindly sponsored by
Mt Albert
Artwork by Sheyne Tuffery
programme of
events Friday 22 August 6.30pm - 10pm Opening night cocktail party
First opportunity to view and purchase artwork
Saturday 23 August 10am - 7pm
Exhibition and artwork for sale
Free admission
Sunday 24 August 10am - 1pm
Exhibition and artwork for sale
Free admission
Friends of MAGS welcome you to the Mount Albert Grammar School Fine Art Show 2014 and look forward to seeing you at the opening night cocktail party. Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased online at www.iticket.co.nz or phone: (09) 846 2044 X 8153 email: artshow@mags.school.nz
2014 exhibiting artists Brendan Adams
Mark Dimock
Michael Kennedy
Paul Rhind
Rex Armstrong
Bee Doughty-Pratt
Virginia Leonard
Robianto
Shanay Aseraf
Sally Fagence
Aroha Lewin
Barry Ross-Smith
Judi Bagust
Amelia Fagence
Vera Limmer
Ioana Schwalger
Emma Bass
Darryl Fagence
Kirsten Lyttle
Manu Scott
Denise Batchelor
Holly Finn
Sid Marsh
Jan Shone
Ingrid Berzins
Fane Flaws
Libby McColl
Shim & Lee
Merle Bishop
Nicky Foreman
Sean McCarthy
Shelley Simpson
Jane Bold
Dick Frizzell
Brendan McGorry
Jane Tan
Eve Borley
Ema Frost
Linda McKelvie
Lorene Taurerewa
Justin Boroughs
Hope Gibbons
Conor McSwiney
Sheyne Tuffery
Mal Bouzaid
Anita Glucina
Julie Moselen
Rebecca Tune
Carolyn Boyd
Nickie Gormley
Jerri Nakula
Lingikoni Vaka'uta
Renee Boyd
Frances Hansen
Kirsty Nixon
Francis van Dammen
Miranda Brown
Shane Hansen
Ruby Oakley
Nicola Warner
Claire Delaney
Guy Harkness
Colleen O'Leary
Richard Wells
Dean Buchanan
Justine Hawksworth
Isla Osborne
Rae West
Rudi Buchanan Strewe
Anna Hollings
Karen Paden
Heather Wilson
Chan & Andreassend
Calvin Hona
Neal Palmer
Johnson Witehira
Megan Collier
Susan Hurrell Fieldes
Caroline Pegg
Simon Williams
Rowena Coombes
Mia Hamilton
Marie Potter
Stephanie Woodman
Bryn Corkery
Russell Jackson
Dean Proudfoot
Rieko Woodford-
Shirley Cresswell
Raymond Jennings
Robin Ranga
Robinson
Anna Crichton
Rachel Jones
Lorraine Rastorfer
Frank Woodward
Vanita Curin
Tinaz Karbhari
Kathy Ready
Julie Woodward
Jana de Beer
Darren Keith
Peter Rees
Mount Albert Gra mm ar School
FOUNDATION Investing in the future of the School
Dear Friends Welcome to the Mount Albert Grammar School Fine Art Show 2014 This inaugural event is a wonderful opportunity for the school community to view artworks by some of New Zealand’s leading as well as emerging artists including pieces from a number of our current art students. The opening night cocktail party commences at 6:30pm on Friday 22 August in the school’s F.W. Gamble Memorial Hall. This very enjoyable occasion will provide opportunity to both view and purchase the art on show and also mix with friends, artists and the wider school community. A big thank you is extended to the Friends of MAGS Committee for the many hours that have been spent organizing this event and also to all our sponsors and advertisers who appear in this Fine Art Show Catalogue. The funds raised from the event will be used by the Mount Albert Grammar School Foundation to support various school initiatives, particularly the Arts programme. We hope that you enjoy our Fine Art Show.
Dale Burden Headmaster Mount Albert Grammar School
Mount Albert Gra mm ar School
FOUNDATION Investing in the future of the School
The Friends of MAGS committee, under the umbrella of The Mount Albert Grammar School Foundation, has organised this inaugural Art Show which showcases artworks from over 100 New Zealand artists including some of our top art students. The Foundation is a Charitable Trust which invests in the future of the School, assisting the School in resourcing and supporting its many activities in its ongoing quest for excellence in all fields. The vision of the Foundation is to work with the School in making Mount Albert Grammar New Zealand’s premier school of choice. The Foundation’s goal is to establish a $10 million endowment fund by our centenary year 2022, where the income from the fund will support scholarships for our students and staff as well as funding capital projects to support our infrastructure requirements. The Foundation recognises the importance of this Art Show as a dynamic initiative in fulfilling the Foundation’s vision for our School.
Tim Goulding Chairman Mount Albert Grammar School Foundation
MAGS Fine Art Show Procedures Mount Albert Grammar School is delighted to introduce its inaugural Fine Art Show with the incredible quality and variety of works on display from so many talented artists throughout New Zealand. There are considerably more works for sale over the weekend than are depicted in our catalogue as many of our artists will be submitting up to four works. The work in this catalogue is a representation of the artists work and may not be the actual artwork available for sale.
Purchasing your artwork Once you have selected the artwork you wish to purchase: • Remove the Buyer’s Card and take it immediately to the sales desk, or one of our volunteers around the room and they will escort you to the sales desk. • Please be aware that the removal of the Buyer’s Card is deemed as an agreement to purchase. • We would like to thank you for your generous contribution to our school fundraising through your art purchase. • Make payment in full by either Eftpos, MasterCard or Visa (please note cheques will not be accepted). • A sold red sticker will then be displayed on the artwork.
Collecting your artwork • All artworks must remain at the exhibition until closure on Sunday 24th August, 2014 at 1.00pm. • Purchased artworks are to be collected from Mount Albert Grammar School's FW Gamble Memorial Hall between the hours of 3.00pm and 5.00pm on Sunday 24th August on presentation of your sales receipt. • Mount Albert Grammar School takes no responsibility for artwork not collected after this time.
Additional sales • If you love a piece of art that has been sold then please let us know as further editions or prints may be available. We have been given the authorisation from the artists to take orders and arrange commission of artworks. We hope you find a piece of art to purchase that you truly love and want to take home and that you enjoy the opening cocktail evening and bring your friends and family to view the exhibition during the weekend.
Brendan Adams Brendan has amassed a large following of clientele who appreciate his fine New Zealand ceramics and creative and unusual sculpture. His work has been exhibited throughout the country in major competitions and exhibitions where he has won several awards.
Rex Armstrong Rex has held 14 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous invited and group exhibitions, including Storm Warning curated by Riemke Ensing, featuring work by Colin McCahon, Stanley Palmer and John Madden.
Shanay Aseraf Shanay’s art practice disguises the unreal as being real. She creates alternate conditions that consider the way technology and media engage with western society. Through a range of mediums she questions perceptions of reality.
Judi Bagust Ingrid Berzins
Through the movement of the inked brush on paper, the mark becomes its own image, as an unknown, a finding, a slowing down. A becoming. Judi’s process attempts to distil this act to its essence. As a result drawings that seem self-contained are actually in a contingent state, between their making and the places they occupy.
Emma Bass Emma's latest endeavour, Imperfect, a photographic exhibition features beautiful arrangements of decaying flowers and other flora. This body of work represents a deepening on her previous work, as Emma is musing on the temporality of life. Emma makes an important statement by reminding us that flowers are not only pretty to look at but also wilt, fade and die. As we all do.
Denise Batchelor Denise’s interest in the natural world expresses itself through photography and film. Her photographs express a wistful curiosity and regard for the stillness of the medium of photography. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand and recently showcased work at the 2012 Angelholm International Video Art Festival in Sweden.
Ingrid Berzins
Emma Bass
Ingrid has been painting for 18 years, exhibiting widely throughout New Zealand, having sell-out shows at Fishers Fine Arts. Her work has been purchased in the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden and Australia, with collectors in the US.
Merle Bishop Merle Bishop is a New Zealand artist who works in pastel,watercolour, oil,intaglio etching, printmaking,polymer clay and bronze. She is strongly influenced by her graphic design background as she endeavours to capture some of the antics and exuberance of dogs.
Jane Bold
Merle Bishop
Jane’s art is intended to inspire and delight. Her art is vibrant and stylized, picking up on the New Zealand landscape themes with its clear wild colours. Jane’s inspiration comes from New Zealand’s natural beauty and the light effects of the landscape and scenery. Her work includes both contemporary landscapes and abstracts, often with touches of “Kiwiana”.
Eve Borley Much of Eve’s inspiration comes from the bush surrounding her Murrays Bay Auckland home and studio where she produces her acrylic and mixed media art works. She especially enjoys the tactile experience of working with a variety of materials to create what she describes as “the story telling part” of an artwork that unfolds layer by layer until she is happy with the resulting sense of depth and texture. Justin Boroughs
Justin Boroughs Born in England. Gradulated Bachelor of Fine Art from Auckland University in 1975. Has held over 20 solo exhibitions and is represented by Artis Gallery in Auckland, Page Blackie Gallery in Wellington and Milford Galleries in Dunedin.
Mal Bouzaid Mal graduated with Master of Fine Arts, from Whitecliff College of Art & Design,She has had a long association with the sea. From her sailing excursions and long observations of the ever changing colours of the sea, land and sky she explores the tonal relationships in shifting bands that evoke the staggering and layering of horizons. She has had over 20 shows.
Carolyn Boyd After living overseas for 10 years Carolyn returned to New Zealand in 2011. Rediscovering the beauty of her homeland provided her with inspiration and ignited the desire to portray this through her art. Her work reflects lightness and energy using vibrant colours whilst attaining realism through pointillism and textured strokes.
Carolyn Boyd
Reneé Boyd Reneé Boyd approaches working with clay in her own unique style, using texture and botanical themes as patterns which are inspired from New Zealand’s unique landscape. The intent of her work is to express movement, texture and light in a contemporary theme and this imagery is reflected in the designs of her sculpture and table pieces.
Miranda Brown
Dean Buchanan
Miranda creates beauty in the form of sustainable fashion, artworks, installations, interiors and public art. In the materials she uses, the processes and the patterns and colours are informed by nature, reflecting nature’s brilliance. "We are Connected to Nature. The more that you connect with nature and study the intelligence at work every day you come to realise there is a master designer here. The head of a sunflower illustrates this concept with its spiral pattern called the divine ratio or golden mean. This is geometry at work also seen in the nautilus shell and head of a pine cone. I call it magic."
Dean Buchanan Dean has been working as a full-time artist for the past 28 years. Prior to that he worked as an exhibitions technician at The Auckland City Art Gallery. He has had over 45 solo exhibitions here in NZ and overseas. His first solo show was in 1978 at the Outreach Gallery in Ponsonby Auckland. He has also been involved in many group shows, the first at the age of 19 in the “Young Contemporaries” at The Auckland City Art Gallery in 1971.
Rudi Buchanan Strewe Reneé Boyd
Miranda Brown
Rudi first started by teaching himself black smithing & metal forging & then bronze casting using the lost wax process. One of his cast bronzes a Ponga sculpture was given by the Waitakere City Council to its Japanese sister city of Kakogawa. Rudi has won a number of awards during his artistic career.
Chan & Andreassand Karen Chan and Ronald Andreassend are designer artists based in Auckland and founders of Chan Andreassend Design, specialising in innovative, hand-crafted objects, lights and jewellery.
Megan Collier
Megan Collier
Megan is a self-taught Tauranga artist, exhibiting for over 13 years. She brings together ideas of heritage, local identity, biodiversity and sustainability using oils, acrylics and resin. “In a world of mass production, urban deserts and monoculture, the wild landscape and the vital life they sustain, now stand unique; one of the greatest pleasures of them all.”
Rowena Coombes Rowena has been making ceramics for 25 years. At present she is experimenting using porcelain slip to cast. She mostly paints onto greenware which is then fired and clear glaze applied to bisque, then refired. Work is functional and can be used in the microwave or dishwasher.
Bryn Corkery Bryn is a multi media artist and Art Teacher at MAGS. His recent paintings are based on views of modern Auckland from the Volcanic Hills around the city. Rather than focusing on the dramatic well known landmarks he is more interested in the suburbs and specific areas more personal to the people of the region. Bryn Corkery
Shirley Cresswell Shirley has developed her own style and techniques painting photo realism in acrylics. With success in many exhibitions and galleries she is now a fulltime artist. Shirley specialises in coastal scenes, boats, dinghies and jetty paintings. She depicts these in a realist style that captures light in her work, accentuating light and dark.
Anna Crichton Anna has been described by the New Zealand Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson as ‘the country’s leading illustrator’. Her work is collected by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Vanita Curin Shirley Cresswell
Vanita explores multi media and is an Art Teacher at MAGS. Her paintings can be described as abstract landscapes. She enjoys peeling back the layers of the NZ landscape and examining the different textures our unique landscape offers.
Jana de Beer Jana lives and works in Auckland. She holds a BFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts, and has a MAAM from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. She has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards in 2012 and 2013, and has work in both national and international private collections.
Claire Delaney
Vanita Curin
As a mixed media artist with a BA (hons) degree in fashion and textiles my work is always about piecing together all the patches of my life. What strong threads hold together my hopes and dreams? Layers are what fascinate me. Always the choice of what to reveal what to conceal.
Mark Dimock Mark has been living and working in Eketahuna since 1980 where he has established a large studio workshop and gallery.He has had over 20 solo exhibitions in galleries throughout New Zealand.
Bee Doughty-Pratt
Bee Doughty - Pratt
Mark Dimock
Bee’s vibrant abstract seascapes and landscapes are held in private & corporate collections throughout New Zealand & offshore. Bee says “Water in some form or other features in virtually every canvas I paint. This has to have something to do with life’s inevitable ebb and flow – sometimes overwhelmingly powerful, sometimes infinitely peaceful – but always compelling.
Amelia Fagence Amelia is a multi-media artist with work ranging from wooden jewellery, cast and lead-light glass pieces and large scale metal/wood sculptures. She is also an accomplished photographer. Amelia pushes the boundaries by creating hard edges with soft materials and curved forms with solid mass.
Darryl Fagence Darryl has an intense passion for creating new pieces, a drive that has kept him at the leading edge of forming glass in New Zealand for the past 38 years.A Pacific influence has evolved in the new wall art and sculptural pieces.
Sally Fagence Sally works from her studio over looking native bush, where she finds inspiration for the subjects she paints. She has been experimenting with recycled wine barrel staves made into sculptural wall pieces. These are richly painted and incorporate gold/silver leaf, compound, and other materials.
Holly Finn Amelia Fagence
Holly Finn is a self taught artist who lives in Mangawhai. Holly is specialising in floral studies.
Fane Flaws
Darryl Fagence
Fane has been exhibiting throughout Australia and New Zealand in various solo and group shows since1981- his work is represented in private and public collections within N.Z. Australia, USA, Japan and the UK. “I am essentially a ‘mark-maker’ - everything else follows from whatever skill I have developed through drawing. I draw on anything from paper to demolition timber, from air to hard drives, with anything from paint to found objects, from guitars to voices.
Nicky Foreman Her work is often concerned with taking mundane objects and resetting them so that they may be viewed as precious and beautiful. She draws her inspiration from by Taranaki and her time in the South of France each year. She continues to show regularly with dealer galleries in New Zealand and France. Her work is represented in many collections including Saatchi & Saatchi New York.
Dick Frizzell
Ema Frost
Nicky Gormley
Dick Frizzell is probably NZ’s most collected and highly prized contemporary artist. Frizzell is hugely recognised as a painter, printmaker and a writer, recently publishing a highly successful autobiography, Dick Frizzell: The Painter (2009). He has work in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand.
Ema Frost Ema Frost is an Auckland based graphic artist, illustrator and ceramic designer. “I love intense, vibrant, poppy colours that bring a sense of enchantment to art and to life. I’m inspired by Maori Myths and Legends and Japanese art from the past and present, whether it is packaging, toy design, 1940s and 50s advertising, or wood-block prints. My love for travel and photography influences my design work, but my travels also give me an appreciation for New Zealand, and our native flora and fauna is also a strong influence and inspiration”. Dick Frizzell
Hope Gibbons Hope Gibbons is a contemporary New Zealand painter with works held in private collections here and throughout the world. Her current works explores the materiality of paint - it pushes the boundaries of traditional painting practice and techniques. It exploits the use of paint, rust, inks, leaf and varnish
Anita Glucina Anita Glucina has been feeding a lifelong passion for well-crafted handmade objects by creating many of her own. Influenced by historical design and folk art and inspired by the detailing and exacting craftsmanship of past artisans, Anita experiments with materials and techniques resulting in ceramic lights, resin jewellery, mixed media and paper cut art.
Nickie Gormley Hope Gibbons
Nickie is an abstract expressionist painter specialising in creating unique surfaces.
Frances Hansen Frances Hansen’s art practice manipulates the disciplines of painting, drawing, assemblage and illustration. She works with traditional media as well as found objects and appropriated images to invent and produce new aspects of her chosen materials.
Shane Hansen Shane Hansen likes a strong, clean line. His creations spring from a world of bold colours and optimistic clarity, a pop-art invitation to a feel-good New Zealand celebration. Shane is of Maori, Chinese, Danish and Scottish descent. Shane works in many mediums such as wood, glass and metal which he sees as a reflection of his multi-cultural make-up.
Frances Hansen
Guy Harkness Guy Harkness is a local Mt Eden artist. Working mostly in acrylic on canvas or board, his subjects include landscapes, portraits, still life and unique takes on iconic Kiwi culture. Selling his work locally and online, Harkness’ paintings can be found in collections here and overseas.
Justine Hawksworth “I love the strong colour present everywhere in our New Zealand environment and strive to reflect that in my paintings. My most recent work incorporates metal, maps, textures, fabric and lyrics in an attempt to capture something that reminds the viewer of something that is typically New Zealand”. Guy Harkness
Justine Hawksworth
Anna Hollings Anna Hollings was born in 1963 in Wellington. Has had some eight solo shows and is well known for her small quirky paintings. A finalist in many competitions she won the Winsor and Newton Award in 1999 and has forged an interesting career doing small works of a surrealist nature.
Calvin Hona Calvin Hona is the artist behind Puha Prints; a specialist limited edition print company based on his personal influences from the South Pacific. Puha Prints is run from beautiful Waiheke Island in New Zealand. Many of the works have a retro 1970’s feel reflective of the artists childhood influences.
Susan Hurrell Fieldes Shane Hansen
Susan is a printmaker. Initially self taught, she gained her experience and knowledge in New York where she studied and works each year. Her work is abstract, and she uses mainly solarplate etching and monotype techniques.
Mia Hamilton Mia Hamilton graduated with a Diploma of Art & Creativity from The Learning Connexion, Wellington in 2008. She also has a Diploma of Interior Design from Academy of Fine Arts, London and a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University, Palmerston North. Since 2008 Hamilton has been a full time artist. She has had 10 solo exhibitions and been included in over 40 group shows since 2008.
Calvin Hona
Tracy Darren Keith
Russell Jackson Russell studied Art History and Graphic Design at the University of Auckland and the Auckland Insititute of Technology. His paintings reflect his love of bird life and New Zealand’s landscape, in particular its coastal environment. He tends to paint in enamels or acrylics on board, and recently has explored more abstract concepts in addition to his better-known realist style.
Raymond Jennings Raymond is a multi-disciplinary artist, His lively career has seen him exhibit in numerous solo and group shows throughout, NZ, the USA and Singapore. His work carries a positive dynamic energy, generated by an inspiration that is both worldly and universal. Rachel Jones
Rachel Jones Rachel's art work demonstrates detail, intensity and strength - the flowers are so real you can almost smell them! As a purely talented self-taught artist she draws her inspiration from beauty within, whether it is flowers or people, expressing their emotion, power, and fragility and a wonderful intensity of rich colours.
Tinaz Karbhari Tinaz has always been intersted in using her art as a means to create a spiritual and affectual encounter. Her practice explores the ideas of potentiality and transformation through the theoretical contexts of affect theory, smooth space, becoming and spirituality. Underpinning this exploration is a focus on the potentiality of “new planes of thought”.
Tracy Darren Keith "Memory has always been an important consideration throughout my art practice; the essence of material practice dictating the outcome is a mechanism to encompass visual and lived memories. Connecting material process with memories when fabricating or constructing an object help to reveal forms and emotions that are as genuine as the actual encounters of life." Raymond Jennings
Michael Kennedy Michael creates wonderfully weird portraits of “creepy-cute” critters, macabre beasties & zombie couch turnips. His work is a unique blend of traditional oil painting techniques and contemporary pop surreal style. Brought up on the irreverent humour of cartoons and comics like The Farside and Calvin & Hobbes; his art oozes of whimsical charm, dark humour and pop culture references.
Shim & Lee
Michael Kennedy
Virginia Leonard
Sang Sool SHIM & his wife, Keum Sun LEE, are Korean potters and ceramic artists. They have had many successful exhibitions in Korea, Austria, Croatia and New Zealand, and have won multiple Portage Ceramic Awards in New Zealand, as well as international awards. Working with both 10th-century and 15-century techniques of Korean pottery, the two have adapted these traditions and added colours to give a contemporary aspect to their creations.
Virginia Leonard The initial “atomic blast” impact of Virginia’s paintings belies the subtlety and depth afforded by sustained viewing. They are composed of layers of gestural marks and splashes until they are submerged. ‘Self Portrait’ is unique amongst her works.
Aroha Lewin Aroha Lewin is a contemporary Maori artist who specialises in limited edition prints and original artworks. Lewin has a strong visual language interpreting her position on being a Maori in todays New Zealand environment. She plays beautifully on the imagery and deeper meaning of symbolic shapes and iconography. Shim Lee
Vera Limmer Vera’s passion in painting is working, discovering and exploring colour, line, pattern and how she is able to use paint in different ways and using different mediums. She has been painting birds as her subject for the last four years.
Kirsten Lyttle Kirsten Lyttle has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), RMIT. Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours majoring in Philosophy, La Trobe University. Her photographic works have addressed the way the Western world has long had a love affair with the South Pacific. Her light-hearted photographs have an implied message that makes us see things afresh.
Tinaz Karbhari
Libby McColl When driving through our countryside we’re often drawn to the sight of dilapidated farm buildings, old homesteads and fence posts, mossy , rusting and rotting with generations of paint peeling away exposing a layers of colours and textures. My acrylic paintings focus on a detail of these things rather than the big picture.The textures and colours of the understated and the overlooked.
Sid Marsh
Vera Lima
For the last ten years Sid has painted watercolours depicting famous scenes of the NZ Wars. For each scene painted I endeavour to incorporate into it distinctive native birds & trees, landscapes, Maoritanga (moko, carving, garments & weapons); general weaponry of the period, & British militaria (like elaborate Prussian braiding on officer tunics & forage caps etc). Much research goes into each picture: visits to Archives NZ & the Turnbull Library for unpublished diaries & reports; firing black powder weaponry on a range; plus mounting major expeditions into the Urewera backcountry to find and study lost battlesites, camps & wartrails.
Sean McCarthy Sean McCarthy is an award-winning artist who’s done everything from fine art to t-shirt designs, body-painting to large-scale murals. He enjoys getting art out into the community, where people seem to really appreciate it. He lives with his family in French Bay, Titirangi.
Brendan McGorry
Sid Marsh
Brendan McGorry’s work engages with refernces and allegories drawn from historical European paintings. Brendan’s recent work is a fusion of delicate drawing and color fields. Historial motifs weave with contemporary images of everyday life.
Linda McKelvie Linda completed a Masters of Fine Arts (Hons) at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland in 2009. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and now resides on Waiheke Island. Linda has worked as a painter, illustrator and storyboard artist in New Zealand and the United States.
Julie Moselen "The coastline has been a constant influence in my artwork, often harking back to the rugged but beautiful coastline of my Cornish roots. Now that I live on the other side of the world I question my sense of belonging in both continents and explore the similarities and contrasts using symbolism texture and colour." Libby McColl
Jerri Nakula Jerri started painting at the age of 7, inspired by his older cousin and mentor Robianto. He sometimes paints abstract works but his real love is Dot Painting and he unashamedly gets his inspiration from the Australian Outback style of painting. Dot Art was originally recognised as unique and integral to Australian Aboriginal art. On the surface the dot is simply a style of Aboriginal painting, like the use of cross-hatching or stencil art. The term ‘Dot Painting’ stems from what the Western eye sees when faced with contemporary Aboriginal acrylic paintings which arose from the Papunya art movement from Western Australia in the 1970s.
Kirsty Nixon Ruby Oakley
Colleen O’Leary
Kirsty Nixon began painting and exhibiting in the late 1980s as a successful watercolour artist. In 1994 Kirsty began capturing the vibrant personality of the New Zealand landscape on canvas. This style was greatly received and prompted Kirsty to leave her career as an art director in advertising to paint full-time. Her contribution to the New Zealand landscape is fresh and distinctly modern and her work hangs in private collections worldwide.
Ruby Oakley Ruby mostly works in two mediums- printmaking & mixed media. She works quite spontaneously & intuitively & loves experimentation & pushing boundaries with media. Ruby is enthusiastic about creating her work, both print & mixed media, using multiple layers, colours, textures & pattern. She often draws inspiration from graffiti & street art, along with nature & environmental themes. Her work could be described as semi abstract. Linda McKelvie
Colleen O’Leary Colleen has spent over 30 years working as a ceramic artist. Her eclectic range of approaches includes sculptural figures, wall-based pictorial ceramics and individual commissioned pieces. She has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and her work is in collections in Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
Karen Paden Karen Paden was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. B.F.A and MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. Emigrated to New Zealand in 1990 and divided her time between Auckland and Chicago for a number of years. Trained for some time with Michael Smither. She has had shows both in NZ and USA and has always painted the landscape in an impressionist way. Julie Moselen
Neal Palmer Neal has been a full time artist since 1999 and has participated in group shows and events, including: Artists in Eden (for the last ten years), the Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, ‘35 K’ at Artspace Auckland, ‘Big Red’ Rotorua Museum, ‘Putiputi’ Hastings City Art Gallery, and as a finalist in the Molly Morpeth, Margaret Stoddart and Wallace Art Awards. He has had 16 solo shows in that time, and been reviewed and recommended in various publications with feature articles in: Art New Zealand (Autumn 2004 edition); Sunday Star Times; the NZ Herald ‘Arts on Monday’ and ‘Viva’ magazine. His work focuses on natural forms using scale, colour and pattern to create dramatic and emotive paintings.
Caroline Pegg Caroline has a Bachelor of Arts (Honors), with a major in Printmaking and Drawing. Her work engages with nature and the way it is represented by cultures throughout the world, as well as the relationship between crafts and high art. Her work often incorporates print, collage and stitching to create rich textural pieces that explore the possibilities of such diverse materials. Neal Palmer
Maria Potter Marie E. Potter is an award winning multi-discipline artist whose work is underpinned by a continuing re-evaluation of New Zealand cultural and social history. Ethnographic methodology enables her to utilise collected artefacts which are steeped in history, as her art material. Her work is held in various New Zealand public collections.
Dean Proudfoot Dean’s work has always been varied and this year is no exception. But whatever the imagery the paintings always come from a place of fun and accessibility. Deans approach to art is firmly from the Lowbrow camp, he believes art doesn’t have to be obscure or elitist but should challenge and evoke a response and what’s more positive than a smile. An award winning commercial illustrator for the past 20 years, Dean has enjoyed working with a diverse range of clients both in New Zealand and internationally.
Robin Ranga
Dean Proudfoot
As a multimedia artist Robin explores form, composition and design. Inspired by nature’s endurance and precision. Since graduating 2005 (Bachelor of Visual Arts), AUT she has exhibited widely and won awards and recognition in painting and ceramics. Portage Ceramic Awards finalist 2009, 2010 and 2013. Merit winner Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke 2014.
Lorraine Rastorfer Lorraine Rastorfer is a highly trained artist and educator and has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. She has won numerous awards for her abstract work including 2005 CoCA/Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award, 2001 Art Waikato National Art Award, 2007 People’s Choice Award/Norsewear Art Awards, and 1993 Ida Eise Painting Award. She was Runner-up in the 1993 Wallace Art Award and a finalist 1999-02, 2004, 2011-12, and is regularly selected for national award and group exhibitions.
Kathy Ready Peter Rees
Kathy Ready is an Auckland based artist. She completed her B.A. (Art] wiih Honours in Perth, Australia, and has been exhibiting since 1996. Through the broad interpretation of abstraction, and the challenge of making colours come alive, she creates accessible works that impress and invite the viewer to explore them further.
Peter Rees Over the last 30 years Peter has been actively involved in Art and Photography. This has included drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. “The dramatic contrasts in light and atmosphere created in mountain and coastal environments have drawn me to travelling and working in these areas. The experience of sailing, tramping and being in the landscape is fundamental to the way I approach drawing, painting and photography.”
Paul Rhind Lorraine Rastorfer
Paul has exhibited extensively on Waiheke Island including Sculpture on the Gulf, design make awards. Multi- disciplined artist working predominantly in wood and oil on paper engaging in social, political and enviromental issues.
Robianto Robianto's dot paintings are neither prints nor machine made. Each painting consists of 100's and often 1000's of individual dots painstakingly applied by hand and totally free hand. The skill lies in the artist's ability to correctly position the dot and also to make it the correct size.
Barry Ross Smith
Kathy Ready
Barry’s work explores the liminal, the threshold between boundaries of identity, relationships and living entities. My new work investigates concepts of transcendence and attempts reclaim images as transcendent or magical. Totems in a post-enlightenment world. At the same time, they recognise the inability to reclaim or understand them as such. Overall, the theme is hope and failure and hope again (with some absurdity thrown in for good measure).
Ioana Schwalger Ioana is a painter and photographer who completed a BFA at Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 1997. Since then she has been commissioned to create work for a variety of people and compainies. Her painting style is bright, vibrant and graphic and her photographic images often capture celebrations of life. The inspiration for her work can attributed to her Samoan heritage, New Zealand culture and Christian beliefs.
Manu Scott Manu Scott was born 1976. Hapu: Ngati Hikairo, Ngati Mahuta, Ngati Tipa Ngati Whawhakia in 1998 he achieved a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Manukau Institute of Technology. He has taken part in numbers of curated exhibitions with artists like Ruben Patterson and James Ormsby, and has had solo shows. His work has covered photography and sculpture. He addresses things in an engaging and often humorous way.
Jan Shone Ioana Schwalger
Jan Shone was born in Gisborne, New Zealand in 1952. Has as lectured in paintings and drawing at TAFE, S.A. Master of Visual Arts, South Australia School, University of South Australia. Has had numerous solo shows in both Australia and NZ and is in major collections in both countries.
Shelly Simpson Shelley’s art demonstrates her interest in the relationship between science and humankind. Shelley’s ink-and-resin paintings are inspired by the concept of many millions of people using social media to interact with each other on a daily basis. Her work entertains the idea that ‘we are using digital relationships as a virtual balm, self-medicating our way through a new emotional landscape’.
Jane Tan Jane lives and works from her studio at Clarks Beach on the shores of the Manukau Harbour. Jane works in acrylics and on a variety of media including the’ Found Object’. Jane wants her artwork to be the ‘opening sentence’ of a conversation. She wants people to share and relay stories, personal experiences and histories, and to reflect and ask ‘What brings us together here at this point in time?’.
Lorene Taurerewa Jan Tan
Manu Scott
Lorene has an MA , BFA and Dep Teaching. She won the Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Award and has major works in Australian galleries , had a Pataka show and had numerous dealer and public shows in NZ, Australia and New York. Drawing has always been a significant part of her practice, both in charcoal and ink. Paintings and drawings are in major collections.
Sheyne Tuffery Sheyne is a multi-media visual artist, whose primary mediums are painting, animation and printmaking. He is perhaps best known for the dynamic style of his prints and mixed-media work. His prints and paintings often envisage Polynesia as a futuristic urban utopia, with the Samoan fale as the symbolic archetype for skyscrapers, apartment housing and rocketships (vaka).
Rebecca Tune
Sheyne Tuffery
Rebecca Tune
Rebecca is a full time artist working from her in-house studio. Her work was showcased at the ‘Monet and the Impressionists’ exhibition at Te Papa in 2009. Tune has also been a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award.Rebecca Tune is represented by galleries nation-wide and her paintings are in many private collections both here and abroad.
Lingikoni Vaka’uta Educated in Tonga, Currently lives and works in Suva, Fiji. Lingikoni continues to find inspiration in the poetic and insightful Tongan metaphors and stories he has learned or composed. The multi- faceted meanings and reinterpretation in Lingikoni’s works are rooted in his memories of Tonga,
Francis van Dammen Born 1954, Frances van Dammen currently lives and works in Thames. She graduated from WINTEC with a Bachelor of Media Arts, majoring in Painting, in 2006. Van Dammen was the winner of the 2009 Waikato Art Awards and worked as a tutor at the WSA Art School. She has had successful sell-out shows.
Nicola Warner Nicola paints vibrant, contemporary landscapes, working in soft pastel and oil pastel with mixed media. “I paint the types of pictures I’d want on my own walls. I love the NZ landscape and I’m endlessly fascinated with colour and shape and the way the light is always changing. I find my inspiration in boats, beaches and beautiful places.”
Richard Wells Francis Van Dammen
Richard works out of his studio in Ellerslie and is the owner of Artworks a bronze art casting foundry. Represented by Parnell Gallery in Auckland and the Bryce Gallery in Christchurch Richard’s work is included in many public and private collections.
Johnson Witehira Johnson is an artist and designer of Tamahaki (Ngāti Hinekura), Ngā Puhi (Ngai-tu-te-auru), Ngāti Haūa and New Zealand European descent. His interest in Maori art and design led him to Te Patahi-aToi (School of Māori Studies, Massey University) where he recently completed his doctorate in Māori design. In his research, Tārai Kōrero Toi: Articulating a Māori Design Language, Witehira developed a platform for contemporary Māori design practice through the exploration of traditional carving.
Rieko Woodford-Robinson The very old and much loved soft toys depicted in Rieko's portraits seem to be a little reluctant to reveal their stories, where as her anthropomorphic animals are placed in sceneries that seem to be taken from almost forgotten childhood tales.Her paintings give people a tiny window into the lives of the characters. Her work is influenced by pop surrealism and the Old Masters of the 17th century. Rieko was born in Japan and moved to New Zealand in 1999 where she began exploring her artistic side. Now she lives and works as an artist and illustrator in Wellington.
Stephanie Woodman Johnson Witehira
Heather Wilson
Rae West With a focus on mostly New Zealand’s native botanical and bird imagery, Rae reflects in her paintings both a personal appreciation and ongoing concern for her surrounding environment.
Simon Williams Dunedin-born artist Simon Williams is strongly influenced by Artists of the Heidelberg School. Williams based himself in Mt Eden often choosing to paint “en plein air”. The city’s volcanic cones such as Mt Hobson and Mt Eden are frequent vantage points for these works.
Heather Wilson Heather is an established artist who has works throughout New Zealand and overseas. Her recent exhibition at Zohar Gallery in Mt Maunganui was a sell out. Her work has featured in several home magazines. You can find Heather’s work in 12 galleries and design stores around New Zealand.
Wellington based Woodman is a self taught artist and full-time art tutor. She has 19 years’ experience teaching children and adults, and has also trained teachers in visual art education. Her own art has evolved over time, as she has experimented and explored concepts within her selected medium; acrylics. Recently she has experimented with more abstract concepts, dealing with space and dimensional aspects - new geometrical series. Woodman has exhibited in Wellington, Auckland and the Kapiti Coast. She has worked on various private commissions for collections in New Zealand and overseas.
Frank Woodward Frank Woodward is a sculptor who has exhibited in a range of Auckland based exhibitions and is represented in private collections. These works combine glass, wood and stone.
Julie Woodward During an art teaching career that spans 30 years, Julie Woodward has also developed an art practice based primarily on painting and drawing. In these paintings the liminal landscape sliding by at the edge of the road solidifies or dissolves into abstraction. Her current work is scaled for close viewing.
Hayley King, Owner/Artist/Designer, Flox Design Ltd. Bachelor of Design graduate
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