Bronwyn Abbott
With keen intelligence Abbott explores the beauty found in both natural and structural forms throughout the Pacific. Expressing this through colour, composition and line, she portrays a sense of freedom and dynamism associated with the oceanic environment. Her unique style captures the essence but allows the viewer to create their own interpretation.

Brendan Adams
Born in 1961 and raised in Auckland, Brendan has been working with clay full time since 1987. He is an award-winning potter, his work is represented in the Auckland and Waikato Museums, the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and various regional collections. Brendan has taught at Unitec and with Auckland Studio Potters.

Helen Adams
Adams is North Shore born. She has always loved clay and is influenced by her sea environment. Studying Art and Fine Arts in Otago she began making ceramics after returning home. She enjoys hand building and bright colours.

Jamie Adamson
As a boat builder by trade, Jamie Adamson finds wood a natural pleasure to work with. As he works, the process comes from an instinctual space. He enjoys the physicality of the forms he creates, emulating natural shapes, flowing lines and working with the organic nature of the material.

Chan Andreassend and Taiai Pisa
Recent collaboration between Ronald Andreassend and Taiai Pisa has involved immersion in the Pacific side of Auckland - in culture, art, design, music, society and politics. This has led to participation in many projects and events, including producing objects that explore Taiai`s Samoan heritage and family stories utilising contemporary design and production techniques.

Rochelle Andrews
Rochelle creates ’larger than life’ floral paintings accentuating the beauty of flowers in close-up. A professional artist represented in galleries for over 20 years, her work never fails to capture the colour and depth of her subject matter, sometimes bold, sometimes delicate and always beautiful. Her work is collected internationally.

Stephen Bailey
Stephen studied ceramics at University of Sunderland, England, before moving to London and then setting up a small studio in Kent. Since his move to NZ in 2005, he has achieved merit awards at Auckland Studio Potters exhibitions and his work was selected for 2015 and 2016 Portage Ceramic Awards. He works from his garden studio in Mt Wellington where he continues his practice involving the exploration of texture and form as informed through the remembered experience of place.

Maria Balan
Maria Balan is an accomplished artist with more than thirty years of experience covering all aspects of painting and drawing, ranging from landscape oils, abstract acrylics and charcoal. Maria has sold many of her works through exhibitions and from her Mt Eden gallery.

Helen Bankers
Helen Bankers is an exciting new talent on the New Zealand fine art scene. Her recent show “In De Ruimte” featured her dark and brooding floral works, influenced by 17th century Dutch Masters. Her current work explores the intimacy of the floral world, particularly its sexuality and secrets. Helen has built a successful career as a commercial photographer. She studied Visual Arts at AUT in the 1990s.

Kathy Barber
Kathy Barber says, “The power to evoke rather than to state directly has always been at the heart of my abstraction. I believe when we are in environments that challenge us emotionally or physically we are opened up to inner conversations and monologues. The challenge lies in translating my response to the canvas”.

Andrew Barns-Graham
Andrew Barns-Graham has a BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts. A full-time artist for 15 years, he is represented by Sanderson Gallery and has been King’s College Artist-in-Residence.

Karin Barr

German-born Karin Barr is a practicing glass artist who creates outdoor installations in glass to respond to different sites and environmental concerns. Karin’s works are held by the Wallace Arts Trust and other private collections nationally and internationally.

Martin Basher
New York-based Martin Basher holds his BA (2003) and MFA (2008) from Columbia University, New York. Since graduation he has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, and has been the recipient of the McCahon Residency in Auckland amongst other international residencies. Blending together ideas of retail display, advertising and Modernism, Basher’s work questions the environmental and social implications of consumption in our times. He is represented in Auckland by Starkwhite.

Lisa Bate
Lisa produces small-scale cast glass and mixed media sculpture. Graduating from Falmouth University with BA in Contemporary Crafts, she has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Works in permanent collections include The Royal Cornwall Museum and North Lands Creative Glass in Scotland.

Sean Beldon
Sean says, “I was born in Cape Town, South Africa and made my first considered painting around the age of sixteen. My subjects are mostly figurative narratives and also landscape art, which I combine with my love of photography”.

Philippa Bentley
Philippa Bentley is an Auckland artist who exhibits regularly and has work held in both New Zealand and international collections. She is primarily a printmaker though works with a range of materials and has received awards in painting, printmaking and design.

Blue Bell Club
Philippa Hermansson and Ramona McDowell have a small business called the Blue Bell Club featuring all things Pacifica. Their work is colourful, unique and one-off. Their framed appliqué works are done on vintage wool and finished with soft crochet borders.

Becca Bolscher
Becca Bolscher’s works are modern interpretations of cabinets of curiosities, and are inspired by flora and fauna. Becca graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from University of Auckland in 2012 and has work in the Auckland District Health Board Trust collection.

Renée Boyd
Renée hand casts her vases and applies her own glazes which she has designed. She uses the simplicity of the monochromatic glaze palette mixed with hand-drawn dash and dot markings. As a recent finalist in the Portage Ceramic Awards, Renée’s work is gaining attention nationally.

Peter Brammer
Peter Brammer has an intimate knowledge of steel and metals with over 26 years’ experience working as an engineer and artistic craftsman. For the last 18 years he has focused on being an artist and blacksmith, working in traditional and contemporary methods to construct his pieces.

Amanda Brett
Amanda loves painting on location. She enjoys getting out in the fresh air, painting and meeting new people. Painting en plein air helps develop the artist's sense of light and skills of observation and speed, as the subject must be captured before light and atmospheric conditions change.

Allira Brydon
Allira Brydon is a fine art photographer, recently graduated from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design. Her practice is born from the fantasies of her mind and projected into her surroundings. She tries to preserve a sense of childish wonder in her photos, and many works are charged with questions of what it means to grow up.

Joelle Bunt
Recipient of The Trusts Art Award, First Prize 2016. Joelle is a painter from the west coast of Auckland who has recently concluded her first solo show. Her work is inspired by the accumulative memories of the NZ landscape, gathered since she was a child being raised free-range at Bethells Beach, by a family of creative people.

Jeannie Burnside
Jeannie Burnside is the illustrator and graphic designer of Studio Arc and a graduate of Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design. Jeannie is the daughter of a landscaper and granddaughter of a florist with 'flora and fauna' ingrained into her as inspiration. This passion has been interpreted into her unique graphic aesthetic.

Todd Butterworth
Butterworth graduated BFA (Sculpture) from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 and went on to complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts at Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne. He has exhibited widely in Australia and in NZ including NZ SculptureOnShore, Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens, and at Auckland Botanic Gardens.

Jonathan Campbell
Jonathan Campbell is a Wellington based sculptor. He mostly works in bronze and makes sculptures based on narrative, composition and craftsmanship.

Trish Campbell
Campbell’s passion for art is grounded in her love of the 1960s Light and Space movement, a movement that is reflected in her work ethic. “They created objects from light, sensory experiences which were other worldly, while pushing the boundaries with new materials and invention”. She crafts her work from scratch, taking as much delight in the process as in the final outcome. She is a proud graduate of AUT and has been exhibiting since 2008.

Cathy Carter
Water and more specifically the ocean has been a source of inspiration to photographer and installation artist Cathy Carter. Through the use of intimate perspective she seeks to embody seeing as an experience rather than solely as observation. Carter graduated Master of Art and Design (Hons) in 2013 and has been a finalist for many prestigious awards. She has exhibited in successful solo and group shows in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney and Szczecin - Poland.

Kathryn Carter
Kathryn paints the coastal landscapes and islands of Northland through changing seasons and throughout the day in inks on paper and oil on canvas. She won the 2015 Marlborough Art Society Prize and was a finalist in the 2016 Waikato Painters and Printmakers Awards. She has also been a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards in 2014, 2015 and in 2017 with two oil paintings: This Summer Past and Late Autumn in the Far North. She is a resident artist at Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Matthew Carter
Carter's paintings explore urban and industrial spaces, particularly the overlooked, disregarded and the temporary changing ground. Winner of the Glaister Ennor Award in 2009 and a finalist in many major art awards in New Zealand, he studied a Master's at AUT.

Theresa Cashmore
Theresa is a freelance calligrapher and artist. Combining her graphic design training and passion for calligraphy, she often uses words. Recent work draws upon her husband's archive of historic New Zealand wallpapers, and her pieces for the King's Art Sale feature original wallpapers from his collection.

Christine Cathie
Christine Cathie works with simple sculptural forms that curve and twist to bring movement to her pieces. She has been a finalist seven times in the Ranamok Glass Awards, and has been commissioned to make the annual awards for the New Generation artists selected by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. Cathie exhibits throughout New Zealand and in Australia, Hong Kong and the USA. Her work is included in the collections of Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, New Zealand, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark and Sir Elton John.

Chris Charteris
Chris Charteris is a sculptor and jeweller and works mostly with natural materials. He lives on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Frank Checketts
Frank studied Ceramics at Otago Polytechnic and then worked at the Moray Place Studio in Dunedin. For 10 years he tutored in Art at Southland Polytechnic. He is Set Builder for NZ Opera and Vice President of Auckland Studio Potters. A recipient of a Wallace Arts Trust residency in 2015 and Merit at Portage Ceramic Awards 2014.

Warren Childs
Warren began making cast metal sculptures in high school and continued to produce artworks as a self-taught artist in his spare time while practicing as a full-time dentist. In 2004 he was accepted into Elam School of Fine Arts from where he graduated in 2008 with BFA (Hons). He continues to practice dentistry full time but produces work for the occasional joint show, on commission and for his own enjoyment.

Henry Christian-Slane
Currently living in New Zealand, Henry has worked as an artist and illustrator full time since graduating from AUT in 2011. After moving to London in 2013, he won first prize at the Adam Portraiture Award (NZ) and in 2017 he won the BP Young Artist Award from UK’s National Portrait Gallery.

Susan Christie
Susan Christie is an Auckland artist with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT. Susan's paintings and ceramics explore 20th century abstraction with art historical references to the Memphis and Bauhaus groups. The colours and forms in her work are inspired by visual elements from everyday life, but it is the potential of the materials to communicate beyond references to the real world that excites her most.

Trish Clarke
Trish Clarke is a Whangarei-based artist who is a regular contributor to major New Zealand outdoor sculpture shows. Her work includes large public sculpture in Whangarei, pieces held by the Wallace Arts Trust and a popular work for the 2015 Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt for Starship Foundation.

Claybird Ceramics
With a background in archaeology, Claybird Ceramics’ founder and creator Yon Kavvas has always had an intrinsic love and interest in pottery, which has come full circle to creating her own business with ceramics at the heart of it. All pieces are designed and handmade by Yon, using sand sourced from Waihi Beach with its beautiful golden tones. Claybird Ceramics’ pieces are recognisable for their distinct organic quirks and perfectly imperfect personality.

Dawn Clayden
Auckland-based ceramicist Dawn Clayden specialises in one-off pieces and small production runs. Dawn's current body of work runs with themes of the romantic and whimsical, with vases adorned with cascading flowers with additions of gold and platinum lustre. Each porcelain piece is fired 3 times and will be in the kiln for a period of just over one week until it is finished.

Shane Cotton
Shane Cotton, ONZM, is a contemporary NZ Artist born in 1964.  Of dual Maori and Pakeha descent, Cotton’s work speaks to the contemporary issues of colonisation, cross cultural exchange, identity and spirituality.  Cotton currently lives and works in Palmerston North.

Holly Craig
With a passion for pattern, Holly specialises in small drawings full of intricate details. Each piece is unique with cryptic messages often hidden in their design.

Rosanne Croucher
Rosanne Croucher is an oil painter based in Auckland. Her landscape paintings emphasise illumination, harmony and mystery. She holds a Master of Design, and has participated in a range of exhibitions and awards, recently winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2016 NZ Painting & Printmaking Award.

Jiajia Cui
Addict of visual art.

Justin Culina
Justin Culina has been running his own hotshop in Whangarei for the last eight years. This commitment to the medium has taken him on an artistic journey that continues to challenge and inspire. “I feel it’s important to work with the glass in a way that utilises the shapes that it naturally wants to assume, appreciating and working with the tendencies of the medium”.

Pia Davie
Pia says “I grew up in a creative family: Mum owning a contemporary Art Gallery and Dad making acoustic guitars, encouraged me to pursue my painting. Currently I am working on a series of “Chip Shop" paintings, coming from a fascination with the commercial fish posters adorning the walls of fish and chip shops throughout the country. Completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otago majoring in Painting in 2005, I have continued to make and exhibit and became a full-time artist in 2014”.

Ingrid Delamore
Ingrid has a Bachelor of Architecture and studied Art at Art Station, Ponsonby. She belongs to Platina Street Art Group, mentored by John Nicol. She starts her paintings with a sketch from nature, then applies multiple layers of oil paint, transforming the image into a creative expression of nature's form.

Angie Dennis
Established Auckland artist Angie Dennis has been painting professionally since 2002. Angie is continually inspired by the unique landscape of New Zealand and is constantly pushing boundaries on how she sees life in her new-found home.

Mark Dimock
Mark Dimock was born in Wellington in 1958, and has been a full-time artist for the past 20 years, living in Eketahuna. His first solo show was in 1975 and he has had over 30 solo shows since. He works in both 3D and 2D and experimentation is important in his work.

Lee-Ann Dixon
Dixon graduated Bachelor of Visual Arts from NMIT in 2005. She works mainly on silver trays, inspired by her late mother’s china cabinet full of treasures, collected through the years, and the special memories attached to them.

Neil Donaldson
Neil Donaldson is a retired engineer. As a younger person, he spent all his spare time making things out of steel. He has spent the rest of his life working with steel and in his spare time now likes the challenge of making art that stands out and is different.

Louise Douglas Jewellery
Nelson-based jeweller Louise Douglas has been designing and making jewellery for over 20 years. Starting her first company at age 18, Louise sold work in New Zealand and then designed collections for private labels and runway shows in New York City. Louise relishes the process of bringing small objects into the world and sending them out to evoke curiosity and beauty.

Sonja Drake
Elements of water, land, trees and birds are interwoven. Drake enjoys the creative process, seeing her work evolve the mystery and the possibilities. Her paintings are designed to express connection and the interrelationship of all things. A graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, Sonja received her BFA in 1987. She is represented by Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Kevin Dunkley
Kevin says, “I have been painting full time for about 14 years after a creative career in advertising. Nostalgic New Zealand is my mantra. Memories of good times past. The simple life. I love it”.

Nick Duval-Smith
Nick Duval-Smith was born in Dunedin in 1969. He studied at the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts from 1988 to 1990, and again in 2007 and 2008. He majored in sculpture and jewellery, and particularly enjoys making things people can play with.

Sharon Duymel
Sharon Duymel was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and started painting in 1999 with a desire to express her love for New Zealand and its culture. Her first solo exhibition was a sell-out, and this ignited her painting career. Sharon continues to develop herself as an artist, exhibiting her work in galleries throughout New Zealand, and is represented in overseas collections.

Tanya Edwards
Tanya Edwards is of both Tongan and Maori descent with affiliations to Ngati Maru and Ngati Maniapoto. Her work is done on feta'aki, or tapa cloth, and is a reflection of both her cultural backgrounds using her knowledge of heritage arts from both New Zealand and Tonga. She has resided in Tonga for the past 20 years.

Lucy Eglington
Lucy Eglington originates from the UK but trained in New Zealand. She has works in private collections in NZ and internationally. Working mainly in oils, Lucy enjoys portrait work and is happy to work on commission.

Jemma Ennis
From Auckland, Jemma began painting full time in 2009 after taking art classes with NZ artists Matthew Browne and Kathryn Stevens. Influenced by NZ artists Jeena Shin and Sara Hughes, the source of inspiration for Jemma's current work has again come from Wassily Kandinsky's book “Point and Line to Plane”. Since 2012 she has exhibited regularly and in 2015 one of her paintings was purchased by the Wallace Arts Trust.

Michelle Farrell
Michelle’s artworks are held in public, private and corporate collections in New Zealand and internationally. She has worked extensively at all scales of the bronze medium and has also developed a body of photographic digital artworks. Movement, energy and dance expressions feature in her work, as well as harmonic interconnections with nature and the cosmos.

Anton Forde
Connection to the land, majesty of nature, and a fascination with themes universal to “first nation” cultures are the greatest influences on Anton Forde’s work. Forde began carving when he was 18 and studied art under sculptors Paul Dibble, Gary Whiting and Paul Hansen. While at Massey University, the Māori Visual Arts Programme validated his chosen path. Forde has lived in Taranaki and in Ireland, and now calls Waiheke Island home.

Nicky Foreman
Nicky Foreman has been working as an artist since 1991 when she graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts. To date she has had 35 solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions both in New Zealand and overseas. Her work is held in private collections in New Zealand and overseas.

Chas Foxall
Chas Foxall is Head of Visual Art and Design at King’s College. His specialist subjects are photography and design. Chas is passionate about surfing, the preservation of New Zealand’s outer coastal islands, graphic design and pop art and many of his works reflect this. His paintings are in several New Zealand collections including the Wallace Arts Trust.

Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell’s work has always been characterised by a highly skilled handling of paint and an endlessly inventive range of subject matter and styles: faux-naïve New Zealand landscapes, figurative still-life, comic book characters and witty parodies of modernist abstraction. His taste is conveniently broad and he has a penchant for fondly remembered and well-worn clichés. He is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.

Helen Frost
Sculpting and handcrafting original pieces from her studio in Waihi, Bay of Plenty, Helen is living her dream. Born and raised a farmer’s daughter, Helen spent her childhood in Ngutunui, Waikato, where she was immersed in colours and textures from an early age. Awarded Lewis’ of Cambridge Emerging Artist Award 2005, Helen’s work adorns homes all over the world and is included in several NZ galleries.

Deborah Fuller
Deborah Fuller has been a full time artisan since 2001, opening Lava Gallery (Akaroa) in 2008. She has developed an original form of mixed media, combining her own photographic imagery with multi-layered painted backdrops. The resulting simple landscapes evoke feelings of nostalgia with a hint of melancholy for a time left behind. ”We live life forwards but understand it backwards”.

Kirsty Fyfe
Kirsty Fyfe is a Wellington-based printmaker who specialises in etching. She loves the experimental nature that etching offers. Kirsty has exhibited all over the North Island and her works are in private collections in NZ and overseas.

Yayu Gao
Gao’s Life in Colour series is based on the New Zealand landscape, providing a sectional view of New Zealand through paintings of flowers, shrubs, or trees on canvas. These paintings invite a close look at the visual effects of the distinct elements explored in the form of art such as line, shape, texture and the natural colours painted into a new look.

Anita Gate
Anita was born in England and has also lived in Seoul, Sydney and New Zealand. Her artwork combines fine art detail with intense tonal colours to convey emotion through abstract realism. Her diverse artworks explore themes of the past and ever-changing places and spaces in the landscape, using contemporary figurative forms and still life.

Jody Hope Gibbons
Jody Hope Gibbons paints full time in her Matakana studio, exploring her interest in recycling, retaining found materials and discovering the beauty in these objects. Her practice is materials-based where the research occurs through the actual exploration of the materials, pushing the boundaries of traditional painting practice and techniques by continuing to exploit the use of paint, stains, rust, inks, leaf and varnish.

Wanda Gillespie
Wanda Gillespie is an Australian/New Zealand contemporary artist based in Auckland. She uses sculpture and photography to explore fictions and ideas around history, culture, ritual and ceremony. Her sculptures are often presented as historical artefacts. Gillespie primarily carves figurative sculptures in wood.

Max Gimblett
Max Gimblett is one of New Zealand’s most recognised painters. His philosophies and practices encompass influences as varied as Abstract Expressionism, Eastern and Western spiritual beliefs, and ancient cultures. His shaped canvasses convey various associations and meanings connected to the oval, rectangle, tondo, keystone, and the quatrefoil. He has been based in New York since the early 1970s and continues to exhibit regularly in the US and throughout New Zealand and is represented in Auckland by Gow Langsford Gallery.

Neala Glass
Auckland-based artist Neala Glass produces figurative drawings in charcoal and pastel that explore ideas of human psychology. Using compelling figure poses, she evokes narrative, mood, emotion and tension. These drawings are simultaneously realistic and metaphoric; both believable subjects in themselves and vehicles for symbolism and broader narratives.

Bev Goodwin
Bev Goodwin is a multimedia artist working mainly on site-specific outdoor art installations. She works with recycled materials - including telephone wire, wire, plastics and metals. Recent exhibitions include Fieldays No. 8 Wire National Art Awards, Harbourview Sculpture Trail, Kaipara Sculpture Gardens, NZ SculptureOnShore and Estuary Art and Ecology Awards.

Lisa Grennell
With her own personal journey raising children as inspiration, Lisa draws from nostalgic moments in an attempt to alleviate the solitude of "the empty nest”. She uses imagery of children with flowers, animals and insects questioning young people’s view of the world, seeing a disconnection from nature with modern technology.

Keith Grinter
Keith runs the Grinter Glass studio in Whangarei, where he creates unique blown glass art using the shard pick-up technique and his signature painted and blown work, and teaches glass blowing. His work is sold in more than 20 galleries throughout New Zealand and is found in many collections, including the Wallace Arts Trust Collection.

Weilun Ha
Weilun Ha is a Vietnam-born Chinese New Zealander with a Master of Architecture degree from University of Auckland. Ha has won several New Zealand awards including Franklin Arts Festival Award (2016), the Wallace Arts Trust People's Choice Award (2015) and an Estuary Art and Ecology Award (2014). As the winner of The Wallace Arts Trust Vermont Award (2016), he completed a 3-month residency in Vermont, USA in 2017.

Wolf Habichhorst
Wolf incorporates fun and humour with the inspiration of relationships, rhythms and symmetries of nature and our connection with it. He works with different materials, from metal with patinas to paint and wood and assemblages of discarded objects: Recycle, Reuse, Remake.

Peter Hackett
“Being a painter does not depend on a talent born or acquired. Being a painter depends on a willingness to work in the face of uncertainty, to make a career of doing something there may be no reward or recognition for”. Peter Hackett, St John's House, King's College. 1975-78.

Wendy Hannah
Wendy says, “Helen Frankenthaler and Dale Frank influence my work. Colour is my friend, whether it’s translucent or bright. I mix my colours with all sorts of pigment materials. The unexpected result is translucent watercolours, acrylic overlays, fluidity and movement”.

Frances Hanson
Frances Hanson has been working with glass for more than 12 years. She started with glass bead making (lamp working) and diversified into fused or kiln formed glass. Today she creates vibrant, organic art works as well as stunning glass and silver jewellery.

John Hanson
John Hanson started his involvement in glass with a series of glass-casting courses. He now concentrates on glass fusing, making plates and bowls which are both functional and attractive. He also creates wall art and sculptural pieces.

Guy Harkness
Guy is a New Zealand artist, living and working in Mt Eden, Auckland. Working mostly in oil or acrylic on canvas or board, his paintings include local landscapes, portraits, still lifes and iconic Kiwi subjects.

Jan Hart
Jan’s vibrant paintings hang in private and corporate collections, both here and overseas, and she enjoys undertaking commissions. She is represented by galleries and has won many awards. Jan encourages others to explore their potential in whichever medium they choose to paint in, and have some fun along the way.

Susan Haywood Smith
Susan studied printmaking in Auckland and Sydney, and has exhibited extensively since 2002 in Auckland and internationally. Inspiration for her artwork is derived from the rich cultures of the Maori and Pacific Islanders. Susan is reconciling her British lineage and experience of Maoridom to determine the point of intersection at which she is placed. Her art allows her to work through this dichotomy in order to create powerful and stirring New Zealand artwork.

Rebecca Heap
Rebecca Heap’s current work reflects influences from our young island nation combined with skills and traditions acquired during five years of blowing glass in Scandinavia.

JM Henderson
Jac loves painting, drawing and collage, with her new work incorporating all three to great effect. She has exhibited in solo and group shows over the last 25 years in NZ and internationally. She is represented by Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Raymond Herber
Raymond Herber lives and works in North Canterbury. He was born in 1971, one of seven children from a European immigrant family of artists. Steel and stainless steel are Raymond's medium of choice and his work encompasses small scale intimate studies of moments suspended in time, whimsical interactive and kinetic pieces as well as large scale private and public sculpture.

Veronica Herber
Award-winning artist Veronica Herber BVA is based in Auckland and best known for her large-scale tape installations. Her work has featured in Waiheke Sculpture on the Gulf and Sydney Sculpture by the Sea (three years running). Her works on paper are held in major NZ collections, including Wallace Arts Trust and the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Michael Hight
Michael Hight is a self-taught painter who has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1980s. He is most commonly associated with his realistic depictions of beehives in the New Zealand landscape, particularly in Central Otago and Canterbury. Michael is represented in Auckland by Gow Langsford Gallery.

Nicola Holden
Nicola Holden is an Auckland-based artist. She gained a Bachelor of Design degree (Interior-Architecture, Hons) from Victoria University in 2003, and graduated MFA (Hons) in 2010 from Elam School of Fine Arts. Since then she has worked as a part-time lecturer at Victoria University and Unitec.

Alexandra Howe
Auckland-based landscape painter Alexandra Howe is inspired by the ever changing effect of light across the landscape, and the resulting mood and feelings it evokes. She works from photographs and sketches taken during walks, incorporating memory, experience and response to the view to capture and express the emotion of that particular time and place. She is a resident artist at Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Kristin Hyde
Kristin Hyde is an emerging and intuitive artist with a love for colour. “Colour energises me and feeds my soul”. She works with mixed media and textiles, using eco printing and felting techniques. Kristin also has a love for photography and more recently has started silversmithing.

Russell Jackson
Russell Jackson studied Art History and Graphic Design at the University of Auckland and the Auckland Institute of Technology. His paintings reflect his love of bird life and NZ landscape, in particular its coastal environment. He tends to paint in enamels or acrylics on board.

Anna Jacobi
Anna paints old wooden nautical oars using paint and decoupage. This has evolved from her love for sailing, nature and practical art. She enjoys the use of design, colour, interesting textures and space on old wooden oars incorporating a nautical and unique look. The oars can be hung both indoors and outdoors by the nautical rope attached.

Rogan James
Rogan James has been teaching Art and Design for the past 13 years and now works part-time at Macleans College. Her acrylic paintings on circular or laser-cut plywood feature a range of flora and fauna. She is currently developing her work through the influence of Victorian ornament.

Raymond Jennings
A multi-disciplinary artist, Raymond’s lively career has seen him exhibit in numerous solo and group shows in New Zealand, USA and Singapore. His work carries a positive dynamic energy, with expert colour combinations, light and dark contrast, a strong sense of form and movement, together with an expansive multi-dimensional spatial understanding; generated by an inspiration that is both worldly and universal.

Jinho Jeong
Jinho Jeong is a South Korean who lives and works in Auckland. He was trained at the Kyunggi University in South Korea and then spent time at university in China where he studied high quality porcelain and the use of cobalt. He develops the unique characteristics of each piece of his work using colour and lines, in the same way that humans can be differentiated by their personality and character.

Amy Jones
Amy Jones of “Cheese Before Bedtime” creates contemporary embroidery in her Auckland home. She’s inspired by nature, birds and colours. Amy loves detailed stitching of wattles, curved beaks and bright plumage. This Budgie series explores aspects of the introverted, mysterious and strange. All pieces are handstitched and limited in number.

Ross Jones
Ross Jones, born in 1966 in Otaki, graduated from the Wellington School of Design in the 1990s and paints full-time in Auckland, supplying galleries with his version of everyday life. His paintings and limited edition prints are held in private collections locally and internationally. He exhibits in New Zealand and Australia.

Jacqueline Kampen
Jacqueline Kampen is an Auckland-based potter.

Nejat Kavvas
Trained as a pharmacist, Nejat Kavvas has been painting, engraving and sculpting since he was twelve. Before becoming a full-time artist, Kavvas studied archaeology, history, classical studies and art history and attended workshops in glass casting, pate de verre, flame working and sand casting in the USA, Europe and New Zealand. An Auckland-based artist, Kavvas has taught at various art schools and exhibited at galleries in New Zealand and overseas.

Gregor Kregar
Reflecting his broad range of subject matters, Gregor Kregar’s oeuvre encompasses an extensive and unique array of media that ranges from stainless steel, glazed porcelain, lambda print photography, and found objects such as recycled timber and neon lighting. His work is held in significant public collections including Te Papa Tongarewa, The Chartwell Collection and the Wallace Arts Trust. He is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery.

Josh Lancaster
Josh Lancaster is a young Auckland artist who made the move to the Hawkes Bay in 2016 to pursue painting full time. Lancaster’s bold lines and saturated colour make for distinctive, original artworks including those of some more quirky local landmarks.

JK Lawson
Lawson’s paintings are a response to the impact of humans on the environment, reflecting the crisis of climate change, toxicity and atmosphere. She has recently graduated as Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, and was a finalist for the 2017 National Contemporary Art Award.

Ekaterina Lee
Ekaterina's paintings explore the tension between polarities: soft and hard edges, dark and light, transparent and opaque, geometric and organic. She is interested in how certain elements or areas become increasingly subtle, sometimes disappearing completely, while others might gain prominence in the foreground.

Suzan Lee
“In my art practice, birds are often used as a symbol of freedom – alluding to the old metaphor 'Free as a Bird', as a longing of the human spirit to be carefree. These works were created with that freedom in mind with the birds tipping the edge of an 'unstable' sphere/world – a place where food, water and shelter are basic necessities that present their own limitations and thus question that freedom”.

Gus Leen
Gus is a first year Industrial Design student at Massey University of Wellington. During his semester holidays, he works at a local joinery workshop where he is able to use precision machinery to create his own innovative furniture and lighting designs. Gus’s past experience working for an electrical firm has allowed him to incorporate unique design features into his lamps.

Samantha Lissette
Working extensively in all scales of the bronze medium, from the monument to the miniature, Samantha's work explores the relationship between “designed” elements in the natural world and man's adaptation of them, merging organic and constructed ideas, exposing an innate link between the two. Her work is in public and private collections across New Zealand and China and she became a member of the NZ medal makers group MANZ in 2000.

Euan Lockie
Euan Lockie is an interdisciplinary artist whose current works are primarily focused on painting and sculpture. Lockie graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with First Class Honours and was recently awarded a scholarship to an artist residency in Singapore where he worked towards a solo exhibition at Instinc gallery. He has exhibited works in Shanghai, Auckland and the United States and has work in various private collections most notably the Wallace Arts Trust.

Tom Lusk
Tom says “I've been carving all my life, beginning in the 1980s at Kohupatiki Marae in Hawke's Bay. I have recently returned to working in timber after many years primarily carving small pieces in antler and bone. I teach English at King’s College and live in Kingsland with my wife and son”.

Prue MacDougall
Prue MacDougall studied printmaking at the Elam School of Fine Arts and graduated from University of Auckland with the Prize of Excellence in Fine Arts. Prue has exhibited in Melbourne, Portland, Oregon, Fort Cadaques, Spain, and in Rome. Her hand-printed artworks are held in collections throughout New Zealand and internationally, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is represented by Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Liz McAuliffeLiz McAuliffe is a carver and painter of nature’s exquisite objects. “In my sculpture practice I aim to give a sensual experience as well as a visual one, so form, surface and shadow are an integral part of my art works. I am constantly intrigued by nature and I work with magnifying the minutiae found there”.

David McCracken
Sculptor David McCracken’s works are primarily constructed from fabricated steel, and have been included in many outdoor exhibitions in New Zealand and abroad. McCracken is one to try new and interesting techniques, such as ‘drop-forging’, by dropping a large steel weight onto sheet aluminium from a crane, and ‘hydro-forming’, basically stretching steel forms using hydrostatic pressure. He is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery.

Beth McGill
Beth says, “My hand-painted feathers of native birds came about when a friend pointed out that I loved birds and loved feathers, so why not paint on feathers? The painted feathers started small and unframed, but while preparing for a solo exhibition in 2011 l framed up three birds, and it's taken off from there”.

Rose McKellar
Rose McKellar is an award-winning artist from Christchurch who creates contemporary feather artworks using New Zealand feathers. Rose has exhibited at Nelson’s Wearable Arts Gallery, The Powerhouse Gallery in Akaroa, The Aigantighe – Timaru, and Christchurch’s Visually Maori and Whare. She also exhibits at the Poi Room and Letham Gallery in Auckland, and Birdswood Gallery in Havelock North.

Poata Alvie McKree
Poata Alvie McKree is a multi-disciplinary artist working between performance and installation. Using found materials and exploiting their material characteristics, she examines religious and cultural ideologies for universal narratives to respond to visually and through performative gesture.

Jenny McLeod
Jenny McLeod is a mixed media glass artist. She fuses glass to create her work: sheet glass is cut and layered in a kiln and taken to high temperatures to melt together. The molten glass sheets sink into designs hand-drawn into sand during the firing and are then slumped into moulds. Jenny is a full-time artist and holds a Craft and Design diploma with distinction in glass.

Louise McRae
Louise has been exhibiting for the past seven years, is a four-time finalist in the Wallace Art Awards, and a finalist in the BMW Contemporary Art Awards. Currently working on a MFA at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, she produces large abstract works on timber, uses saws and axes to cut them and then reconstructs them to create a painting full of air… highlighting the spaces between and in front of the painted surface.

Dalene Meiring
Dalene states, “My paintings are brought together to portray people, places and domestic objects that are inextricably linked to my current surroundings. My work, rich in colour, harmonious in form and intense combinations portray a vitality that creates a balance with this silent meditation and express an individual decisive vision of life”.

Kate Mitchell
Kate Mitchell was born in Auckland in 1993 and is an Auckland-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts (2015). Kate is currently working full time as a glass artist in the field of glass casting and glass blowing.

Steve Molloy
Steve Molloy is an award-winning New Zealand artist currently producing works in wood, stone and metal, and also developing works of photography and painting inspired by the contemporary New Zealand landscape. He has completed multiple public works, exhibited throughout New Zealand and attended many national and international symposia.

Doug Moores
“I have a background as a creative in advertising and teacher of yoga. I love the combination of science, art and storytelling to question current assumptions and find better solutions. Painting is a powerful vehicle for me to communicate ideas and influence behaviour for a healthier, happier and more innovative world”.

Bridget Morison
Bridget is an emerging artist based in Hawkes Bay. Her subjects are animals, yet her main focus is the use of light and illusion. Bridget aspires to bring a soul to her paintings, elevating them beyond a feeling of traditional portraiture.

Toni Mosley
Toni Mosley is an artist/printmaker originally from USA. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and American Studies (University of Wyoming) and a Master’s degree of Fine Arts (State University of New York in Buffalo). Currently she teaches art classes and creates work in her studio. More of her work can be seen at Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Anya Mowll
Anya Mowll is a full-time artist based in Wellington. She has a Diploma in Ceramic Arts and graduated as Bachelor in Applied Arts from Whitireia Polytechnic. She enjoys exploring the texture of fired ceramics from very smooth to as sharp as a knife, and finds inspiration in nature, particularly in growth, weathering, evolution and organic structures.

Janet Muir
Janet Muir studied sculpture at Elam School of Fine Arts, Art History and Italian at University of Auckland and Painting at AUT. She has been a finalist twice for the Wallace Art Awards, and her work was commended in the Waikato Art Awards and the Adams Portraiture Awards. She has been painting professionally for fifteen years and has recently returned to painting after taking a break to care for her children.

Janice Napper
The distinctive, contemporary artwork of Janice Napper is easily identified through the rich colour hues and glass like finishes. Drawn to the shiny smooth surfaces of lacquer and Perspex Janice paints intuitively, often working from rough drawings while tackling the complex technical challenges involved in working with polymer and resin on a large scale

Zoë Nash
Zoë Nash is a multidisciplinary artist working across a range of creative platforms. She holds Master of Fine Arts (Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, 2002). Her work explores themes of repetitive process, experience and transformation, using narrative devices to trigger personal connections. It has included site-specific installations, sculpture, drawings, paintings, digital prints and photography.

Richard Naylor
Trained in Japan. Works mainly on the wheel, making domestic ware and decorative items, but also hand builds sculptural works.

Phil Neary
Phil Neary was born in Takapuna, Auckland, and was the Senior Scholar of his BFA year at Elam School of Fine Arts. He has worked as a sculptor since graduating Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) in 1998. He has exhibited in many solo and group shows, and his work has recently been showcased in outdoor sculpture exhibitions including the Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens, Brick Bay Sculpture Trail and NZ SculptureOnShore.

Kirsten Newton
Over the last few years Kirsten has been collecting rubbish on Narrowneck Beach, sorting it into subsets. Once she has got her subset, the rubbish is then encased in resin to give the floating effect of pieces of debris lost in the flux of the ocean.

Christian Nicolson
Christian Nicolson is a full-time artist. He paints, makes large sculptures, uses photography, makes installations and film. Christian has gone through several phases and loves to combine ideas that relate to him and to others. Being creative is king.

Kirsty Nixon
Kirsty Nixon has been painting and exhibiting since the late 1980s. In 1994 she began capturing the New Zealand landscape on canvas which prompted her to leave advertising to paint full time. She was selected to paint giant eggs for the 2014 and 2015 Whittaker’s Big Egg Hunt for Starship Foundation seen throughout New Zealand.

Seung Yul Oh
Born in Seoul, Seung Yul Oh moved to New Zealand 15 years ago and completed an MFA at Elam School of Fine Arts. He now divides his time between Auckland and Seoul. In 2010 Oh was invited to take up a residency at the artist-run space GGOOL in Seoul and he was the recipient of the 2011 Harriet Friedlander New York Residency Award administered by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. He is represented in Auckland by Starkwhite.

Neal Palmer
Born in London in 1968, Neal Palmer’s work focuses on iconic subjects using scale, colour and form to create dramatic and emotive paintings. He has been a full-time artist since 1999 and has participated in Artists in Eden, Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, ’35 K’ at Artspace, and as a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards (merit winner), Margaret Stoddard, and the Wallace Art Awards.

Fiona Pardington
Dr Fiona Pardington was born in Auckland and holds a Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Auckland. In the late 1980s she was amongst a group of women artists who challenged photography's social documentary aesthetic, prevalent in the previous decade. She went on to focus on the still-life format, recording museum taonga and other historic objects such as hei tiki and the now extinct huia bird. Pardington, who this year was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, was last year named Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Prime Minister. She is represented in Auckland by Starkwhite.

Emily Parr
Emily Parr graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with First Class Honours in 2014. During the last several years she has gravitated towards the essay film because it acknowledges personal, subjective and social histories. Parr’s work often centres on the impact of colonisation, imperialism and capitalism on Earth’s ecosystems and peoples – particularly the exploitation of resources. The need for environmental and social justice drives her art.

Bernadette Parsons
Bernadette is one of New Zealand’s foremost watercolourists, winning many awards, including most recently New Zealand Watercolour Society’s Supreme award at Splash 2014, and Best Watercolour in Show and Most Successful Artist at the Royal Easter Show Art Awards 2015. Her goal is to work in partnership with this exciting medium and not try to challenge its lively free spirit.

Reuben Paterson
Reuben Paterson is a dynamic artist known for his creations in glitter and diamond dust. The influence of Paterson’s Maori heritage (Ngati Rangitihi) is strong in his earlier works, which focused on kowhaiwhai motifs. Drawing from both his Maori and Scottish ancestry Paterson also combines traditional pattern and design with non-traditional media. He is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery.

Cate Pates
Cate says, “I have a degree in ceramics, have won awards, and sell my work nationally and internationally. I run my own studio called Fig Tree Studio where I also hold classes. Imagery is created by using my own drawings as photo transfers and also drawing directly onto the clay, then adding real gold decals”.

Max Patté
Wellington-based, British-born Max is fast becoming one of New Zealand's most high-profile artists. He was head of sculpture at Weta Workshop until December 2014, and his work ‘Solace in the Wind' is an iconic landmark on the Wellington waterfront. Max's work is collected by the likes of Charles Saatchi, Stephen Fry, and Sir Ian McKellen, while his growing fan base in New Zealand includes Sir Michael Hill.

Sheila Pearson
Sheila is a painter living in Whanganui. She works in acrylics using a self-developed layering technique. She has a background in architectural draughting and freelance illustration, both of which contributed to a love of detail. She also has a keen interest in depth of colour and the play of light.

Penguin Studio
Tony Johnston has been a working artist for the past 40 years. His paintings are held in public and private collections in NZ and overseas. He has recently been working on concrete sculptures notably large Torea Mangu sculpture on the Kaiaua foreshore. He also produces small penguins individually and in limited editions.

Isaac Petersen
Isaac states, “My work is a culmination of stories from my life, my home, and places I have been. Since I can remember, the ocean and rugged landscape where I grew up in New Zealand has inspired me to paint landscapes and the sea. My paintings expanded to capture the “story" of places abroad and in recent few years, I began painting my wife, Erika, as a figure to add depth and connection to a beautiful surrounding, often water”.

Murray J Peterson
”Straight Photographs of a Parallel Universe”. In the light reflected and refracted in a piece of recycled glass and a steel espresso cup, Murray captures uncanny, familiar landscapes. They parallel memories of the serene twilight shorelines of Coromandel and Far North beaches - the ultimate exploration of introvert and extrovert worlds.

John Phillips
John Phillips has been a full-time artist for several years, making pottery and sculpture from fiberclay. More recently he has been using his techniques on canvas to create wall pieces.

Eva Polak
Eva Polak is a photographer, artist, author and teacher, known for her enthusiasm and passion for impressionist photography. Eva has had three solo exhibitions and has participated in a variety of group exhibitions. Her photographs are in private collections in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. Her three books outline ways to use your camera for painterly effect, and she has passed on her knowledge and experience to keen photographers through a variety of workshops.

Helen Pollock
Helen Pollock has been a practising sculptor in Devonport for three decades. Her work addresses anthropomorphic, mythological and historical concerns on the matter of “Looking back to see my way forward”. The outcome of this pathway has been a series of commemorative sculptures permanently installed in museums in Europe and New Zealand.

Jocelyn Pratt
Presenting stylish simplicity in modernist interpretive works representative of natural forms, Jocelyn enhances the natural qualities of stone with polish and texture techniques. Her works are tactile and suggestive of a restful gentle form, a juxtaposition of the natural solidity and strength of the stone and concept.

Lou Pendergrast Mathieson
Lou has been working with glass since graduating with a BA in Applied Arts in 1998. Since then, she has been teaching glass making to adults and children in the community. Her work focuses on the see-through 3D ability of glass and its beauty and translucency, and she particularly loves the textures and patterns of glass created from 1920s to 1940s.

Dean Proudfoot
Focussing on who we are and where we have come from, the common thread in Dean's paintings is exploring and celebrating our culture and identity. Recently he has returned to themes of nostalgia. Dean is also an award-winning freelance illustrator of twenty years’ experience. His paintings appear in a number of prestigious private collections including the Wallace Arts Trust, the collection of Dunbar Sloane Snr and the Museum Art Hotel.

Robin Ranga
Inspired by nature’s design and endurance, Robin Ranga is interested in how subliminal forces impact on social, cultural and environmental perspectives. She strives to express and share empathy for the viewer to recognize universal compassionate matters. Finalist Portage Ceramic Awards 2009, 2010 and 2013. Merit Award, Small Sculpture Prize 2014 (Waiheke). 2016 Artist Exchange to Nongyuan International Art Village, Chengdu, China.

Fiona Rennie Schwieters
Fiona has been working with cast glass for 15 years. Using the lost wax process, her themes include tiki underwater worlds, casts from nature, whimsical creatures, and native birds. In 2016 she won the People’s Choice Award for Kotare Te Atatu - 28 glass kingfishers at the Harbourview Sculpture trail. She has taught glass casting in Venice and runs workshops from her Grey Lynn studio.

Ramon Robertson
Ramon Robertson has a BA (Honours) in Sculpture from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland and an MA in Interior Design from Manchester Metropolitan University. His artwork engages with aspects of architecture and urbanisation with an observation on mass production and standardisation.

Carol Robinson
Carol says, “I live in the winterless north just out of Whangarei. Clay is the medium I choose to create my indoor and outdoor sculptures. I work mainly with paper clay to construct angular buildings, machines and wall constructions”.

Judy Rogers
Originally from Melbourne, Judy is a Devonport-based artist. Her work is predominantly Steampunk-influenced with a poetically romantic, quirky twist. Often with a practical, but non-conforming vision in mind, she's inspired by prolific English writer H.G Wells and French poet/playwright Jules Verne.

Alice Rose
Alice Rose was brought up by Australian artist beatniks, in a painting and sculpture-filled house in the 1960s when retro design and Victorian printing techniques met avant-garde ideas. Using her love of tactile clay, she applies the principles of drawing and painting to a three-dimensional form. Each vase is cast and cut, then patterns applied that imitate machine-made precision in textiles, art and graphics to flatten or further the illusion of roundness.

Rebecca Rose
Rebecca states “I am fascinated by birds in flight as they pass over the Waitakere Ranges, homeward bound at dusk. Their formations are spectacular and mesmerising”.

Carla Ruka
Born in 1981 in Auckland, Carla is a clay sculptress, and completed studies in Maori Art and Design with a focus on ceramics. Drawing from her Maori and European background, she is inspired by her ancestral heritage. Carla is a member of Nga Kaihanga Uku (The Maori Clay Artists) and Auckland Studio Potters. Exhibiting nationally and internationally, Carla has developed close relationships with other indigenous artists world-wide.

Rachel Rush
Rachel says, “I love the freedom of mixing up acrylics and stains with resin to create beautiful colours and depths within layers of work. There are no hard rules to follow and I love watching each piece take on its own vibrancy and energy”.

RUSH
“RUSH has evolved from my love of all the amazing street art from around the world – the alleyways of Melbourne, to the surviving slabs of the Berlin Wall and the gritty streets of New York. I was inspired to capture the energy and feeling from the streets, and to put it up on canvas, creating each painting to become a piece of the bigger picture”.

Merthyr Ruxton
Merthyr Ruxton paints in her studio in the hills on the Tawharanui Peninsula, north of Auckland. The summers of 2013 and 2015 were spent in Paris where she was inspired by the gardens in front of the Madeleine church in the 8th arrondissement. She is represented by Railway Street Studios, Auckland.

Cathryn Ryan
Auckland artist Cathryn Ryan reveals her love of nature through botanically inspired works. Structural balance and harmony reside within each composition, as these amplified renditions explore the intimacy of space, while honouring beauty - even in its decline. Cathryn is represented by Railway Street Studios and also exhibits at Eden Gardens.

Gitta Schrade
Gitta’s interest in fibre art and weaving led to copper weavings. From wall abstracts and weavings to outdoor sculptures, the main material used is copper. Her inspiration comes from nature and everyday surroundings. Copper allows creation of many shades and shapes and yet still keeps its earthy organic quality. Most of her works are for indoors and outdoors.

Diane Scott
Diane Scott graduated in 2012 with an MFA (first class) from Elam School of Fine Arts, where she was awarded the Elam Prize for Painting and the Glaister Ennor Masters Graduate Art Award. Scott's practice had previously been primarily sculptural, and sculpture continues to inform her current works through shared concerns of space, illusion, materiality and light.

Ema Scott
Ema Scott designs honed-down elegant stone forms sensitive to balance and flow – inviting to touch. She is of Maori/Irish/Scottish descent, and views her work as a tangible expression of an unbroken chain of creativity linking through her parents and ultimately to the source of all creation.

Mat Scott
Originally from Hawkes Bay, Mat Scott has been creating all his life. Growing up in the beachside community of Haumoana he has always been inspired by the environment, as were his father and mother before him.

Robin Scott
Robin creates visually rich and stimulating works often representing New Zealand life and icons. She is inspired by the beauty of nature, from flora and fauna to our beautiful sunsets and beaches. Her primary objective is to evoke an emotive response from the viewer.

Robert Scriven
Robert's work is characterised by stunning portrayals of single flowers or leaves, rendered in exquisite botanical detail and subtle nuances of colour. His works are in private collections worldwide, including UK, Zurich, Dubai, China, Singapore, USA, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

Aaron Scythe
Aaron has studied in Auckland, Australia and Japan. He worked for 16 years in Japan in Mittagaong and Mashiko, after studying under Professor Koie Ryoiji. On Aaron's return to Aotearoa his studio was in Te Aroha. He is now based in Whanganui creating ceramic art and Japanese ink paintings.

Grant Sharman
In 1977 at the age of 15, Old Collegian Grant Sharman broke his neck playing rugby. Grant was introduced to mouth painting by the well-known painter Bruce Hopkins and in 1980 was awarded a stipend from the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists.

Kim Shaw
New Zealand-born Kim Shaw works predominantly in the medium of painting but has also worked extensively in video. Completing a Masters of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2012 and a Master of Arts in Arts Management (Hons) at Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Shaw continues to study painting under mentor Matthew Browne. Her work has featured in several group shows in Auckland and Queenstown, and is represented in private collections throughout New Zealand and in America.

Teri Shin
Born in Seoul, South Korea and based in Auckland, Teri Shin is a recent graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts. Currently studying secondary teaching at University of Auckland, Teri creates her own style of donuts. Her purpose is to celebrate and share pleasurable experiences through works that depict sweetness.

Adam Shuter
Adam Shuter is an award-winning landscape designer who is fascinated by the concept of the modern Kiwi family. With the average modern kiwi family of 3.9 on the decline, his work depicts the family in a way that hasn't been seen before. His contemporary indoor/outdoor sculptures feature a series of slats in a range of heights.

Peter Siddell
Peter Siddell’s works present depictions of Auckland suburbs painted in a realist style using architectural elements as the primary focus. His works are not of specific places, but represent an archetypical suburban lifestyle, with a focus on the places we inhabit. Peter Siddell was a self-taught artist who had a varied career path before he began painting. Knighted for his service to the arts in 2008, Sir Peter Siddell died in 2011. With thanks to Gow Langsford Gallery.

Skaaperelli
Skaaperelli create handmade wire and bead artworks and installations for the garden.

SJ Smith
Born in London and studied art at school, but survival took him to be a successful music producer. He is now enjoying the return to his passion for abstract art and pop art.

Jim Speers
Jim Speers’ recent exhibitions/projects include: Long Days, Fei Contemporary Art Centre, Shanghai (2012); New Windsor Road, Starkwhite, Auckland (2011); Numerology and Territories, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Pakuranga (2010). His work has also appeared in group shows in Auckland, Tallinn, Wellington, Heidelberg, Mannheim, Warsaw, Vilnius and at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil. He is represented in Auckland by Starkwhite.

Bob Steiner
Bob Steiner creates unique handcrafted collectible ceramics with the beautiful natural forms of New Zealand in mind. Made at his studio in Avondale, Auckland, these can be used for indoor or outdoor living spaces.

Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart states, “My technique involves piecing together found industrial parts so that they join together like Lego, with no alterations, welding, drilling etc. This method is accomplished by determining the precise measurements of the industrial part required until a part of the exact dimensions is found. I am a minimalist and employ the “simplicity is the essence of good design” approach. I call this art form Slatem.”

Jenni Stringleman
Jenni says, “I'm currently focused on fragmented, almost kaleidoscopic botanicals with elements of energetic abstraction using a vibrant mix of thick oils over translucent washes of neon colour. I live in Devonport with my young family, paint full time, and sell from galleries in Auckland and Dunedin and to international collectors”.

Michel Tuffery
Michel Tuffery is a New Zealand-based artist of Samoan, Rarotongan and Ma’ohi Tahitian heritage. A keen historian and active participant in contemporary culture, Tuffery holds a deep commitment not just to the peoples of the Pacific but to the environment. His artwork is curated into major international exhibitions and public collections and has qualified him to undertake residencies in the USA, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Asia, India and Australia. In 2008 Tuffery was appointed as a Member of the NZ Order of Merit. He is the current King’s College Artist-in-Residence.

Fiona Tunnicliffe
“I have been a potter for nearly 30 years, mostly concentrating on animal forms. Hares and horses make up the majority of my work at the moment but my main focus is the surface of the clay, pattern and texture”.

Meg Tyre
Meg is a self-taught artist who works predominantly in mixed media and collage using a combination of digital manipulation, found objects and vintage papers. She also works in acrylics on canvas and board. Meg often produces her work in series such as the mixed media depictions of iconic actresses and musicians. Her work can be found in private collections in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Lee van der Geest
Lee van der Geest started her artistic career as a florist which led to an interest in sculpture. She has a great love of nature which is depicted in her use of organic and rustic materials. Lee lives in Queenstown and finds inspiration and materials from the local environment.

Clovis Viscoe
Clovis Viscoe is currently refining his sculpting practices from a studio space in Ellerslie. He has participated in group shows for the past five years, exhibiting carved wood sculpture and metal creations for outdoors.

Michelle Viskovich
Michelle Viskovich is an artist who paints landscape and still life by combining abstract techniques with realism to capture the immediacy and vibrancy of nature. Her art has evolved over the past 17 years and she currently practices with the Platina Street Art Group under the mentorship of John Nicol.

Wallflower
Jane Oldershaw grew up with an appreciation of beautiful flowers and interesting plants. Her own garden, an ongoing project, was planted in the 1960s by a flower-lover: beautiful things constantly pop up in random places. An obsession with photographing these flowers, combined with a need to add colour to her own walls became 'Wallflower'.

Gordon Walters
Gordon Walters (1919-1995) is best known for his paintings employing the koru, the curving bulb form from Maori moko and kowhaiwhai rafter patterns. He Mondrian-ised the koru, straightening and regimenting its scroll-like forms, taking it from organic to strictly geometric. Walters is represented in the country's major public collections and his place in our art history is also memorialised in the bi-annual Walters Prize. His work appears courtesy of the Walters Estate and Starkwhite.

Yufeng Wang
Yufeng Wang is a famous Chinese artist, who currently lives and works in Auckland. Formerly Dean of the Fine Arts Academy of Northeast Normal University in China, his art has been exhibited in China and overseas many times. Yufeng traditionally paints in oils, typically with a Russian influence.

Dale Webster
Full-time property manager, part-time artist.

Steuart Welch
Steuart Welch is a rugby-playing dairy farmer with a life-long love of art. He makes giant, industrial sculptures out of Corten steel at his farm in Marton. Entirely self-taught, Welch uses engineering techniques that he has adapted for his own purposes, and cuts and bends all his steel by hand. His work has featured in several NZ exhibitions.

Richard Wells
Richard’s artwork captures moments in life revealing movement and emotion. Using traditional techniques and the ancient medium of bronze, they tell human stories in a contemporary context. Born and raised in the South Island, Richard now lives in Auckland and is the owner of Artworks bronze art casting foundry. His works are held in collections in NZ and overseas including Te Papa Tongarewa.

Grant Williams
Northland-born artist Grant Williams graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1991. He has been commissioned to produce numerous private and public artworks, and is best known for his large kinetic sculptures. His most recent works have been installed in São Paulo and his largest kinetic work (Spring Seedling) in Blenheim.

Brad Williams - Slope
Brad Williams aka Slope is a self-taught artist from Wellington who has been painting stylised depictions of the human face for over a decade. Drawing inspiration from the modern human condition, technology and electronic music, Brad creates images of metallic women in liquid form with focus on detail and technique.

Leigh Wills
Leigh says, “I love working with stone. Most of my work is large and site specific. I think every piece has a home and a message. I hope someone will have fun with "Lollies" and have the perfect spot for them.”

Wilma J Design
Wilma Jennings was inspired by the clay following seasonal rains at her childhood home in Curaçao. She moved to New Zealand in 1963, and made her first large wall panel while at school in Hamilton. Wilma chose to carve her own path as a potter, producing work in many styles as market forces and opportunities arose. The selection in this exhibition is from her garden and bird series, started fifteen years ago.

Finn Wilson
Finn says, “I’m an artist based in Mt. Eden, Auckland. My works are firmly planted in the street genre - a skate and surf style mixed in with graffiti to produce paintings on many different mediums. I like to repurpose old materials such as car doors, surfboards, skateboards and turn them into artworks - often with a whimsical twist”.

Rieko Woodford-Robinson
Rieko is best known for her detailed portraits of anthropomorphic creatures, usually animals or well-loved toys. A self-taught artist and illustrator, she was born in Japan and has lived in Wellington for 17 years. Her first exhibition was held in 2010, followed by several solo shows and group exhibitions in Wellington and Auckland. Every one of her solo shows has sold out.

Mark Wooller
Mark Wooller is an artist with a great empathy for the New Zealand native bush, flora and fauna who lives in an idyllic rural bush setting north of Auckland. Wooller also studies the history associated with various aspects of New Zealand landscape and he collects and refers to a multitude of ephemera, documentation and other historical records which relate directly or indirectly to the subject. He is represented by Warwick Henderson Gallery.

Cheryl Wright
Cheryl Wright is a multi-media artist who has exhibited widely around New Zealand, often with sculptor husband James Wright. She owns and runs Art Industry, an artists’ space in Clevedon Village.

James Wright
James Wright’s sculptures are found throughout Aotearoa in private and public collections. His large scale work TreeMan was installed at Eastwoodhill Arboretum in 2014, and Rover the Dog is at home at Pah Homestead for the Wallace Arts Trust. He was awarded the Fuller’s People’s Choice Award for his work Target at headland Sculpture on the Gulf 2015.

Anne Fan Yang
Anne was a landscape architect many years ago, and loved creating and drawing when she was a child. About 10 years ago she became a full-time artist. In the last 5 years she has won prizes at art competitions and her artworks have been collected by public and private buyers.

Melissa Young
Melissa Young has been sculpting since 1997, working mainly in bronze and producing delicate figurative pieces. She likes to experiment with new ideas and themes when sculpting, and often these ideas evolve from conversations that she has had or scenes that she has observed. Her works are a social commentary on (her) life.

Simon Young
Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts, Simon has worked as a photographer. His personal work has always been a constant. “As I travel, I’m drawn to the beauty of the lonely landscapes that litter New Zealand. To me, that’s a stunning aspect of our country”.

Zi Zhuang
Zi Zhuang was born in 1968 in Sichuan, China. Graduated from Sichuan University Art College, 2006-2008 MA. Member of Sichuan Artists' Association, Vice President of Sichuan Institute of Artistic Education and Creation, Vice Secretary General of Wuhuo District Artists Association. Associate Professor at Sichuan Art Vocational College. Represented in New Zealand by Moonlight Gallery.