Sumaya Abrahams
Jamie Adamson
Michael Anderson
Ronald Andreassend
Natasha Armstrong
Alex Astbury
Emma Bass
Blake Beckford
Tanya Blong
Michele Bryant
Julia Budden
Robbi Carvalho
Patrick Casey
Jamie Chapman
Clinton Christian
Brenda Clews
Vicki Comrie-Moore
Heidi Cooney
Bryn Corkery
Shirley Cresswell
Stephanie Crisp
Sumaya Abrahams Sumaya Abrahams is an 18-year-old Kiwi-South African artist born and raised in Auckland. She brings her unique semi-realistic compositions to life with a rough, imperfect artistic process, each piece drawing inspiration from ideas of strained and flawed connections. With a passion for blending pencil and paint mixed media,she creates captivating pieces that draw the viewer's attention into the finer details of her work, using darker tones to emphasise certain elements. Sumaya has already exhibited in previous years at the Art Show as a Mt Albert Grammar School student.
Jamie AdamsonJamie Adamson’s strong interest in working with wood began during his early years, when he remembers joining his grandfather in his workshop and tinkering away with tools to fix and create things. After leaving school, Jamie completed his apprenticeship in the boat building trade which gave him experience working with timber, steel and fibreglass materials. Through boat building Jamie learned patience and the ability to craft a concept into a product that looks aesthetically pleasing. Having recently sold his business, Jamie is now embracing his long-harboured interest in sculpting with wood. Using boat building techniques, he is experimenting and developing his own style of sculpture. For Jamie, wood is a natural pleasure to work with and 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.
Michael AndersonAuckland-based artist Michael Anderson graduated from Hungry Creek Art School in 2011 with an interest in action painting and abstract expressionism. He paints primarily on plywood using oil and water-based house paints, sometimes incorporating foil, wood offcuts or chunks of dried paint, frequently exposing the ply underneath with polyurethane. Paintings are always done on the floor, often composed in a thick pool of poured polyurethane. He uses dripping and pouring, with an eye for material interactions, waiting for the paint to reach a certain viscosity for the desired effect to take place. Michael has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the Auckland region since 2012.
Ronald AndreassendRonald Andreassend’s creativity blurs the boundaries between visual arts, craft, design and fashion, resulting in an output which ranges from artwork, sculptures, jewellery, costume, homewares and residential fixtures, to organising artist collaborations and events. Ronald`s ideas are drawn from family stories, his culture, interests, experimentation and objects that sometimes have no reason to exist other than to amuse and intrigue. Over the last two years he has been exploring Pacifica Auckland in culture, art, society and politics. It has been an eye opener, delving into areas that few are privileged to see. He has participated on many projects, as a photographer, artist and designer as well as simply volunteering or enjoying the warmth of Pacific culture and people.
Natasha ArmstrongNatasha Armstrong lives locally in Mt Eden and is currently studying Biological Sciences and Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. She draws much of her inspiration from the idea that life thrives through movement. Painting has always been a process of movement to her, where materiality is emphasised through paint drips and strokes. This removes a degree of control from her hand, contributing to her style in these artworks. These scapes capture simple, everyday, elemental movements.
Alex AstburyAlex Astbury is an emerging Auckland artist whose primary medium is photography. With the natural world as both inspiration and subject, Alex’s work often features botanics, captured and re-presented in a way that invites the viewer to pause, reconsider and view them in a different light. In FATHOM: The HYDRANGEA DROWNED series, multiple elements combine in dazzling, random arrangements, resulting in mesmerizing images with a dense, dream-like quality. A shifting, kaleidoscopic sense disorientates and intrigues, offering portals into otherworldly realms, landscapes that are hinted at and places as evocative as illustrations in children’s books. Colours emerge and dissolve, sometimes drenched with a swirling inky darkness, while at other times the image is softer, formed from chalk and watercolour.
Emma BassEmma Bass is an established Auckland-based photographic artist whose floral compositions inspire metaphorical and narrative interpretations. They are regularly exhibited in leading art galleries in New Zealand and internationally, and held in private collections throughout the world. She is the only New Zealand artist to have been invited to exhibit at the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London twice, in 2016 and 2022. Emma seeks to cultivate a sense of hope, and her work addresses a human psychic need for the uplifting power of beauty. This connects with her earlier career as a nurse, where she sought to heal and comfort. In her own words: “Flowers are one of the most universal forms of beauty. They are tokens of love, a natural expression of the environment. Everywhere in the world, flowers are cherished in some form. What's more, they are scientifically proven to improve mental health and wellbeing. Flowers have power!”
Blake BeckfordBlake Beckford completed his Bachelor of Design and Visual Arts in 2013. Since then, he has travelled the world, started a family and is now regularly making new art as well as working as a picture framer. Blake currently experiments with hand-painted, digitally-drawn, laser-cut shapes, utilising colours, shadows, distance and light to create fantastic, multi-layered artworks.
Tanya BlongTanya Blong is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist. She graduated from Hungry Creek Art and Craft School in 2006, majoring in painting and sculpture, followed by further studies at Browne School of Art. Tanya's figurative work speaks to a moment in time; hot summer days provide the backdrop to society at leisure. Focussing on the state of being idle, her art is a dual commentary - an immersion into a slow sensory world, while also floating ideas of the luxury of time, access and inclusion. Tanya's paintings feature fictitious portraits that explore emotion and memory depicted in colour, form, pattern and light; inner landscapes shaped by the human experience. Her work is held in the Arts House Trust collection.
Michele BryantMichele Bryant explores belonging in her work, expressing ideas which relate to decision-making and how a sense of belonging to a location is tested or strengthened. Aeroplane forms are a recurring motif in Michele’s art, symbolising the process of relocation. She uses a range of media such as hand drawing, wood, metal printmaking and resin moulding, selecting the medium best suited to the concept behind the work. Michele’s work is represented in private and public collections nationally and internationally.
Julia BuddenJulia Budden is an Auckland-based artist who came to New Zealand from South Africa. Her recent abstract works are inspired by the light reflected on water and tidal swirls and eddies, as rivers and sea meet on the beach. Julia paints mostly in acrylic with added oil pastel and mixed media. She loves to experiment abstractly as well, with cyanotype processes that capture her deep love of plants and the colour blue. In her art, she tries to capture the sense of peace, 'home', familiarity and freedom evoked by the experience of being in wild places teeming with nature.
Robbi CarvalhoRobbi Carvalho is a multi-disciplinary artist. Originally from Brazil, she has lived in Portugal and Angola and has chosen Aotearoa as her home. Her background as an architect and jewellery designer has honed her vision and technique, allowing her to construct a dream-like universe. Known for elaborate details, precise lines and an intuitive colour palette, her work reflects a unique identity. Robbi portrays visual narratives from a female perspective, creating art which combines women and nature in a single entity. She captures real bodies, conveying the diversity and subjectivity of being a woman.
Patrick CaseyBorn and raised in London, Patrick Casey attended Harrow School of Art. He paints the London he grew up in and remembers, a city where there was rubbish spilling across the streets, football violence, the Notting Hill riots, punk music, strikes and a general sense of discontent. It was dirty, violent and boozy, but it was exciting. With hindsight has come his realisation that this was a period of enormous societal change which started with the arrival of Margaret Thatcher and all that followed. However, for Patrick, painting is not an exercise in nostalgia, but an impulse that he is repeatedly drawn to.
Jamie ChapmanUK-born Jamie Chapman settled in Whangārei in 1989. In 2005 he moved to Auckland to study at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, completing his master’s degree at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2012. Jamie was awarded the University of Auckland Joe Raynes Scholarship in 2012, and in 2013 was the winner of the National Youth Art Award run by ArtsPost in Hamilton. His work is held in collections which include the Arts House Trust.
Clinton ChristianClinton Christian is an award-winning contemporary New Zealand artist who creates unique, bold and relatable modernist works. He uses a variety of styles, themes and mediums, putting his own personality into his art to inspire happiness, curiosity and memories. Clinton’s works are generally large canvas paintings or wood panel and resin pieces, some of which approach sculpture. His work has a very graphic style featuring composition, colour and contrast. Recently Clint has developed a new collection of work dubbed 'Retrovision' which dives into his youthful nostalgic memories of the 1970s and 1980s, also referencing modern themes or local pop culture.
Brenda ClewsBrenda Clews is a self-taught artist. She has been passionate about art since childhood and is driven to learn more about her craft. Revelling in the freedom to experiment, painting elicits almost childlike wonder and excitement in her. It has also become a way to remember and document beautiful moments and imaginings; Brenda’s best work is inspired by focusing on the present and mindfulness. Her style continues to evolve, but she still uses thick lush textures with gestural brushstrokes to create a more abstracted final work. She works with slow-drying acrylics, which allow a longer manipulation timeframe and are closer to oils in texture, colour and saturation. Each piece has multiple layers and develops organically. The observer is invited to feel an emotion and draw on their own connection with nature rather than just looking at the image or colour. Brenda’s work has been purchased by collectors around the world and throughout Aotearoa.
Vicki Comrie-MooreVicki Comrie-Moore has been working with clay since she was 11 years old, when she was first taken by the medium and by sculpture. Her style is free-flowing and natural, using flora and fauna as inspiration, with splashes of colour glazes and other mediums bringing the pieces to life. Vicki is largely self taught and enjoys the freedom of working from a home studio on her farm.
Heidi CooneyHeidi Cooney is a contemporary artist and mother of three young children who lives and works in Mt Eden. She is inspired by the natural beauty of Aotearoa New Zealand and loves to bring her appreciation of nature indoors through her landscape and botanical paintings. She enjoys the challenge of capturing the natural world and her paintings convey a sense of peace and gratitude for the beautiful environment in which we live. Heidi paints primarily in acrylics on canvas and wood panel, loving the versatility of the medium.
Bryn Corkery Bryn Corkery finds inspiration in places, issues, and memories from the local landscape. Using a diverse range of media allows the use of a wide range of effects - some controlled and some not. Bryn's ceramic bird tiles find their home within frames reminiscent of phone screens, a contemporary twist that bridges the past and the present.
Shirley Cresswell Shirley Cresswell is a fulltime artist who will soon be based in Taupiri. Many of her paintings are inspired by New Zealand's beautiful beaches and create a sense of almost being able to walk into a painting, feel the sand and the light breeze, and see the waves crashing onto the shore. Shirley is self-taught and has developed her own style and technique painting photo realism in acrylics. Applying paint in many layers, she achieves a realist style that captures light in her work.
Stephanie CrispAward-winning artist Stephanie Crisp resides in Lyttelton on Banks Peninsula, an area which provides constant inspiration. After a career as an art teacher, she now spends her time painting, running workshops and teaching small groups. Using strong acrylic colour, Stephanie's work is beautifully constructed and balanced, often telling stories of places she has travelled to and lived in. She sometimes enhances her work with collaged materials and uses embroidery to intensify its surface quality.
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