Hamish Macaulay
Teresa Mackay
Barbara MacKinnon
Anita Madhav
Joanne Mahoney
Zoe Marsden
Ignacia Martinez
Bryony Matthew
Clare Matthews
Sarah Mauger
Jay McElwee
Kate McLeod
Hannah Middleton
Judith Milner
Rachel Moore
Ayisha Mulgrew
Cam Munroe
Janice Napper
Vanessa Narbey
Zoë Nash
Christian Nicolson
Maria Owens
Bridget Pahl
Jolene Pascoe
Jane Puckey
Spid Pye
Roberta Queiroga
Katie Robinson
Lissy & Rudi Robinson-Cole
Mandy Roger
Aleisha Roulston
Kelly Rowe
Hamish MacaulayHamish Macaulay is an award-winning printmaker and painter based in Kāpiti. The varied subjects in his art repertoire range from conceptual abstracts to figurative landscapes and seascapes. With his love of nature and his surroundings, there is usually a nature-based narrative underpinning his work. Drawing on his background in graphic design, Hamish layers traditional and modern techniques to create fresh perspectives. His art is held in public collections (Te Papa Museum of New Zealand) and private collections internationally including the UK, Europe, USA, South Africa, and Australasia.
Teresa MackayTeresa Mackay is a Wellington-based artist who specialises in portraiture and figurative painting. Her works celebrate the vibrant and colourful dance culture of her Polynesian heritage. Painting dancers on Pacific-themed vinyl records connects music and dance together visually; repurposing scratched vinyls symbolises the small act of reducing the amount of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean. This is an important issue for Teresa, as the islands of the Pacific are vulnerable to climate change, including the small coral atoll of Pukapuka, the birthplace of her mother and final resting place of her grandmother.
Barbara MacKinnon Barbara MacKinnon works intuitively from memory and imagination, often absorbed by the process of examining light and space, employing a visual negotiation between fact and fiction. References to flora act as a metaphor for the transience of life and help her to discover new painting strategies. Barbara’s current investigative journey involves testing ideas, extending her mark-making vocabulary, and regenerating imagery.
Anita MadhavAnita Madhav is an Auckland-based, self-taught realist artist who has been painting for over 20 years. Her passion for art stems from a lifelong love of creativity and exploration. Anita's work is characterised by a unique mixed-medium approach that showcases her versatility and willingness to experiment with new techniques and materials. She balances subtle shades, light forms, and spaces with colour and textural accents. Inspired by New Zealand flowers, her works vividly capture their beauty and essence, creating a sensory experience for viewers. Her art can be found in private collections worldwide, showcasing her talent and passion for her work.
Joanne MahoneyJoanne Mahoney's mixed media works have evolved over the last few years and are now interdisciplinary mixed media. She uses watercolour, acrylics, oil and cold wax medium, collage and the many different processes used in printmaking to create unique artworks which are often collage. Joanne has lived in Asia and now her home is in the beautiful coastal environment of the Coromandel, both of which influence her work.
Zoe MarsdenZoë Marsden is a British-born artist who now resides in Seatoun, Wellington. After a formal art education in the UK, Zoë worked as a painter in the film industry for two decades, returning to her fine art practice in 2021. Her highly detailed urban landscape paintings feature derelict, abandoned or unusual buildings and structures left in the landscape which are no longer functional. She is drawn to their often forlorn, eerie, mysterious presence and aims to capture this atmosphere in her work. In January 2024, Zoë won the Craigs Aspiring Art Prize for her painting ‘The Lookout’.
Ignacia MartinezIgnacia Martínez is an 18-year old Chilean artist who has lived in Auckland for six years. Her pieces draw inspiration from events in daily life; the meaning and detail of each work is accentuated through composition and lighting. Ignacia includes mixed media such as thread in her artworks to symbolise connections between people and objects. She has exhibited at the Mt Albert Grammar School Art show for the last three years and at the 2023 Pat Hanly Awards.
Bryony MatthewBryony Matthew lives in Auckland, where the coastlines and islands of the Hauraki Gulf have inspired her navigation paintings for 20 years. Her work is informed by and abstracted from daily art-making and journaling while immersed in weather, sea and coast. Intuitive mapping and gestural mark-making are explored in transparent and solid layers of paint. Lines of depth or contour are at times carved onto surfaces with pencil, charcoal and oil stick.
Clare MatthewsClare Matthews lives on the coast at Paremata, north of Wellington. Her partially abstracted land and seascapes are inspired by the natural environment and created using acrylic, collage and oil pastels. She is interested in exaggerating the beauty and drama of landscape through the imaginative use of colour, line and a variety of marks and shapes. Clare loves the constant dance with different media: adding, scraping back, scratching into, flooding with paint until led by what begins to emerge. The development of a painting may be slow or fast, but is always rewarding and part of an ongoing cycle where each work gently informs the next. Working from images inside her head rather than photographs, she prefers to enable the viewer to give the painting their own sense of place or memory, strengthening their connection to it.
Sarah MaugerSarah Mauger is a specialist art teacher at an Auckland Intermediate school who paints from her home studio in her spare time. As well as producing commissioned work, she exhibits and sells in both Auckland and Wellington. Sarah draws on her background in fashion, makeup artistry and design to inspire her contemporary art work. An intuitive artist who creates unique pieces reflecting her passion for colour and texture, she uses modern street art techniques, incorporating textiles, spray paint and Indian ink to build layers. Her 2022 series represents the Kings, Queens, Princesses and Princes in your life, combining traditional values with the colour of modern living.
Jay McElweeJay McElwee is a Mt Eden based artist and Mt Albert Grammar School alumnus. He graduated from the school last year, and is now in his first year of a conjoint Fine Arts and Mathematics degree at the University of Auckland. His painting practice is based around the exploration of different compositions and aesthetics, and prioritises achieving an interesting visual experience. This exploratory process means that each piece evolves as he works on it, so the final product may be very different to the initial idea. This is his fourth year exhibiting at the Art Show and his first since leaving Mt Albert Grammar School.
Kate McLeodKate McLeod is a full-time painter from Ōtautahi Christchurch. She paints in a wide range of mediums including oil, acrylic, resin, pigments and metal leaf, and hand-crafts all of her timber frames. She graduated from Canterbury University with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Art History and Sociology in 2005. Kate has worked in a variety of roles - as a TV set designer, art teacher, advertising account manager, creative software executive and restoration project manager - which has allowed her to explore a wide range of creative disciplines. Along the way, Melbourne, Auckland, Ankara, London, San Francisco and Sydney have all been called home. She is now living her dream of creating rich, layered, gestural, abstract paintings. In 2022 Kate was awarded the Winsor and Newton Prize for creative use of materials at the Auckland Art Show and in 2023 was the New Zealand representative and keynote speaker at the Liangzhou Forum, a global art symposium involving artists from over 80 countries. She has exhibited widely throughout Aotearoa and her work is held in collections in New Zealand, the USA, China and the UK.
Hannah MiddletonHannah Middleton is an Auckland-based artist who holds a Bachelor of Design and Visual Arts. She believes that art should be accessible and has carved out a niche for herself in the vibrant world of abstract painting. Hannah creates murky landscapes using different brush techniques including dry brushing, the use of rags, and water sprays. The colours chosen for a piece are vital, influenced by her work as a soft furnishings designer, and meticulous planning goes into the colour combinations of each one. Hannah invites viewers to embark on their own visual journey and to delight in the abstract worlds she creates.
Judith Milner Judith Milner is a representational painter who lives and works in Auckland. She approaches nostalgic New Zealand scenes in a fresh and intimate way, strongly drawn to imagery that not only reminds her of her childhood, but also hints at a broader narrative beyond the frame. Kiwi architecture is a frequent artistic muse; using traditional techniques, the details and proportions are rendered with precision, respecting their historical craftsmanship. While this classes her work as realist, Judith is mainly seeking to capture the feeling of a particular location. A lawyer before switching to a career in art, Judith describes her paintings as a fusion of her analytical and intuitive sides.
Rachel MooreRachel Moore’s artwork beautifully captures the essence of nature through the delicate medium of watercolour. She has developed a style that seamlessly blends various techniques to create mesmerising landscapes. A blend of realism and abstraction, Rachel's compositions often feature rock and land formations, showcasing the inherent strength and beauty found in nature's most enduring structures alongside common man-made features which are revealed within the hand-drawn detailing. Her works offer solace and an opportunity to take a moment to pause and reflect; the viewer is invited to witness the beauty of landscapes, connect with the natural world, contemplate and explore locations that shape our memories of places or moments in time. She endeavours in her art to capture the dance between the elements and everyday life. Rachel received a placing at the Kaipara Art Awards in 2022, has been a finalist in several nationwide art awards, and is a regular participant in major local art sales.
Ayisha MulgrewAyisha Mulgrew's latest series revisits collage to explore the interplay between light and shape with materials that might be perceived as ordinary – glitter paper and card. She has used oval formats as to her these seem a gentler way in which to present metaphors that could otherwise be more confronting. Observations of isolation and group think - even mass psychosis - have been sources of motivation for these recent collages.
Cam MunroeKāpiti based artist Cam Munroe has been honing her skills in acrylic and mixed media painting for over 33 years. Her work is inspired by ancient prehistory, the landscape and how it has transformed over eons, as well as by the spiritual nature of human existence on landscape past and present, informing our lives today. These new works are mixed media paintings which invite viewers to go on a journey. Lines and shapes meander, leading the eye through a maze of landscapes. Surrounded by the purity of white, a solitary shape bursts forth in luminous fluorescent colour, symbolizing moments of vivid clarity in the journey of her life. Lettering within the works whispers signposts and landmarks along the way. This series finds significance in embracing the unexpected in composition, meaning in chaos, and an appreciation of the journey of each canvas.
Janice NapperJanice Napper is a full-time contemporary artist. From her St Heliers studio she uses a rich high-gloss colour palette to generate vibrant artworks. The fluidity of this self-taught artist’s captivating works, pushing her polymer and resin mediums to the limit, exudes confidence. Like many artists she draws her subject matter from living things, often with the detail stripped away; an increasingly large proportion of her work, however, is now devoted to her love of form and the abstract. Her background in advertising is evident in her cutting-edge creative ideas, combined with a strong understanding of design and composition.
Vanessa NarbeyVanessa Narbey lives in Auckland and has a Master of Fine Arts from Elam. A visual artist who has exhibited her work throughout New Zealand and internationally, she loves to explore visual perception in her semi-abstract paintings with layering of shapes, pigment and lines. There is a meditative quality to her work that creates ambiguity and intrigue. Two of her paintings are held in the Art House Trust Collection and she was a recent finalist for the London Art Biennale, the Walker and Hall Art Awards, the Tasman National Art Awards and Craigs Aspiring Art Prize. Vanessa was also Highly Commended for the Estuary Art and Ecology Prize in 2023.
Zoë NashZoë Nash is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She currently lives in coastal west Auckland, creating from her garden studio, and is actively involved in arts education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Auckland University, adult teaching qualifications and a Master of Fine Arts from Whitecliffe School of Fine Arts. Her brightly coloured, celebratory works explore a slow and mindful accumulation of repeated and highly detailed mark making. Reflecting her love of nature, Zoë’s works increasingly draw on selected plant and flower motifs as inspiration. Frequently initiated by things seen, things spoken, or things remembered, narrative and nostalgia are also used to trigger a personal connection with viewers. Zoë has received finalist nominations in the Parkin Drawing Prize, the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Awards, the Waiheke Community Art Gallery Small Sculpture Prize, and several finalist nominations in the Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Awards. She is also a recipient of the Whitecliffe Post Graduate Scholarship.
Christian NicolsonChristian Nicolson works as a full-time artist and is based in Auckland. He initially studied design and worked for several years as an art director in advertising roles in New Zealand and London. He loves to paint, sculpt, use photography, create installations, and make films. He has several works in the Arts House Trust collection and has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards six times. Christian has also featured in three of Denis Robinson’s art publications including New Zealand’s Favourite Artists Volume 2. He focuses on one solo exhibition a year and has also featured in many group shows such as Sculpture on the Gulf and NZ Sculpture OnShore. Christian has also made an award-winning feature film called ‘This Giant Papier Mâché Boulder is Actually Really Heavy’ (2016). Being creative is king.
Maria OwensFor Danish artist Maria Owens, painting is about intuition and mindfulness. Through her abstract works she explores line, colour and shape, allowing each work to emerge and tell its own story. Inspired by her walks in the Waitākere Ranges, the gestural mark making and movements she uses work together to create a narrative which captures a moment in time. With each painting sold, a native tree is planted in the region the buyer is from via Maria's website.
Bridget PahlOriginally from Timaru, South Canterbury, Bridget Pahl is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based painter. She completed her Fine Arts degree at Ilam at the University of Canterbury in 2002. She teaches art at Epsom Girl's Grammar School under her married name Spencer and is the mother of two daughters. In her work she draws on influences from everyday life, landscape and fleeting observations, lingering over those that suggest ethereal connections.
Jolene PascoeJolene Pascoe lives in Whangārei with her husband and daughter. She is a printmaker with a passion for screenprinting in alternative mediums and contemporary styles. Jolene's mahi toi is a reflection of traditional values stemming from both te ao Pākehā and te ao Māori whakapapa. Her artistic endeavors resonate with memories and nostalgic representations of Aotearoa, a significant aspect of her identity. These values extend to shaping her daughter's life amidst the pervasive influence of social media and screens in today's world.
Jane PuckeyJane Puckey is a Auckland-based contemporary landscape painter celebrated in particular for her paintings of Northland. This area of exceptional natural beauty holds special significance and meaning for her as her family has lived in the Bay of Islands for generations, having settled in the area in the early 1800s. Jane’s inspiration arises from its clear blue skies, the ever-changing hues of the sea and the deep colours lying within the forms of the land, all of which provide a play of contrast in New Zealand’s brilliant light.
Spid PyeSpid Pye is an award-winning photographer. He was largely self-taught until he arrived in London in 1992 and attended the Drill Hall Art School. When he returned to New Zealand he won a study grant from the Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust, which he used to study graphic and photographic design. He loves theatrical subjects and life’s classic moments - life’s theatre is his true passion. Recently he has started exhibiting his work.
Roberta QueirogaRoberta Queiroga is a contemporary visual artist from Brazil. With a background in architecture, she is interested in the relationship between the artwork, the viewer and the space. Before moving to New Zealand, she lived in Portugal and Japan; both countries are a prominent part of her identity and inform and influence her work. She incorporates and mixes elements of various techniques in her practice, working in symbiosis with the canvas in a way that allows emotion to flow spontaneously, with minimum interference when creating.
Katie RobinsonKatie Robinson is a painter whose artistic journey has been uniquely influenced by her scientific background. With a PhD in Chemistry from the University of London, she moved from a successful career as a nanotechnology-focused scientist and patent attorney into the world of art. This transition has brought a unique perspective to her work, allowing her to approach painting from a different, original viewpoint. Katie's artistic evolution continues to be driven by her scientific roots, as well as her upbringing in Otago and the Central Otago scenery. She is inspired by contrast - in colour, light, temperature and viewpoint - and is enjoying including both interior and exterior views in her more recent works.
Lissy & Rudi Robinson-ColeWhen Lissy Robinson and Rudi Cole create, they are intimately connected to their common purpose of joy and honouring those who came before us. They are inspired by the aroha of their tūpuna and their journeys and stories. Crochet is the symbolic thread of aroha that connects us all. LIssy and Rudi’s work is a celebration of our people, our stories and way of life; together they are crocheting a world which holds the totality of their experiences and transforms trauma into deeply felt joy.
Mandy Roger Formerly a lawyer, Mandy Rodger began painting at Browne School of Art in 2014 and has worked since 2018 from her central Auckland studio. Mandy’s paintings celebrate the essence of expression and gesture. Gesture is a shared human behaviour which expresses or emphasises an idea or emotion, augments communication, and helps us acquire understanding. Each of Mandy's paintstrokes embody the energy and fluidity of loaded brushes tracing movement. With dynamic gestural marks, she explores and navigates the materiality of the paint - its viscosity, fluidity, and colour - allowing the composition to emerge. Selected as a double finalist in the National Contemporary Art Awards 2019, a finalist in the National Cleveland Art Awards 2021, and the Craigs Aspiring Art Prize in 2022, 2023 & 2024, she regularly shows her work in solo and group exhibitions.
Aleisha RoulstonAleisha Roulston (Pākehā, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Ātiawa is a local painter and Albertian. She graduated from Mt Albert Grammar School in 2022, and spent 2023 working as a teaching assistant in Paris. She paints primarily landscapes and seascapes using oils, and her works are heavily inspired by the French impressionist movement of the nineteenth century. Aleisha enjoys the wairua, or spirit, of each piece, and aims to capture it through light, gesture and colour. She is currently studying raranga (weaving) at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.
Kelly RoweKelly Rowe is an Auckland-based artist and interior designer. With a degree in architecture and 20 years’ experience working in the architecture and design worlds, her paintings explore both natural and man-made landscapes. She paints in oils and acrylic. Her abstract landscapes are tranquil, calming and contemplative, whilst her architectural landscapes push graphic boundaries, speaking of vernacular texture, form and colour, an expression of architectural drawing and constructive memory.
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