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The official catalogue of the inaugural Mount Albert Grammar School Fine Arts Show, August 2014

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Mt Albert

Proudly and kindly sponsored by

MOUNT ALBERT GRAMMAR SCHOOL

fine art show2014

Artwork by Sheyne Tuffery

Friday 22 August

6.30pm - 10pm Opening night cocktail party

First opportunity to view and purchase artwork

Saturday 23 August

10am - 7pm Exhibition and artwork for sale

Free admission

Sunday 24 August

10am - 1pm Exhibition and artwork for sale

Free admission

programme of

events

Friends of MAGS welcome you to the Mount Albert Grammar School Fine Art Show 2014 and look

forward to seeing you at the opening night cocktail party. Tickets are $35 per person and can be

purchased online at www.iticket.co.nz or phone: (09) 846 2044 X 8153 email: [email protected]

2014 exhibiting artistsBrendan Adams

Rex Armstrong

Shanay Aseraf

Judi Bagust

Emma Bass

Denise Batchelor

Ingrid Berzins

Merle Bishop

Jane Bold

Eve Borley

Justin Boroughs

Mal Bouzaid

Carolyn Boyd

Renee Boyd

Miranda Brown

Claire Delaney

Dean Buchanan

Rudi Buchanan Strewe

Chan & Andreassend

Megan Collier

Rowena Coombes

Bryn Corkery

Shirley Cresswell

Anna Crichton

Vanita Curin

Jana de Beer

Mark Dimock

Bee Doughty-Pratt

Sally Fagence

Amelia Fagence

Darryl Fagence

Holly Finn

Fane Flaws

Nicky Foreman

Dick Frizzell

Ema Frost

Hope Gibbons

Anita Glucina

Nickie Gormley

Frances Hansen

Shane Hansen

Guy Harkness

Justine Hawksworth

Anna Hollings

Calvin Hona

Susan Hurrell Fieldes

Mia Hamilton

Russell Jackson

Raymond Jennings

Rachel Jones

Tinaz Karbhari

Darren Keith

Michael Kennedy

Virginia Leonard

Aroha Lewin

Vera Limmer

Kirsten Lyttle

Sid Marsh

Libby McColl

Sean McCarthy

Brendan McGorry

Linda McKelvie

Conor McSwiney

Julie Moselen

Jerri Nakula

Kirsty Nixon

Ruby Oakley

Colleen O'Leary

Isla Osborne

Karen Paden

Neal Palmer

Caroline Pegg

Marie Potter

Dean Proudfoot

Robin Ranga

Lorraine Rastorfer

Kathy Ready

Peter Rees

Paul Rhind

Robianto

Barry Ross-Smith

Ioana Schwalger

Manu Scott

Jan Shone

Shim & Lee

Shelley Simpson

Jane Tan

Lorene Taurerewa

Sheyne Tuffery

Rebecca Tune

Lingikoni Vaka'uta

Francis van Dammen

Nicola Warner

Richard Wells

Rae West

Heather Wilson

Johnson Witehira

Simon Williams

Stephanie Woodman

Rieko Woodford-

Robinson

Frank Woodward

Julie Woodward

Dear Friends

Welcome to the Mount Albert Grammar School Fine Art Show 2014

This inaugural event is a wonderful opportunity for the school community to view artworks by some of New Zealand’s leading as well as emerging artists including pieces from a number of our current art students.

The opening night cocktail party commences at 6:30pm on Friday 22 August in the school’s F.W. Gamble Memorial Hall. This very enjoyable occasion will provide opportunity to both view and purchase the art on show and also mix with friends, artists and the wider school community.

A big thank you is extended to the Friends of MAGS Committee for the many hours that have been spent organizing this event and also to all our sponsors and advertisers who appear in this Fine Art Show Catalogue.

The funds raised from the event will be used by the Mount Albert Grammar School Foundation to support various school initiatives, particularly the Arts programme.

We hope that you enjoy our Fine Art Show.

Dale BurdenHeadmaster Mount Albert Grammar School

Mount Albert Grammar School

FOUNDATIONInvesting in the future of the School

Alberton Avenue, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025, New ZealandTelephone: +64 9 8154034 Facsimile: +64 9 846-2042 Mobile: 021 636 803 E-mail: [email protected]

www.mags.school.nz

The Friends of MAGS committee, under the umbrella of The Mount Albert Grammar School Foundation, has organised this inaugural Art Show which showcases artworks from over 100 New Zealand artists including some of our top art students.

The Foundation is a Charitable Trust which invests in the future of the School, assisting the School in resourcing and supporting its many activities in its ongoing quest for excellence in all fields. The vision of the Foundation is to work with the School in making Mount Albert Grammar New Zealand’s premier school of choice. The Foundation’s goal is to establish a $10 million endowment fund by our centenary year 2022, where the income from the fund will support scholarships for our students and staff as well as funding capital projects to support our infrastructure requirements.

The Foundation recognises the importance of this Art Show as a dynamic initiative in fulfilling the Foundation’s vision for our School.

Tim GouldingChairmanMount Albert Grammar School Foundation

Mount Albert Grammar School

FOUNDATIONInvesting in the future of the School

Alberton Avenue, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025, New ZealandTelephone: +64 9 8154034 Facsimile: +64 9 846-2042 Mobile: 021 636 803 E-mail: [email protected]

www.mags.school.nz

Mount Albert Grammar School is delighted to introduce its inaugural Fine Art Show with the incredible quality and variety of works on display from so many talented artists throughout New Zealand. There are considerably more works for sale over the weekend than are depicted in our catalogue as many of our artists will be submitting up to four works. The work in this catalogue is a representation of the artists work and may not be the actual artwork available for sale.

Purchasing your artworkOnce you have selected the artwork you wish to purchase:• Remove the Buyer’s Card and take it immediately to the sales desk, or one of our volunteers around the room and they will escort you to the sales desk. • Please be aware that the removal of the Buyer’s Card is deemed as an agreement to purchase.• We would like to thank you for your generous contribution to our school fundraising through your art purchase. • Make payment in full by either Eftpos, MasterCard or Visa (please note cheques will not be accepted).• A sold red sticker will then be displayed on the artwork.

Collecting your artwork • All artworks must remain at the exhibition until closure on Sunday 24th August, 2014 at 1.00pm.• Purchased artworks are to be collected from Mount Albert Grammar School's FW Gamble Memorial Hall between the hours of 3.00pm and 5.00pm on Sunday 24th August on presentation of your sales receipt.• Mount Albert Grammar School takes no responsibility for artwork not collected after this time.

Additional sales• If you love a piece of art that has been sold then please let us know as further editions or prints may be available. We have been given the authorisation from the artists to take orders and arrange commission of artworks.

We hope you find a piece of art to purchase that you truly love and want to take home and that you enjoy

the opening cocktail evening and bring your friends and family to view the exhibition during the weekend.

MAGS Fine Art Show Procedures

Brendan AdamsBrendan has amassed a large following of clientele who appreciate his fine New Zealand ceramics and creative and unusual sculpture. His work has been exhibited throughout the country in major competitions and exhibitions where he has won several awards.

Rex Armstrong Rex has held 14 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous invited and group exhibitions, including Storm Warning curated by Riemke Ensing, featuring work by Colin McCahon, Stanley Palmer and John Madden.

Shanay Aseraf Shanay’s art practice disguises the unreal as being real. She creates alternate conditions that consider the way technology and media engage with western society. Through a range of mediums she questions perceptions of reality.

Judi Bagust Through the movement of the inked brush on paper, the mark becomes its own image, as an unknown, a finding, a slowing down. A becoming. Judi’s process attempts to distil this act to its essence. As a result drawings that seem self-contained are actually in a con-tingent state, between their making and the places they occupy.

Emma BassEmma's latest endeavour, Imperfect, a photographic exhibition features beautiful arrangements of decaying flowers and other flora. This body of work represents a deepening on her previous work, as Emma is musing on the temporality of life. Emma makes an important statement by reminding us that flowers are not only pretty to look at but also wilt, fade and die. As we all do.

Denise BatchelorDenise’s interest in the natural world expresses itself through pho-tography and film. Her photographs express a wistful curiosity and regard for the stillness of the medium of photography. She has ex-hibited throughout New Zealand and recently showcased work at the 2012 Angelholm International Video Art Festival in Sweden.

Ingrid BerzinsIngrid has been painting for 18 years, exhibiting widely throughout New Zealand, having sell-out shows at Fishers Fine Arts. Her work has been purchased in the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden and Australia, with collectors in the US.

Emma Bass

Ingrid Berzins

Merle BishopMerle Bishop is a New Zealand artist who works in pastel,water-colour, oil,intaglio etching, printmaking,polymer clay and bronze.She is strongly influenced by her graphic design background as she endeavours to capture some of the antics and exuberance of dogs.

Jane BoldJane’s art is intended to inspire and delight. Her art is vibrant and stylized, picking up on the New Zealand landscape themes with its clear wild colours. Jane’s inspiration comes from New Zealand’s natural beauty and the light effects of the landscape and scenery. Her work includes both contemporary landscapes and abstracts, often with touches of “Kiwiana”.

Eve BorleyMuch of Eve’s inspiration comes from the bush surrounding her Murrays Bay Auckland home and studio where she produces her acrylic and mixed media art works. She especially enjoys the tactile experience of working with a variety of materials to create what she describes as “the story telling part” of an artwork that unfolds layer by layer until she is happy with the resulting sense of depth and texture.

Justin BoroughsBorn in England. Gradulated Bachelor of Fine Art from Auckland University in 1975. Has held over 20 solo exhibitions and is represented by Artis Gallery in Auckland, Page Blackie Gallery in Wellington and Milford Galleries in Dunedin.

Mal BouzaidMal graduated with Master of Fine Arts, from Whitecliff College of Art & Design,She has had a long association with the sea. From her sailing excursions and long observations of the ever changing colours of the sea, land and sky she explores the tonal relationships in shifting bands that evoke the staggering and layering of horizons. She has had over 20 shows.

Carolyn BoydAfter living overseas for 10 years Carolyn returned to New Zealand in 2011. Rediscovering the beauty of her homeland provided her with inspiration and ignited the desire to portray this through her art. Her work reflects lightness and energy using vibrant colours whilst attaining realism through pointillism and textured strokes.

Merle Bishop

Justin Boroughs

Carolyn Boyd

Reneé BoydReneé Boyd approaches working with clay in her own unique style, using texture and botanical themes as patterns which are inspired from New Zealand’s unique landscape. The intent of her work is to express movement, texture and light in a contemporary theme and this imagery is reflected in the designs of her sculpture and table pieces.

Miranda BrownMiranda creates beauty in the form of sustainable fashion, artworks, installations, interiors and public art. In the materials she uses, the processes and the patterns and colours are informed by nature, reflecting nature’s brilliance. "We are Connected to Nature. The more that you connect with nature and study the intelligence at work every day you come to realise there is a master designer here. The head of a sunflower illustrates this concept with its spiral pattern called the divine ratio or golden mean. This is geometry at work also seen in the nautilus shell and head of a pine cone. I call it magic."

Dean BuchananDean has been working as a full-time artist for the past 28 years. Prior to that he worked as an exhibitions technician at The Auckland City Art Gallery. He has had over 45 solo exhibitions here in NZ and overseas. His first solo show was in 1978 at the Outreach Gallery in Ponsonby Auckland. He has also been involved in many group shows, the first at the age of 19 in the “Young Contemporaries” at The Auckland City Art Gallery in 1971.

Rudi Buchanan StreweRudi first started by teaching himself black smithing & metal forging & then bronze casting using the lost wax process. One of his cast bronzes a Ponga sculpture was given by the Waitakere City Council to its Japanese sister city of Kakogawa. Rudi has won a number of awards during his artistic career.

Chan & AndreassandKaren Chan and Ronald Andreassend are designer artists based in Auckland and founders of Chan Andreassend Design, specialising in innovative, hand-crafted objects, lights and jewellery.

Megan CollierMegan is a self-taught Tauranga artist, exhibiting for over 13 years. She brings together ideas of heritage, local identity, biodiversity and sustainability using oils, acrylics and resin. “In a world of mass production, urban deserts and monoculture, the wild landscape and the vital life they sustain, now stand unique; one of the greatest pleasures of them all.”

Dean Buchanan

Reneé Boyd Miranda Brown

Megan Collier

Rowena CoombesRowena has been making ceramics for 25 years. At present she is experimenting using porcelain slip to cast. She mostly paints onto greenware which is then fired and clear glaze applied to bisque, then refired. Work is functional and can be used in the microwave or dishwasher.

Bryn CorkeryBryn is a multi media artist and Art Teacher at MAGS. His recent paintings are based on views of modern Auckland from the Volcanic Hills around the city. Rather than focusing on the dramatic well known landmarks he is more interested in the suburbs and specific areas more personal to the people of the region.

Shirley CresswellShirley has developed her own style and techniques painting photo realism in acrylics. With success in many exhibitions and galleries she is now a fulltime artist. Shirley specialises in coastal scenes, boats, dinghies and jetty paintings. She depicts these in a realist style that captures light in her work, accentuating light and dark.

Anna Crichton Anna has been described by the New Zealand Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson as ‘the country’s leading illustrator’. Her work is collected by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive of the Alexander Turnbull Library.

Vanita CurinVanita explores multi media and is an Art Teacher at MAGS. Her paintings can be described as abstract landscapes. She enjoys peeling back the layers of the NZ landscape and examining the different textures our unique landscape offers.

Jana de BeerJana lives and works in Auckland. She holds a BFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts, and has a MAAM from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. She has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards in 2012 and 2013, and has work in both national and international private collections.

Claire DelaneyAs a mixed media artist with a BA (hons) degree in fashion and textiles my work is always about piecing together all the patches of my life. What strong threads hold together my hopes and dreams?Layers are what fascinate me. Always the choice of what to reveal what to conceal.

Bryn Corkery

Shirley Cresswell

Vanita Curin

Mark Dimock Mark has been living and working in Eketahuna since 1980 where he has established a large studio workshop and gallery.He has had over 20 solo exhibitions in galleries throughout New Zealand.

Bee Doughty-PrattBee’s vibrant abstract seascapes and landscapes are held in private & corporate collections throughout New Zealand & offshore. Bee says “Water in some form or other features in virtually every canvas I paint. This has to have something to do with life’s inevitable ebb and flow – sometimes overwhelmingly powerful, sometimes infinitely peaceful – but always compelling.

Amelia FagenceAmelia is a multi-media artist with work ranging from wooden jew-ellery, cast and lead-light glass pieces and large scale metal/wood sculptures. She is also an accomplished photographer. Amelia pushes the boundaries by creating hard edges with soft materials and curved forms with solid mass.

Darryl FagenceDarryl has an intense passion for creating new pieces, a drive that has kept him at the leading edge of forming glass in New Zealand for the past 38 years.A Pacific influence has evolved in the new wall art and sculptural pieces.

Sally Fagence Sally works from her studio over looking native bush, where she finds inspiration for the subjects she paints. She has been experimenting with recycled wine barrel staves made into sculptural wall pieces. These are richly painted and incorporate gold/silver leaf, compound, and other materials.

Holly FinnHolly Finn is a self taught artist who lives in Mangawhai. Holly is specialising in floral studies.

Fane FlawsFane has been exhibiting throughout Australia and New Zealand in various solo and group shows since1981- his work is represented in private and public collections within N.Z. Australia, USA, Japan and the UK. “I am essentially a ‘mark-maker’ - everything else follows from whatever skill I have developed through drawing. I draw on anything from paper to demolition timber, from air to hard drives, with anything from paint to found objects, from guitars to voices.

Mark DimockBee Doughty - Pratt

Amelia Fagence

Darryl Fagence

Nicky ForemanHer work is often concerned with taking mundane objects and resetting them so that they may be viewed as precious and beautiful. She draws her inspiration from by Taranaki and her time in the South of France each year. She continues to show regularly with dealer galleries in New Zealand and France. Her work is represented in many collections including Saatchi & Saatchi New York.

Dick FrizzellDick Frizzell is probably NZ’s most collected and highly prized contemporary artist. Frizzell is hugely recognised as a painter, printmaker and a writer, recently publishing a highly successful autobiography, Dick Frizzell: The Painter (2009). He has work in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand.

Ema FrostEma Frost is an Auckland based graphic artist, illustrator and ceramic designer. “I love intense, vibrant, poppy colours that bring a sense of enchantment to art and to life. I’m inspired by Maori Myths and Legends and Japanese art from the past and present, whether it is packaging, toy design, 1940s and 50s advertising, or wood-block prints. My love for travel and photography influences my design work, but my travels also give me an appreciation for New Zealand, and our native flora and fauna is also a strong influence and inspiration”.

Hope GibbonsHope Gibbons is a contemporary New Zealand painter with works held in private collections here and throughout the world. Her current works explores the materiality of paint - it pushes the boundaries of traditional painting practice and techniques. It exploits the use of paint, rust, inks, leaf and varnish

Anita GlucinaAnita Glucina has been feeding a lifelong passion for well-crafted handmade objects by creating many of her own. Influenced by historical design and folk art and inspired by the detailing and exacting craftsmanship of past artisans, Anita experiments with materials and techniques resulting in ceramic lights, resin jewellery, mixed media and paper cut art.

Nickie GormleyNickie is an abstract expressionist painter specialising in creating unique surfaces.

Ema Frost Nicky Gormley

Dick Frizzell

Hope Gibbons

Frances HansenFrances Hansen’s art practice manipulates the disciplines of paint-ing, drawing, assemblage and illustration. She works with traditional media as well as found objects and appropriated images to invent and produce new aspects of her chosen materials.

Shane HansenShane Hansen likes a strong, clean line. His creations spring from a world of bold colours and optimistic clarity, a pop-art invitation to a feel-good New Zealand celebration. Shane is of Maori, Chinese, Danish and Scottish descent. Shane works in many mediums such as wood, glass and metal which he sees as a reflection of his multi-cultural make-up.

Guy HarknessGuy Harkness is a local Mt Eden artist. Working mostly in acrylic on canvas or board, his subjects include landscapes, portraits, still life and unique takes on iconic Kiwi culture. Selling his work locally and online, Harkness’ paintings can be found in collections here and overseas.

Justine Hawksworth“I love the strong colour present everywhere in our New Zealand environment and strive to reflect that in my paintings. My most re-cent work incorporates metal, maps, textures, fabric and lyrics in an attempt to capture something that reminds the viewer of something that is typically New Zealand”.

Anna HollingsAnna Hollings was born in 1963 in Wellington. Has had some eight solo shows and is well known for her small quirky paintings. A final-ist in many competitions she won the Winsor and Newton Award in 1999 and has forged an interesting career doing small works of a surrealist nature.

Calvin HonaCalvin Hona is the artist behind Puha Prints; a specialist limited edition print company based on his personal influences from the South Pacific. Puha Prints is run from beautiful Waiheke Island in New Zealand. Many of the works have a retro 1970’s feel reflective of the artists childhood influences.

Susan Hurrell FieldesSusan is a printmaker. Initially self taught, she gained her experience and knowledge in New York where she studied and works each year. Her work is abstract, and she uses mainly solar-plate etching and monotype techniques.

Justine HawksworthGuy Harkness

Frances Hansen

Shane Hansen

Mia HamiltonMia Hamilton graduated with a Diploma of Art & Creativity from The Learning Connexion, Wellington in 2008. She also has a Diploma of Interior Design from Academy of Fine Arts, London and a Bachelor of Business Studies from Massey University, Palmerston North. Since 2008 Hamilton has been a full time artist. She has had 10 solo exhibitions and been included in over 40 group shows since 2008.

Russell JacksonRussell studied Art History and Graphic Design at the University of Auckland and the Auckland Insititute of Technology. His paintings reflect his love of bird life and New Zealand’s landscape, in particular its coastal environment. He tends to paint in enamels or acrylics on board, and recently has explored more abstract concepts in addition to his better-known realist style.

Raymond JenningsRaymond is a multi-disciplinary artist, His lively career has seen him exhibit in numerous solo and group shows throughout, NZ, the USA and Singapore. His work carries a positive dynamic energy, generated by an inspiration that is both worldly and universal.

Rachel JonesRachel's art work demonstrates detail, intensity and strength - the flowers are so real you can almost smell them! As a purely talented self-taught artist she draws her inspiration from beauty within, whether it is flowers or people, expressing their emotion, power, and fragility and a wonderful intensity of rich colours.

Tinaz KarbhariTinaz has always been intersted in using her art as a means to create a spiritual and affectual encounter. Her practice explores the ideas of potentiality and transformation through the theoretical contexts of affect theory, smooth space, becoming and spirituality. Underpin-ning this exploration is a focus on the potentiality of “new planes of thought”.

Tracy Darren Keith"Memory has always been an important consideration throughout my art practice; the essence of material practice dictating the outcome is a mechanism to encompass visual and lived memories. Connecting material process with memories when fabricating or constructing an object help to reveal forms and emotions that are as genuine as the actual encounters of life."

Calvin Hona

Raymond Jennings

Rachel Jones

Tracy Darren Keith

Michael KennedyMichael creates wonderfully weird portraits of “creepy-cute” critters, macabre beasties & zombie couch turnips. His work is a unique blend of traditional oil painting techniques and contemporary pop surreal style. Brought up on the irreverent humour of cartoons and comics like The Farside and Calvin & Hobbes; his art oozes of whimsical charm, dark humour and pop culture references.

Shim & LeeSang Sool SHIM & his wife, Keum Sun LEE, are Korean potters and ceramic artists. They have had many successful exhibitions in Korea, Austria, Croatia and New Zealand, and have won multiple Portage Ceramic Awards in New Zealand, as well as international awards. Working with both 10th-century and 15-century tech-niques of Korean pottery, the two have adapted these traditions and added colours to give a contemporary aspect to their creations.

Virginia LeonardThe initial “atomic blast” impact of Virginia’s paintings belies the subtlety and depth afforded by sustained viewing. They are composed of layers of gestural marks and splashes until they are submerged. ‘Self Portrait’ is unique amongst her works.

Aroha LewinAroha Lewin is a contemporary Maori artist who specialises in limited edition prints and original artworks. Lewin has a strong visual language interpreting her position on being a Maori in todays New Zealand environment. She plays beautifully on the imagery and deeper meaning of symbolic shapes and iconography.

Vera LimmerVera’s passion in painting is working, discovering and exploring colour, line, pattern and how she is able to use paint in different ways and using different mediums. She has been painting birds as her subject for the last four years.

Kirsten LyttleKirsten Lyttle has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), RMIT. Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours majoring in Philosophy, La Trobe University. Her photographic works have addressed the way the Western world has long had a love affair with the South Pacific. Her light-hearted photographs have an implied message that makes us see things afresh.

Michael Kennedy

Tinaz Karbhari

Shim Lee

Virginia Leonard

Libby McCollWhen driving through our countryside we’re often drawn to the sight of dilapidated farm buildings, old homesteads and fence posts, mossy , rusting and rotting with generations of paint peeling away exposing a layers of colours and textures. My acrylic paintings focus on a detail of these things rather than the big picture.The textures and colours of the understated and the overlooked.

Sid MarshFor the last ten years Sid has painted watercolours depicting famous scenes of the NZ Wars. For each scene painted I endeavour to incorporate into it distinctive native birds & trees, landscapes, Maoritanga (moko, carving, garments & weapons); general weaponry of the period, & British militaria (like elaborate Prussian braiding on officer tunics & forage caps etc). Much research goes into each picture: visits to Archives NZ & the Turnbull Library for unpublished diaries & reports; firing black powder weaponry on a range; plus mounting major expeditions into the Urewera backcountry to find and study lost battlesites, camps & wartrails.

Sean McCarthySean McCarthy is an award-winning artist who’s done everything from fine art to t-shirt designs, body-painting to large-scale murals. He enjoys getting art out into the community, where people seem to really appreciate it. He lives with his family in French Bay, Titirangi.

Brendan McGorryBrendan McGorry’s work engages with refernces and allegories drawn from historical European paintings. Brendan’s recent work is a fusion of delicate drawing and color fields. Historial motifs weave with contemporary images of everyday life.

Linda McKelvieLinda completed a Masters of Fine Arts (Hons) at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland in 2009. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and now resides on Waiheke Island. Linda has worked as a painter, illustrator and storyboard artist in New Zealand and the United States.

Julie Moselen"The coastline has been a constant influence in my artwork, often harking back to the rugged but beautiful coastline of my Cornish roots. Now that I live on the other side of the world I question my sense of belonging in both continents and explore the similarities and contrasts using symbolism texture and colour."

Vera Lima

Sid Marsh

Libby McColl

Jerri NakulaJerri started painting at the age of 7, inspired by his older cousin and mentor Robianto. He sometimes paints abstract works but his real love is Dot Painting and he unashamedly gets his inspiration from the Australian Outback style of painting. Dot Art was originally recognised as unique and integral to Australian Aboriginal art. On the surface the dot is simply a style of Aboriginal painting, like the use of cross-hatching or stencil art. The term ‘Dot Painting’ stems from what the Western eye sees when faced with contemporary Aboriginal acrylic paintings which arose from the Papunya art movement from Western Australia in the 1970s.

Kirsty NixonKirsty Nixon began painting and exhibiting in the late 1980s as a successful watercolour artist. In 1994 Kirsty began capturing the vibrant personality of the New Zealand landscape on canvas. This style was greatly received and prompted Kirsty to leave her career as an art director in advertising to paint full-time. Her contribution to the New Zealand landscape is fresh and distinctly modern and her work hangs in private collections worldwide.

Ruby OakleyRuby mostly works in two mediums- printmaking & mixed media. She works quite spontaneously & intuitively & loves experimenta-tion & pushing boundaries with media. Ruby is enthusiastic about creating her work, both print & mixed media, using multiple layers, colours, textures & pattern. She often draws inspiration from graffiti & street art, along with nature & environmental themes. Her work could be described as semi abstract.

Colleen O’LearyColleen has spent over 30 years working as a ceramic artist. Her eclectic range of approaches includes sculptural figures, wall-based pictorial ceramics and individual commissioned pieces. She has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and her work is in collections in Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

Karen PadenKaren Paden was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. B.F.A and MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A. Emigrated to New Zealand in 1990 and divided her time between Auckland and Chicago for a number of years. Trained for some time with Michael Smither. She has had shows both in NZ and USA and has always painted the landscape in an impressionist way.

Linda McKelvie

Julie Moselen

Ruby Oakley Colleen O’Leary

Neal PalmerNeal has been a full time artist since 1999 and has participated in group shows and events, including: Artists in Eden (for the last ten years), the Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, ‘35 K’ at Artspace Auckland, ‘Big Red’ Rotorua Museum, ‘Putiputi’ Hastings City Art Gallery, and as a finalist in the Molly Morpeth, Margaret Stoddart and Wallace Art Awards. He has had 16 solo shows in that time, and been reviewed and recommended in vari-ous publications with feature articles in: Art New Zealand (Autumn 2004 edition); Sunday Star Times; the NZ Herald ‘Arts on Monday’ and ‘Viva’ magazine. His work focuses on natural forms using scale, colour and pattern to create dramatic and emotive paintings.

Caroline PeggCaroline has a Bachelor of Arts (Honors), with a major in Print-making and Drawing. Her work engages with nature and the way it is represented by cultures throughout the world, as well as the relationship between crafts and high art. Her work often incorpo-rates print, collage and stitching to create rich textural pieces that explore the possibilities of such diverse materials.

Maria PotterMarie E. Potter is an award winning multi-discipline artist whose work is underpinned by a continuing re-evaluation of New Zealand cultural and social history. Ethnographic methodology enables her to utilise collected artefacts which are steeped in history, as her art material. Her work is held in various New Zealand public collec-tions.

Dean ProudfootDean’s work has always been varied and this year is no exception.But whatever the imagery the paintings always come from a placeof fun and accessibility. Deans approach to art is firmly from the Lowbrow camp, he believes art doesn’t have to be obscureor elitist but should challenge and evoke a response and what’s more positive than a smile. An award winning commercial illustrator for the past 20 years, Dean has enjoyed working with a diverserange of clients both in New Zealand and internationally.

Robin RangaAs a multimedia artist Robin explores form, composition and design. Inspired by nature’s endurance and precision. Since graduating 2005 (Bachelor of Visual Arts), AUT she has exhibited widely and won awards and recognition in painting and ceramics. Portage Ceramic Awards finalist 2009, 2010 and 2013. Merit winner Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke 2014.

Neal Palmer

Dean Proudfoot

Lorraine RastorferLorraine Rastorfer is a highly trained artist and educator and has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. She has won numerous awards for her abstract work including 2005 CoCA/An-thony Harper Contemporary Art Award, 2001 Art Waikato National Art Award, 2007 People’s Choice Award/Norsewear Art Awards, and 1993 Ida Eise Painting Award. She was Runner-up in the 1993 Wallace Art Award and a finalist 1999-02, 2004, 2011-12, and is regularly selected for national award and group exhibitions.

Kathy ReadyKathy Ready is an Auckland based artist. She completed her B.A. (Art] wiih Honours in Perth, Australia, and has been exhibiting since 1996. Through the broad interpretation of abstraction, and the challenge of making colours come alive, she creates accessible works that impress and invite the viewer to explore them further.

Peter ReesOver the last 30 years Peter has been actively involved in Art and Photography. This has included drawing, printmaking, painting and photography. “The dramatic contrasts in light and atmosphere created in mountain and coastal environments have drawn me to travelling and working in these areas. The experience of sailing, tramping and being in the landscape is fundamental to the way I approach drawing, painting and photography.”

Paul RhindPaul has exhibited extensively on Waiheke Island including Sculpture on the Gulf, design make awards. Multi- disciplined artist working predominantly in wood and oil on paper engaging insocial, political and enviromental issues.

RobiantoRobianto's dot paintings are neither prints nor machine made. Each painting consists of 100's and often 1000's of individual dots painstakingly applied by hand and totally free hand. The skill lies in the artist's ability to correctly position the dot and also to make it the correct size.

Barry Ross SmithBarry’s work explores the liminal, the threshold between boundaries of identity, relationships and living entities. My new work investi-gates concepts of transcendence and attempts reclaim images as transcendent or magical. Totems in a post-enlightenment world. At the same time, they recognise the inability to reclaim or understand them as such. Overall, the theme is hope and failure and hope again (with some absurdity thrown in for good measure).Kathy Ready

Lorraine Rastorfer

Peter Rees

Ioana SchwalgerIoana is a painter and photographer who completed a BFA at Auck-land University’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 1997. Since then she has been commissioned to create work for a variety of people and compainies. Her painting style is bright, vibrant and graphic and her photographic images often capture celebrations of life. The inspira-tion for her work can attributed to her Samoan heritage, New Zealand culture and Christian beliefs.

Manu ScottManu Scott was born 1976. Hapu: Ngati Hikairo, Ngati Mahuta, Ngati Tipa Ngati Whawhakia in 1998 he achieved a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Manukau Institute of Technology. He has taken part in numbers of curated exhibitions with artists like Ruben Patterson and James Ormsby, and has had solo shows. His work has covered photography and sculpture. He addresses things in an engaging and often humorous way.

Jan ShoneJan Shone was born in Gisborne, New Zealand in 1952. Has as lectured in paintings and drawing at TAFE, S.A. Master of Visual Arts, South Australia School, University of South Australia. Has had numerous solo shows in both Australia and NZ and is in major collections in both countries.

Shelly SimpsonShelley’s art demonstrates her interest in the relationship between science and humankind. Shelley’s ink-and-resin paintings are inspired by the concept of many millions of people using social media to interact with each other on a daily basis. Her work entertains the idea that ‘we are using digital relationships as a virtual balm, self-medicat-ing our way through a new emotional landscape’.

Jane TanJane lives and works from her studio at Clarks Beach on the shores of the Manukau Harbour. Jane works in acrylics and on a variety of media including the’ Found Object’. Jane wants her artwork to be the ‘opening sentence’ of a conversation. She wants people to share and relay stories, personal experiences and histories, and to reflect and ask ‘What brings us together here at this point in time?’.

Lorene TaurerewaLorene has an MA , BFA and Dep Teaching. She won the Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Award and has major works in Australian galleries , had a Pataka show and had numerous dealer and public shows in NZ, Australia and New York. Drawing has always been a significant part of her practice, both in charcoal and ink. Paintings and drawings are in major collections.

Ioana Schwalger

Manu ScottJan Tan

Sheyne TufferySheyne is a multi-media visual artist, whose primary mediums are painting, animation and printmaking. He is perhaps best known for the dynamic style of his prints and mixed-media work. His prints and paintings often envisage Polynesia as a futuristic urban utopia, with the Samoan fale as the symbolic archetype for skyscrapers, apartment housing and rocketships (vaka).

Rebecca TuneRebecca is a full time artist working from her in-house studio. Her work was showcased at the ‘Monet and the Impression-ists’ exhibition at Te Papa in 2009. Tune has also been a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award.Rebecca Tune is represented by galleries nation-wide and her paintings are in many private collections both here and abroad.

Lingikoni Vaka’utaEducated in Tonga, Currently lives and works in Suva, Fiji. Lingikoni continues to find inspiration in the poetic and insight-ful Tongan metaphors and stories he has learned or composed. The multi- faceted meanings and reinterpretation in Lingikoni’s works are rooted in his memories of Tonga,

Francis van DammenBorn 1954, Frances van Dammen currently lives and works in Thames. She graduated from WINTEC with a Bachelor of Media Arts, majoring in Painting, in 2006. Van Dammen was the winner of the 2009 Waikato Art Awards and worked as a tutor at the WSA Art School. She has had successful sell-out shows.

Nicola WarnerNicola paints vibrant, contemporary landscapes, working in soft pastel and oil pastel with mixed media. “I paint the types of pictures I’d want on my own walls. I love the NZ landscape and I’m endlessly fascinated with colour and shape and the way the light is always changing. I find my inspiration in boats, beaches and beautiful places.”

Richard WellsRichard works out of his studio in Ellerslie and is the owner of Artworks a bronze art casting foundry. Represented by Parnell Gallery in Auckland and the Bryce Gallery in Christchurch Richard’s work is included in many public and private collections.

Sheyne Tuffery Rebecca Tune

Francis Van Dammen

Johnson WitehiraJohnson is an artist and designer of Tamahaki (Ngāti Hinekura), Ngā Puhi (Ngai-tu-te-auru), Ngāti Haūa and New Zealand European descent. His interest in Maori art and design led him to Te Patahi-a-Toi (School of Māori Studies, Massey University) where he recently completed his doctorate in Māori design. In his research, Tārai Kōrero Toi: Articulating a Māori Design Language, Witehira developed a platform for contemporary Māori design practice through the exploration of traditional carving.

Rieko Woodford-RobinsonThe very old and much loved soft toys depicted in Rieko's portraits seem to be a little reluctant to reveal their stories, where as her an-thropomorphic animals are placed in sceneries that seem to be tak-en from almost forgotten childhood tales.Her paintings give people a tiny window into the lives of the characters. Her work is influenced by pop surrealism and the Old Masters of the 17th century.Rieko was born in Japan and moved to New Zealand in 1999 where she began exploring her artistic side. Now she lives and works as an artist and illustrator in Wellington.

Stephanie WoodmanWellington based Woodman is a self taught artist and full-time art tutor. She has 19 years’ experience teaching children and adults, and has also trained teachers in visual art education. Her own art has evolved over time, as she has experimented and explored concepts within her selected medium; acrylics. Recently she has experimented with more abstract concepts, dealing with space and dimensional aspects - new geometrical series. Woodman has exhibited in Wellington, Auckland and the Kapiti Coast. She has worked on various private commissions for collections in New Zealand and overseas.

Frank WoodwardFrank Woodward is a sculptor who has exhibited in a range of Auckland based exhibitions and is represented in private collec-tions. These works combine glass, wood and stone.

Julie WoodwardDuring an art teaching career that spans 30 years, Julie Woodward has also developed an art practice based primarily on painting and drawing. In these paintings the liminal landscape sliding by at the edge of the road solidifies or dissolves into abstraction. Her current work is scaled for close viewing.

Johnson Witehira Heather Wilson

Rae WestWith a focus on mostly New Zealand’s native botanical and bird imagery, Rae reflects in her paintings both a personal appreciation and ongoing concern for her surrounding environment.

Simon WilliamsDunedin-born artist Simon Williams is strongly influenced by Artists of the Heidelberg School. Williams based himself in Mt Eden often choosing to paint “en plein air”. The city’s volcanic cones such as Mt Hobson and Mt Eden are frequent vantage points for these works.

Heather WilsonHeather is an established artist who has works throughout New Zealand and overseas. Her recent exhibition at Zohar Gallery in Mt Maunganui was a sell out. Her work has featured in several home magazines. You can find Heather’s work in 12 galleries and design stores around New Zealand.

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