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Richard
Adams I paint when I’m not playing jazz violin. The two go hand in hand. When
I feel good about my playing at night, the next day in my studio the painting
always goes well. Painting should improve as the artist matures, just as in
jazz the more you play, the more you understand the value of improvisation and
a greater sense of confidence can emerge. This allows the artist to make a direct
statement from within. With jazz less can be more, as in painting five strokes
can say as much as five thousand.
I consider myself an abstract painter. I draw my inspiration from
nature, from colours, textures, shapes, surfaces… I like my work to have a
certain amount of spontaneity to it. This helps me in feeling that I am the
guide of the brush rather than the master. Of course this also applies in
playing jazz improvisation. It helps to allow the feeling of notes you imagine
to pass through you rather than trying to arrange them for the listener. In that way, they can play themselves and the
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Helen
Ancliffe Helen Ancliffe gained her Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT in 2009. Her
work mainly features the found object and contemplates a space which may be
unoccupied or overlooked. The space is filled using the process of stacking
creating a concentrated form, housed by the limits of the larger object. This
draws attention to fundamental tenets of sculpture – mass, weight, gravity,
space and volume. Ancliffe collects objects and discarded segments of people’s
lives, treasuring them to change perception of each individual object.
By arranging and layering Ancliffe’s “Stacks” evoke a sense of nostalgia and has been said
to “send the viewer on a journey down memory lane, of childhood books where
pictures of bookshelves had doors where mice lived and stairwells in book
spines.”
‘I am initially attracted to potential
material by the colour, shape and surface texture. Assemblage is a process of
bringing materials’ characteristics into an harmonious whole. There is respect
for the original object, which is not altered by artist’s intervention.
Redundant, worn out, worthless stuff, rejected by a ‘throw away’ society is
given a new identity, status and value. There is beauty in the most trivial.
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Taine Carlin Barr Taine Barr is a year 12 emerging photography student from
Dilworth Senior School. He recently completed a photographic journey exploring the
concept of isolation within his hometown, Maraetai. He concentrated on landscapes primarily, focusing on the
places within the town that were devoid of people.
Ingrid
Boot English artist Ingrid Boot
has lived in New Zealand since 2000. She completed an Art Foundation in
1991 at Westminster University, London followed by a degree in Illustration at
De Montfort University. Ingrid paints in a realistic and illustrative
style. Many of her works portray the female form, exploring the complex
characteristics of femininity such as modesty, self confidence, romance and
intrigue. She never degrades women, rather enhances them, capturing a
timeless elegance that will last a lifetime. She was winner of the 2008
KG Fraser Art Award and her work can be found in galleries and collections
throughout New Zealand, Italy and the UK. | Rudi
Buchanan I used to work with engines and always thought the parts were quite
beautiful and a waste to just scrap especially the moving parts. For the last
4years I have been making sculpture in my Karekare studio using several
different techniques such as blacksmithing, bronze casting using the lost wax process,
and I also work with copper.
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Cathy Carter Water and more specifically the ocean has been a source of
inspiration to Photographer and Installation artist Cathy Carter. There is a
kinesthetic curiosity the artist explores as she floats in the ocean or dives
down to capture these fluid moments. Through the use of intimate perspective
she seeks to embody seeing as an experience rather than solely as observation.
In suspending the body in a place of isolation and destabilization the work
offers a sensuous psychologically compelling encounter and talks about our
vulnerability in these
environments.
Cathy Carter is a Post Graduate student at AUT University in the
Visual Arts Program, and received a Distinction in her Bachelor of Visual Arts
in 2010. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at St Paul St Gallery
3, The New Dowse Gallery, Art Station, Sculpture on the Shore and the Glass
Artist Gallery, Sydney. She is currently exhibiting at Black Asterix Gallery on
Ponsonby Rd. | Karyn Dempsey
Craig Ellis I studied 3D design at Unitec, Auckland, in the 90s, creating furniture that pushed Avant-garde past its limits. Wanting to explore the world I decided to go to London for a week and stayed six years. Craig is a glass caster and painter.
Kurt Ensor Kurt Ensor aka
"Kool" is one of Auckland's most prolific street & stencil
artists. Kool’s work is
characterised by bold images presented in an irreverent manner. His design background
is evident in his logo-like motifs, the most prolific being his Remuera Gun
Club brand, which features prominently in his Kool branded t-shirt range. Kurt is a
parent of Richmond Road School.
Nick
Fedaeff Inspiration can come
from many sources - dreams, observing life, other painters or the esoteric
creative seed randomly appearing at will. All these rich sources of influence
provide Nick Fedaeff with elements that he valiantly translates to canvas. The
slightly disorienting, the hallucinatory quality of a dream, the element of
surprise, the absurdity of life are cleverly layered into Nick’s work
referencing Surrealism and the Old Masters of the Renaissance.
Thematically Nick
interprets the relationships and interconnections between men and women and
life and death adding humour as tool of engagement. The study of conscious
and unconscious leaves the observer with the unsettling feeling that
there is more to the stories than meets the eye. Whether
it be historical figures, a commanding colour, a lucid dream or the look of a
complete stranger, Nick, in his own words, mixes these objects, environments
and observations into a recipe for his next piece. |
Otis
Frizzell | If there are any barriers to where Otis Frizzell's diverse talent and colourful personality will take him, he has yet to be stopped by them. A man of many talents - an artistic innovator, style leader, artist, hip hop performer, radio personality, tattooist, graphic designer and chauffeur to the stars - and a success in every pursuit, he is one of the true tars of New Zealand's alternative universe. In early 2005, Otis abandoned TV celebrity and the offer of a fourth Mo Show series to focus on art projects working out of The Area studio with Mike Weston.
As well as producing art in solo capacity Otis ofter works in collaboration with Mike Weston as Art Brand 'Weston Frizzell'. Weston Frizzell is currently enjoying success painting and working on screenprints, lithographs and high-end digital prints which are sold via a large network of galleries. |
Hope
Gibbons Hope Gibbons is a contemporary New Zealand painter with works held in private collections here and throughout the world. She has spent a considerable amount of time being privately tutored and has completed several Mastery Contemporary Painting courses in Auckland. She has recently been published in "New Zealand's Favourite Artists" Volume 2, plus has been featured in lifestyle publications such as "NZ Life and Leisure" and Next magazine.
Hope is particularly interested in alchemy and reactions of the mediums of which she has less control over. The recurring reference back to the land has become more and more evident and has been influenced solely by her own need to return to a rural coastal lifestyle.
Miki Gildenlore Miki Gildenlore has been carving pounamu, wood and bone for two years. She prefers to work on commissioned pieces, so that each creation can be designed and made with the wearer’s personality in mind. If you wish to commission a piece, please feel free to contact Miki by phone home (09) 2149983, mobile 021 733 731 or by email – miki@crosswell.co.nz
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Graham Charlotte Graham was born in 1972 and is of Ngati Mahuta, Ngai Tai and Scottish descent. She has been a practicing artist for over 11 years and has enjoyed a four year career in secondary art education. Charlotte has a Bachelor of Maori Arts (with Honours) from Massey University, Palmerston North and she is currently completing her Masters. |
Brian Gregory
Daniella
Hulme Daniëlla Hulme is a self-taught full-time
established artist represented by various Dealer galleries throughout NZ. Her
strong, bright colours and clearly delineated, stylised motifs combine to striking
effect making her work stand out any situation. They are a product of her
background – her own Dutch heritage and her husband’s Samoan culture – which
she has developed though her vision into a unique and captivating style,
creating for her an enthusiastic and growing following for her works.
Daniëlla has exhibited in numerous exhibitions
since 1998, where her vibrant colours and motifs inspired by Tapa cloth, wood
carvings, Tivaevae and tropical flora and fauna immediately capture viewers and
convey the emotions of Pacific life, be it in urban environments or from the
homelands. Themes of Pacific navigation, bi-culturalism, ideal utopian
celebrations of Pacifica and living in idyllic settings to the urbanisations of
cultures underpins her work.
Her works have been featured in Disney movie
“Johnny Kapahala” and many publications over the years such as art calendars,
magazines, diaries, corporate calendars. |
Jane Hyder Jane Hyder is a Wellington based artist. She trained at Massey
University, the Slade School of Art, London and under Dick Frizzell. Her use of
bold colour, texture and paint application allows Jane to express the feelings
and issues that she cares about. Jane has exhibited since 1994 and her work is held in public and private
collections in New Zealand, Australia, France and the United Kingdom.
Nanette Lela'ulu
Lucy Linane
Vivien Masters Artist and illustrator Vivien Masters explores themes of femininity, artifice and costume in her delicately detailed paintings and drawings. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT in 2009, Vivien has been based in her inner-city Auckland studio. She has recently shown work in three group exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, as well as participating in group shows in Auckland and Wellington. In between illustration comissions and personal work, Vivien participates in live art performances. This year she has created art live at the Big Day Out music Festival, 42 Below Vodka's Carnival 42 Bar and for the community art festival First Thursdays.
Karl Maughan
Karl Maughan paints the wide open spaces and lushness of gardens found in New Zealand. Maughan’s works are painted in oil, often on a huge scale, with small painterly brush strokes. The results are works that move between the technical virtuosity of the super realists and the tactile pleasures of expressionism. After 10 years in London, Maughan lives in Grey Lynn. In 1998, two works were purchased for the highly prestigious Charles Saatchi collection (UK) with a number of further major commissions internationally resulting from this.
Kate Millington
Kate Millington is an Australian-born mosaic artist. She has been living and working in Grey Lynn for over 25 years. She studied art at Sydney College of the Arts (taking her Bachelor degree), then at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and graduated with a Master degree. She paints and prints, and is one of New Zealand’s premier mosaic artists. Kate Millington has exhibited both in New Zealand and Australia, and her work is held in a number of private and public collections, including the James Wallace Trust. |
| Alexis Neal
Since completing a Masters degree in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, Alexis has continued to develop her professional practice as a contemporary New Zealand artist. Alongside her professional career Alexis has also fulfilled tutoring positions in both academic and community institutions. As a practising artist her work explored aspects of cultural identity and predominately has looked at the duality of artefacts in terms of personal adornment and material culture. Her studio practice is interdisciplinary, combining components of print, sewn feather canvases, weaving and installation works together to address Maori traditional whakapapa in a contemporary context.
Brad Novak
Born in Auckland in 1976 with Croatian heritage, Brad Novak is both a professional artist and a public health doctor. A strong desire to make a difference culminated in Brad graduating from Auckland Medical School in the late 1990s. He openly acknowledges never seriously having the opportunity in his youth to study visual arts.
Returning to New Zealand and specialising in public health medicine, Brad was introduced to and fully embraced this speciality’s strong ethical foundations. These include: the importance of the Treaty of Waitangi; and the need for doctors to show leadership in not only the prevention of disease but also the promotion of good health in our society. However, a turning point in life then occurred during his OE with his wife in 2000-2001: “Katarina single-handedly opened my eyes to the joys of art. It was during one of our visits to a famous gallery that she laid down a challenge for me to make my own artwork – and the rest is history!”
Isla Osborne
Glass is both subject
and object in my work and its chemical and physical properties fascinate me. It
is fluid whilst unyielding, delicate whilst impenetrable. Glass can transform
from liquid to solid in an instant, while still retaining the illusion of
movement. My process consists of
making finely crafted glass beads, melted with a torch according to traditional
Italian methods. Although the techniques I uses are ancient, their application
is contemporary and I am constantly experimenting with the nature and chemistry
of glass. “Lampworking is an ancient and magical process, a
chemistry that borders on alchemy and as an artist I find its allure
irresistible.”
Kathy Ready
Fuelled by her physical and emotional environment, colour - its vibrancy and how each plays against the other - is the underlying foundation and driving force behind all of Kathy's work. After making the first mark on the canvas, Kathy allows her paintings to unfold into unanticipated directions, layer upon layer, creating new dimensions, tones and hues along the way. This journey culminates in the production of vibrant and accessible works of art that invite the viewer to explore further.
David Russell
Stencil artist and Chiropractor, Dave
Russell aka “D•Russ” is a self taught artist originally from Brisbane,
Australia now a resident of Western Springs, Auckland. His works are primarily spray paint and stencil
on canvas, plywood and limited editions on paper, and can be found in private
collections in Australia and New Zealand. Most recently he was an exhibiting
artist at the 2011 Oi You! street art exhibition and competition in Nelson. “I love
the simplicity of stencil art”.
Ele Saofia
Talofa lava. I come from a family of 4 brothers and 2 school teachers (my apologies - I meant 2 sisters, I can never tell the difference). I am Samoan/Chinese, born in Samoa but raised in New Zealand, and have recently relocated from Sydney, Australia. I am a self taught artist and have been drawing for as long as I can remember but have recently taken up art seriously. I owe my natural drawing skills to my parents who have been an inspiration in my life, always reminding me of our humble beginnings. It is no wonder that most of my work is on people entwined in cultural motif - capturing the moment, framing a thought, a warm smile, a beautiful gesture - merged with a tinge of Pacific flavor.
Grant Sheehan
Grant Sheehan is a photographer and publisher who lives in Wellington. He has 16 books to his name, including Landmarks, Notable Historic Buildings of New Zealand and the award-winning New Zealand Landscapes, Northland to Antarctica. He has twice won the Cathay Pacific Travel Photographer of the Year award. His work has been exhibited widely and recent shows include Photo Synthesis, a collection of abstract photographs (2008) and Antarctic Images in 2009. His latest book is Ghosts in the Landscape due November 30 2011
Adele Souster
Born in Te Kuiti, Adele moved to Auckland to study Graphic Design at Auckland Technical Institute. Visual art of in all of its forms her passion so still attends life drawing classes and studied watercolour painting under Agnes Wood, at the Whitecliff Art School in Parnell.
Adele lived in Sydney, and was a founding member of the Sydney based printmaking group Open Bite Printmakers. Her work is held in private and commercial collections in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom and a regular exhibitor at the Academy Galleries in Wellington. Adele works as a freelance designer, designing and producing books but has made the decision to take the plunge and paint full time. Landscapes are the main focus of her work at the moment and she paints using only oils.
Rebecca ter Borg
Sheyne Tuffery
Sheyne
Tuffery is a Wellington based multi-media visual artist: whose primary mediums
are painting, animation and printmaking. 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 rocket ships (vaka).
These works reflect Sheyne’s research into his Samoan heritage and symbolism,
his travel wanderlust and his taste for big overseas cities. They also reveal
ongoing influences, the world of fantasy, comics, and cartoons which add a
sense of immediacy and humour to his subject matter.
Sheyne
became aware of Manukau’s bird population and local bird lore while living
there in 2005.
Fascinated by New Zealand’s geological history as a singular
landmass (a vaka) and natural sanctuary for a vast array of bird species,
Sheyne draws in his own associations to Samoa (-meaning sacred bird) and to
cars as symbols of migration-urban vaka. These contemplations have been the
subject of recent works and animations and are part of a trajectory which
involves Sheyne continuing to refine his printmaking techniques as well as
working more diversely and collaboratively with other artists.
Everything I see, feel and hear, has
an impact on my compositions, especially architecture and music. I want the audience to hear the images as
well as see them. The lines that I carve, are for the dynamic of my work, these
come from the veins of banana leaves and the strapping in Polynesian fale's
(houses). The shimmer in this dynamic, trap's light in a way to form a unique frequency. This frequency is me.
Rebecca Tune
Rebecca Tune likes to seduce the viewer initially with the overall flash of colour and binding image. To then draw the viewer in closer so they can explore and discover smaller pockets of interest within the work.
Her ‘City Grid Series’ explores her interest in the hazy structure of the city where order and chaos exist simultaneously. It’s grid of motorways and roads with its cars, horns and flashing lights. Towering buildings with small windows of light, dark and movement. Busy streets always humming, never silent...
Rebecca Tune’s paintings have show cased the ‘Monet and the Impressionists’ Exhibition at Te Papa and she has been a constant exhibitor at the ‘Artist in Eden’ day (a charity art vauction) for the past 15 years. This year Rebecca was a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday 2011 Art Award.
Ronda Turk
After completing Bursary level Art I achieved a certificate in Drawing & Perspective from the Winchester School of Art. From there I channelled my creativity into theatre set design & painting, also becoming a founding member of the Foxton Murals committee. Being an active member of Foxton Camera Club led me to winning Champion Image of the year. In 2002 I was a finalist in the Telecom Art awards.
February 2011, I was involved with Jazz & Art in the Park in Levin, organised by the Levin art society, I look forward to this event becoming a regular feature in my diary. In October I won two first places in the Paraparaumu Rotary Art Show for my Townscape and Still life. I enjoy working in oil & acrylics on canvas, blending realism and the personality of the artist and brush.
Rae Van't Hof
A
full-time artist, I had my first exhibition in 1970 and have been exhibiting on
my own and in joint exhibitions since then.
Danijela Vitasovich
You may have noticed that the subject in each of my artworks is invariably the same: me – although this is not quite the case. The work I have been refining over the past eight years is a large range of realistic and photorealistic oil paintings, with a subject that might typically come across as “self-portraiture”.
Whilst my work technically is self-portraiture, I don't really consider that I have ever made a self-portrait in my entire career: the women depicted in my paintings are not me, and I am not, in any way, trying to document my life through my work. To describe this particular approach I coined the term 'Alternative-Self Portraiture'. At the origin of this endeavour was my fantastic, almost obsessive desire of having multiple, monozygotic sisters, perfect duplicate 'Danijelas'. But since reality stood in my way, I resorted to forging their existence in paint.
Mike Weston
Mike Weston is the proprietor of The Area, an independent music studio and art gallery on Karangahape Road in Auckland. During his twenty-year career he has worked as a recording engineer, DJ, music producer, event promoter, clothing designer, visual artist and artist manager. He has created original music under the names Black Girls Machine, Theta State and Field. With graffiti artist Askew (Disruptiv), Weston produced a series of graffiti art events including Fresh Fresh Fresh, Disrupt the System 2000, Damage Control and Contents Under Pressure, seeding careers for Askew, Misery (Illicit), Otis Frizzell and the late Martin Emond (Illicit), among others.
Weston Frizzell
Collaborative identity
Weston Frizzell is New Zealand's celebrated pop art studio with a reputation for slick work and tight production values. Weston Frizzell is the collaborative identity of Auckland artists Mike Weston and Otis Frizzell - W. Frizzell is not Otis Frizzell's brother! Since 1998, the innovative Weston Frizzell creative partnering of graffiti artist/illustrator/celebrity, Otis Frizzell with producer/designer/manager Mike Weston, has evolved into a diverse and prolific art and media collaboration. Mike Weston and Otis Frizzell have been in the news recently regarding their controversial unofficial Weston Frizzell Auckland Supercity Logo.
Mike Whitaker
Mike has been a professional photographer for over 15 years. He studied photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
Eleanor Whyle
Like de Kooning, Eleanor’s paintings consist of exploring the boundaries between abstracted figure and space. Her works derive from definitive model observations – to what becomes a most rewarding process – turning blind contour drawings into paintings. Eleanor is a parent of Richmond Road School.
Tracey Williams
Tracey Williams holds a Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts from London Guildhall University, an MFA(hons) from Elam School of Fine Arts, and a BA from Otago University. Her research interests include print culture, local knowledge and history, cultural theory, community cultural development, authorship, archives and collaboration. Based in Auckland New Zealand, Tracey works as an artist, curator, academic and educator. She has presented solo exhibitions at dealer and public galleries; and is a founding member of two collaborative arts-based research projects.
From 2005 to 2011, she taught in fine arts programmes at Auckland University for Elam School of Fine Arts and the Centre for Continuing Education; and made several contributions to panels and symposiums on the subjects of print culture and artist-run initiatives. Earlier in her life she worked as a journalist and documentary researcher. She has recently been employed as manager and curator of Papakura Art Gallery, which is an Auckland Council facility.
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