I live in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.  

My practice is driven by a love of the natural world, the interconnectedness of everything, and, consequently the enormous impact an obsessive culture of extraction and consumption has on ecology. I am a painter, I also make small sculpture often incorporating found and discarded materials. I have spent much of my life beachcombing the rugged coastlines of Aotearoa collecting rocks, driftwood, bones, beach glass and more and more plastic waste. I work from a studio filled with my finds at artist run gallery Arthaus Contemporary, Orakei.
 
My work contains principles of both landscape and abstract painting, an understanding of the emotive power of colour,  what is beauty and  a fascination with the alchemy of materials and how we value them. I am interested in the “atmosphere” or energy contained in a work that is conjured from the multitudinous influences at play on any given day on both artist and materials. Living in these times my work more often contains  shouts of protest, of despair, of love and hope for the survival of our world.  I wonder what we are leaving our future generations. 
 
I am a strong believer in the connective and beneficial power of art, and I enjoy working with art in communities to engage and challenge behaviour regarding waste.  I am  a member of Re-Use Collective with 7 other artists  mindful of sustainable art practice. 

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Exhibitions

Silence, Group Show, Arthaus Contemporary, April 2026 (Arts Diary Documentation here)

Critical Mass, Group Show, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, October 2025

Thinking About Breathing, Solo show, Franklin Art Centre, September 2025

Displaced- A longing for Home, with Kara Burrowes, The Refinery Artspace Nelson, May 2025

What’s the Matter? Solo show, Arthaus Contemporary, June 2024 (Arts Diary Documentation here)

Fabric Forward Group Show Re-Use Collective and Fashion Revolution, April 2024

Summer Show Group Show with Arthaus resident artists, February 2024

Morsel, Re-Use Collective for Eco-Fest, Easel Gallery, March 2023

Cyclone Relief Show for Hawkes Bay Artists, (Concept and Curation, included 88 artists), Arthaus Contemporary , May 2023

Earth Matters, Re-Use Collective, Arthaus Contemporary, November 2022 (Arts Diary Documentation here)

Witness, Group show for Sustainable Coastlines, Climate Festival October 2022

Waste-Age, with Milvia Romici, Arthaus Contemporary, July 2022 (Arts Diary Documentation here)

Afloat,  Group Show, Arthaus Contemporary, 2021 (Arts Diary documentation here)

Washed Up, Solo Show, Arthaus Contemporary, 2020 (Arts Diary Documentation here)

Disintegrating form, Group Show, Arthaus Contemporary, 2018 (Arts Diary Documentation here)

Graduate Art Fair, Guangzhou, China, for Auckland University, 2017

Initiate(s) New Graduates Show, Lake House Arts, 2017

Elam Grad Show , Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, 2015, 2016

Point of Departure, Railway St Studios, Auckland, 2015

Collision of Worlds, Silver Project Space, Auckland, 2014

 

Competitions/Awards

2025 Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Small Sculpture Award

2025 Finalist NZ Small Sculpture Award

2025 Finalist NZ Painting and Printmaking Award

2025 Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday Award

2024 Finalist Uxbridge, Estuary Art Awards

2024 Finalist Craigs Aspiring Art Awards, Wanaka

2023 Finalist Walker & Hall, Waiheke Art Awards

2023 Highly Commended, Uxbridge Estuary Art Awards

2023 Finalist Craigs Aspiring Art Awards, Wanaka

2022 Finalist Walker & Hall, Waiheke Art Awards

2022 Selected piece for inclusion in opening of Auckland Climate Festival

2022 Finalist NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Waikato Art Museum.

2017 Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Art Museum.

 

Writing

https://art-newzealand.com/issues/issue-194/ Dina Jezdic on RE-Use Group Curiosities of Status exhibition Corban Estates

https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2025/11/-3 Peter Dornauf on Critical Mass, Group show at Ramp Gallery Wintec Hamilton

 

Grants

2024 Creative NZ Early Career Grant

2022 Orakei Board, Creative Humans Grant.

 

Education

2017 Master of Fine Arts,(Hons) University of Auckland

2016  Post Graduate Diploma Fine Arts,(Distinction) University of Auckland

2019 Certified Mediator, Resolution Institute

Bachelor of Arts (English and Psychology) University of Auckland

Bachelor of Law, University of Auckalnd