Art Archive

  • A Life; Alive – The fire deep inside lightens the hills

    A Life; Alive – The fire deep inside lightens the hills

  • Rerenga; Tonga o te Ra – Sunset

    Rerenga; Tonga o te Ra – Sunset

    In a return to focus on art from New Zealand, in particular, Ralph Hotere, I began playing around with enamel and oil paints, creating layers and scratching away details to create the artwork. The use of text is always deliberate and this work is my first to use Te Reo Māori in it.
    This work is paired with Rerenga; Haeata – i te atatu – Sunrise

  • Rerenga; Haeata – i te atatu – Sunrise

    Rerenga; Haeata – i te atatu – Sunrise

    In a return to focus on art from New Zealand, in particular, Ralph Hotere, I began playing around with enamel and oil paints, creating layers and scratching away details to create the artwork.
    This work is paired with Rerenga; Tonga o te Ra – Sunset

  • Darkness; Taipouri

    Darkness; Taipouri

  • Yesterday; Tainahi

    Yesterday; Tainahi

  • Moment

    Moment

    I wanted to create a follow up painting to Isolation Under the Son in oils. The stretching hills and trees is a step back in time and is inspired from the many kilometres spent looking out the window on long road trips through the North Island.

  • Lift My Eyes to the Hills

    Lift My Eyes to the Hills

    Taken from Psalms 121, the verse reads “I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

  • Broken Together; Broken – Pakaru

    Broken Together; Broken – Pakaru

    This is a pair of works which explored opposite terms and the juxtaposition between them. These two works look at “Broken” and “Together”.

  • Broken Together; Together – Toipoto

    Broken Together; Together – Toipoto

    This is a pair of works which explored opposite terms and the juxtaposition between them. These two works look at “Broken” and “Together”.
    Paired with Broken Together; Broken – Pakaru

  • Burn; Holy Ground

    Burn; Holy Ground

    This work uses a different technique of using spray paint and stencils to create the work. I wanted to explore just how detailed I could make an artwork without using brushes.This work explores the encounter of Moses and the burning bush.

    “Burn Burn Ngiha
    Do not come any closer
    Take off your sandals
    You are standing on holy ground
    Tapu Whenua”