One of the winners of the senior category of Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists 2021 was Sienna Oshannessey (on the left) aged …
Artists
Agatha Weston
One of the winners of the senior category of Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists 2021 was Agatha Weston (on the right) aged …
Te Ao Rangimarie Davis
The winner of Junior’s category of Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists 2021 is Te Ao Rangimarie Davis, aged 8 from Te Pā …
Mollie Shaw
The winner of the senior category for Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artist’s 2020 Competition was Mollie Shaw from Rangi Ruru Girls’ School. …
Annabelle Britt
One of the winners from the Junior category of Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artist’s 2020 competition was Annabelle Britt, aged 11 from …
Yzza Batac
One of the winners from the Junior category for SCAPE’s Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists 2020, Yzza Batac, aged 11 years old, …
Heather Straka
Heather Straka’s deep explorations into perceptions of socio-political and cultural lives have created a significant body of compelling and controversial …
Sione Monū
Sione Monū is an artist of the Tongan diaspora. They live between Canberra Australia and Auckland and work across the …
Olivia Webb
Olivia Webb (b.1988) is an artist and musician of Dutch-Pākehā descent based in Ōtautahi. She loves working with others and …
Nabuqi
Nabuqi, born 1984, in Inner Mongolia, China. Focusing on both the physical and psychological nature of objects and materials, Nabuqi’s …
Louise Palmer
Louise Palmer is a New Zealand artist currently based in Christchurch where she is a Senior Lecturer in sculpture at …
Kate Newby
Kate Newby was born in Auckland in 1979. She studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating with a BFA …
Janet Lilo
Janet Lilo b.1982 (Te Rarawa, Samoa & Niue) works in digital video, photography, sculpture and installation. Her art practice explores …
Bona Park
Bona Park is a Korean artist based in Seoul. Many of her works and projects question social systems, including art, …
Aroha Novak
Aroha Novak (Ngai Te Rangi, Ngati Kahungunu) studied Sculpture and Installation at Dunedin School of Art, completing her undergraduate degree …
Ruth Watson
Since the mid-80s Canterbury-born artist Ruth Watson has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally, producing a substantial body of artwork …
Pauline Rhodes
Pauline Rhodes lives and works in Christchurch. She studied at Canterbury University School of Fine Arts, graduating in Sculpture in …
Gill Gatfield
Gill Gatfield has LLB. and MFA(Hons) from Auckland University. Her abstract artwork is exhibited in sculpture symposiums, galleries, museums and …
Cat Auburn
Cat Auburn has exhibited both locally and internationally. In 2016 her exhibition, The Horses Stayed Behind won the award for Best …
Rachel Rakena
Rachael Rakena is video artist who works, frequently in collaboration with others, to create richly-layered performative installations, videos and photographs. …
Judy Darragh
Judy Darragh is a prolific New Zealand artist renowned for her brightly coloured sculptural assemblages of found objects, recycled items, …
George Lewis
George approached his mum Helen and handed her a small sketch. ‘Can you give this to Neil Dawson please, it’s …
Mark Catley
Mark Catley is a graphic artist from Christchurch, New Zealand. He has always been drawn to art and design through …
Holly Best
Holly Best is an artist based in Christchurch. She graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Fine …
Greer Twiss
Greer Twiss was born in 1937 and he studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts in the 1950s. He …
David McCracken
David McCracken is a sculptor based in Auckland. He began sculpting in his teens, followed by working in a variety …
Kereama Taepa
Kereama Taepa (Te Arawa, Te Āti Awa) received a Masters of Maori Visual Arts from Toioho ki Āpiti, Massey University …
Alex Sands
We Are One by Alex Sands for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists. We Are One! by …
Conor Clarke
Conor Clarke (Ngāi Tahu, Irish, Welsh) works in photography, sound and video. Group exhibitions include The Devil’s Blind Spot, Christchurch …
Audrey Baldwin
Audrey Baldwin graduated from Ilam School of Fine Art in 2009. She has been a key figure in contemporary art …
Natalie Guy
Natalie Guy is a sculptor based in Auckland. Her work has been included in a number of public sculpture festivals, …
Neil Pardington
Neil Pardington (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Pākehā) is a photographer and designer based in Wellington. He has exhibited …
Charlotte Bobichon
At age 7, Charlotte Bobichon is already an accomplished artist with publicly-displayed work. The Somerfield School pupil is broadening the …
Rosetta Brown, Hazel White & Georgina Jolly
Strength in Sisterhood by Rosetta Brown, Hazel White and Georgina Jolly for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring …
Tessa Marshall
Sticks of Rock by Tessa Marshall for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Sticks of Rock by …
Ciaran Begley
Ciaran Begley was born in Hawaii and is based in Australia. He has a MFA from Sydney University (2016) and …
Emily Higham
Physiological Manipulation of Space by Emily Higham for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Physiological Manipulation of …
Helena McCondach
Negotiation by Helena McCondach for SCAPE Public Art Season 2019 – Re:ACTIVATE Aspiring Artists Negotiation by Helena McCondach, aged 17, …
Tyler Jackson
Tyler Jackson is a Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-Tara based emerging artist and facilitator at the artist-run space play_ station. He graduated with …
Sui Jianguo
Sui Jianguo, one of China’s most celebrated contemporary artists, came to prominence internationally in the 1990s with sculptures that questioned …
Kazu Nakagawa
Kazu Nakagawa was born in Tokyo, moved to New Zealand in 1986 and now lives in Waiheke. He began by …
Chiara Corbelletto
Chiara Corbelletto is an established Italian-New Zealand sculptor with a multifaceted art career spanning exhibitions to public commissions and art …
Susan Philipsz
Susan Philipsz is a Scottish artist based in Berlin. She has exhibited extensively, including the solo exhibitions, The Four Winds, …
Mary-Louise Browne
Mary-Louise Browne is an artist based in Auckland. She has exhibited widely in public galleries and museums including group exhibitions …
Scott Eady
Scott Eady is a Dunedin-based artist. Public commissions include The Philanthropist’s Stone for Wellington’s Cuba Mall, and his work is …
Ollie Moginie
Ollie Moginie was selected from the Re:ACTIVATE Junior and Senior Aspiring Artists competition in June 2018 – an open call …
Kayla Folwell & Manaia Mahuika-Davies
Kayla and Manaia were selected from the Re:ACTIVATE Junior and Senior Aspiring Artists competition in June 2018 – an open call for young artists to …
Paul Hartigan
Paul Hartigan attended Elam School of Fine Art 1971-73 with painting teachers Colin McCahon, Robert Ellis, Garth Tapper and sculptors Adrian Hall, Greer …
Michel de Broin
Michel de Broin lives and works in Montreal. His public art works and commissions have included: Dendrites, 2017, Montreal; Thresholds, 2017, Montréal; Interlude, 2016, Québec …
Janna van Hasselt
Janna studied Printmaking at the Ilam School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, and graduated with a BFA in 2004. Since then, …
Ben Pearce
Ben Pearce completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003 majoring in Sculpture at Whanganui’s Quay School of Fine Arts and has exhibited …
Sam Harrison
Sam Harrison is a Christchurch sculptor whose work depends on the scrutiny of the human figure. Such a practice needs …
Piri Cowie
Piri Cowie was born and raised in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand. Māori culture is the backbone of her art practice. …
Christopher Ulutupu
Christopher Ulutupu is a video artist of Samoan/Niuean/German descent currently residing in Wellington. He completed his MFA at Massey University, Wellington and …
Caroline Rothwell
Born in Hull, Caroline Rothwell studied at the University of Arts London in the 1990s and is based between Sydney and London. …
Erica van Zon
Since completing her Masters at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2007, Erica van Zon has exhibited in artist-run …
Brett Graham
Brett Graham is a sculptor who creates large-scale artworks and installations that explore indigenous histories, politics and philosophies. Graham works from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), …
Ana Iti
Ana Iti (Ngāpuhi, born 1989) graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts with a BFA in 2012. Employing sculpture, spoken …
Tony Cragg
Turner Prize-winning sculptor Tony Cragg emerged in the late 1970s with a bold practice that questioned and tested the limits …
Katie Temple
Katie Temple is 9 years old and attends Thorrington Primary School as a Year 5 student. She has recently taken on …
Hannah Beehre
Hannah Beehre’s practice ranges across a variety of media including drawing, installation, and painting. Her works use unexpected contrast to establish visually …
George Rickey
George Rickey was born in South Bend, Indiana, grew up outside of Glasgow, Scotland and studied history at Balliol College in Oxford. His …
Tom Dale
Tom Dale lives and works in London. His works tell us about our surroundings, our material condition, the preposterous and …
Gregor Kregar
Gregor Kregar was born in 1972 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand. ‘My work is not confined …
Robert Jahnke
Primarily a sculptor, Robert Jahnke is considered one of New Zealand’s leading contemporary Māori artists. He works with a range …
Josh O’Rourke
O’Rourke is a graduate of University of Canterbury Ilam School of Fine Arts, in Painting. He has exhibited widely throughout …
Nathan Ingram
Nathan Ingram is a Christchurch-based artist and designer with backgrounds in fashion and urban art. After gaining attention for a …
Wayne Barrar
Wayne Barrar is an Associate Professor at the School of Art at Massey University, Wellington. His photography has been widely exhibited …
Roslisham Ismail, AKA Ise
Ise’s work included installations, publications, animations, collages, participatory events, and the artist-space Parking Project (run out of his apartment in …
David Cross
David Cross works across performance, installation, video and photography. His practice brings together performance art and object-based environments, focusing on …
Ruby Williams
Ruby William’s art has been something she has worked at since a young age. Her 2.5-metre steel branch sculpture design …
Shaun Gladwell
While best known for his video works that explore motion, energy and balance through tracking the rhythms, cycles and forms …
Jem Noble
Jem Noble’s practice encompasses digital image-making, music, sculpture, performance and text, and is concerned with questions of framing, indeterminacy and …
Maddie Leach
Maddie Leach’s practice is largely project based, investigating viable ways of making artworks in order to interpret and respond to specific …
Petrena Fishburn
Petrena’s master’s thesis focused on Barbara Brooke, a Canterbury arts administrator, arts magazine editor, and an early dealer gallery founder …
Julia Holderness
Auckland-based artist Julia Holderness completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in 2002 and a Master …
Wayne Youle
Wayne Youle (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Whakaeke, Ngāti Pākehā) works across traditional media, including painting, sculpture, photography and print-making, seeking to …
Seung Yul Oh
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1981, Seung Yul Oh moved to New Zealand 15 years ago and completed an MFA …
Miranda Parkes
Bridging the realms of painting and sculpture, Miranda Parkes’ works are invariably strongly coloured and responsive to their environment. She …
Nina Oberg Humphries
Christchurch born and bred, Nina Oberg Humphries (b.1990), is of Cook Islands and Pākehā descent. Nina studied towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts …
Rob Hood
Rob Hood’s works take up the found detritus of pop and consumer culture, transforming it into forms simultaneously context-specific, thought-provoking …
Dan Arps
Dan Arps’ work explores and responds to the contemporary urban environment. His installations, sculptures, paintings and videos fuse architecture, public …
Anton Parsons
Based in Auckland, Anton Parsons is one of New Zealand’s leading sculptors. He graduated from the University of Canterbury School …
Fiona Connor
Fiona Connor’s installations typically present collections of objects or structures that have been derived, at one-to-one scale, from pre-existing architectural …
Zina Swanson
Zina’s work investigates the relationship between humans and the natural world, with a particular interest in notions of anthropomorphism. Her …
Phil Dadson
Phil Dadson is a sound and intermedia artist, working across disciplines. His work includes solo performances and exhibitions, building experimental …
Hannah Kidd
Methven-based sculptor Hannah Kidd predominantly crafts and welds sculptural creations from steel rod and corrugated iron as a means to …
Ash Keating
Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980. Keating completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting at Monash …
Héctor Zamora
Héctor Zamora is a Mexican artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Working extensively in public space, the artist creates major works …
Ahmet Öğüt
Ahmet Öğüt is a Turkish artist based in Amsterdam. His work encompasses various media – installation, video, drawing and text …
Joanna Langford
Joanna Langford graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2004 with a Master of Fine Arts (Painting). She received the 2006 …
Darryn George
Christchurch-based artist Darryn George has been exhibiting regularly since he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of …
Richard Maloy
Auckland artist Richard Maloy employs a fascination with the fine details of the materials and processes involved in art making. …
Fiona Jack
Fiona Jack is a conceptual artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. Her projects consider socio-political issues and look to the …
Nathan Pohio
Nathan Pohio is an artist working in video and other photo media. Exhibited widely, his practice is concerned with the contemporary …
Mischa Kuball
For many years Mischa Kuball, from Düsseldorf, Germany, has been working conceptually and artistically with artificial light, creating works that, beneath …
Peter Atkins
Peter Atkins is a celebrated Australian contemporary artist and an important representative of Australian art in the International arena. He …
Julia Morison
Julia Morison (Born 1952, Pahiatua, Aotearoa New Zealand. Based in Ōtautahi Christchurch). Julia Morison’s ongoing practice – incorporating painting, sculpture, …
Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body …
Phil Price
Phil Price has an impressive artistic pedigree, with work featuring widely across the Tasman in private collections as well as …
Regan Gentry
Regan Gentry (born 1976, graduated with a BFA from Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 2000). Artist statement: As a …
Neil Dawson
Neil Dawson, CNZM has produced many sculptures throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Britain, Europe, and the United States. His work includes Chalice, in Cathedral …
Judy Millar
IMAGE: Judy Millar, photo courtesy of the artist. As a child, Judy Millar was sure that there must be something …
Sorawit Songsataya
Sorawit Songsataya is a multimedia artist currently based in Pōneke Wellington. Their practice explores the many tangents that connect and …
Natasha Matila-Smith
Natasha Matila-Smith is an arts practitioner based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Matila-Smith has developed a series of confessional text-based works …
Melissa Macleod
Melissa Macleod (born 1973, lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch) In her work as an interdisciplinary artist, Melissa Macleod has exhibited in …
Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
Martin Awa Clarke Langdon (Kāi Tahu, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Whāwhākia, Ngāti Hikairo) Martin Awa Clarke Langdon is an artist, curator and …
Jacquelyn Greenbank
Jacquelyn Greenbank’s practice employs a domestic approach to art making. Utilising found objects, recycled materials and meticulously intricate hand-crafted objects …
Dane Mitchell
Dane Mitchell (born 1976 in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland) Dane Mitchell was Aotearoa New Zealand’s representative for the 58th Venice Biennale …
Rachael Dewhirst
Rachael Dewhirst (born 1991 in Auckland Aotearoa, graduated with a BFA (Hons) from University of Canterbury in 2013). In …
Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine
Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine works as a multi-media artist across a number of disciplines, notably architecture, sculpture, tattooing, painting, weaving and …