Sandy Adsett
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Lex Benson-Cooper
Lex’s paintings evolve intuitively and may be inspired by a
range of influences including film, poetry, cinema and television. Using
a range of Expressionist styles and a playful, experimental attitude,
the works are always surprising and can be serious and funny all at
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Gaeil Bloor
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Richard Brimmer
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Linda Bruce
Linda lives in rural Hawke’s Bay and works from a small workshop at home on the farm her family lives on at Argyll, 40km south west of Hastings. Most of her work is hand built ceramics although metal, wood and found materials are frequently used as well.
Previous wineboxes 2006 2007 2008 2009.
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Chris Bryant
Chris Bryant is of Ngati Porou and New Zealand European descent. He divides his time practicing, teaching, developing and promoting Maori art from his Napier studio, Pukemokimoki Marae to the Hastings based art school Toimairangi.
Previous wineboxes 2007 2008 2009.
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Gavin Chilcott
Born in Auckland in 1950, his first exhibition was at the Barry Lett Gallery in 1976 and since then has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and Internationally. He has been a recipient of numerous QEII grants and is represented in all major New Zealand Collections. His works on paper bags span the bridge between art and object, addressing the ethos of the preciousness of art.
Previous winebox 2009.
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Leanne Culy
Born Melbourne 1946, emigrated to new Zealand 1974, has lived in Hawkes
Bay since 1988. Apart from a short period of study of Illustration and
Design at RMIT Melbourne 1968, is a ‘self taught’ painter. Master of
Fine Arts, Auckland University, 2003.
Has been painting since 1969, exploring through a wide range of abstract
and figurative approaches and interests. He has exhibited widely in New
Zealand, and has work in New Zealand, Australian, European, and
American private collections. He has been a Wallace Art Award finalist
seven times between 1993-2003, with works in the Wallace collection.
Has been teaching at EIT since 1993, currently Co-ordinator of 2D Image and Drawing.
Since 1999 has worked on his ‘Man Island’ project, an invented place
resembling N.Zed, where he has imagined a history from the colonial to
contemporary suburbia, in which a band of male heroes play out fantasies
and myths of great circumstance in moody landscapes. He has been known
to become a character in his own fictions.
John Rajchman (2000), writes of Gilles Deleuze as ‘(trying) to rethink
the whole logic of possibility and its relations with fiction and
reality, and so rediscovers in ourselves and our world a Humean sense of
an artifice in which we come to believe.’
Previous wineboxes 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010.
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Perry Davies
Perry Davies has been making art and designing furniture since the 1970s. He lives in Ongaonga, Central Hawke’s Bay, where he has converted a Victorian building into living, gallery and workshop spaces.
In the 1980s Davies became well known as a printmaker, both exhibiting widely in New Zealand and overseas, and lecturing at the ASA School of Art, Auckland. He received the BNZ National Printmakers Award in 1986.
More recently he has produced sculpture and furniture of his own design using locally sourced and found materials
Previous winebox 2009.
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Angela Dudman
Angela lives in Central Hawke’s Bay and usually creates art on a large
scale using gestural drawing with charcoal. Her work is highly sought
after – when she can find the time to produce it!
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Liz Earth
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Leslie Falls
Chicago born, Falls graduated from Barat College in Lake Forest,
Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts in painting in 1975. While resident in
America she worked as a freelance designer, establishing a print studio
in Aspen, Colorado selling textile prints at the Pacific Design Center
in Los Angeles, California
Falls married a New Zealander in 1982, and since then has helped run
her family’s organic fruit orchard while painting, teaching and raising
three sons.
Having earned her Teaching Certification from Palmerston North
Teachers College in 1985, Falls taught art at Iona College for 15
years, for the last 10 years holding the position of Head of the Art
Department. She left this position in 1998 to paint full time and
taught painting at Eastern Institute of Technology in Taradale, New
Zealand until 2008.
In January of 2007 she completed her MFA from Whitecliffe College and Art and Design, Auckland, New Zealand.
Falls currently teaches art at Hawkes Bay Regional Prison in Hastings. This is her first winebox for RealPeople @ Mosaic
Winebox 2010.
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Dick Frizzell
Dick Frizzell needs no introduction He is one of the highest profile
artists in New Zealand, with major exhibitions and numerous publications
about his work. He has spent a long career exploring the New Zealand
vernacular in many successful and controversial exhibitions.
Wineboxes 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010.
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Anna Fuhrer
Artists Statement
I am 21, have a visual arts and design degree, no regular work, three new cameras, a bike, a smile and lots of dreams.
I have 3 brothers, a mum, a dad. We have a house, an orchard, a cat, a dog and some chickens.
I love to make art, take photos, exercise, eat, sleep (when I have to), think and play.
I like purple, green, sequins, summer, music, swimming and you.
Winebox 2011.
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Elaine Goodman
Elaine lives in Greenmeadows, and strongly states that she is
‘a dabbler, not an artist!’ She has ‘dabbled’ in mosaics for many years
making objects ranging in size from garden sculpture to delicate
jewellery. Her work is often inspired by her interest in and collection
of retro ephemera and kiwiana. Winebox 2010.
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Kerin Greville
Kerin is a multi award-winning artist – including twice Telecom Phone Book Cover winner, and twice Hort NZ Art Award winner. With little time to spare the artist splits her time between painting, photography and teaching. She resides in Clive, Hawke’s Bay.
Previous winebox 2009.
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Anna Henderson
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Josephine Hughes
An award-winning exhibition designer, Josephine is best known for her dramatic displays of Decorative Arts. Her credits include Fashion on Wheels: The New Zealand Gown of the Year, Black Dress White Vase: A Surrealist Tableau (DINZ Gold Best Award 2007), and The Miniatures: An Adventure in the Bren Collection (DINZ Gold Best Award 2010; Museums Aotearoa Innovation Award 2010. More
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Linley Ives
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Paul van Kampen
Paul’s time is spent creating immaculate pieces at his business ‘Van Kampens Fine Furniture’, commissioning to order.
Blurring the lines between Art & Craft the artists utilises traditional cabinet making skills to launch him into the artistic realm.
Previous wineboxes 2008 2009.
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Blair Kyle
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Peata Larkin
Peata Larkin’s work has been exhibited in Christchurch, Dunedin,
Queenstown, Hawke’s Bay and Auckland and is widely collected throughout
New Zealand, with work in Waikato University, Massey University and the
Wallace Collection. Internationally, she is represented in collections
in Australia, UK, Dubai and the USA including the Memphis Museum of
Fine Art.
Paeta features in the latest publication from Warwick Brown: ‘Seen
This Century – A Collectors Guide 2009’, an advisory of who and what to
collect in the NZ art world today.
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Shane Love
Shane lives in Napier and spends 3 to 4 days a week painting. He
enjoys doing representational work and has a passion for detail.
He has participated in many exhibitions and as a natural talent that has
been commented on and admired by various visiting professional
painters. His great perception enables him to make huge progress with
from one painting to the next.
‘I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment I get from painting. My method of
painting involves building up many thin layers of paint and I like to
pay great attention to perspective, detail, accurate drawing and careful
mixing of tones of colour. My favourite cartoonist is Nadal Quirch who
was an artist for Buster Comics. Once I started doing art at Mosaic I
wished I’d been able to do art all my life.
Winebox - 2010.
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Piera McArthur
Piera was born in Ramsgate England and returned to New Zealand in 1938.
Traveling extensively throughout Europe with her husband's Foreign
Service postings, she developed a growing interest in contemporary art,
and began painting seriously after discovering the art of Matta in
Chile.
In the mid 70’s in Paris painting became a way of life
during the day and the diplomatic lifestyle of the evenings provided
additional stimulation and inspiration.
In 1990 the Soviet Artists' Union sponsored an exhibition of 100 of
Piera's paintings and graphics at the New Tretiakov Gallery - first
solo exhibition by a New Zealander. After this, Piera and John returned
to live in Hawke's Bay and established a studio.
Since then the artist has held numerous successful solo exhibitions
in Auckland, Hawke's Bay, Wellington and Christchurch and contributed
work to charity and many group shows
She describes herself as a painter who draws and paints every day.
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Ruth McLean
Ruth lives in Napier and has exhibited in many local and national exhibitions.
She works mainly in paint but a love of vintage textiles and curios
has resulted in her using whatever comes to hand whether it be corsets,
hand printed vinyl or buttons.
She teaches art by day and divides any spare time between making art, designing handbags and clothes, and riding horses.
Wineboxes 2007 2009 2010.
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Michael McGrail
Michael discovered his talent for painting during his time at Mosaic
and has never looked back. Michael’s preference for oil and his love of
the rural landscape, influenced by his up bringing in Central Taranaki,
have become the predominant features of his work. Although preferring
to portray an element of reality in his work, his paintings often evoke
a sense of mood and humour unmistakable to the viewer, taking layer
upon layer of paint to complete a final work.
Michael is currently a student at Mosaic.
Previous winebox 2009.
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Ross MacKay
Ross has been involved with art and design since 1990. In 2001
he joined David Trubridge and William Jameson to form Cicada works, a
design entity in Hawkes Bay.
The creative journey for Ross began with engineering and design
and has become a journey to fuse form and function. His works are
conceptually based, evolving to designs through extensive
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Terence McKenna
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Peter Madden
Peter Madden's sculptural installations begin life as flat imagery,
which he carefully refashions into spiralling three-dimensional objects.
Gleaning images from books, magazines and encyclopaedias - National
Geographic magazines are a favourite - Madden slices out the
illustrations, then reassembles them in fantastical constructions. The
denuded books are kept - pages intact in their spines, rustling with
empty spaces - for possible future works.
Although Madden works from second-hand imagery, he often uses photography as a metaphor when discussing his practice.
'I'm not a photographer standing on the edge of the world,' Madden
has said. 'In my work, I'm cutting into a body of knowledge, poetically
releasing the images.'
Winebox - 2010.
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Michelle Ngarongo Mataira
The artist works part time alongside Sandy Adsett and Chris Bryant at Toimairangi, School of Maori Visual Culture – Te Wananga o Aotearoa in Hastings.
Previous winebox 2009.
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Jocelyn McDonald
Artists Statement
I’m a first time entrant in the Winebox Auction and relatively new to Mosaic. I found the project challenging as I’m blind in one eye and only able to use my left arm.
I was thrilled to be asked to do a winebox this year and thoroughly enjoyed using a part of our kiwiana for my inspiration.
Winebox 2011.
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Paratene Matchitt
Matchitt is a senior figure in contemporary New Zealand art with a
great many exhibitions and both private and public commissions to his
name. Preferring to be known first as a sculptor and not for his Maori
heritage, Matchitt's symbolic constructions are full of vitality.
Paratene Matchitt was born in 1933 in Tokomaru Bay. He trained under
the tutelage of master carver Pine Taiapa learning the carving
techniques and designs of his ancestors. Para has received many public
commissions, including work at Auckland’s Aotea Center 1989, City to Sea
Bridge 1993-4 on the Wellington waterfront and our own sculptural work
outside the Napier Information Center and the fountain in Havelock
North.
Wineboxes 2008 2009 2010.
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Maree Mills
Maree is currently the Director of the Hastings City Art
Gallery. She sometimes works within the film industry as well as
exhibiting her video art in New Zealand and abroad. Her video work is
conceptually focused on exploring and communicating the female element
in tikanga Maori and this practice extends to contextual publication on
Maori and “new” media art. She is a founding member of Nga Aho : Maori
Designers Network and her curatorial focus has been primarily
contemporary Maori art and digital media practice. More
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Peter Mooren
I’ve been coming to Mosaic for about 4 years. The Wine Box
Auction inspired me and so I decided to make one myself this year. I
thought I was never capable of doing one but this year I’m giving it a
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Renee Morris
Renée Morris, young local artist from Hawkes Bay, gained her Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design from E.I.T in 2011. Renée is continuing on with her practice which looks to celebrate ornamental and decorative design.
Winebox 2011.
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Maggie Nippert
“After my injury, coming to terms with my changed life, motivated me do something I had never done before, draw. This interest developed, which brought me to Mosaic”.
Everyday things around her, grandchildren, animals, people and places hugely influence Maggie’s work. Preferring the medium of oil, her work is often thematic and is characterised by realism. “I love to draw people. Faces tell a lot of stories.”
Maggie is currently a student at Mosaic and contributed some previous works under the name Maggie Scott before her recent marriage.
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Ashton Northcott
Bio:
1989 - Born in Central Hawke’s Bay. 2007 worked & lived in Norfolk, England. 2008 first year of BFA at Massey University, Wellington. 2009-2010: Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design Completed at Eastern Institute of Technology- Hawke’s Bay. 2009 VAD Level 6 David Fine Memorial Scholarship Winner – from Hastings Community Art Centre Trust followed by exhibition 2010 ‘Ashton’s Army’. 2010 Wine Bottle Design for Matariki Wines- New Zealand charity Wine Auction ’10’. Winner of the Graduate Award for Excellence in Research 2010, EIT. Exhibition: ‘DOLLYWOOD’ - HCAG – January, 2011.Currently undertaking further studies in a Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary) Massey (EIT).
Statement:
Ashton mocks the peculiar and private ritual behaviours of women by means of collage and femmage – with a fun and cheeky attitude. As a fresh Hawke’s Bay artist, her duty has become one of promotion - of the feminine world she has created. Ashton’s Army of dainty detainee (paper cut-outs) serve to invigorate imagination, guard private secrets and forbidden desires and make use of the beautiful, the trivial and discarded.
Ashton discusses female innocence, discovery and disguise - taking that step out of the comfort zone; a production of ‘reveal’ and ‘conceal.’ She unfolds a quest into the familiar yet unknown; a ‘play’- time exploring imitation and a newfound ornamental stance. Her army deploys a route of revelry via the ‘wild side’; reconnoitre of each one’s own inner-animal – how Deering!
Winebox 2011.
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Ben Pearce
Born in 1982, Palmerston North, New Zealand. Pearce completed a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003, majoring in sculpture at Wanganui Quay
School of Fine Arts.Exhibiting regularly in New Zealand, Pearce has work
held in the public collection of the Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, and in
private collections throughout New Zealand, England and the United
States of America.
Pearce’s work is also held in the James Wallace art collection after
becoming a finalist in the Wallace award in 2008, and in the 2009
Pearce's work Cavern No.1 won the people's choice award. Recently Pearce
has been included in Warwick Brown's new book ‘Seen this Century’,
which features 100 artists, and his work 'Great Grandfather Clock' won
him the 2009 Waikato youth award.
Wineboxes 2009 2010.
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Clare Plug
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Martin Popplewell
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