2024 H-L — MAGS ART SHOW

Wendy HannahWendy Hannah (English, Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa) is an Auckland-based contemporary artist educated at Elam. In her practice she has focused on working with colour, reflective/refractive materiality and recently, light. Wendy’s new series of installations echo her upbringing by the sea with its ever-changing dispersive prism. Inspired by tukutuku, the traditional Māori craft which features weaving and binding and also symbolizes the whānau, she presents it in its most abstract form, an ‘X’. Wendy adds a further traditional element by making her own paint and gives her forms dynamic hues and coloured shapes, creating works that weave together tradition, place and ideology. The signature ‘X’, with its vibrant perspex panels, reflects and refracts the surrounding environment like a kaleidoscope of mirrors, creating beacons of light akin to a Fresnel lighthouse lens. This new, immersive series captivates, morphing continuously from day to night.

Hugo HarveyMt Albert Grammar School alumnus Hugo Harvey has taught painting in Auckland schools and architectural media and design at Auckland University, as well as working as a freelance artist. Since completing his Master of Architecture in 2021, he has been employed at Isthmus Group as an architectural graduate, designing educational and civic spaces. He is fascinated by the intersection of art and architecture and how these converging disciplines influence the process of place-making and identity. His paintings often explore the dynamic between figures and space, drawing inspiration from close friends and his time studying architecture while travelling..

Levi HawkenLevi Hawken is a New Zealand artist and sculptor who began his career in the mid-1990s graffitiing the walls of Auckland City. Most of his graffiti work is no longer visible, yet its influence continues in his more traditional paintings. Over the last two decades, Levi’s work has moved from public walls and spaces to more private, conventional settings. He has expanded his medium and subject matter through painting, drawing and sculptural work to ensure that more permanent keepsakes of his art exist. Now working primarily with cast concrete, glass and metals, he creates interacting forms and voids. Levi is heavily influenced by Brutalism, urban architecture and a desire to express an appreciation for the universe’s unknown forces through symbols and monolithic sculptures worthy of reverence.

Michael HawkinsMichael Hawkins is a Melbourne-based New Zealand artist. His practice is currently divided into two specific areas: limited edition works and original paintings. Both aspects of his practice address how meaning can be generated from the visual interaction that takes place between sign and signage - between the familiar and the unknown, through common-place motifs such as a snake or a lump of wood, or more ambiguous imagery creation and juxtaposition. Michael’s limited-edition artworks are drawing-based, utilising silkscreen printing and occasionally, painting processes. While these works are concerned with individual themes or subjects, they are most often busy, employing image saturation strategies to question the surfeit of information which we are assailed with on a daily basis through media. In 2020 Michael received the Parkin Drawing Prize Merit Award for ‘Student Debt’.

Angela HeemskerkNelson-born Angela Heemskerk has been selling her oil paintings since she was a high school student. Her work consists mostly of house portraits and private and business commissions. Angela’s inspiration comes from the simple beauty that can be observed anywhere - in trees, flowers, water, clouds, sunsets and villas. She is currently nurturing young creatives, teaching children's art classes on Auckland's North Shore.

Natalie HollandNatalie Holland is a Wellington-based textile artist who produces bright and colourful textural pieces that depict the beautiful designs and patterns used in hiapo (Niuean tapa cloth), an important part of her Niuean heritage. She makes her pieces using a punch needle, a technique that traces its history back to nineteenth century rug hooking. Natalie’s work features both botanical and geometric elements in vibrant and often unexpected colour combinations.

John Horner John Horner was born in England in 1944. He studied at Elam School of Fine Arts where he was a student of Colin McCahon, Garth Tapper and Robert Ellis. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) from Elam in 1965 and completed his Master of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2003. A teacher of secondary school art until the early 1980s and a senior lecturer at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design until 2013, John has now retired to concentrate on painting full-time. His expressive, painterly style is inspired by New Zealand’s rugged landscape and sharp light contrasts in cityscapes. John has contributed to the Artists in Eden event for many years and recently did an artist's residency at Karekare homestead. He has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards three times and his work is in many private New Zealand collections, including The Arts House Trust.

Karlalise HorstmansKarlalise Horstmans

Kristin HydeKristin Hyde is a full-time Auckland-based mixed media and resin artist who enjoys working in various mediums. A passionate creative who also enjoys silversmithing and creating original art jewellery, she describes herself as an intuitive painter, and her art ranges from whimsical to abstract. Kristin has a passion for colour and texture and finds it humbling to watch people connect with her work. She is currently represented by several galleries in New Zealand, has exhibited in major public exhibitions, and her work can be found in homes around the world.

Bev JonesBev Jones has been making domestic ware pottery for over 4 decades. Her passion for ceramics led to a 25-year career teaching the craft to adult students. She also trained as a florist in her sixties and loved the creativity of working with flowers. Bev returned to full time pottery over 6 years ago and is very pleased to see it enjoying a resurgence in popularity. In her practice, she especially enjoys wheel work and has become interested lately in hand work, making figurines and heads. Making all of her own glazes, each of her pieces is unique.

Jacqueline KampenA small production potter with a penchant for vase making, Jacqueline Kampen's pieces range from the traditional to more quirky forms. Auckland-based and a member of Auckland Studio Potters, her vases can be displayed on their own or in a group. Using stoneware clay, all of the vases are made on the wheel, glazed and high-fired, making them ideal to hold water for fresh flowers.

Helen KeenAn artist for over 35 years, Helen Keen works from her West Auckland home studio using painting techniques she developed as a ceramicist. She manipulates texture using encaustic wax, mixed media, acrylic and oil, exploring abstraction, colour, gestures and mark making. Drawing on Claude Monet’s concept of “the illusion of an endless whole”, Helen’s work is impressionistic and free-flowing, exploring deeper layers and new possibilities while resisting rules and boundaries. Encaustic wax drives her art practice: an amazing, unpredictable and little used material made from beeswax and tree resin. Heating it is pivotal to the blending of colours and the creation of textures and expressions, a process of revealing, covering and uncovering with scratching and sgraffito, embedding and transferring images and objects. She uses encaustic techniques in her latest floral series, painting in molten wax and blending with flame rather than brushwork alone.

Jasmine KeirJasmine Keir divides her time between her new home on Whangaroa Harbour and her beloved Southland. The warm tropical beaches contrast with the crisp magnificent mountains and skies; the largest boulder is made up of a tiny grain of sand, a new world juxtaposed between them. This is conveyed with ease onto a canvas of pristine copper. Jasmine loves to scrape, layer, collide and experiment with her art, emulating the cycles of a life well-lived.

Natalie KereNatalie Kere is a Nelson-based multi-disciplinary artist. Her work represents her connection to Māori culture, the indigenous people of the land. She uses contemporary materials to emulate the natural characteristics of pounamu (greenstone), a stone prized for its beauty and resilience, binding ancestral influence with modern practice. Her work is a fusion of resin and paint, encased within metal, accentuating the fine details of the stone to give the viewer an immediate understanding of its intricacies.

Joanna KingJoanna King’s background in art goes back to her work as an art coordinator in a Christchurch art gallery 30 years ago. Now, with older children away studying and only one at home, she has been able to commit to painting full-time. After completing a MoMA course online, she began selling her work through her website and Instagram during the lockdowns and has enjoyed a positive response from clients all around the country. She paints places in Aotearoa that touch her heart and spirit, most recently using recycled coffee sacking floated in shadow box frames.

Toni Kingstone Toni Kingstone creates in her home studio overlooking Mount Pirongia in the Waikato. A full-time artist since 2019, her main body of work blends fluid acrylics, metallic pigments and resin. From her initial concept, she is led by the flow of the paint itself, guiding the direction with intuitive ‘action’ painting, adding or removing elements with more paint, palette knife or brushwork. She aims to give a New Zealand twist to her magical realist style by adding detail highlighting the everyday, expressed within fantastical dream-like landscapes. Toni’s works have been shown in a range of art shows and exhibitions and her paintings can be found in the homes of collectors and art lovers both in New Zealand and internationally.

Tatyana KulidaTatyana Kulida

Keum Sun LeeKeum Sun Lee is a Korean-born potter and ceramic artist. She has exhibited successfully in Korea, Austria, Croatia and New Zealand and won significant awards in New Zealand, Austria and Korea. In 2013 Keum Sun was selected as an artist-lecturer in the International Academic Program by the 7th Kaorean International Ceramic Biennale Korea. She was a finalist in the National Contemporary Art Award at Waikato Museum in 2014, won the First Prize and Merit Awards in the Greater Auckland Art Award & Exhibition in 2018, and won the Portage Ceramic Awards Premier Award in 2018. In New Zealand Keum Sun has exhibited in Sculpture OnShore, at the Arataki Visitor Centre and at West Coast Gallery in Piha. Employing 10th and 15th century Korean pottery techniques, she has adapted tradition and added colour to give her creations a contemporary twist. Keum Sun won the People's Choice Award in Portage Ceramic Awards in this year.

Catrina LloydCatrina Lloyd paints full-time from her home studio at Muriwai. Her work is a gestural, sensory response to her coastal environment, and relates to mapping in an abstract way. There is a strong sense of movement in Catrina’s work, capturing the raw west coast energy that inspires her. Playing with the balance between opacity and translucency using colour, texture and layering is key to her process. With a preference for mark-making, Catrina uses acrylics, inks and dry mediums, exploring different ways to interpret what she sees and feels. Painting is like a dance for her, as she searches for an unconscious response, releasing control of the finished piece and allowing one mark to lead to the next.

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