2024 M-R — MAGS ART SHOW

Hamish MacaulayHamish Macaulay is an award-winning printmaker & painter based in Kāpiti. He recently returned home to Aotearoa New Zealand after 14 years in London. The subjects in his art range from conceptual abstracts to figurative landscapes and seascapes. With his love of nature and his surroundings, there is usually a nature-based narrative underpinning his work. His art is held in public collections such as Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, and private collections internationally including the UK, Europe, USA, South Africa, and Australasia. He is currently represented by galleries throughout the North Island and in London and Essex.

Barbara MacKinnon Barbara MacKinnon works intuitively from memory and imagination, often absorbed by the process of examining light and space, employing a visual negotiation between fact and fiction. References to flora act as a metaphor for the transience of life and help her to discover new painting strategies. Barbara’s current investigative journey involves testing ideas, extending her mark-making vocabulary, and regenerating imagery.

Anita MadhavAnita Madhav is an Auckland-based, self-taught realist artist who has been painting for over 20 years. Her passion for art stems from a lifelong love of creativity and exploration. Anita's work is characterised by a unique mixed-medium approach that showcases her versatility and willingness to experiment with new techniques and materials. She balances subtle shades, light forms, and spaces with colour and textural accents. Inspired by New Zealand flowers, her works vividly capture their beauty and essence, creating a sensory experience for viewers. Her art can be found in private collections worldwide, showcasing her talent and passion for her work.

Joanne MahoneyJoanne Mahoney’s mixed media works have evolved over the last few years and can be described as interdisciplinary mixed media. She uses watercolour, acrylics, oil and cold wax medium, collage and the many different processes used in printmaking to create unique artworks. The years Joanne spent living in Asia, as well as currently living in a beautiful coastal environment, also influence her work.

Clare MatthewsClare Matthews lives on the coast at Paremata, north of Wellington. Her partially abstracted land and seascapes are inspired by the natural environment and created using acrylic, collage and oil pastels. She is interested in exaggerating the beauty and drama of landscape through the imaginative use of colour, line and a variety of marks and shapes. Clare loves the constant dance with different media: adding, scraping back, scratching into, flooding with paint until led by what begins to emerge. The development of a painting may be slow or fast, but is always rewarding and part of an ongoing cycle where each work gently informs the next. Working from images inside her head rather than photographs, she prefers to enable the viewer to give the painting their own sense of place or memory, strengthening their connection to it.

Sarah MaugerSarah Mauger is a specialist art teacher at an Auckland Intermediate school who paints from her home studio in her spare time. As well as producing commissioned work, she exhibits and sells in both Auckland and Wellington. Sarah draws on her background in fashion, makeup artistry and design to inspire her contemporary art work. An intuitive artist who creates unique pieces reflecting her passion for colour and texture, she uses modern street art techniques, incorporating textiles, spray paint and Indian ink to build layers. Her 2022 series represents the Kings, Queens, Princesses and Princes in your life, combining traditional values with the colour of modern living.

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Judith Milner Judith Milner is a representational painter who lives and works in Auckland. Her oil paintings depict quintessentially New Zealand scenes which reconnect the viewer with their memories and past experiences and evoke feelings of nostalgia. New Zealand architecture often features in Judith's paintings, with careful renderings of details, materials and proportions, reminding us of the history of the places we know and love and the often overlooked beauty that surrounds us. Other works are loosely inspired by old, informal photographs from the 1970s and 1980s which transport the viewer to another context and allow people to project their own narrative onto the work. In 2021, Judith won the Michael Evans Figurative Award at the Walker and Hall Art Awards for her painting “Pink Summer”.

Rachel MooreRachel Moore paints at her home studio on Auckland’s North Shore. She has been developing her watercolour work since 2019. For the 2023 MAGS Art Show, she is introducing new work which hints at her love of ceramics, includes a touch of retro, and re-works the classic still-life. Experimenting with paint effects, Rachel focuses on colour, form and mark making alongside illustrative hand detail to give depth and contrast. Her new series is suggestive of pop art prints, with watercolours contrasting against bold black detailing. Each piece develops its own trajectory, no matter what the original intention is, allowing her to explore many themes and ideas in her past and present works. Rachel is a regular exhibitor in a number of different national art shows, competitions, art sales and galleries.

Cam MunroeCam Munroe’s large works on canvas speak confidently of texture and gesture - the latter being a preference for mark-making that offer contour to these creations. Works appear simple in composition, however the technique, restraint and problem solving are integral to the successful outcome of her works. Each gesture - balanced between purposeful lines of light and dark - remains. Each mark contributes to the creation of a work that captures a series of thoughts and moments with the ink and medium used. Each form of shape becomes a letter of an alphabet but not each is used as a code. An L or Y shape therefore can represent any letter, hieroglyph or picture element in any combination. Like codices documents, sometimes these are unreadable until they are more closely scrutinised and deciphered. They also must work aesthetically in the composition which is an integral consideration.

Janice NapperJanice Napper is a full-time contemporary artist. From her St Heliers studio she uses a rich high-gloss colour palette to generate vibrant artworks. The fluidity of this self-taught artist’s captivating works, pushing her polymer and resin mediums to the limit, exudes confidence. Like many artists she draws her subject matter from living things, often with the detail stripped away; an increasingly large proportion of her work, however, is now devoted to her love of form and the abstract. Her background in advertising is evident in her cutting-edge creative ideas, combined with a strong understanding of design and composition.

Zoë NashFormer Mt Albert resident Zoë Nash has lived in Titirangi for the past four years, working from her garden studio, as well as being actively involved in arts education. A visual artist who works across a diverse range of creative disciplines, her pieces are a colourful, playful and celebratory exploration of mark making, pattern, process, repetition and accumulation - vibrant, joyful and life-affirming. They dance between spaces, between foreground and background, revelation and concealment, then and now. Reflecting her love of nature, Zoë’s works increasingly draw on specific places and selected plant and flower motifs.

Christian NicolsonChristian Nicolson works as a full-time artist and is based in Auckland. He initially studied design and worked for several years as an art director in advertising roles in New Zealand and London. He loves to paint, sculpt, use photography, create installations, and make films. He has several works in the Arts House Trust collection and has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards six times. Christian has also featured in three of Denis Robinson’s art publications including New Zealand’s Favourite Artists Volume 2. He focuses on one solo exhibition a year and has also featured in many group shows such as Sculpture on the Gulf and NZ Sculpture OnShore. Christian has also made an award-winning feature film called ‘This Giant Papier Mâché Boulder is Actually Really Heavy’ (2016). Being creative is king.

Jane PuckeyJane Puckey is a Auckland-based contemporary landscape painter celebrated in particular for her paintings of Northland. This area of exceptional natural beauty holds special significance and meaning for her as her family has lived in the Bay of Islands for generations, having settled in the area in the early 1800s. Jane’s inspiration arises from its clear blue skies, the ever-changing hues of the sea and the deep colours lying within the forms of the land, all of which provide a play of contrast in New Zealand’s brilliant light.

Spid PyeSpid Pye is an award-winning photographer. He was largely self-taught until he arrived in London in 1992 and attended the Drill Hall Art School. When he returned to New Zealand he won a study grant from the Ronald Woolf Memorial Trust, which he used to study graphic and photographic design. He loves theatrical subjects and life’s classic moments - life’s theatre is his true passion. Recently he has started exhibiting his work.

Roberta QueirogaRoberta Queiroga is a contemporary visual artist from Brazil. With a background in architecture, she is interested in the relationship between the artwork, the viewer and the space. Before moving to New Zealand, she lived in Portugal and Japan; both countries are a prominent part of her identity and inform and influence her work. She incorporates and mixes elements of various techniques in her practice, working in symbiosis with the canvas in a way that allows emotion to flow spontaneously, with minimum interference when creating.

Kelly RoweKelly Rowe is an Auckland-based artist and interior designer. With a degree in architecture and 20 years’ experience working in the architecture and design worlds, her paintings explore both natural and man-made landscapes. She paints in oils and acrylic. Her abstract landscapes are tranquil, calming and contemplative, whilst her architectural landscapes push graphic boundaries, speaking of vernacular texture, form and colour, an expression of architectural drawing and constructive memory.

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