Artists

Below are some of the artists who have exhibited, or are about to exhibit at our gallery

  • Kris White

    Kris White

    Artist in Residence 14th – 28th Sept 2025 Kris White will be our Artist in Residence for the later part of September as part of her prize for winning joint first place in 2024’s Taranaki National Art Awards Fibre Arts Award. Although Kris focuses much of her practice on painting she is also a textile… Read more

  • Pravina Phillips

    Pravina Phillips

    Update September 2025 Solo Exhibition – Perfectly Imperfect. 11th September – 20th October 2025. Artist Talk Sunday 28th September 2pm From a cushion to an Exhibition – how did that happen? Come and hear the personal story behind arriving at the point of having your first Solo Exhibition – as per Pravina Phillips. Pravina has… Read more

  • Helen Harvey

    Helen Harvey

    Helen Harvey is an environmental statement creator using mixed media drawing on natural materials and pigments including dyes. Read more

  • Lizzy Leckie. Natural dye artist and weaver.

    Lizzy Leckie. Natural dye artist and weaver.

    Lizzy is filing our gallery with materials dyed from natural sourcesthe 19th June 2025 for a 6 week period. Lizzy is exhibiting with us for the first time but she is well known in the New Zealand art world. I recently sent her our ‘getting to know you a little bit’ questionnaire and here are… Read more

  • Tanya Doty – Heartstone Baskets

    Tanya Doty – Heartstone Baskets

    Tanya Doty has been crafting willow baskets from her workshop in Upper Moutere since her first basket making course with Golden Bay basketmaker Peter Greer in 2008. Largely self taught since then Tanya is firmly addicted to basket making and spends most of her days bending bundles of willow sticks into baskets. Tanya describes her practice:… Read more

  • Artists involved in ART&SCIENCE and The Textile Curious. 27th March – 5th May

    Artists involved in ART&SCIENCE and The Textile Curious. 27th March – 5th May

    This page gives us some background insights into who the artists are that engaged in what has been described as speed dating between art and science in this particular iteration.  Pam McKinlay I love wearing things that I have made and studied clothing and fashion design at the University of Otago in the 1980s. When… Read more