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Emily Harris - What Drawing Can Be
I’m a Wellington based mixed media artist. I grew up in rural Australia with multidisciplinary artist parents, I watched them paint, sculpt, create lead-light windows, ceramics, textiles and jewellery; I played with these wonderful mediums throughout my youth with my Mother instilling in me a love for practical and creative ability. Art was...
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Creating likeness in a portrait
Natalie Gelder I'm currently based in Auckland region. Over the last 3 years I've made the finals of the Tasman Art awards, Walker and Hall art awards, Kumeu art awards (runner up), Mairangi awards, Adams Portrait awards, Waitekere Trust awards (Catagory winner) and the Parkin drawing prize. And I'm entering the parkin drawing prize again...
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Artist pushing the properties and combinations of materials
I’m a Christchurch based mixed media artist interested in experimentation and pushing the properties and combinations of materials. Intuitive and process-driven, I play with a diverse range of materials from wood and metal to discarded train brake pads, lace, ash, bitumen, wax, pvc, sand, glitter and embroidery thread, not much is off limit....
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Art and Transformation
Art has been a constant in my life since childhood. However, I never imagined that it would become my career. Instead, I got as far as pursuing a master degree in architecture and working in a field different from art for many years. As a solo immigrant living overseas, I found myself drifting away from my passion for art. Although I longed...
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2020 Parkin Drawing Prize Winner - Poppy Lekner
Parkin Drawing Prize – winners: Where are they now? Poppy’s work 'Forward Slash’ - an A4 piece of paper with thousands of forward-slash characters on it from a typewriter- was chosen as the winner from an impressive 482 entries nationwide and 76 finalists at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts’ Academy Galleries.
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Drawing flowers fuels inspiration
Born & bred in the small town of Gore, New Zealand, Michaela has drawn since she could hold an item of creative destruction. This led to her completing a Bachelor of Applied Arts in 2013 at the Southern Institute of Technology where she focused on digital art and illustration.Since then she has been a full time Graphic Designer, in...
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Changing our ways
“Before us stands a Garden of Eden and behind us a towering inferno”. Climate change is a very important topic of today and looking ahead into future, I wish not to paint a picture that is grim but to draw attention to global warming by addressing the causes and encouraging innovation, solutions and sustainability in our...
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Exploring-human-emotions-with-art
Growing up I was always creating and making art. I was first introduced to oil paint in 2000, after returning from living abroad in the UK. Once that passion for oil paint began, I started painting and exhibiting while living in Adelaide. Then returned to study and completed a diploma of Visual Arts 2006 in central Melbourne, otherwise a...
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Little things, drawing my attention
Since a while now, very ordinary things are drawing my attention the most. The little things, you know. The things everybody sees all the time and at the same time not. Not anymore.
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Art is Addiction
Well, why did I decide to enter the World of WearableArt for the last 9 years? Why did I decide to make, show, exhibit for the last 15 years? Addiction. It started when I was 5. In France.
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Holding the viewers' attention
Musings on the Parkin Drawing Prize and what drawing can be, from established New Zealand still life artist Jonette Murray.
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Tracey Vickers
I grew up on a dairy farm in the Far North. I’ve learnt alot from the life experiences to be had as a child growing up on a farm, being outside and amongst it all. I learnt about fixing things ‘number 8 wire’ style
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Gillian Buckley
I started drawing 8 years ago after a long break from any kind of creative activity.
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Lynn Price
..as a migrant, I’ve found that living with a foot in two worlds offers endless scope for creative expression.
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Vicky Peacock
A sample of my work, my experimentations, new directions and plans for the future to make a viable career out of my passion.
