WORKING PROGRESS

The Artists

• Colleen Eason
  Colleen Eason
  Ōtautahi

  Using native and exotic plants as the base material for these works, I endeavor to align methodology and message in paper-based works featuring varied approaches to printmaking, mark making and dye-application. My subject matter is the small species as a sign of the environment. A guiding principle is to reduce the impact my creative practice has on the environment. I am using soy based ink, natural materials and I make my own inks and dyes from whatever is in season.
    
  I am a practising artist in printmaking, painting and glass casting and have recently gained a Masters Degree in Creative Practice. In 2017 I gained a Certificate in Adult Teaching and Training - Southern Institute of Technology. In 2015 I completed a Bachelor of Design in Visual Arts CPIT 2005 – majoring in Sculpture and Printmaking. I began my arts education with a Foundation Certificate in Fine Arts - with the Design and Arts College in 2004. Since then, I have participated in Exhibitions consistently and in 2005 - 2008 I owned and directed an Art Gallery in Lyttelton. Other experience includes: 2019 - Scholarship PCANZ - NZ Print Association Summer School Scholarship recipient. 2019 - Scholarship: NZPA Scholarship, for first Solo Exhibition. New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Member. - PCANZ NZ Print Association Member: Art and Design Tutor - Jade and Hardstone Carving Program Tai Poutini Polytechnic. 2013 - 2015 Chairperson - West Coast Society of Arts, 2013 - Executive Board Member - West Coast Society of Arts, 2011 - Member: Westland Arts Incorporated. 2006 - 2009 Executive Member of the Christchurch City Arts Council, 2005 - 2008 Board Member of the Lyttelton Harbour Arts Council,2006 - Facilitator of the Lyttelton Harbour Arts Collective Member. 2002 - 2005 Employee of the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA).
    
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• David Molony
  David Molony
  Ōtautahi

  David Molony's practice has been described as ‘digital art. He works with large-format analogue film and makes digital collages or composites from many layers of analogue film. His interest lies in a juxtaposition of form, line, colour, shape and texture to engage the viewer.

  Some straight photography with elements of shape, colour, and conceptual photography, contends that such a truth can never be depicted only by one’s individual life experience.

  His abstract work is made by multi-layering the analogue image to produce a sense of feeling from the viewer, from vibrant colour, line, form and texture. David wants to give the viewer an aesthetic experience with stimulating composition, evoking strong visual, emotional and intellectual impact.

  David studied photography at Te Pūkenga, gaining an MA in studying abstract art literacy. He is Irish-born, living in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand holding dual citizenship.

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• Debra McLeod
  Debra McLeod
  Ōtautahi

  Debra McLeod is a multimedia artist based in Canterbury, who explores personal journeys of communicative connection, across multiple scientific and artistic genres of study. Debra describes her current body of work is based on Cartographical communicative
  journeys of reflective understanding and acceptance.
    
  She states “Though I started this body of work at the beginning of 2020, to document a chaotic journey of understanding for myself, I encourage the audience to view their own journey and narratives, as opposed to the artists ideas behind the works.”
    
  Debra holds a Bachelors Degree of Applied Visual Art from CPIT and a Bachelors of Media Arts - Honours from Wintec and was the recipient of The Will Cummings award and Mortlock McCormick award 2015 and was artist in residence at the Art Box, Madras Street Christchurch for the year of 2016.
  Debra has exhibited in solo, joint and group exhibitions within the Canterbury area.

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• Elizabeth Moyle
  Elizabeth Moyle
  Ōtautahi

  
  Elizabeth Moyle's work examines her concept of held space, an exploration into how time is held through memories and recordings. Moyle is interested in how the present runs through, with, and overlaps with the past. Her adept handling of a variety of media demonstrates not only the artist's innate abilities but a true sensitivity towards her subject lending her charcoal and painted forms an ephemeral quality and yet simultaneously, and seemingly impossibly, monumental presence.
    
  Graduating with Distinction in Masters from Wintec in 2021 and First Class Honours BFA from the University of Canterbury in 2011. Moyle has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships.
    
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• Folina Vili
  Folina Vili
  Ōtautahi

  Folina Vili is an Ōtautahi based multi-disciplinary artist and musician of Sāmoan and Pākehā descent. She completed a Master of Creative Practice (Distinction) from Ara Institute of Canterbury in 2021, and has been a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize and the NZ Printmaking and Painting awards. She works at The Central Art Gallery.
    
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• Harriet Collins
  Harriet Collins
  Ōtautahi

  Harriet Collins (b. 1995) is an artist, maker, designer, and ritual crafter based in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. She completed her studies through Ara Institute of Canterbury where she gained a Bachelor of Design (Applied Visual Arts) in 2019, and a Master of Creative Practice with Distinction in 2021.
   
  Responding to research conducted as part of her thesis, Crafting Ritual: Exploring ritual practice for non-religious persons through art, Harriet developed a series of artworks that sought to offer the effects of ritualistic behaviours through secular means. The resultant findings of this project motivated a re-examination of her creative process, and inspired a continual investigation into how ritualisation may be offered, encouraged, or supported through creative practice to gain a sense of fulfilment, inner peace, or self-regulation. This has primarily been realised through forms of body adornment, from small-scale contemporary jewellery pieces to larger sculptural works.
    
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• Isabel Lyckholm
  Isabel Lyckholm
  Ōtautahi

  Isabel Lyckholm was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lived in Hertfordshire, UK; Eskilstuna and Gothenburg, Sweden; Beja, Portugal; and currently residing in Christchurch, NZ since 2001, where she paints from her home studio. She has a Fine Arts degree from Southampton University UK, Graduate Diploma in Applied Management from Ara, Master of Arts from Wintec and is currently embarking on Doctoral studies. Among her years of commissioned works, gallery ownership and as an exhibiting artist, group exhibitions include New Designers, London, with works held in collections at Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden, Long Beach Museum of Art, California, and St Richard Hospital, West Sussex, UK.
    
  Describing herself as an Abstract expressionist, Lyckholm improvises her own gestural language of form and colour to project the emotional truths of the paintings. This follows across the gallery space as a removal from her body in an intensity of expression and experience. The imagery in the work is a vehicle in which the disc relates to the facets of an ever-evolving sense of identity and existence, while the grid act as a response to an environment whose basic structures we have long since internalised. By weaving together, the transitional diversity of her life and experiences with the multifaceted emergence of the social self, Lyckholm’s paintings navigate the complex reality of identity.
    
  “I am compelled by the wordless and silent language of colour to give the elusive,
  intangible internal life an existence with form and vibrancy. It has always been the
  easiest way for me to reveal myself as it not only projects emotional truths away
  from the body, but offers a sense of connectedness to my environment and the
  surroundings that I find myself existing within. With the immediacy of paint, I can continually
  reinvent and reshape that identity and speak with a range of emotional responses through the quiet voice of layering paint on a canvas”.
    
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• Joe Clarke
  Joe Clarke
  Ōtautahi

  I am a Otautahi based Ngai Tahu artist and recent MA graduate exploring mixed media techniques with an emphasis on printmaking methods.
   
  While my work is primarily woodcut print based, my process is very experimental and often results in mixed media work that combines many contrasting techniques and aesthetics into one work.
    
  Since I was very young, I have always been fascinated by the world of horror and in particular, the visual allure of the macabre. Perusing the covers of horror movies I was years too young to rent at the video store was more exciting to me than actually watching the newest releases. From artists like Francis Bacon to films like The Shining, inspiration for my work can be found anywhere there is an air of darkness or the uncanny Over the years, the fascination developed into a passion and eventually into my current career.
   
  Since graduating with my Masters in 2021, I have been taking part in various exhibitions and projects including artwork for Takahe magazine, record covers for bands and taking part in group and solo exhibitions and street art projects for organizations like Watch this Space. These installations and shows have allowed me to show the world what a lifetime of being influenced by the world of horror from many contrasting mediums looks like.
    
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• Joe Smith
  Joe Smith
  Ōtautahi

  I am Joseph Gregory Raye Smith and I recently completed my master's degree in fine arts. My work is pop surrealism and punk. My work is fuelled by my rage, pain, self hatred and hopelessness, that comes from my mental illness but also from my increasing disenfranchisement from neoliberal capitalism.
    
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• Kophie Su'a-Hulsbosch
  Kophie Su'a-Hulsbosch
  Ōtautahi

  Kophie Su'a-Hulsbosch is a Ōtautahi-based artist whose work spreads across a diverse range of fields, including graphic design, illustration, painting, graffiti and clothing design. This output is heavily influenced by hip hop culture, low-brow art, and the issue of sustainability/politics. A central intention in her work is the disruption of the status quo, reflected in her graffiti and her clothing brand Future Apparel which is a response to the mass production and other ongoing issues evident in the fashion industry.
    
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• Magdalane Clare
  Magdalane Clare
  Ōtautahi

  Magdelane Clare graduated from Ara In 2021 with a PG diploma in Advanced Visual Arts. She has since developed a practice with mixed media and print elements, more recently exploring paint as medium. Clares creative methods employ experimental techniques sampled from the surrealist “cut up” concept as key in building imagery. This ritualistic action of random and repeated deconstruction and reassemblage of source imagery from paintings and photo elements informs Clares beginning phases in generating visual references.
    
  Magdelane Clare is inspired by great surrealists Leonora Carrington and Hanna Hoch, mimicing topical themes such as magical thought systems
  derived from ancient prose and commentary on the feminine position.
    
  Clares art permeates with a sense of "Lore" and subconscious elements regarding the individual and takes past constructs, memories and traditions into her visual future, leaving a linguring sense of humour in reflection. Her current focus is self definition within a contemporary folk narrative.
    
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• Olivia Baker
  Olivia Baker
  London

  Olivia Baker is an Ōtautahi artist currently based in London. She has a particular interest in wood carving and ceramic works which she uses to convey her interests in the built environment. Her background in psychology, geography and a master's in creative practice combine to create these whimsical works of urban environments and domestic settings.
    
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• Rebecca Smallridge
  Rebecca Smallridge
  Ōtautahi

  Rebecca Smallridge (born in Timaru, 1979) is a visual artist working from her home studio in
  Ōtautahi, Aotearoa New Zealand.  In 2021, Rebecca received a Master of Arts with Distinction under the supervision of ARA Creative Industries.  This qualification is an extension of the Bachelor of Design in Visual Arts which she achieved in 2009. Rebecca has an active exhibition practice both nationally and internationally and has been included in group and solo shows since 2007. Her paintings, original woodblock prints and ceramics are held in public and private collections in Aotearoa and abroad.
    
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Colleen Eason
Ōtautahi

Using native and exotic plants as the base material for these works, I endeavor to align methodology and message in paper-based works featuring varied approaches to printmaking, mark making and dye-application. My subject matter is the small species as a sign of the environment. A guiding principle is to reduce the impact my creative practice has on the environment. I am using soy based ink, natural materials and I make my own inks and dyes from whatever is in season.
  
I am a practising artist in printmaking, painting and glass casting and have recently gained a Masters Degree in Creative Practice. In 2017 I gained a Certificate in Adult Teaching and Training - Southern Institute of Technology. In 2015 I completed a Bachelor of Design in Visual Arts CPIT 2005 – majoring in Sculpture and Printmaking. I began my arts education with a Foundation Certificate in Fine Arts - with the Design and Arts College in 2004. Since then, I have participated in Exhibitions consistently and in 2005 - 2008 I owned and directed an Art Gallery in Lyttelton. Other experience includes: 2019 - Scholarship PCANZ - NZ Print Association Summer School Scholarship recipient. 2019 - Scholarship: NZPA Scholarship, for first Solo Exhibition. New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Member. - PCANZ NZ Print Association Member: Art and Design Tutor - Jade and Hardstone Carving Program Tai Poutini Polytechnic. 2013 - 2015 Chairperson - West Coast Society of Arts, 2013 - Executive Board Member - West Coast Society of Arts, 2011 - Member: Westland Arts Incorporated. 2006 - 2009 Executive Member of the Christchurch City Arts Council, 2005 - 2008 Board Member of the Lyttelton Harbour Arts Council,2006 - Facilitator of the Lyttelton Harbour Arts Collective Member. 2002 - 2005 Employee of the Centre of Contemporary Art (CoCA).
  
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David Molony
Ōtautahi

David Molony's practice has been described as ‘digital art. He works with large-format analogue film and makes digital collages or composites from many layers of analogue film. His interest lies in a juxtaposition of form, line, colour, shape and texture to engage the viewer.

Some straight photography with elements of shape, colour, and conceptual photography, contends that such a truth can never be depicted only by one’s individual life experience.

His abstract work is made by multi-layering the analogue image to produce a sense of feeling from the viewer, from vibrant colour, line, form and texture. David wants to give the viewer an aesthetic experience with stimulating composition, evoking strong visual, emotional and intellectual impact.

David studied photography at Te Pūkenga, gaining an MA in studying abstract art literacy. He is Irish-born, living in Ōtautahi / Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand holding dual citizenship.

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Debra McLeod
Ōtautahi

Debra McLeod is a multimedia artist based in Canterbury, who explores personal journeys of communicative connection, across multiple scientific and artistic genres of study. Debra describes her current body of work is based on Cartographical communicative
journeys of reflective understanding and acceptance.
  
She states “Though I started this body of work at the beginning of 2020, to document a chaotic journey of understanding for myself, I encourage the audience to view their own journey and narratives, as opposed to the artists ideas behind the works.”
  
Debra holds a Bachelors Degree of Applied Visual Art from CPIT and a Bachelors of Media Arts - Honours from Wintec and was the recipient of The Will Cummings award and Mortlock McCormick award 2015 and was artist in residence at the Art Box, Madras Street Christchurch for the year of 2016.
Debra has exhibited in solo, joint and group exhibitions within the Canterbury area.

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Elizabeth Moyle
Ōtautahi

Elizabeth Moyle's work examines her concept of held space, an exploration into how time is held through memories and recordings. Moyle is interested in how the present runs through, with, and overlaps with the past. Her adept handling of a variety of media demonstrates not only the artist's innate abilities but a true sensitivity towards her subject lending her charcoal and painted forms an ephemeral quality and yet simultaneously, and seemingly impossibly, monumental presence.
  
Graduating with Distinction in Masters from Wintec in 2021 and First Class Honours BFA from the University of Canterbury in 2011. Moyle has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships.
  
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Folina Vili
Ōtautahi

Folina Vili is an Ōtautahi based multi-disciplinary artist and musician of Sāmoan and Pākehā descent. She completed a Master of Creative Practice (Distinction) from Ara Institute of Canterbury in 2021, and has been a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize and the NZ Printmaking and Painting awards. She works at The Central Art Gallery.
  
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Harriet Collins
Ōtautahi

Harriet Collins (b. 1995) is an artist, maker, designer, and ritual crafter based in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. She completed her studies through Ara Institute of Canterbury where she gained a Bachelor of Design (Applied Visual Arts) in 2019, and a Master of Creative Practice with Distinction in 2021.
 
Responding to research conducted as part of her thesis, Crafting Ritual: Exploring ritual practice for non-religious persons through art, Harriet developed a series of artworks that sought to offer the effects of ritualistic behaviours through secular means. The resultant findings of this project motivated a re-examination of her creative process, and inspired a continual investigation into how ritualisation may be offered, encouraged, or supported through creative practice to gain a sense of fulfilment, inner peace, or self-regulation. This has primarily been realised through forms of body adornment, from small-scale contemporary jewellery pieces to larger sculptural works.
  
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Isabel Lyckholm
Ōtautahi

Isabel Lyckholm was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Lived in Hertfordshire, UK; Eskilstuna and Gothenburg, Sweden; Beja, Portugal; and currently residing in Christchurch, NZ since 2001, where she paints from her home studio. She has a Fine Arts degree from Southampton University UK, Graduate Diploma in Applied Management from Ara, Master of Arts from Wintec and is currently embarking on Doctoral studies. Among her years of commissioned works, gallery ownership and as an exhibiting artist, group exhibitions include New Designers, London, with works held in collections at Eskilstuna Art Museum, Sweden, Long Beach Museum of Art, California, and St Richard Hospital, West Sussex, UK.
  
Describing herself as an Abstract expressionist, Lyckholm improvises her own gestural language of form and colour to project the emotional truths of the paintings. This follows across the gallery space as a removal from her body in an intensity of expression and experience. The imagery in the work is a vehicle in which the disc relates to the facets of an ever-evolving sense of identity and existence, while the grid act as a response to an environment whose basic structures we have long since internalised. By weaving together, the transitional diversity of her life and experiences with the multifaceted emergence of the social self, Lyckholm’s paintings navigate the complex reality of identity.
  
“I am compelled by the wordless and silent language of colour to give the elusive,
intangible internal life an existence with form and vibrancy. It has always been the
easiest way for me to reveal myself as it not only projects emotional truths away
from the body, but offers a sense of connectedness to my environment and the
surroundings that I find myself existing within. With the immediacy of paint, I can continually
reinvent and reshape that identity and speak with a range of emotional responses through the quiet voice of layering paint on a canvas”.
  
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Joe Clarke
Ōtautahi

I am a Otautahi based Ngai Tahu artist and recent MA graduate exploring mixed media techniques with an emphasis on printmaking methods.
 
While my work is primarily woodcut print based, my process is very experimental and often results in mixed media work that combines many contrasting techniques and aesthetics into one work.
  
Since I was very young, I have always been fascinated by the world of horror and in particular, the visual allure of the macabre. Perusing the covers of horror movies I was years too young to rent at the video store was more exciting to me than actually watching the newest releases. From artists like Francis Bacon to films like The Shining, inspiration for my work can be found anywhere there is an air of darkness or the uncanny Over the years, the fascination developed into a passion and eventually into my current career.
 
Since graduating with my Masters in 2021, I have been taking part in various exhibitions and projects including artwork for Takahe magazine, record covers for bands and taking part in group and solo exhibitions and street art projects for organizations like Watch this Space. These installations and shows have allowed me to show the world what a lifetime of being influenced by the world of horror from many contrasting mediums looks like.
  
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Joe Smith
Ōtautahi

I am Joseph Gregory Raye Smith and I recently completed my master's degree in fine arts. My work is pop surrealism and punk. My work is fuelled by my rage, pain, self hatred and hopelessness, that comes from my mental illness but also from my increasing disenfranchisement from neoliberal capitalism.
  
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Kophie Su'a-Hulsbosch
Ōtautahi

Kophie Su'a-Hulsbosch is a Ōtautahi-based artist whose work spreads across a diverse range of fields, including graphic design, illustration, painting, graffiti and clothing design. This output is heavily influenced by hip hop culture, low-brow art, and the issue of sustainability/politics. A central intention in her work is the disruption of the status quo, reflected in her graffiti and her clothing brand Future Apparel which is a response to the mass production and other ongoing issues evident in the fashion industry.
  
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Magdalane Clare
Ōtautahi

Magdelane Clare graduated from Ara In 2021 with a PG diploma in Advanced Visual Arts. She has since developed a practice with mixed media and print elements, more recently exploring paint as medium. Clares creative methods employ experimental techniques sampled from the surrealist “cut up” concept as key in building imagery. This ritualistic action of random and repeated deconstruction and reassemblage of source imagery from paintings and photo elements informs Clares beginning phases in generating visual references.
  
Magdelane Clare is inspired by great surrealists Leonora Carrington and Hanna Hoch, mimicing topical themes such as magical thought systems
derived from ancient prose and commentary on the feminine position.
  
Clares art permeates with a sense of "Lore" and subconscious elements regarding the individual and takes past constructs, memories and traditions into her visual future, leaving a linguring sense of humour in reflection. Her current focus is self definition within a contemporary folk narrative.
  
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Olivia Baker
London

Olivia Baker is an Ōtautahi artist currently based in London. She has a particular interest in wood carving and ceramic works which she uses to convey her interests in the built environment. Her background in psychology, geography and a master's in creative practice combine to create these whimsical works of urban environments and domestic settings.
  
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Rebecca Smallridge
Ōtautahi

Rebecca Smallridge (born in Timaru, 1979) is a visual artist working from her home studio in
Ōtautahi, Aotearoa New Zealand.  In 2021, Rebecca received a Master of Arts with Distinction under the supervision of ARA Creative Industries.  This qualification is an extension of the Bachelor of Design in Visual Arts which she achieved in 2009. Rebecca has an active exhibition practice both nationally and internationally and has been included in group and solo shows since 2007. Her paintings, original woodblock prints and ceramics are held in public and private collections in Aotearoa and abroad.
  
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