On the rise
Get art smart with our round-up of emerging talents to keep an eye out for at the upcoming Auckland Art Fair.
Emerging artists.
Ayesha Green
Known for her simplified painting style and reimaginings of historical figures and botanical illustrations, through her work Ayesha attempts to relocate and redefine the power relationships of Māori representation.
Andrea Bolima
Andrea layers her works with thinly applied acrylic paint, building ambiguous scenes in which blurred forms create impressions of flowers, foliage, trees, cliffs and the like, suggested through colour palettes she blends on the canvas itself.
Tia Ansell
All of the components of Tia’s work are handmade. Her integration of weaving and painting challenges the traditional divisions between craft and fine art, and elevates the use of handspun material to new heights.
Chauncey Flay
Working with materials including New Zealand greywacke and Tākaka marble, Chauncey investigates the idea of the Anthropocene (the current geological era), within which he explores the concepts of time, degradation, fragility and shared history.
Zina Swanson
Zina draws on botanical-related lore to examine the way we live with plants. Her watercolour and acrylic paintings are often humorous, yet also hint at a darker view of our relationship with the natural world.