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I am a focused and highly self motivated artist who has a passion for painting. I live to paint and paint to live. Although most of my current work is painting, I have a sound interest in photography and an increasing one for sculpture and arts administration/curatorship.

I currently live in Auckland where I am about to graduate with my Bachelor of Fine Arts from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. I am inspired by abstract expressionism, graffiti, gestural mark making, performance, hybridity, cargo containers and automatism. I am also the editor of Gallery36, an pdf magazine for emerging artists and photographers : www.gallery36.co.nz

PJ Paterson uses gritty renderings of urban spaces to create vivid depictions of society's decaying edges. His process involves collecting images that resonate with him then collating, ordering and transforming this base matter to establish patterns and meanings. The large amount of source material required is derived primarily from the artist's original photography, but also from appropriate imagery widespread throughout popular culture. Images may be chosen that are overtly political or culturally significant or just visually cool.

Although working primarily as a painter at present, Paterson's conceptual practice also incorporates work in digital formats, sculpture and photography. The many strands of his collected imagery will give rise to new series in the future, continuing his investigation of the myriad points at which mainstream society intersects with its overlooked elements.

-Sanderson Contemporary Art

Come check this chicks work out around the corner at Verona during First Thursdays!

Six months ago, 23 year old Jordan Barnes made a strategic career move from his hometown of New Plymouth to Auckland City. He made this move, determined to gain success & recognition through his art, music and modeling. This transition period has been a somewhat erratic ride, adjusting to, and finding his own path in the Auckland scene. Jordan's new paintings are an expression of the experiences he has had in this short period; from a life size self portrait set in a shitty public bathroom to "a drunken sketch of an Australian model that I was fortunate enough to spend a night with". Jordan's new work captures and portrays blatantly honest moments, which each have an interesting story behind them.

Philip Rosieur always thinks your lying. He knows that you think disgusting things. Just like him.
He has an uneasy disposition regarding the opposite sex and modern gender roles. Because of this sense of unsettlement, he seems to constantly explore a hostile environment that is dominated by the female presence.

In this environment, Rosieur pits common stereotypes of men with hyper-inflated and equally deflated sexualities against a barrage of women who both inflict and endure cruelties to herald the redundancy of their male counterparts.

What emerges are a series of loosely inter-related works, linked by a broken narrative that explores the human condition, overt sexuality, the bizarre, madness and violence.

It’s not uncommon for him to be found mixing horny lesbians, six shooters, laughing heads, severed limbs and hyperbolic characters to create an ever-present unsettling feeling within his works.

To capture such a savage contemporary universe, Rosieur primarily uses ink and watercolour paints to depict an innocent and naïve style of illustration.

Often tongue-in-cheek, his narratives strive to create a sense of drama, evoke humour, stimulate suspense and hopefully, arouse suspicion and surprise.


www.philiprosieur.com

As an environmental artist and activist I work mainly with recycled materials to raise awareness of the importance of waste minimization, recycling, & the conservation of the natural world. My aim is to inspire people to take personal responsibility for their own environmental footprint, & to encourage them to “make a difference”.

From my home in Browns Bay I trash-trawl, dumpster-dive & beachcomb to collect detrius from the global scrapheap to make into recycled art - mainly sculptural pieces & contemporary fashion accessories.
I also assist ethical businesses to present their genuine “green” credentials by making corporate art from their packaging or recycled materials to display in their lobby, use as promotional material, or as corporate gifts.

Public display of recycled art & jewelry gives each of us a vehicle for self-expression: making a statement of our preference for sustainable ways of being in the world.

My interest in trash began when I was five years old living on Hobsonville Air Base, near the tip - where we kids found treasures in the form of old aircraft parts. Later, in the early ‘70’s, I worked in Wellington as a garbage collector - which opened my eyes to the production & disposal of garbage. After that I left on my O/S & travelled the world making and selling jewellery mainly constructed from found objects for some thirty years. I seem to have been talking rubbish all my life!

Now the wanderer has returned, & I am grateful to be at home in Aotearoa - where I am finding time to put something back into the land & community which nurtured me.

My work is in private collections all over the world, and can be seen online at:
www.martinadlington.webs.com

SisterDarling, a.k.a. Meghan is a Pop Surrealist painter based in Auckland. Her art is hugely influenced by all the 19th century literature she devoured as a kid, as well as her father's Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Disney and Hayao Miyazaki Betamax collection. That, combined with her present day interests which include tattoo culture and street art, all influence her work. She's currently exploring themes of migration, constraint and transcendence in her narrative works.

Check this chicks beautiful work out at: www.sisterdarling.com

Peap, or Samapeap Tarr is a NZ based artist whose cultural background has influenced him and his emotions to create his signature sinister yet tranquil works of art.

Known primarily for his use of bold black ink on a blank white medium, his art exists in a world where lightness and darkness battle, yet coexist in the same breath to balance each other and contrast against each other. It represents the ups and downs of life, the yin and the yang, the ongoing war that ends up being waged on canvas or whatever medium his work lies on.

Aside from local accolades such as the ArtBeatz (2005) and FunkyRazors (2007) shows, more recently Peap has been receiving international acclaim and attention, including a feature in international Hi-Fructose magazine. He has also recently returned from exhibiting alongside artists such as MARS1 and Ron English at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, capturing the attention of other industry greats such as Chaz Bojorquez and MSK. Peap has also appeared in US Art magazine Faesthetic and local NZ art and culture magazine SIDEROOM.

For more information of this artist check out his site at: http://www.sweet-station.com/peap/peaphome.html

Stephanie O'Connor is a graduate of Auckland University faculty of Fine Arts (BFA) with a major in photography. Auckland based she is both a photographic and digital artist, with a special interest in photo retouching. She has a recurring interest in the ideas of theatricality and the Carnivalesque, blurring the bridge between fact and fiction with her hyper real images.

For more pictures of her work: http://stephanieoconnor.tumblr.com/