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13 Aug

Adrift - 2025

Jessica Lace is a visual artist based in Auckland, working primarily with oils and acrylics. Her work often features birds, butterflies and the occasional car. At times she will use old magazines and books to create collages. She enjoys the delicate nature of birds and the symmetry in butterflies. Over the last couple of years […]

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13 Aug

Confessional - 2025

Duke, a young artist from Patumahoe, crafts a vivid narrative through her art, inspired by her journey into adulthood as a young woman. Her paintings embody the experience of anxious overachievers, decadent party girls and anyone who has felt compelled to shrink themselves for others. Annaliese’s work also explores the connection between humanity and nature, […]

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09 Sep

Plenty - 2024

An exploration of the beauty of contentment.

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09 Sep

"Illumination" - 2024

This painting is the result of an image that appeared in one of my abundance of dreams, on a night illuminated by the full moon.

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09 Sep

The Holy Man - 2024

This painting is acrylic and pastel on canvas inserted into a solid frame.

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29 Aug

Standing Tall - 2024

Original black and white photograph combined onto a wool blend felt and embellished with needle-felted merino, hand stitching, and mirrors.

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29 Aug

Motherhood V2 - 2024

Created with Merino, Corredale,silk, and glass beads, this 3d needle-felted sculpture expresses the identity that is motherhood, in its vibrant embrace. The sculptures of Barbara Hepworth and the Victorian Language of Flowers inspire this emotive work.

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29 Aug

Mr Plyer the Prymantis - 2024

bug man. mutated monster of prymantis.

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29 Aug

Innocence Defiled - 2024

A man holding a piece of glass up next to their face, a piece from a mirror with flowers in the background popping out of the mirror frame which was a centipede. On the man in the mirror, were hands that sunk into his skin and holding his hair. A screenprint on black paper. Surrounds […]

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29 Aug

'You too?' 'Me too' - 2024

2 sculptures that will create a shadow that finishes a piece behind it. will bring my own light. if possible, may i have a stand provided for me? if not, please let me know through an email. i ask for my work to be stationed next to a plug, if thats not possible either, let […]

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