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We’re proud to share with you our upcoming exhibition with Sydney-based artist Neil Frazer and arrival of new pieces by jeweller Joe Sheehan and a new work from artist Michael Dell …

In our upcoming exhibition and book launch All at Sea, Craig joins his friend the wonderful expressionist artist Neil Frazer in producing works of homage to our very own ocean and coast which we love and recreate in. Back in 2022 they visited the majestic coastlines of Golden Bay and Punakaiki together to bring you this stunning exhibition and book. Witness a concurrence of vision in painting, photography and words.
Neil Frazer is a seventh generation New Zealander who was born in Canberra, Australia in 1961. He completed a BFA at Canterbury University in Christchurch before studying in painting at The New York Studio School on a Fulbright scholarship. Frazer received the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago, Dunedin in 1993, and was an artist in residence at the Victoria College of the Arts in Victoria, Australia in 1994. In 1999 Frazer moved to Sydney, Australia to complete an MFA in painting at the University of New South Wales.

Frazer is represented in major public and private collections in NZ and Australia. He is a painter whose large gestural works celebrate the power and drama of the natural world without reference to human intervention. He travels within and throughout the landscapes he paints in order to experience, gather and absorb its grandeur.

Pre-order All at Sea today

Join us for the exhibition opening and book launch of All at Sea

5:30pm Thursday 31st July

Both artists will attend the opening

We were thrilled to receive new pieces from Joe Sheehan. These covetable pendants are available now from the gallery and our website

Joe Sheehan Key & Kawakawa pendants

Joe Sheehan (1976) studied contemporary jewellery at Unitec in the mid1990s, and since then has worked in carving studios throughout New Zealand and visited nephrite-jade deposits around the world. Joe’s jade and pounamu pieces explore the contemporary relevance and position of greenstone carving, with his recent work looking at the commercialisation of the jade industry and the limitations it places on jade’s potential as a medium for relevant art practise. Joe plays with social and cultural contexts and questions the way we see things, making pounamu and jade objects that speak first about their object status and second about their material.
His work has included traditional forms of jewellery such as a necklace made from several hundred precision-cut discs of Russian Nephrite, as well as meticulously rendered ballpoint pens, sunglasses, AA batteries, a working lightbulb, and a pounamu cassette tape which plays a recording of the river where the stone was found.
In November 2006 Joe was one of the inaugural recipients of the NZ Arts Foundation’s New Generation Awards. These awards, of $25,000 each, are presented every two years to five artists who have demonstrated excellence in the early stages of their careers. In 2008 Joe was invited to represent New Zealand in the 28th Sao Paulo Bienal in Brazil. In 2010 he received an Antarctica Fellowship.

RNZ interview with Joe Sheehan

A new work from Michael Dell

Roadside Landscape at Moutere (2025)
Michael Dell
Acrylic on Linen
400 x 400mm – 495 x 495mm framed

Please contact the gallery for further details

Michael Dell

Michael Dell is a renowned contemporary artist based in Nelson, New Zealand. He studied Fine Arts at Canterbury University and has received numerous national art awards, including the prestigious Parkin Drawing Prize. His work, which shifts between abstraction and representation, often explores the ordinary in a way that rejects drama and easy narratives. Dell’s enigmatic artworks are more like memories than traditional landscapes, capturing the essence of time, memory, and scale. His pieces are held in various public collections across New Zealand.