Resident
Artists

Parsons holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch (1990). He has exhibited extensively throughout Aotearoa in dealer galleries and public institutions. His works are held in several significant public and private collections including the Chartwell Collection (Auckland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth), the Sargeant Art Gallery (Whanganui) and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Parsons has a number of public works around New Zealand, Numbers in Palmerston North, Invisible City in Wellington and Passing Time in Christchurch.
Parsons is represented by Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch.

jonathansmartgallery.com

@jonathan.smart.gallery 

antonparsons.com

@antonparsons

Chilean-born Carolina Borquez is a multi-disciplinary designer. She has always been involved in community aid-related projects and finds delight in creating unique concepts. Borquez studied Graphic Design in Chile before arriving in Aotearoa several years ago. She has collaborated in books, editions, icon design, infographics, posters, illustrations and branding. Recently, her work has been influenced by the textiles of the Indigenous Chilean people, and Borquez is undertaking woodwork as part of a project titled Ancestral to create unique pieces of art using recycled wood.

caroborquez.com

@ancestralworkshop

Chris Van Doren is of Niuean, Samoan and Dutch descent, and is based at the Pacifica Art Centre at Corban Estate. With a background in panel beating, Van Doren uses his trade-taught skills in his multi-disciplinary sculptural practice, incorporating mediums such as copper, stainless steel, wood and stone. He holds a vast knowledge and skill for sculpting with traditional art forms in both large and small-scale sculpture that explore his Pacific heritage. 

Van Doren has taken part in numerous exhibitions and symposiums across the Asia-Pacific and has been a three-time finalist in Aotearoa’s World of Wearable Arts. He took part in the Taitung Austronesian Cultural Festival in Taiwan (2009) where he collaborated with Indigenous artists from the tribes of Taiwan and the wider Pacific from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and New Caledonia. Van Doren has exhibited widely across Aotearoa and abroad, and in 2020 completed a Tautai Fale-Ship Home Residency.

@chris.van.doren.artist

David McCracken mounted his first sculptural exhibition in 2000 and has exhibited his works, primarily from fabricated steel, around Aotearoa since. His sculptures elevate humble objects into memorable artefacts. He is interested in the role of performance in the production and reception of sculptured artworks. The completed sculpture is in itself a type of drama for McCracken in that it manifests various sensory inputs and personal responses. It is not merely an object, but is an artwork enriched with layers of interpretation acquired through the viewer’s gaze.

 
His sculptures have been included in outdoor exhibitions including Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Shapeshifter and Sculpture in the Gardens. In 2013, he was recipient of the Parsons and Brinckerhoff Award for Excellence in Engineering at Headland Sculpture on the Gulf and winner of the Wallace Arts Trust NZ Sculpture Award.

McCracken lives in Tāmaki Makaurau where he is represented by Gow Langsford Gallery.

Eloiza Montaña is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer who has worked in theatre, dance, video-art, jewellery and craft. Montaña considers her local community and environment to be of upmost importance to her, and her practice often focuses on partaking in social art projects.

Montaña was born in Uruguay and was raised in Barcelona before recently moving to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2017, where she is currently based at Te Henga. Recently, she has taken inspiration from the local native bush in the Waitakere Ranges. Her most recent project, titled The Fallen Leaf, includes jewellery made from the seeds and leaves from native trees such as Kauri and Pōhutukawa.

For more info:

www.eloizamontana.com

www.thefallenleaf.co.nz

@thefallenleafnz

Based in Aotearoa, Florence Ulutunu is a multidisciplinary artist of Sāmoan descent (Siumu, Sāmusu,). Driven by her Pasefika identity and a passion for the heritage arts, Ulutunu’s practice is often credited to her early familial influences and culturally-rich upbringing. Ulutunu’s current works look at the revival and preservation of siapo/ tapa cloth as a modern-day practice, and exploring the relationship between practice and identity.

@flo_ulutunu

Gabriel Tiongson is a multi-media artist who predominantly works on paper and canvas. His works combine cartoon-like forms, vibrant colour and graphic shapes which together express how he experiences and navigates the world. Tiongson’s practice grapples with ideas around emigration, colonisation and the confusion of identity and culture. His works often incorporate an influence of video games, cartoons and pop-culture. Born in the Philippines, Tiongson moved to Aotearoa to complete formal study in 2014 at Unitec Institute of Technology where he holds a Bachelor of Creative Enterprise and a Master of Creative Practice. Tiongson has exhibited widely in the Philippines, Singapore and in Aotearoa.
 
gabrieltiongson.com
@diko_art

Giles Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist and set designer. He was previously based in London, UK, where he studied Fine Art Painting at St Martin’s School of Art. His studies fostered an interest in decorative arts. Consequently, hee started working at a high-end gilding and restoration business before moving to Aotearoa in 1994.

It was upon his arrival that Smith began work in the Film and Television industry. Over the past twenty years he has developed a unique set of production skills working on large-scale film projects including The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003), Narnia: Prince Caspian (2007), Yogi Bear (2009), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2 (2014) and Pete’s Dragon (2015).

Smith’s ability to work at both large-scale and small-scale gives flexibility to his art practice in which he can employ his unique skill-set to explore new forms and subjects.

Gillian Appleby is an artist who predominantly works with the figure in oil. Appleby uses everyday media and photography as the starting point in her works, but often the paint takes over and means that the material dictates the final work. Over the painting and sketching process, Appleby’s works blur fiction and reality as she seeks to create tensions between illustrative and material investigations around the figure.

Appleby lived in the UK where she studied in London at the now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Appleby holds a Bachelor of Art and Design from the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland where she currently lives and works. She has exhibited nationally in Napier, Hastings and Auckland, and her work has exhibited several times in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards (2015, 2017, 2019).

Appleby currently exhibits with Parnell Gallery in Auckland and Tennyson Gallery in Napier.

www.gappleby.co.nz

Inspired by the ancient symbolism and rugged coastline of her Cornish homeland, Julie Moselen’s stone and metal sculptures explore the dualities of light and shadow, softness and strength, the masculine and the feminine. The elegant forms adhere to the complex mathematical patterns repeated in the natural world, with curvilinear twists that defy the strength and rigidity of the raw material, inviting the viewer to a moment of quiet repose.

Each work is sculpted entirely by the artist, from the intense physical labour of cutting, welding, grinding and shaping steel with handmade tools, to the precise application of surface treatments.

Moselen completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Metalcraft and Jewellery Design before moving to Aotearoa in 1998 and founding her own contemporary jewellery studio. Over the following decades she expanded her practice to encompass printmaking, painting and stone-carving, before settling on sculpture.

Moselen has shown throughout Aotearoa at sculpture events such as NZ Sculpture on Shore and Sculpture on the Gulf, and her work is held in several private collections. She is currently an artist in residence at Corban Estate Arts Centre.

@juliemoselenartist

A local to Waitākere, Kelly Reichardt is a multi-disciplinary artist who predominantly works in photography, water-colour and mixed media in her practice. A survivor of both recent and historic trauma resulting in C-PTSD, Reichardt uses artistic expression to make sense of her emotions and inner dialogue. A strong realism permeates her work and themes of the female form, nature, and beauty are regularly featured. Reichardt holds a Diploma in Art and Creativity (Hons) from the Learning Connexion (Wellington) and was the recipient of the Oriel Hoskin Scholarship (2017-19).

www.kellyreichardt.co.nz

@kellyreichardt_art

Influenced by landscape and space, Kevin Osmond's artworks explore a gamut of different phenomena — from cloud formations and water droplets to topographical configurations, celestial explosions and other investigations of space. Meticulous and experimental, he transforms the mundane into the mesmeric.

Osmond builds up complexity and interrelation from the repetition and adaptation of simple forms, utilising a wide range of materials and mediums. He captures the energy in the world around us through complex sculptures, wall-based optical artworks, meditative drawings on paper, and freehand routed panels.

Solo exhibitions by Kevin Osmond have been held at the Davidson Gallery in New York City, USA, and, most recently, at the Dominik Mersch Gallery in Sydney, Australia. His artworks currently reside within American, European, Australian and New Zealand art collections, and have also been exhibited at major art fairs throughout the USA, including Art Basel Miami.
Osmond has created installation artworks for a variety of London-based clients including: The Economist, Penguin Books HQ, The Royal London Hospital and Credit Suisse (Canary Wharf). In Auckland, he has been commissioned to create artworks for Massey University of New Zealand and, in 2021, he completed two monumental-scale works for the new PwC Tower at Commercial Bay on the waterfront in Auckland’s CBD.
Born in the UK, Osmond studied Fine Art in London, gaining an MA from The Royal College of Art and a BA from the Chelsea College of Art. He has been the recipient of a number of UK art prizes, including the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award, the Credit Suisse First Boston Sculpture Prize, and the Penguin Books Sculpture Prize.

Throughout his career, he has been featured in a variety of publications, including The Sunday Times (UK), Urbis (NZ), Houses (NZ) and Time Out London (UK).
Osmond currently lives and works in New Zealand, and has a large studio at the Corban Estate Arts Centre in West Auckland.

 
@kevin_osmond_art 

Macky McCracken is the resident canine-in-charge at Corban Estate Arts Centre. Lover of the arts, professional sunny-spot seeker and fine sausage connoisseur, Macky was recently appointed patron of the Corban Estate Arts Centre Saturday Gallery Club.

A firm but fair critic, many Corban Estate resident artists and visitors alike look to Macky for guidance - or as their muse - taking inspiration from his laissez-faire attitude towards life.

If he's not mooching around the sculptors studios with his human David McCracken - or following closely behind his BFF Tony Brown, Macky can generally be found keeping a tight leash on any other canine activity at Corban Estate.

Martin Selman’s works are an exploration of the potent visual and inherent qualities of marble.  Aligned with antiquity and tradition, marble is exploited by Martin for its symbolic value and transported into the current age by focusing on the banality of everyday consumption. Selman can literally turn his marble carving hand to any subject matter, from traditional portraiture to the more populist articles and detritus of contemporary society. Mass-produced items like bottles and cans are canonised for posterity and contemplation.  Carved out of a medium steeped in tradition and history, they are transformed into sublime objects that are simultaneously historic and a-historic.

He is represented by Ivan Anthony Gallery in Auckland.

@martin_selman_sculpture

Pita Turei (Ngai Tai Ki Tamaki, Ngāti Pāoa, Ngā Rauru Kiitahi) is a creative collaborative practitioner and multi-disciplinary artist. Turei is a local iwi advocate who has become known as a noted storyteller and respected orator connecting a new generation with the ancient histories of Tāmaki Makaurau. Turei began his career in theatre and dance, working with organisations that toured both nationally and internationally including the Adelaide Ballet, Limbs Dance Company and Taiao Dance Theatre. He has since worked widely across the creative industries and spent many years in the film industry as a director, actor and photographer while also being significantly involved with Ngā Aho Whakaari Māori On Screen.

Turei has worked on several large-scale public art projects across Tāmaki Makaurau including at the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Waterfront, Spaghetti Junction, SH20 Landscape Design and Te Wao Nui Auckland Zoo. He was a finalist in the Te Wero Bridge Design competition. Turei is currently a member of Taumata-ā-Iwi advising Auckland War Memorial Museum and joined the Waitakere Arts and Cultural Development Trust Board in 2022.

@pita.turei

@tureipita

Sistar S’pacific aka Rosanna Raymond is an innovator of the contemporary Pasifika art scene. She is a long-standing member of the art collective, the Pacific Sisters and a founding member of the SaVAge K’lub. Over the past twenty years, Raymond’s activities have made her a notable producer of, and commentator on, contemporary Pacific Island culture in Aotearoa and internationally. She specialises in working within museums and higher education institutions.

Raymond has achieved international renown for her performances, installations, body adornment, and spoken word. A published writer and poet, her works are held by museums and private collectors throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Aotearoa. Raymond is an Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Anthropology and Institute of Archaeology at University College London and a former Chesterdale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (2017). She was the Pacific Artist in Residence at Government House (2017) and is currently a researcher for the AUT Marsden funded project Vā Moana.

www.savageklub.com

@rosannaraymond

@savageklub

@pacificsisters

Sculptor Stephen Woodward’s practice is primarily interested in the political. Working with an eclectic range of media ranging from ceramics, bronze, stone and volcanic basalt, Woodward’s sculptures are subtly integrated into, rather than being starkly imposed onto, the landscape. He presents landscape and landforms as images to critique human nature; particularly the human need to overlay everything with notions of productivity, settlement and identity.

Canadian-born, Woodward studied Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). He began marble carving in Italy working alongside artisans tasked to scale up sculptures for artists including César Baldaccini, Barry Flanagan, Helaine Blumenfeld and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Since arriving in Aotearoa in 1986, Woodward has focussed on large-scale, site-specific sculptural works and has exhibited in public events such as Sculpture on the Gulf and Sculpture in the Gardens. He has exhibited in a range of exhibitions both nationally and internationally in China, Japan, Taiwan, Canada and New Caledonia.

@stephenwoodward_sculptor

Ko Kohukohunui ko Maungaroa ko Pūhanga Tohorānga Maunga
Ko Wairoa ko Waikato ko Mangatawa nga Awa
Ko Ngātokimatawhaorua ko Tainui nga Waka
Ko Ngāi Tai ko Waikato ko Nga Puhi nga Iwi
Ko Ngāti Te Raukohekohe ko Ngāti Tamaoho ko Ngai Tuteauru nga Hapū
Ko Umupuia ko Whatapaka ko Pukerata nga Marae

Tessa Harris (Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki) is a weaver and multi-disciplinary artist who works with various mediums including stone, glass, wood and natural fibres from Aotearoa. Harris holds a Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts (Whakairo) from Te Waananga o Aotearoa. She has been weaving for over 15 years and is a member of the weaving collective Te Roopū Raranga o Tāmaki Makaurau. Harris’ stonework features hand finishing with sandstone and her designs, patterns and styles are based from traditional Mahi Kohatu (Māori stonework) under the guidance of artist Rossi McCabe. Harris been involved in various projects and exhibitions throughout Aotearoa.

@taonga_toi