● Artists

Meet the ARTISTS

The artist line-up for Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the Gulf 2027 is:

Margaret Aull (b. 1978, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Fiji) is a Māori–Fijian artist

Margaret Aull

Chris Bailey (b.1965) lives on Waiheke Island and is of Ngāti Paoa, Ngāti Hako, Ngāti Porou, descent.

Chris bailey

Tangaroa Birch (b. 1976 Ngāpuhi, Ngāi Tawake, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) is a Māori artist known for his innovative practice.

Tangaroa Birch

SJ Blake (b.1983) is an experimental artist and performance designer based on Waiheke Island.

sj blake

Elliot Collins is an artist, researcher, and tutor who works across a range of media within the visual arts.

Elliot collins

Artist Collective: Judy Darragh, Qianye & Qianhe Lin, Sean Kerr

Sean Kerr, Judy Darragh, Qianye & Qianhe Lin

Dr. Sione Faletau (b. 1991) is an Aotearoa-born Tongan artist based in Ōtara, South Auckland. His multidisciplinary practice spans performance, sculpture, installation, and digital art.

Sione Faletau

Anton Forde (Taranaki, Gaeltacht, Gaelic, English) is widely celebrated both locally and internationally for his esteemed sculptural practice, which explores whakapapa, wairua, and our profound connection to the natural world.

Anton Forde

Gill Gatfield (b. 1963) lives in Whangaparāoa. She completed a Master of Fine Arts (Hons) in 2004 and Bachelor of Laws in 1988 from University of Auckland.

Gill Gatfield

Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank is a self-portrait installation artist whose practice questions cultural identifiers and social histories through the thematic vehicle of food and plant knowledge.

Jacquelyn Greenbank

Glen Hayward graduated with a Doctorate from Elam in 2005. In 2003 he participated in the inaugural Sculpture on the Gulf.

Glen Hayward

Sean Hill is a multidisciplinary artist of Kiwi/Samoan descent based in Ngamotu, Taranaki. He completed an Honours degree in Visual Arts at Auckland University in 2016.

Sean Hill

Stevei Houkāmau is a full-time uku artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

Stevei Houkāmau

Ioane Ioane (Auckland based, born 1962) and Martin Loire (Auckland based, born Buenos Aires, 1976) collaborate across sculpture, installation, poetry, and performance.

Ioane Ioane & Martin Loire

Fiona Jack is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She teaches at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland.

Fiona Jack

Emily Karaka is a leading figure in contemporary Māori art, Emily will collaborate with fellow Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki mandated mana whenua artist Reuben Kirkwood.

Emily Karaka & Reuben Kirkwood

Virginia King was born in Kawakawa, Northland. She attended Wellington Polytechnic, then Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland.

Virginia King

Doyoung Koh is a Kiwi–Korean sculptor whose practice explores the metaphysical and philosophical ideas of memory, nostalgia, and loss.

Doyoung Koh

Hemi Macgregor (b. 1975, Ngāti Rākaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tuhoe) is a highly respected artist and educator, who graduated from the prestigious Māori Visual Arts programme at Te Pūtahi-a-Toi, Massey University in Palmerston North.

Gabby O’Connor

Melissa Macleod is a performance and installation artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand whose practice engages with landscape, environmental vulnerability, and community action.

Melissa Macleod

Michelle Mayn (b. 1963) lives in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, where she completed a Master of Visual Arts at AUT in 2019. She draws on skills and processes established through study of Māori weaving.

Michelle Mayn

Alex Monteith is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker and Maree Sheehan (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Raukawa, Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa) is a Māori composer, sound artist, and performer.

Alex Monteith & Maree Sheehan

Gabby O’Connor is an artist, transdisciplinary researcher, Antarctican, science communicator, and educator.

Hemi Macgregor

Ben Pearce completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Sculpture at Wanganui Quay School of Fine Arts in 2003.

Ben Pearce

Elisabeth Pointon lives in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and holds a BFA (2014) and MFA (2017) from Massey University. An artist of Indo-Fijian and Pākehā descent.

Elisabeth Pointon

Ngaroma Riley is an artist and people connector of Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri, and Pākehā descent. A founder of Te Ana o Hine, a wahine-led carving shed based at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Ngaroma Riley

Taarn Scott is an artist from Ōtepoti, based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. Their practice is multidisciplinary and often collaborative, creating tactile objects informed by ornamentation and jewellery.

Taarn Scott

Ann Shelton identifies as queer. Her work engages questions around the disciplined body and how that discipline plays out through gender, sexuality and most recently in relation to plants and their impacts on the body.

Ann Shelton

Sally Smith lives on Waiheke Island. She studied Architecture at Auckland University before running her own practice for many years on Waiheke.

Sally Smith

For over 25 years, Evan Woodruffe has engaged with colour as a sensation and a material, extending his painting practice into a language that he applies to canvas, clothing, furniture, and even luxury cars.

Evan Woodruffe