Paul Woodruffe
Throughout the years, he has been selected as a finalist in many of New Zealand’s top art awards such as the Waikato Art Award, The National Portrait Award the Team Macmillan BMW Art Awards as well as having been commissioned for public artworks both in Auckland and Vienna. His works are in many public, private, and corporate collections across NZ, Australia, UK, USA, and Germany including several works in The Wallace Art Trust Collection.
Woodruffe works primarily in resin, oils on canvas and in small scale sculpture. His work attempts to explain what it is like to live as a European migrant in the South Pacific, especially Aotearoa and what makes a particular landscape, object, or concept significant to that experience. He has a strong interest in the use of pigments and pattern and their ability to facilitate storytelling through accidental or intended transference into human experience.
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I Can’t Find My Way Home copy Sold -
The Artist copy Sold
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Girl with Mirror copy Sold
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Figure in a Uniform copy
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The Anomaly copy
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The Poet copy Sold
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Paul Woodruffe | Quiet Places
2 - 21 May 2024Paul Woodruffe’s instantly alluring but ambiguous, paintings require a long, slow viewing to appreciate their complexity of composition, games of relationships and abundance of symbols. His richly coloured and elaborate...Read more -
Paul Woodruffe - Pop Tones
12 - 31 May 2022Recent experience has shaped the domestic subject choices for this body of work, with the intent of making these paintings to imbue the ordinary with a sense of the extraordinary....Read more -
Paul Woodruffe - Articulate Silences
2 Jun 2020 - 22 Jul 2022Unlikely Punk. No artists should ever be asked “why do you paint?”. It’s typically the imposter who will over explain why they paint and with self-confidence and no authenticity they...Read more
