 Gravity Bag iiii

Gravity Bag iii

Gravity Bag i

Subu South 

Void

Installation - Red Moss

Sub Sub- detail

Autonomy

Sub Sub

My Trade

Balance

In-Between the White Noise 

Para Host

Untitled  

Motif Architype

Chromatic Report

Habitat

Surface Slump

Gravity Slump- detail

Public society Service #1 

You Just Took That Too Far

Gravity Slump

Girl with Plinth Cubes Displacement  

Host

Pedestrian Vol 2

Populate #4

Colour Chromatic- detail

Populate #5  

Habitat ii

Populate #6

Colour Chromatic

installation

In-Between the White Noise  

Habitat ii (detail)

Modern Times

In-Between the White Noise (2023) 

Lean 

Gravity Bag 

Populate #8 

Gravity Bag ii

Ramon Robertson has been working as an artist in Auckland, New Zealand since arriving in 2011. Prior to this, he lived in Glasgow, Scotland where he also worked as an artist, designer and tertiary lecturer.

In 1992 Ramon graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Sculpture and in 1997 he completed a MA in Interior Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, for which he undertook sculpture and installation projects related to interiors and architecture.

Robertson’s work typically engages with aspects of architecture and urbanisation. The mass production and standardisation of objects is also a focus, in particular, the observation of the effects of our visual perception in regards to objects and environment. Themes linking to human condition and behaviour in the city are also concepts explored in his work.

Ramon has exhibited widely in Auckland since 2011, including ‘NZ Sculpture OnShore’ in 2012, 2014 and 2016, as well as the ‘Harbourview Sculpture Trail’ in 2014 and 2016, winning the 

for his sculpture ‘Void’ in 2014. Robertson was invited to exhibit in the prestigious ‘Sculpture in the Gardens’ at the Auckland Botanical Gardens, in both 2015 and 2017 and was recently commissioned by the Wallace Arts Trust Collection for a large outdoor work at Pah Homestead.

Ramon Robertson

Act your Beige

Better Slate than Never, 

Willing and Sable

Celdon Vase Painting

It Feel's Much Butter

Vintage Fog

Verdant Dreaming in the Dessert

Chamomile Cleansing Ritual 

Sing of Cerulean

A Common Sage

Lazy Yellow

Hairy Artichokes

At the River

In the Flesh

Surprise Light Pink

Untitled

Thyme & Thyme Again

Pinkoherent

Dandelion Street

Dried Rose Coloured Glasses

Dusty Hazy Days

Gernium

Silver Springs

Mauve in the Corner

Sappy Sage

I Was Possessed by the Blue

Sugar Gray

The Right Kinda Blue

Shrubs go to Town

installation 2022

Whole Lotta Mauve

Cadmium and Clover Over and Over

There’s a Slug at the Back

Wholesome Balsam

No Wonder Lavender

Urban Forest

Hinoki Doki

Silver Spring

No is a Colour

Sands Serif

Spirit Bay Blues

By My Cypress

Riveria During the Day

Huia During the Day

Pondering

Bloom Day

The Wallowing Walnut

Wake up Make Up

Tomorrow at Indigo

When the Shrubs go to Town

Floral Decay

Kahurangi 

Botanic Attack

Karaka Verde,

Moss Definitely

Cedar Later

Nightshift

Petrichorus

Heart of Sass

Murder on the Canvas

Andrea Bolima is a visual artist, born in the Philippines and is now based in Naarm Melbourne. Andrea Bolima’s adventures in aesthetics are fuelled by the visual qualities of experience from the actual process of painting. The artworks reveal the layering and unlayering of forms as structural elements slowly unfold and sometimes deteriorate. Bolima’s sensitivity to her surroundings can be seen from the subtle shifts in tone and delicate splashes of colour. Tonal variations demonstrate the different levels of intensity that emerge from the materiality of paint. Colours are blended and established on the canvas itself showing her mediation between careful considerations and random gestures.

Bolima’s recent work is an exploration of how a work of art emerges from the transition between stimulus and response. In particular, it examines the body’s mediation from the affective properties of paint, into the multiple dimensions of colour as a painting unfolds. 

Softly coloured canvases, with their blurred ambiguous forms made through the dry brushing of thin acrylic, could from a distance be mistaken for stained colour or wet application. Using landscape or vegetative colours and no sharp edges of shape, Bolima creates a spatial tension between the flatness of the canvas and suggestions of flowers, leaves, copses or cliff-faces. She is expert at creating linear gaps between adjacent blocks of thin colour, so that the pale hues underneath form fragmented bending lines that are nuanced and suggestive”. [1]

Andrea Bolima

Swimming in the Clouds

Boulevard

Passage

Bog Midnight

Resplendent

Highway

Turtle Island 

Venus

Emperor

Hybrid Myth

Empress

Maritime

Verenda`

Lagoonis

Roller Coaster

Oceanus

- installation

Blue Tango

Park View

Harmony 

Tuttle Island

Motu Park

Bellevue 

Coral Cove

& Ramon Robertson - installation

Festival 

Truley (2023)

Artery 

Resplendent  

Palm Beach

Roller Coaster 

Promenade 

Happy Hour (2023) 

Eden

Dad's Orchid

Potted Colour

Belonging 

Playground

Night Patrol

Green Way

Community Garden

Propagate 

 Rush Hour

Street Appeal (2024)

Neighbourhood Watch 

Blue Moon (2024)

Honeycomb (2023) 

Aitutaki

The Reunion (2023)

Taveuni (2023) 

Michael McHugh has been painting for more than thirty years. His practice has consistently explored colour, composition and textural, abstract form with a strong connection to the natural world. McHugh collects a range of different photographs and drawings during research trips visiting museums, libraries and gardens around the world, returning to his studio to draw and create a series of collages, which lead to large format paintings.

With the use of gestural acrylic mark making, McHugh creates a layered abstraction moving between the paintings’ surface and botanical shapes. Works are sometimes sombre and brooding, and at other times energetic and vibrant, with textural layers echoing moments in time. McHugh believes constant drawing and collaging to be fundamental to his painting process. This foundation enables him to fully explore composition and vigorously push boundaries with colour and technique.

Graduating from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design in New Zealand, he has attended masterclasses in painting at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia. He currently works in the creative media industry and also exhibits his work in Sydney, Australia. McHugh’s work is held in a number of private collections in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.  

Michael McHugh

Omapere

Kirirua 

Te Awanga

Motuihe

Motutapu

Ponui 

Houhora

Canto ii

Onepoto

Pikarere

Adams Island

Ahipara

Hauraki II

Hauraki II: Panel 3

Hauraki II: Panel 1

Hauraki II: Panel 2

Adams island

Repanga

Hauraki II: Panel 5

Okakari

Hauraki II: Panel 4

Canto ii- detail

Otūmoetai

& Andrea Bolima - installation

Tāmaki 

Tāmaki- installation at Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

Rakiura 

Tāmaki

 Piopio

Waihua

Otonga 

Roger Mortimer was born in Mangakino, New Zealand in 1956. Since graduating with a BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1999, Mortimer has exhibited regularly in Auckland and Wellington. His work was included in the Artspace shows Flesh and Fruity and After Killeen (2001) in Auckland, Portraiture (2003) at Te Tuhi, Pakuranga, and High Chair (2005) at ST PAUL St Gallery, Auckland.

In 2014 he was the Paramount winner of the Wallace Art Awards and subsequently spent six months at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York. His work is included in public and private collections in New Zealand, Australia and France. Roger Mortimer currently lives and works in Auckland.

Mortimer is interested in the nature of attachment in the psychological sense. When this fundamental relational need is disrupted, it generates conflict, adaptive behavior and intense suffering. His paintings explore these themes and have been described as “

an allegorical scrambling of time and geography, that pushes at the limits of the human imagination

” [1], giving rise to a dense layering of colliding or intertwined worlds and systems. In Mortimer’s fantastical landscapes and watery coasts, people and creatures enact dynamic vignettes of horror and suffering, as well as the possibility of transformation

Roger Mortimer

Aotearoa Art Fair 2022

Ramon Robertson,Andrea Bolima,Michael McHugh,Roger Mortimer - Aotearoa Art Fair 2022

Aotearoa Art Fair 2022