Artists

  • Raukura Turei
  • Marisa Purcell
  • Damien Meade
  • Diana Copperwhite
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Raukura Turei
Raukura Turei (b. 1987, Taranaki Iwi, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Pāoa) is an artist, architect, and designer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her paintings are composed of materials collected from Papatūānuku. Forming part of her journey of connecting with her whakapapa, they honour atua wāhine and tīpuna, uplift customary Māori narratives and histories, and meditate on body sovereignty, sensuality, and creating space for healing. Turei’s works have been exhibited at significant institutions throughout Aotearoa, including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki; Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau; the Dowse Art Museum, Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt; the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara; and CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Ōtautahi.

Marisa Purcell
Marisa Purcell (b. 1971, Brisbane) lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Engaged in abstraction, Purcell uncovers connections beyond everyday reality. The artist improvises on expansive Italian linen canvases, enabling the artwork to serve as a channel for forces that may elude conscious understanding. Purcell creates veils of subtle hue variations as layers of translucent color overlap, generating depth and complexity within large, floating forms.

Damien Meade
Damien Meade (b. 1969 Limerick, Ireland) lives and works London and Madrid. Meade’s paintings are moody, dark, seductive; they have a bulbous voluminosity yet a compression that enables an intriguing perceptual disorientation. Well-known for his layered studio-based process, Meade’s domestic and modestly scaled paintings are born through months of clay modelling, photography, digital editing before the artist transforms his fictional subjects into oil paintings. Meade’s work is represented in international public and private collections worldwide, including MONA Museum, Tasmania.

Diana Copperwhite
Diana Copperwhite (b.1969, Ireland) based in Dublin and London. She studied painting at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1994 and completed a Masters at Winchester School of Art and Design, Barcelona in 2000. In her paintings, Copperwhite explores the relationship between colors, gestures, figuration, and representation, harmonising different visual strategies on the canvas. Copperwhite amalgamates images from the internet, photographs, and real life, unifying these sources in paintings that critically assess the medium’s ability to represent images, sensations, and ideas.

Dates & Times

  • VIP PREVIEW
  • (VIP Pass and Premier Art Pass holders only)
  • Thursday 1 May, 2pm – 5pm
  • OPENING NIGHT
  • Thursday 1 May, 5pm – 9pm
  • GENERAL ENTRY
  • Friday 2 May, 11am – 6pm
  • Saturday 3 May, 11am – 6pm
  • Sunday 4 May, 11am – 5pm

Venue

  • Booth G11
  • Viaduct Events Centre
  • 171 Halsey Street
  • Wynyard Quarter
  • Auckland