Roadside Landscape/ Moutere Highway 3

Roadside Landscape/ Moutere Highway 2

Roadside Landscape/ Moutere Highway 1

Butterfly Gradient 5

Butterfly Gradient 4 

Butterfly Gradient 3

Butterfly Gradient 1

Butterfly Gradient 2

Roadside Landscape/ Moutere Highway

 Winterfall 

Roadside Landscape / Moutere Highway (iii)

Roadside Landscape / Moutere Highway (ii)

Roadside Landscape / Moutere Highway (i)

Split Field with Hanging Sky (At Moutere)

Backlit Landscape at Takaka

 Small Gradient

Devil’s Thumb

Untitled Roadside Landscape  

Blue Magenta Gradient 

Forest

Even Now (1)

Even Now (2)

Small Blue Gradient

Untitled Purple Gradient

Ridgeway/ Pigeon Valley (2)

Pale Blue Gradient

Untitled Road Landscape

Backlit Scrubland / Evening 

Blue Velvet Gradient

White Line/ Sunday Morning

Untitled Landscape at Moutere

Night Gradient

Untitled/ At Maungatapu

Every Valley

Untitled Roadside Landscape

Sunday Morning

Backlit Scrubland

Falling Green 

Blue Magenta Gradient  

Untitled Landscape/Night Descending

Soft Split Gradient installation

Velvet Night i

Sunday Morning - installation

Even Now (2023)

installation. 

Installation 

Installation - Material Object

Soft Split Gradient 2 (2023)

Soft Split Gradient 5 (2023)

Soft Split Gradient 3 (2023)

Even Now

Soft Split Gradient 4 (2023)

Soft Split Gradient 7 (2023)

Blue/Purple Gradient

Wall Drawing

Untitled Backlit Landscape 

Even Now 

Endless Days- The Suter Gallery

Ridgeway/ Pigeon Valley (1)

Soft Split Gradient 

Purple Gradient Drawing

Velvet Night i ( 2023)

 Velvet Night ii ( 2023)

Soft Split Gradient Drawing #1

Sunday Morning exhibition- installation

Untitled Roadside Landscape 

Installation- Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

Soft Split Gradient Drawing #2

Even Now 2

Soft Split Gradient

Untitled Backlit Landscape

Michael Dell graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Canterbury in 1994. While in his final year at art school he won the 1993 Cranleigh Barton National Drawing Award. Recently Dell won the 

, which makes him one of the few artists to win both of this country’s premier drawing awards.

Michael Dell's work shifts from subject to non-subject, from representation to abstraction, where both modes of visual discourse reveal an evident attention to materiality and the static tension between picture surface and picture depth.

His landscape and abstract paintings and drawings are rendered with the same meticulous treatment, where the formal distinction between representation and abstraction becomes irrelevant. Dell's works display an interest in the ordinary and the commonplace and also reveal an ambivalent and enigmatic approach towards his chosen subject or non subject, within the constructs of picture making.

He is widely recognised for the particular surface quality of his paintings and has work in a number of significant public collections, including:

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Waikato Museum of Art, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
The University of Auckland Collection Waipapa Taumata Rau
The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū
Te Pūkenga Whanganui
The Parkin Drawing Collection
The Kellihur Arts Trust
The Ballin Collection, Seoul
Tokyo Bank Collection, Japan
The National Bank Art Collection
The Art House Trust




Michael Dell

All At Once v

All At Once iv

All At Once iii

Vailed in knowledge , 2024

Like A Bell Under Water 

Sublime perfection, or something like it

The loss of knowing VI

 The loss of knowing I  

Unknown IV

Totem for something other

In Moonlight

In Leaning 

In Stillness

Grasping at Air and the Search for Something Else

And it Held on Until it Let Go

And the Moon Conversed with the Sea

In Standing 

In Thought

In Holding 

In Awe

In Turning 

In Falling

Making sense of the Mountains 

All At Once

The loss of knowing VII

Loss IIII

In Ending

In Holding

Like a Bell under Water 

Loss X

Making sense of the Mountains

Unknown II

In Leaning

In Standing

Making sense of Mountains

Wait

The loss of knowing IX

Unknown

 The loss of knowing V 

It held until you all looked away

Entries To Nowhere 

I - O

And it all went silent

Everything you ever wanted

Lottie Consalvo is a celebrated artist living and working on the land of the Awabakal and Worimi people in both Newcastle and Pindimar NSW, Australia. Consalvo’s works explore the human psyche, imagination, dreams, memory and their place in the real.

Stylistically, Lottie’s work appears to be an extension of the abstract expressionist tradition but conceptually more closely related to Surrealism – in its exploration of dreams and past experiences However, her work is perhaps closer still in spirit to that of Agnes Martin, who used the extreme limitations on palette and structure expected of Minimalism to provoke a spiritual, rather than, intellectual response to the painted surface.

Lottie Consalvo’s works explore the human psyche, imagination, dreams, memory and their place in the real. With a practice traversing painting, performance, video, and sculpture, she looks at the physicality of the overwhelming presence of thought and the impact the mind has on all living things. She parallels these natural phenomena of the mind by investigating the human connection to nature, desire, longing, loss and the ungraspable.

Consalvo’s performances are observations of transformative experiences, often taking form as video or live performances. More recently the artist utilised the imagination of the audience to present a performance where she was not physically present, but rather the audience witnessed her actions within their minds. Her paintings further this conversation where the artist creates a physical presence for thought, imagination, memory, and psychological transitions. Consalvo paintings are often monumental forms with vast empty spaces. Working with a restricted palette across mediums, the artist often grasps onto forms and uses the high contrast of opposing dark and light to mark out a place for the unknown and the intangible.

Her recent public exhibitions include; ‘Somewhere Else’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery (2019); ‘I Tried To Make A Horizon For You’, Casula Powerhouse (2019); ‘In The Remembering’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2018). She has been extensively exhibited around Australia, most recently in Goulburn, Newcastle, and Lake Macquarie. She has participated in numerous residency programs across Australia and Germany, and notably selected to participate in a residency with Marina Abramovic for the 30th Kaldor Public Art Project in 2015.

Lottie Consalvo

Lachrimae Pavane - study Oil & 

Lachrimae Pavane 

Aeopidte

Interior 27

Interior 24 (Lopdell House)

Howick

Interior 34

Interior 21

Interior 35 (Couldrey House) 

Interior 29

Interior 31

Interior 36

Job & the Giant Vermin

Interior 47

Interior 53

Interior 56

Interior 57

Interior 45 (Melancholia)

Interior 58

Interior 59

Interior 55

Interior 60

Interior 61 (Lopdell House)

Interior 62

Interior 64

Interior 70

Interior 66

Interior 67 (Cambridge Hotel)

Interior 69

Interior 65

Poem pf the Seas

Interior 68

Strange Paradise- Installation

Dinner Table

Caretakers (The People at Fortland)

Reverie

Split

Tourists

Poem of the Seas ii

Imaginarium

Star Gazers

Interior 16 (Ivan Anthony)

Strangers

Interior No. 36

Celestial

Couple

Liberty, liberty

Korero

Jo and Gregor Samsa

Dilema

Grief

Mystery 

Super

Encounter 

Hallelujah 

Bitter Gourd

Blood Moon

Gavin Chai Forest with fallen trees (2023) 

Window with Stars

Beach Paople

Interior 91 

Interior 90,

Foliage

’s practice draws upon a rich history of cultural heritage and painting techniques and to represent contemporary experiences. Chai’s current works focus’ on interior spaces and makes reference to the traditions of Dutch & Danish painting from the 17th – 19th Century. His influences are a blend of historical, as well the personal and present, making allusions to classical & biblical themes with timeless allegories.

Chai’s hauntingly vivid works with their humble subject matter – set within waiting rooms and unassuming domestic environments – turn our attention to the intimacy of the ordinary and sometimes ethereal quality of the ‘every day’. With his use of shallow space, high contrast lighting and the theatrical arrangements of objects – Chai infuses his ‘seemingly’ mundane subject matter with sense of growing intensity or subdued drama. His awareness of traditional painting techniques and employment of figurative realism, provides an understated elegance to his empty rooms which command our careful attention as they grapple with timeless themes.

The worlds Chai constructs in his paintings display a striking sense of the surreal with an eerie sense of anticipation or even unease(?). Within these ambiguous paintings there is always something with their arrangement or narrative content to make connection to: an open door, the light through window or the unusual worlds depicted through windows. Gavin’s work is never about arriving at a point, but rather, the anticipation of a future prospect while being on the way.

Gavin graduated with Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT in 2020 and has been a regular finalist and recipient of art awards since 2014, most recently making history by winning all three categories (New Youth Award, The Excellence Award, Overall Supreme Award) at the Otago Art Awards in 2021.

Michael Dell,Lottie Consalvo,Gavin Chai,Nick Herd ,Richard Penn,Andy Leleisi'uao - Echo Bravo

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