Zasha Skye

ZASHA SKYE Zasha Skye is a portrait artist exploring a multitude of colour and tonal range through the use of oil paint. While growing up and living within the Raglan community, she has also studied at Whitecliffe University of Fine Arts. Zasha Skye’s love for oil paints has grown extensively over these last few years…

Eliza Adams

ELIZA ADAMS IN THE SUPPER ROOM Eliza (aka Liza) is a self-taught artist who has always had an inner creative urge. Dutch-born but has lived in New Zealand from the age of four, she feels most at peace with paintbrush in hand while capturing a feeling or a moment in time that she connects to.…

Shortydubs

SHORTYDUBS Shortydubs is an urban, contemporary artist based in Raglan. His unique style combines street and pop art with brutalist design and storytelling elements.   His works often feature bold colours and characters and explore themes of human value and experience from historical events.  Shortydubs’ creative process centres around his complex stencils and mixed media on textured canvases. His…

Sarah Bing

SARAH BING I build large ceramic sculptures and throw and handbuild functional pieces. I also make tiles for kitchens and bathrooms by commission, and hold private classes in my home studio. I started 10 years ago and was immediately obsessed as soon as I touched clay. It feels like the perfect medium because you can…

Ministry of Wood

MINISTRY OF WOOD Roger Woolston was brought up remotely on a farm in Taumarunui the heart of the north island, he left school to train as an apprentice cabinetmaker then onto his OE working as the resident cabinetmaker in Yallingup Galleries, Australia. Returning to NZ to work in the super yacht industry before running his…

Megan Hockly

MEGAN HOCKLY Megan is a teacher and artist based in Raglan. She creates stories and characters using a range of techniques and materials. After a stint as a Textiles teacher, Megan has been drawn to using needle and thread to construct three dimensional characters. Paper mache has also provided a medium to create scenes she…

Lucy Galbraith

LUCY GALBRAITH Lucy Galbraith is a full time contemporary artist based in Raglan. Working mostly with oil paint, Lucy’s pieces play with nostalgia drawn from growing up in a small town that didn’t seem to know if it was a coastal retreat, retirement village or bogan paradise. Before moving to Raglan, Lucy exhibited in Wellington…

Labour of Wild

LABOUR OF WILD Labour of Wild hats are meticulously handcrafted by hat maker Lisa Uphill using a traditional alchemy of heat, steam, pressure, and fire. Equipped with vintage tools and wooden hat blocks, she transforms the rough hat bodies into wearable works of art by blocking, shaping, and finishing them by hand. Lisa uses premium-quality…

Elsa Lye

ELSA LYE Elsa works intuitively to express the spirit of place/life through the magic of paint and clay. Elsa Lye (MFA hon) “my creative process is still a magical mystery that enthralls me, being surprised, seeing with new eyes. To somehow express the freedom, the energy, the pull of the tide, the shades of black…

Doug Ford

DOUG FORD AT MADE GALLERY Doug Ford paints from his imagination.  What he has seen and where he has been he translates through his brush – his emotions and feelings about a place onto a canvas.  Whether it will be a wooden cut-out native bird, a painted driftwood head, a recycled brushhead or a stunning…