Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Waikato/Tainui, Poutini Kai Tahu) is an artist, writer and independent researcher based in Aotearoa. Recent exhibitions include Ngā hau o Tāwhirimatea, with Taarn Scott, Enjoy Contemporary (2023); Tākaro, Broker galleries (2022); Te Tamaiti, Te Ao, curated by Daniel John Corbett Sanders, Artspace Aotearoa (2022); Neither Solid Nor Liquid, with Priscilla Rose Howe, Te Tuhi (2022) and Invasive Weeds or I wish I could give you the world but I was only given mud, rot and the bones of a half-eaten fish with Taarn Scott and Wesley John Fourie, The Physics Room (2022).  Aoake is a finalist in the current Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards (2023).  

Marc Blake: An early adopter of digital technology in all of his work since 2002, Marc Blake’s paintings explore themes of memory, personal and shared experience as well as the importance of photography, materials and gesture as methods of recording experience across time.  Employing multiple applications and variety in media, Blake’s works evolve as a series of moments, which reveal hints as well as toying with false leads as to their methodology and construction. The finished paintings are a conglomeration of experience, which offer glimpses of the non-linear chronological record of their making.

Wesley John Fourie is a multi award winning artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand whose work explores themes of nature, spirituality, and sexuality.  Working across painting, photography, embroidery and their signature large-scale “soft sculptures” - 1/1 hand knit scale models of natural landmarks such as rivers and mountains.   Fourie’s works are ephemeral, highly emotive and confidently joyous explorations of lust, love, loss, and queer sexuality, often set against a backdrop of native flora.
Wesley John’s work is held in multiple national and international private collections, as well as public institutions across Aotearoa New Zealand.  A multiple finalist in numerous awards, Fourie was awarded the Recognition Award at the 28th Slavonian Biennale, Museum of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia in 2022, the First Prize at the 2022 Estuary Art Awards and the Craigs Investments Youth Award at the 2021 Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards.

Nga Roma Poa: He uri tēnei nō Te Ātihaunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāpuhi, ko Ngā Roma Poa tōku ingoa.
Ngā Roma acknowledges that her practice is ultimately led by a level of playfulness in unpacking ideas, locating the irony or tension in conversations. Her creative practice has shifted between painting, illustration, photography, and spatial design. A combination of interests essentially embodying recurring elements of lightplay, color-theory and composition. More recently her playfulness has led her to foraging and crafting natural pigments- an immersive creative process in understanding the whakapapa (origin/genealogy) and narrative of her medium.