Works in Show
To be Updated After the Opening Ceremony
Artist Biography
Karlalise Horstmans is based in Auckland, New Zealand. A former intellectual property lawyer, she is now pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe College. She paints across a wide range of scales (40cm - 4m) and sculpts in mixed media. Her works are consistently selected to appear in major national and international art awards, recently gaining recognition as a major prize winner in the Hope & Sons Art Awards 2026.
Artist Statement
My painting practice is grounded in the phenomenology of perception, spatial encounters and the nature of attuned observation. I work at the intersection between figuration and abstraction, exploring the embodied experience of public institutions designed for attentive looking. My works tend to evoke the atmospheric qualities of light and space, and the poetics of seeing or the contemplative observer.
Before the Hunt by Karlalise Horstmans
Karlalise Horstmans
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