Works in Show
To be Updated After the Opening Ceremony
Artist Biography
Kylie is a self taught portrait artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, working in oils. Over the past two years she has focused on developing her technical practice and exploring the narrative of her work. She began exhibiting in group shows in 2025 and was awarded the 2026 Craig's Aspiring People's Choice Award. She works from her home studio in Stokes Valley.
Artist Statement
My practice lives in the space of questioning. It begins as a love letter to my Māori husband and our children and moves to questioning my responsibility in creating work shaped by love, proximity and lived relationships. It sits intentionally in an uneasy place and explores the necessary and uncomfortable question of what it means to be Tangata te Tiriti in Aotearoa. Rather than finding resolution, my work is shaped by ongoing questioning and is a reflection of my responsibility as a Pākehā artist, wife and Mother. Through my paintings I explore the emotional and political weight of portraiture, where gaze, visibility, inherited histories, contemporary relationships and historical power dynamics combine. I seek to consider the ethical weight and the accountability that accompanies making work in relation to Māori - how to honour without claiming, how to witness without speaking over, how to create without reinforcing harm.
He waiata ki te Mataara - A song to the Watchman by Kylie King-Hazel
Kylie King Hazel
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