Elizabeth Rees & Marté Szirmay: The Backroad & Earthlight

Elizabeth Rees has been exhibiting with ARTIS Gallery since 2011. Her work explores the relationship between the body, the mind and the environment in which we exist. This collection of new oil paintings by Elizabeth Rees marks the beginning of a new studio and lifestyle in the Bay of Islands. Fascinated by people from all walks of life in her Northland community, Rees began to assemble her impressions and visual notes on the colours, vegetation and pace of life in her new environment.

Marté Szirmay has long been regarded as one of New Zealand’s most accomplished artists. Her work is represented in private and public collections in New Zealand and abroad. Creating sculptures for Marté is about creating a language of signs and symbols that transcend regional, cultural and social limitations. This new series of bronze works pays tribute to our Sun.