Shane Foley: Time and Tide
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Shane Foley'Open Day' 1900, St Mary's BayOil on board40.5 x 50.5 cm -
Shane FoleyCampbells Point at Judges Bay, 1925Oil on board70 x 140 cmNZ$ 7,500
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Shane FoleyHeaphy's View, St Georges Bay, early 1860'sOil on board50 x 80 cm
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Shane FoleyThe Ghosts of Old St Barnabas, 1855Oil on board40 x 70 cm
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Shane FoleyLandmarks, Mechanics Bay & Parnell 1855Oil on board40 x 70 cmNZ$ 3,500
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Shane FoleySettlement, St Georges Bay 1867Oil on board50 x 80 cm
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Shane FoleyThe Jetty, St Mary's Bay. 1950'sOil on board60 x 90 cmNZ$ 4,800
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Shane FoleyTide, St Mary's Bay 1914Oil on board50 x 80 cmNZ$ 3,800
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Shane FoleyTrees at Shelly Beach, Pt Erin 1914Oil on board30.5 x 41 cm
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Shane FoleyView from the Chapel, 1860'sOil on board50 x 80 cmNZ$ 3,800
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Shane FoleyWest End Rowing Club at St Mary's Bay 1914Oil on board60 x 90 cmNZ$ 4,800
Using archival photographs as points of departure, the paintings reimagine landscapes now lost to reclamation and progress, evoking a past that lies beyond living memory, yet remains quietly familiar.
Shane Foley 2026
Time and Tide marks Shane’s first solo exhibition with ARTIS and brings together eleven new paintings depicting scenes of Auckland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon historical photographs and careful research, Foley reconstructs moments from the city’s past. Working in oil on gessoed plywood panels, the rigid surface allows her to apply finely observed detail while maintaining a restrained palette that reimagines the colour and atmosphere of these landscapes as they may have appeared many decades ago.
Shane has worked as a full-time artist from her Auckland studio since 2018. Her path as a painter began early; during her final year of school in 1972 she was selected to attend a nationally sponsored workshop at Victoria University in Wellington, where she worked under the tutelage of Colin McCahon. The experience proved pivotal in shaping her development as a painter. By 1976 she had completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in painting, studying under notable New Zealand artists including Don Binney, Robert Ellis, and Garth Tapper.
