About New Zealand Artist Dawn Barry

Dawn is a New Zealander of Irish, Scots and Nga Puhi descent. She has been painting for many years and now lives and works at Riverton on the south coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Her paintings are regularly exhibited in group and solo shows around New Zealand and she is represented in galleries in Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Whitianga and Riverton. Most paintings are in oils or acrylic, but she also works in mixed and digital media.
Visitors to her studio are welcome
25 Lionel Street, Riverton.

Artist's Statement
I am an environmental artist who documents the remote southern coastline through the iconography of the New Zealand culturally familiar; the foreshore, native plants, cribs, water, seabirds, rocks, cabbage trees, sand, bush, boats, islands. Through the devices of my chosen media I address a larger thematic such as an areas history, the fragility or finiteness of ecosystems and resources, and mans continuous struggle for equilibrium between conservation and use.

I began painting professionally while living at Rakiura/Stewart Island in the '70s & '80s and my work has always engaged with the environment & conservation themes. Over recent years I have been working on several series of paintings: Rakiura; Coastal Icons; South Coast; and my Whakapapa, exhibiting regularly in group and solo shows.
Having lived on both sides of Foveaux Strait, I've developed a deep connection to this area of wild winds, dramatic skies and spectacular coastal land/seascapes. The south coast also has a calm and serene side - a place of contrasts and contradictions that I find fascinating.
db@artstudio25.co.nz

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