NICE ARTS

  • I was asked about Creativity. This is what I had to say.

    I’m definitely a “slashie”, partly out of interest and partly out of necessity. In order to stay flexible enough to audition and then work as an actor, it suits me best to be self-employed. ... Presence is essential to everything I do. It’s a sense of connection and an open awareness. When I’m being a photographer, it’s the connection between me and my subject as well as awareness of my situation and what the light is doing. When I’m making art it’s connection with my materials and with the evolving composition in front of me. I don’t execute fully formed ideas, my work is made through process and experimentation. 

  • SHOOT THE BREEZE: Carolyn Röhm

    Shoot The Breeze is an idea I'm taking for a walk, whereby I have conversations with my headshot subjects about the portrait photography experienc...
  • PET PHOTOGRAPHY

    One weekend a few months ago, my friends Lara and Sunny came along to the studio with their dogs. Mea (blonde) and Robbie (black - you can spot h...
  • The Grace of Ageing

    Me in 2022 by my friend Katie Fell, with my camera, after some else's headshot shoot. I edited this deliberately to accentuate the contours of my f...
  • AQUARELLE - a show in seven parts

    Yours Truly on opening night, with all my ladies. Photo: my BF on my shitty old iPhone 8+. Every artist needs to have an Artist Statement handy. M...
  • Become a Patron of the Arts.

    My Patreon will give those of you who appreciate my work, my process, ideas, paintings and photographs, a range of opportunities to support me. You will be able to do so in a regular, very direct way via a monthly subscription to my Page.

    The Patron Programme will evolve as I do and I would love you to come on the journey with me.

  • PERSONAL PR

    I'm in season 2 of Under The Vines on TVNZ and was asked to do participate in Face Time in early February. It took me a week to write my answers because this was a kind of publicity I hadn't done in a long time. The questions matter and I wanted to choose my words carefully but also have some fun. I found the process really enjoyable and, mercifully, they published my words without changing anything major.
  • PIECE WITH ARTIST

    Piece with Artist is one of my favourite Instagram accounts. It’s part history lesson, part contemporary art mag and is plastered with two of the ...
  • ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION? TICK.

    When Artfull Director Jess Agoston invited me for coffee and asked if I wanted to be, in her words, an "Artist with a Capital A" by joining the Artfull team, I said Hell yes! Then I was hit with a wave of impostor-syndrome-like doubts that always comes with taking a bigger step than I'm used to into exciting but slightly unfamiliar territory where, crucially, other people might be watching.
    I have a habit of doing this to myself.
  • ON "MAKING ART THE MAIN THING"

    This is BIG - I have gallery representation. Still can't quite believe it! I am very proud to have been invited to join the diverse stable of visual artists brought together under the banner of artfull.co.nz.
  • CELESTIAL BODY - a new collection of petite paintings

     In my studies at Browne School this year, I have tended to make clusters of paintings. The last few months, each painting has been small. They’r...
  • Upper Case Romance

    "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower  Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand  And Eternity in an hour..." [From Aug...