Lightworx Gallery Profile Catalogue

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With clean minimal lines, concrete floors and expansive white walls, Lightworx Galleries, by the Artbay Gallery Group, is a fresh, modern, contemporary gallery with a big city feel. Our dedicated Lightworx Gallery is a national first. The gallery features uplifting avant-garde works that inspire, engage, and wow their audience.

The highest quality light technology is used to create these spectacular works, but it is the innovative combination of light, colour and space that together create a magical effect on those who view them. The positive relationship of light and colour cultivates a mediative state, one of the biggest reasons why these Lightworks are proving to be so popular with a range of audiences across the board. These elegant artworks are pivotal in uplifting your mood, your feelings, and your home.

Director Pauline Bianchi has curated a cutting-edge exhibition space that feels sophisticated and unique. Lightworx Gallery showcases New Zealand’s awardwinning modern artist’s visions with artworks that are interactive and inspiring.

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LE D I AMA NTA I R E Alexis Le Diamantaire, is a French artist and sculptor known for his diamond-themed street art project. He was born in Paris in 1978 and spent his childhood in Normandy, where he developed a fascination for art and graffiti. He began his artistic career studying metalwork and welding, which he later applied to his street art sculptures.

Le Diamantaire’s diamond-shaped sculptures are created using fragments of glass collected from the streets, which he then reshapes and reworks by hand. His work is unique, striking and vibrant. Le Diamantaire’s artworks explore themes of transformation and the relationship between materials and their environment, and are often designed to be interactive, encouraging viewers to engage with them in new and unexpected ways. Le Diamantaire creates his sculptures using a variety of materials, including glass, metal, and concrete. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, and Vogue, and he has collaborated with luxury brands to create installations and limited edition pieces.

MAX PATTÉ British-born Max Patté is a multi-media contemporary artist who was previously based in Wellington, New Zealand and has recently moved to Spain. Since opening his studio in 2014, he has immersed himself in an exploration of the elemental nature of light, space and colour, producing an expansive body of work that includes the wildly popular LED-lit Lightworks, a series of abstracted figurative sculptures, and the beautifully designed Infinity Works.

Patté studied at the Wimbledon School of Art in London (1997-2000) and was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 2008.

He is well known for his iconic sculpture ’Solace in the Wind’ located on the Wellington waterfront and his larger than life cast iron horses, ’The Frolic and the Fancy’ found at the Hills Golf Club & Sculpture Park in Queenstown. Having acquired corporate patrons and collectors throughout the world, including Sir Ian McKellen, Charles Saatchi, Stephen Fry, and Sir Michael Hill; Patté is quickly becoming one of New Zealand’s most successful artists.

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RO B E RT JA H N K E Robert Jahnke is considered one of New Zealand’s leading contemporary Māori artists.

Professor Jahnke, of Ngāi Taharora, Te Whānau a Iritekura, Te Whānau a Rakairoa o Ngāti Porou, is of Samoan-German-Irish-Māori heritage. Jahnke’s work is typically based on political issues that face Māori people, the relationship between Māori and European colonisers and the impact of Christianity on Māori culture. His practice questions and challenges established Eurocentric narration of New Zealand’s history and champions Māori perspectives, experiences and narratives.

Jahnke was raised at Waipiro Bay, New Zealand. He went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, and a Masters in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts. Jahnke was awarded a Doctor of Māori Studies from Massey University. Jahnke became an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to Māori art and education. Winner of a long list of prestigious art awards, Jahnke is a highly respected and widely collected artist, you will find his works exhibited in prominent public and private collections.

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NAGY M OL NÁR The ”Geometry of Light” Project was launched by Krisztián Nagy and Csaba Molnár, two Hungarian artists with a shared passion for exploring the mysteries of light and its transformative power on the human experience. Through their collaborative work, they have created a unique artistic language that blends elements of glass and optical light art with cutting-edge digital techniques, resulting in stunning compositions that invite viewers on a journey through the interplay of light, movement, and reflection.

Their works are striking and captivating, playing with the viewer’s sense of depth and perspective, and drawing them into a world of light and illusion. Their approach to art-making is deeply rooted in the legacy of Victor Vasarely, the Hungarian-born French artist who was a pioneer of the Op art movement in the 1960’s. Having had artworks of his on their walls growing up, it provoked their curiosity to experiment and create art in the 3D space. Their work represents a new frontier in the exploration of the transformative power of light, and their dedication to pushing the boundaries of traditional art-making techniques, challenging the possibilities of this exciting medium.

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TI M CHRI ST I E Tim Christie is a New Zealand-based multidisciplinary digital artist. His initial body of work emerged from a series of explorations where he examined the intersection between two distinctly different domains. The fusion between angular geometric abstraction and softer, anatomical forms spawned an original and intriguing new aesthetic.

Contrast is an inherently important feature in his work. The mesmerising effect of black & white (or light) lines, creates a vibrational quality at close proximity and a surprising 3D effect at a distance. With his light art, Christie is also exploring colour animation, using shifting illuminated colour and the way it interacts with material colours and translucency to give pieces a pulsating lifeforce.

Christie has exhibited in a number of international destinations including Sydney, Hong Kong, Chester, Edinburgh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, London and Manchester where he won an award with the UK’s largest fine art group. He also featured in New Zealand and Australian design awards and his work has been published internationally.

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Yelena Filipchuk Born in the USSR, Yelena attended UC Berkeley and studied Conservation and Resource Studies, concentrating on patterns in the natural world, biomimicry, and

WENDY H A N N A H Wendy Hannah is an Auckland based artist of Māori ’Ngati Awa’, ’Te Arawa’ and European descent. She is very intent on community engagement in her art practice that pursues ecological and political themes. Hannah is known for her oeuvre of ’X’ forms which in one context authenticates she is a Woman and from the X generation. The ’X’ form was originally derived from the visual rendering of tukutuku, a traditional Māori craft used to bind and weave, which in Tikanga Māori represents the whānau (family) which she presents in its most abstract form as an ’X’. She believes it binds us to turangawaewae (place) and ideology.

Her practise is founded on experimental methodology and she has a keen interest in the scientific properties of colour and more recently the effects of artificial and natural light.

Still researching the properties of chroma and light and as a paean to colour, Hannah’s large scale ’X’ lightbox’s are in the medium of multi coloured juxtaposed perspex panels which reflect and refract in their environment, akin to Cubist facetting.

environmental justice. Then trained in studio art and fabrication, she thrives in the creative process, creating thought-provoking artwork that investigates patterns and forms as a way to educate and inspire. Yelena currently resides in Oakland, developing her craft and growing her practice as an artist and educator.

Serge Beaulieu Born in Canada and attended Carleton University. Having trained and practised as an Industrial Designer for over 10 years, Serge has returned to his roots as an artist and sculptor by creating large scale artworks that expand the boundaries of technology, geometry and fabrication. Constantly investigating materials and processes in order to harness design as his medium for art, Serge resides in Oakland, CA operating studios and workshops for creative and exploratory growth.

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