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Mark Lander
Twenty-five years ago Mark’s study of early New Zealand watercolours and a desire to do large scale art installations led him to becoming a skilled paper maker. Not only did he teach himself to make fine papers, he experimented until he succeeded in building his own Hollander paper making machine. In 2000, as he was preparing to embark on teaching workshops overseas, he realised he needed a portable version that would fit in a suitcase. He developed a kit machine, the Critter, now exported worldwide to developing countries and art and community groups. Mark is now known internationally as much for his hand built machines as for his art.

Mark created major paper installations at Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and the Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont. Guest artist at Art Expo Revisited (2015, Art on the Quay, Kaiapoi), Mark created a triptych of beautifully crafted and coloured individual handmade paper flowers.

Currently he is working on a project with the Amberley community to make wreaths for the Transitional Cathedral as a gift to the cathedral to mark the fifth anniversary of the major earthquake.

Wayne Youle
Wayne Youle’s work traverses a range of art practice and materials: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, 3D, and found objects, executed in acrylic paint, ink, resin, bronze, vinyl and fabric. He is an acute observer of the everyday and the nature and beliefs of people and society, and comments on these in a satirical manner, often from a bicultural perspective.

Wayne’s work is held in national galleries and collections and he has exhibited in New Zealand and internationally, most recently at Sydney Contemporary, 2015. Recently you may have seen his large mural in Colombo Street, I seem to have temporarily misplaced my sense of humour, Flauntatiousness, the art car for SCAPE 7 and Dear John, his postcard installations around the Gallery. Wayne also created the Friend's exclusive limited edition artist badges.

His current studio is above a panel beating workshop in the main street of Amberley, but he is constructing a spacious new studio out of town which he aims to have completed for the Friends’ visit.

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