B.

Courtesy of the artist and Page Galleries, Wellington
$2,200 – $3,200

Lush gardens in bloom have become the signature subject for Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington-based artist Karl Maughan. His works present the garden as a meditative and lively space where painted paths and enticing sun-soaked foliage draw the viewer closer into the botanical world.

Courtesy of the artist and Page Galleries, Wellington
$2,000 – $3,000

Often autobiographical, Star Gossage’s paintings are imbued with the place they are made. Pākiri, on the northeast coast above Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her works often incorporate elements like clay from the area—providing a direct link between the land, the artist and her tīpuna.

Courtesy of the artist and
PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
$1,000 – $1,500

Rebecca Harris makes work that centres around depictions of nature and ethereal landscapes. Each painting is its own delicately rendered pictorial world and demonstrates her technical abilities as a painter. Harris graduated with an MFA in painting from Ilam School of Fine Arts in 2013 and her works are held in collections across the country.

“This work plays with the notion of mythology, created by a system of conscious doodling. The drawings vaguely represent living creatures and plants, but the negative space around each drawing is just as important.”

Courtesy of the artist and
The National, Christchurch
$1,000 – $1,500

Jacquelyn Fang Greenbank is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist working in sculpture and
installation. Her work engages with social histories and the portrayal of cultures, often referencing
cultural identifiers such as food. Greenbank is a graduate of the Ilam School of Fine Arts and was the recipient of the Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation Art Award in 2015.

“This cast bronze broccoli poodle was made using the lost wax process. Originally this work was made after winning the Zonta Ashburton Women’s Art Awards and then remade for an artspace exhibition. It references the tradition of the vegetable animals competition at A&P shows in Aotearoa and the tikanga around food in different cultures.”

Courtesy of the artist
$1,000 – $2,000

Janna van Hasselt is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based ceramic and installation artist. She is known for playful and vibrant ceramic forms that loop, knot and meander through the architectural spaces that support them. Her colourful installations are an immersive space where playfulness and controlled chaos reign.

“Extruded segments of thickened slip are outlined and stacked, the kiln decides the final form of the piece. Fluorescent paint applied to the back surface highlights the negative space and creates a glowing halo.”

Courtesy of the artist and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
$2,000 – $3,000

Julia Morison is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist working across media, including painting, photography, sculpture and installation. At the heart of her practice is an interest in investigating, reimagining and recoding a range of existing systems of ordering.

“This lithograph was made while Julia Morison was artist in residence with printmaking specialists Muka Studio. The title Wayzgoose: Net refers to the old practice of providing a Wayzgoose—a dinner, entertainment or outing offered by a master printer to their workers to mark the end of summer and transition to the season of working by candlelight. Morison uses the term here to consider how the Muka Studio project is a celebration of printmaking and artists. Wayzgoose: Net is a discrete work alongside the series of Wayzgoose lithographs that join together to form a larger, interconnected set. It was made as an experiment to work out the imperfections of the lithographic stone and the irregularities or chips on the edges that had become its patina; a network of intersecting lines that starts as a loose regular weave and becomes an intricate, tangled mesh.”
- Melanie Oliver, Die Cuts and Derivations exhibition text, 2023

Courtesy of the artist and City Art Depot, Christchurch
$1,500 – $2,500

Shannon Williamson is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based visual artist working mainly with pencil, watercolour and gouache. Her training as a sleep scientist often informs her works, which mix technical precision with bodily references that attempt to externalise the inner self.

“Domestic Bliss I draws from a new body of work exploring the emotional terrain of caregiving. Through a process of layering, erasing, revealing and concealing the work borrows loosely from languages of anatomy and cartography to propose a fictional map for the intimate sensory environments of domestic space.”

Courtesy of the artist and PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
$3,600 – $4,600

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist Marian Maguire is best known for her lithographs and etchings combining ancient Greek vase painting with Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial history. Her most recent body of work explores the Enlightenment, its significance to European expansionism and its consequences—including the colonisation of
Aotearoa.

“Plants are naturally rhythmic. They grow according to a pre-ordained pattern with differences occurring when there is variation in the environment. This work flows onward from my geometric work while nodding towards the depictions of plants in ancient Greek vases.”

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$1,500 – $2,000

Ani O’Neill is a site-specific installation and performance artist based in the Cook Islands. She graduated from Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994 and was quickly identified as one of the nation’s bright new art talents. Embedded in her practice are the techniques, knowledge and traditions of Cook Island culture passed on to her by her grandmother.

O’Neill has pioneered the adoption of Cook Islands art forms into innovative installations. These delightfully tiny pieces are crocheted with multi-coloured wool to resemble eke (octopuses). Important in Pacific oral traditions eke symbolise migration and kinship, evoking the adaptability that characterises the cultural diversity of Aotearoa and underpins O’Neill’s practice.

Courtesy of the Ans Westra Estate and Suite Gallery, Wellington
$3,000 – $4,000

Ans Westra is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s best-known social documentary photographers. Over her prolific sixty-year career she built a catalogue of work that tracks significant social change in Aotearoa from the post-war period onwards. Her photographs feature in major public and private collections across the country.

This image was taken by Ans Westra when she was travelling around New Zealand taking photographs for a publication, Notes on the Country I Live in.

Courtesy of the Ans Westra Estate and Suite Gallery, Wellington
$3,000 – $4,000

Ans Westra is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s best-known social documentary photographers. Over her prolific sixty-year career she built a catalogue of work that tracks significant social change in Aotearoa from the post-war period onwards. Her photographs feature in major public and private collections across the country.

This image was taken by Ans Westra when she was travelling around New Zealand taking photographs for a publication, Notes on the Country I Live in. It shows a group of people sitting in front of the Anglican Cathedral.

Courtesy of the Walters Estate and Starkwhite, Auckland
$6,000 – $8,000

With a career spanning five decades, Gordon Walters was one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s preeminent artists. His adoption of an abstract geometric approach led to the development of a distinct visual language that continues to reverberate through the art and design landscape in New Zealand. The extent of his influence and significance as an artist is also recognised through the prestigious biennial Walters Prize which bears his name.

This 2018 silkscreen print was made from the 1978 painting featuring Walters’s quintessentially modernist interpretation of the koru. It is one in an edition of 100 prints issued by the Walters Estate and Starkwhite making a classic work in Aotearoa’s art history accessible to art lovers.

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$3,800 – $4,800

Working across a range of media including painting, installation, sculpture, performance and public art, Seng Yul Oh’s works are often playful explorations of form and scale. His painting practice—which leans into a minimalist aesthetic—uses combinations of converging and diverging lines to find a formal balance within the painted surface.

“Pou Sto_Moon comes from Oh’s whimsical menagerie of animal sculptures. Oh re-forms the rat, an animal that provokes fear into a lovable cartoonish character, drawing from his own immigration experiences to challenge perceptions of outsiders. ‘Pou Sto’ comes from Archimedes, and means “a place to stand upon; a foundation or basis for operations.” Even such tiny, familiar creatures can have unexpected impacts on the human world.”

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$5,000 – $6,000

Working across a range of media including painting, installation, sculpture, performance and public art, Seng Yul Oh’s works are often playful explorations of form and scale. His painting practice—which leans into a minimalist aesthetic—uses combinations of converging and diverging lines to find a formal balance within the painted surface.

“The fountain serves as both a physical and conceptual anchor—a continuous flow of energy that activates the surrounding space. Thus, it is at the periphery where the essence of movement emerges, where the overlooked and marginalised take form. The quotient of these elements—their relationships, divisions, and interactions—creates a dynamic tension that shapes the composition. The optical movement of the gaze is fluid, shifting between centre and edge, questioning what is seen and unseen. Colour becomes a vessel of time, layering moments, memories and transitions, connecting one element to the next in an ever-evolving dialogue.”

Courtesy of the artist and PG Gallery 192, Christchurch
$3,800 – $4,800

Darryn George is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist whose work reflects the dichotomy of his cultural roots having a Christian faith along with Māori heritage. His more recent figurative works embrace a bright colour palette and floral motifs and have been described as dreamlike gardens of delight.

“Tribute C. Falconer is part of the Tribute series dedicated to the hidden leaders in my life. A big part of the stories and the art of Māori culture is acknowledging those that have gone before us; those people from the past who have had an influence upon us. For me, these hidden leaders are people who have been influential in forming who I am and how I think. They were often people who went under the radar. C. Falconer was a gentle woman of great faith."

Courtesy of the artist and Milford Galleries, Queenstown
$4,000 – $5,000

Michael McHugh is a painter whose work reflects the deep connection he feels with the natural world. His botanically inspired paintings are collage-like in composition and form brilliant, patterned arrangements that stretch across the canvas to reveal a luminous world of new forms.

“I painted this over the hot months of summer, which I think reflects in the colour and vibrancy of the hot palette. I start each painting with lots of drawing and so each form is taken from drawings I have done and then worked into a composition that I feel sits well together. As I was painting this, I spent lots of time with family and friends and so the joy of those experiences while celebrating summer I think also appeared in the work, hence the name.”

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$4,000 – $5,000

Jamie Te Heuheu is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist and graduate of Canterbury’s Ilam School of Fine Arts. He describes his practice as “an ongoing study in the formal qualities of abstract art-making”, bringing attention to the interplay of light, texture and brushstrokes on the canvas.

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$4,000 – $5,000

Jamie Te Heuheu is an Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artist and graduate of Canterbury’s Ilam School of Fine Arts. He describes his practice as “an ongoing study in the formal qualities of abstract art-making”, bringing attention to the interplay of light, texture and brushstrokes on the canvas.

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$14,000 – $18,000

Recently announced as Aotearoa New Zealand’s representative at the Venice Biennale in 2026, Dr Fiona Pardington MNZM, is one of the country’s most respected photographers. Her work extends the critical potential of the still-life genre, and her evocative photographs of taonga and museum collection objects remain sharply attentive to the context and history they operate within. Pardington is celebrated for creating emotionally rich and evocative imagery, often pulling from the depths of museum archives.

In Lovers Portrait she revives and immortalises two stuffed huia, a male and a female. Despite the care of the South Canterbury Museum, these specimens will decay in a kind of second extinction. Pardington’s lens magically restores the glint in their eye and the lustre of their treasured plumage while posing deeper questions around our national history and sense of morality.

Courtesy of the artist and Page Galleries, Wellington
$22,500 – $25,000

Reuben Paterson works across painting, sculpture, instillation and digital animation. His dazzling works push what he describes as the “limitless material and conceptual possibilities of glitter.”

The Offering of Water continues an exploration of kōwhaiwhai and its many interpretations and forms. As the koru weave in and out and through one another, they create layers and depth where traditionally the surface would have appeared flat. These complex interrelationships highlight the challenges that come for Paterson and other Māori men navigating the weight of social expectations. There is always more than what is presented on the surface.

Courtesy of the artists and Chambers Gallery, Christchurch
$12,000 – $14,000

Ōtautahi Christchurch-based artists Victoria Edwards and Ina Johann have been working together since 2007. As Edwards + Johann, they interweave drawing, painting, performative activities, video and installation with photography. The artists describe their collaborative and process-based practice as acts of “finding the work through making”, and their work is a ground on which sensitivities and questions of existence can be played out.

“Concretions Acid / Pink is part of a series of works looking at dichotomies inherent in life. They mirror those in human nature; volatility and stability, vulnerability and resistance, weakness and strength, transience and permanence, curiosity and fear. Drawing acts like a binding, mending, supportive device—forming the object in question; creating tension and release... pushing boundaries. The forming of new is at hand—this crisis seems over. The destruction and fragility of nature’s eco systems are pressing concerns. Materiality and notions of the uncanny and sublime are fundamental aspects in this work series.”

Courtesy of the artist and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
$12,000 – $14,000

John Pule is a Niuean painter, printmaker and poet based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. His work is informed by his experience as a member of the Niuean diaspora, and his creative practice is an avenue for exploring narratives of history (personal and otherwise) and place.

Courtesy of the artist and Starkwhite, Auckland
$1,500 – $2,500

Michael Zavros is a leading Australian artist whose work has been exhibited in major museums throughout Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Asia and Europe. His multidisciplinary practice often engages with themes of luxury, the idealised self, overconsumption and aspirational beauty. Zavros is known for his hyperrealist paintings and bronze sculptures depicting luxury items with an exaggerated sense of reverence. The hydrangea is one of his signature subjects, rendered in this monochrome lithograph with his characteristically delicate hand and immaculate eye for detail.

Courtesy of the artist and Milford Galleries, Dunedin
$3,600 – $4,600

Mark Mitchell is a Te Tai Tokerau Northland-based ceramic artist with a background in commercial production and teaching. Working with ceramics since 1996, he has cultivated a practice that embraces the optical and sculptural properties of pottery. Many of his vessels become delicate optical illusions that, at times, defy their physical form.

Courtesy of the artist and Milford Galleries, Dunedin
$1,600 – $2,200

Working out of her studio in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Phil Brooks creates hand-coiled ceramic pieces that play with void and volume. Her vessels embody a sculptural approach prioritising interactions between the inside and outside of each piece—something reminiscent of her training in architecture and design.

Courtesy of the artist and Page Galleries, Wellington
$2,500 – $4,000

Gavin Chai is a Tāmaki Makaurau-Auckland based artist specialising in the traditional technique of oil painting on wooden panels and canvases. Chai’s works are often figurative and explore themes of introversion, loneliness and the interior/exterior dichotomy.

“Artists are vagrants. We are aliens in a familiar world, a flock of birds marching on feet and the authors of culture without being cultural. We are subjected to an eternity of ceaseless toil, yet every time when the boulder rolls back down one must imagine us happy.”

Courtesy of the artist and Page Galleries, Wellington
$4,000 – $5,000

With a major in sociology and a career as a union organiser, Laura Williams is preoccupied with the particulars of human interaction. This interest manifests in her figurative works through visual references to religion, art history, literature, pornography, design and social theory. Williams is a self-taught painter and has received several awards and residencies both in Aotearoa and overseas.

Saint Veronica is the patron saint of photographers and film directors, who gave Christ a cloth or veil to wipe his face as he carried the cross on the way to Calvary. The cloth was imprinted with Christ’s face and is known as the Veil of Veronica and believed to still exist today. A homage to Henry Darger’s work appears in the background alongside a homage to Henri Rousseau’s Bonne fete of 1892.

Courtesy of the Mark Braunius Estate and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
$1,800 – $2,500

Mark Braunias was an established and respected painter whose practice spanned almost forty years before his untimely passing in 2024. His semi-abstract works embrace bold colours and are readily distinguished by his playful and fluid treatment of figures.

Courtesy of the Mark Braunius Estate and Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
$1,800 – $2,500

Mark Braunias was an established and respected painter whose practice spanned almost forty years before his untimely passing in 2024. His semi-abstract works embrace bold colours and are readily distinguished by his playful and fluid treatment of figures.

Courtesy of the artist and NMG, Arrowtown
$3,500 – $4,500

One of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading painters, Tony de Lautour is widely recognised for his distinct use of symbols developed and refined over his decades-long practice. His works draw from a wide range of sources including seedy underground street culture, tattoos, post-punk music and comic books as well as fine English porcelain and antiques.

Courtesy of the artist
$6,000 – $10,000

Philip Trusttum is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s celebrated figurative expressionist artists. Having graduated from Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts in 1965, he has exhibited his work widely and continues to create high-energy paintings often inspired by everyday life out of his Ōtautahi Christchurch studio.

Courtesy of the artist
$1,500 – $2,200

Finn Ferrier is a Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based artist who has been exhibiting since 2002.
His sculptural practice has a strong emphasis on materiality and structure, often using the medium of rope to craft woven vessels.

“This was made thinking about how objects take up space, and vie for space on a shelf. I made this with extra-long handles to stretch out as much as possible, but I didn’t like how it took up space. Space on the shelf is precious for collectors, so for its final form I have tied all its handles together! While making these soft vessels I adhere to a series of rules; one being that the form must take shape in one direction as one continuous line. No chemical bonds, only friction is used to transform the rope into an object.”

Courtesy of the artist
$1,500 – $2,200

Rob McLeod graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 1969 before moving to Aotearoa New Zealand where he continues to work today. He is known for his abstract and figurative works, the latter of which are characterised by cartoonish figures and amorphous shapes that create a dynamic tangle of offbeat forms.

Courtesy of the artist
$1,800 (fixed price)

Wayne Youle, an Aotearoa New Zealand artist of Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaeke and Ngāti Pākehā descent, is renowned for his thought-provoking works. His practice often incorporates clean lines, bold colours and a blend of traditional and contemporary motifs.

In his latest edition series, exclusively introduced at the Friends Auction Event, Youle presents a compelling set of ten cut-out diptychs that juxtapose symbols from various artists with his own interpretations rendered as koru. The koru, symbolising new life, growth and renewal, serves as Youle’s response to the original symbols, fostering a dialogue between different artistic languages and cultural narratives. This series not only pays homage to the referenced artists but also reclaims and recontextualises their symbols through a Māori lens, inviting viewers to reconsider the meanings and associations of familiar imagery. The Friends Auction Event will have two of each of the ten diptychs available on the night.

Through this new series, Youle continues his exploration of cultural dialogue and identity, encouraging audiences to reflect on the evolution and significance of symbols across different contexts.