In Good Company
Celebrating One Year of Ashe
Art Exhibition 17 - 31 August 2026
In Good Company is about the company we keep - the artists, the conversations, the shared commitment to contemporary practice, and the people who spend time with the work. Featuring new works by Ashe artists, this celebratory group exhibition honours the creative connections that bring our community together.
Original Painting by Frankie Bakker
Southland
Material: Original Painting Acrylic on Wallpaper in Black frame
Dimensions: 525×252mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Frankie Bakker is a New Zealand–based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, textile, murals, sculpture, and printed matter. Her practice is informed by place and observation, engaging with everyday forms, humour, and narrative as a way of thinking through connection and experience. Alongside studio work, she undertakes public and community-based projects, producing works that move between intimate and shared contexts.
Hanging Ceramic Sculpture by Fluid Pottery
Handmade ceramics, crafted with Marbled New Zealand Clay
Dimensions: 320x100mm
Hand painted with quality, long lasting glaze
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Fluid Pottery is a ceramic/art business created by Queer artist Megan Hope. Handmade pottery pieces are carefully made with New Zealand clay within small batches. This includes special mugs, unique platters and small funky art pieces to make us feel special, as-well as yoni bowls, boob vases and realistic vulvas to express different movements and emotions. Fluid is without a complete definition to Megan, they best describe it as a growing artistic business that is in a constant state of motion, with random learning curves and creative outbursts. Megan is a passionate artist focused on real people, self-love, body diversity, and anything cat related.
Original Painting by Lisa Banks
Ōtautahi, Christchurch
Oil Paint on Canvas in timber float frame
Dimensions: 630x630mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Lisa Banks is a New Zealand-based intuitive abstract and landscape artist whose work explores emotion, seasonal cycles, and inner transformation through expressive colour and painterly mark-making. Guided by instinct her paintings emerge through layers of movement, texture and feeling.
Influenced by her background in yoga, mindfulness and cyclical living, Banks approaches painting as both process and practice; a conversation between stillness and expression. Her work often reflects themes of emergence, rest, hope and renewal, drawing on the emotional landscapes that accompany personal change.
Working intuitively, she allows colour to lead and gestural forms to convey moods that are difficult to articulate in words. Each painting becomes less a depiction of a place and more an embodied experience and an invitation to pause.
Originally from London, Lisa studied photo journalism at The London College of Printing before obtaining a BA Hons in Dance and Drama. She then worked as a high school teacher before finally deciding to follow her twin passions of painting and yoga.
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Original Painting by Richard Macdonald
Ōtautahi, Christchurch
Original Oil Painting on Canvas in White Frame
Dimensions: 410x610mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
This piece has come full circle from a painted concept in 2012 that I subsequently built into a static model. Remember your mum with her trusty Edmonds Cook Book, and all the associated tastes, smells and sounds? In its melding of two familiar cultural icons, this faux appliance explores visual links to our childhood, while its form also celebrates the mid-century design ethos.
Christchurch based Richard usually works in oils on either canvas or panel, and from purely representational work, he has begun to increasingly incorporate symbolism, with many pieces operating on multiple levels; harbouring a narrative, evoking memories, or even just having a bit of fun.
A background working as an art school technician, and having studied decorative paint finishes and graphic design are all ingredients which have, in one way or another, found their way into his art. And he also, as some artists are inclined, likes to have a break from the easel now and then with some three dimensional works. In his case, an ongoing series of reimagining buzzy bees nibbling at the fringes of the designer toy movement. Examples of these have been selected as finalists in both the 2018 and 2020 Miles Art Awards at the Tauranga Art Gallery. Richard’s paintings have also found their way into homes in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Original Sculpture by Odelle Morshuis
Bannockburn, Central Otago
Material: Mild Steel & Ceramic Sculpture
Dimensions: 860x170x170mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Odelle Morshuis lives and works from her studio and gallery in Bannockburn, Central Otago. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Wimbledon Art School, University of London, and a BA in Art History and Design from the University of Otago.
Her practice explores landscape, identity, and the subtle psychological space between people and place. Working across painting and sculpture, Morshuis adopts a process-led, material-driven approach, allowing each work to evolve through layering, erasing, rebuilding, and intuitive response. Meaning emerges through making, guided by the behaviour of materials as much as by intention.
Her imagery is characterised by outlined human figures that hover between presence and disappearance, often dissolving into their surroundings. These figures overlap and fragment, suggesting movement, memory, and the fluid nature of lived experience. Landscapes shift and destabilise—horizons tilt, forms break apart, and space becomes uncertain—reflecting the complexities of belonging and perception. Morshuis treats landscape as a lived encounter rather than a fixed view. Moments of place operate as memory triggers, where light, distance, and atmosphere carry emotional weight.
Recent works introduce ceramic and steel figures that explore the tension between fragility and permanence. In Accumulation, a genderless clay head and torso sit above a steel framework populated by roughly cut abstract forms. The clay surface records touch directly, holding impressions of other figures like residual traces of contact—echoes of memory and relationship. The work suggests identity as something formed through proximity, imprint, and exchange. Positive and negative space are held in balance, with absence functioning as an active presence, reflecting on embodiment, connection, and the ways experience is carried within the body.
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Original Diptych Painting by Jocelyn Friis
Mangawhai, Northland
Artwork Dimensions: 280x280mm (each)
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
Timber Float Frame
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Sometimes we need a little comfort in this life of uncertainty and stress. Both to ask for and give support are necessities.This painting is a reminder that there is a time (and its ok) to lean on others and receive, whilst other times to be that one holding a hand can be life changing. Be the love in the world you'd like to see.
Jocelyn Friis, a New Zealand-based painter, creates semi abstract land and seascapes out of her coastal home studio in rural Mangawhai. Using acrylic and encaustic mediums, she explores the seemingly contrasting themes of the resilience and vulnerability of nature, mirroring it to our human condition. Jocelyn's artistic journey has been marked by exploration and self-study. Growing up on a small holding in Cape Town, South Africa, she experienced precious freedoms such as regularly riding her horses on the peninsula's unspoiled white beaches and spending endless hours savouring the outdoors.
Awakened by her Steiner education, she learnt to appreciate creativity in nature, which inspired her direction in art making. Immigrating to New Zealand in 1996 opened up a doorway for her to pursue her professional art career, first joining the Estuary Arts Centre, Orewa and later Mangawhai Artists Inc. Training in the areas of eco art and process art has deepened her awareness of the connections between our wellbeing, creativity and nature.
Original Painting by Amy Hoedemakers
Material: Oil and silver leaf on gesso board
Dimensions: 400x400mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Based in Oxford, North Canterbury, Amy Hoedemakers is a mixed media painter whose work explores abstraction through layered surfaces and material experimentation. Her compositions emerge through an intuitive process of building, obscuring, and revealing forms.
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Fibre Art by Viktoria Karaman of Moonvi
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Medium: Wool & Mohair yarn on canvas
Dimensions: 300×300mm
Year: 2026
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Viktoria Karaman, or MOONVI, is a fibre and object artist based in Christchurch. She combines vibrant colours and organic textures to create captivating, tactile artworks. Inspired by the rhythms of nature, she "paints" with yarn, transforming simple fibres into intricate, flowing designs that engage viewers in a meditative experience.
Viktoria believes that any object, regardless of its age or flaws, can be reborn. Her artistic journey began in 2019 with a series of quirky, functional lamps merged with tree branches, showcasing her fascination with the transformative power of upcycling. Since then, she has explored the potential of discarded everyday items found in op shops or simply on the streets, reimagining them with creativity, playfulness, and a sense of whimsy.
While her work often focuses on upcycled and found objects, Viktoria also creates richly textured wall hangings through an intuitive approach, meticulously arranging yarn into intricate, flowing patterns.
Original Artwork by Elizabeth Wood
Mount Maunganui, Tauranga
Medium: Acrylic & Oil pastel on Canvas in Painted Float Frame
Dimensions: 405x510mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Elizabeth Wood works with oil stick on board, building expressive, colour-confident paintings that explore light, mood, and the natural world. Her work is characterised by bold, unconventional colour choices and loose, energetic mark-making - a visual language that interprets rather than records what she sees.
Working from her studio in Mount Maunganui, Elizabeth has developed a distinctive practice across garden, botanical, and landscape subjects. Her paintings have been exhibited in New Zealand and her work is held in private collections in New Zealand and Australia.
These landscape works by Elizabeth Wood invite the viewer to pause and find solace in places that feel familiar, though not entirely recognisable. Through layered colour and soft transitions, her paintings evoke atmosphere as much as place, guiding the eye toward light on the horizon and awakening a quiet curiosity about what lies just beyond the path.
Rooted in a sensitivity to mood and memory, Wood’s practice reflects the shifting nature of Aotearoa’s landscapes - where light becomes both presence and feeling. The titles of each work, drawn from the writing of Katherine Mansfield, further extend this sense of narrative and introspection, offering subtle entry points into each scene.
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Original Painting by Juliet Best
Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Wellington
Original Painting Mixed Media, Inks, Imapasto & Gold Leaf on Canvas
All original artworks are UV protective varnished, signed & dated.
Dimensions: 600x600mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Juliet captures the beauty and atmosphere of Aotearoa’s coastlines and landscapes through her art.
Each painting is a celebration of light and atmosphere.
Hand-polished gold leaf shimmers across textured land-forms with rich earthy hues and jewel toned palettes.
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Original Painting by Bettina Neu
Kāpiti Coast, Wellington
Accidental Colour Combinations Series
Gouache on canvased board on salvaged wood
337x337mm
Year: 2026
Note: Colours on screen are indicative - there is far more depth in person.
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
My outlook and approach to life have been shaped by a rich mix of artistic and creative traditions. Architecture, photography, art, and design run through my family - shaping how I see the world for as long as I can remember. I have been endlessly curious since childhood, drawn to and captivated by the interplay of colour, shape, form, and texture across both 2D and 3D, which has guided my creative path.
My background in design and my formal art education have given me a multidisciplinary way of thinking that’s deeply embedded in my creative practice. My work transforms observations of life and nature into abstract compositions.
I often work on several pieces from the same series at once, letting colours and forms evolve together and strengthen the story that connects them. I want my work to resonate on both a visual and emotional level—provoking a smile, a sense of wonder, or a feeling of warmth.
Original Painting by Cam Munroe
Kāpiti Coast, Wellington
Medium: Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas
Frame: Black Box Frame
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 325x325mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Cam Munroe is a contemporary artist based in Kāpiti, New Zealand, whose richly layered mixed media paintings explore themes of time, memory and human presence. Using acrylic, ink and oil, she builds and erodes her compositions through a process of layering, scraping back and etching into the surface. Inspired by ancient landscapes, prehistoric sites and symbolic markings, her abstract works evoke forms that feel both historic and strangely familiar.
Munroe works slowly and intuitively, allowing each painting to develop over time. Through techniques such as impasto, wire brushing and sanding, she reveals textured surfaces that suggest traces of memory and place. Her motifs often appear like contemporary hieroglyphs, inviting viewers to interpret the quiet space between light and shadow, presence and absence, and the seen and the felt.
Original Wall Hanging by Shane Morris of Textile.Exile
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington
Textile Wall Hanging with hand-painted fabric
Dimensions: 450x630mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Shane is a textile artist based in the vibrant city of Te Whanganui-ā-tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her passion for design and architecture, combined with a lifelong love for textiles, converge in the creation of distinctive pieces for interior spaces.
Textile.Exile is an exploration of the processes and techniques of printing Shane’s original abstract artworks onto fabric. With an eye for proportion, balance, colour and texture, Shane crafts high-quality soft furnishings that enhance interiors and stand apart from things widely available commercially.
Original Painting by Rachel Walker
Dimensions: 725×920mm
Medium: Water colour & inks on paper
Framed in Dark Timber Frame UV Protection Art Glass
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Rachel Walker (AKA Walkerillo) is renowned for watercolour, spray paint, pen and ink artworks that draw on her awe of the natural world. Her drippy, energetic style is both loose in form and precisely detailed — capturing the attitude and beauty of birds, sea creatures, reptiles and wild animals.
Born and raised in the beautiful seaside town of Napier, New Zealand, Rachel trained at Massey University in Wellington where, after a few years travelling, she returned to live and paint. She has recently moved up to the sunny Kāpiti Coast.
Rachel’s creative work has seen her involved in a range of projects, from commissioned pieces to painting for film and stage sets. Her career to date has included a many solo gallery exhibitions, creating art for conservation organisations such as Forest and Bird, collectible postage stamps, collaborations with interior designers for commercial fit-outs, album covers, beverage labels, and a stint living and painting in rural France.
Rachels original and printed works can be viewed in galleries around New Zealand, as well as the walls of many wonderful homes all over the world. When she works, Rachel likes listening to podcasts and the dialogue from old movies she has already seen.
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Original Painting by Sarah Albisser
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington
Acrylic on Plywood Box Frame
Dimensions: 450x650x42mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Sarah Albisser’s background as a contemporary dancer and choreographer has had a powerful influence on both her life and her art. She is fascinated by movement and self-expression, which over the past decade has resulted in a collection of striking black-and-white portraits of female faces.
Devoting herself to a unifying theme for so many years has enabled her to explore and experiment with various techniques and materials, including pens, acrylics, perspex and thread. Her art captures form, feeling and evanescent moments in time, and she often leaves a section of the canvas unfinished for the viewer to complete with their own interpretations and imaginations. Sarah has had exhibitions of her work in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Los Angeles. Her artworks are now held in private collections around the world.
Original Painting by Hollie O’Neill
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Pigment soaked cotton canvas
Dimensions: 400×600mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Veil-Fields continues Hollie O’Neill’s exploration of colour and light, shifting her focus to the absorbent intimacy of cotton canvases. Through a soak-stain approach, she applies delicate veils of diluted pigment, using her brush to guide the paint as it merges and flows across the surface, creating luminous effects that respond to both material and movement. The process balances intention and intuition, producing surfaces where colour appears to breathe and shimmer within the fabric itself.
These paintings evoke atmospheric depth and shifting light, capturing the ephemeral interplay of colour and illumination. Inspired by the skies at sunrise and sunset, each composition radiates the subtle glow of sunlight glare or the fleeting hues of twilight afterglow. The works are gently layered, luminous expanses of colour that float across the canvas like veils of light, encouraging the viewer to linger and experience shifting atmospheric effects, inviting repeated, slow looking to discover new subtleties with each moment of observation.
Original Artwork by Candy Clarke
Whakatū, Nelson
Candy Clarke’s Key Position explores the idea of jockeying for position - whether in life, work or play - with a playful nod to the form of a jockey on horseback.
Medium: Acrylic paint. Painted in reverse on 3mm perspex sheet
Dimensions: 600×600mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Originally from Kerikeri and now based in Nelson, Candy Clarke has developed a practice that is as recognisable as it is playful. Her signature technique - painting in reverse on Perspex - began as an accident more than twenty years ago and has since become the foundation of her distinctive style.
By working backwards on clear acrylic sheets, Candy creates layers of colour and imagery that seem to glow from within. Her work shifts easily between abstraction and storytelling, often weaving in fragments of language - lines from songs, snippets of conversation, or familiar phrases - that bring humour, rhythm, and reflection to each piece.
Candy’s paintings explore the quirks and poetry of everyday life with a lightness of touch and an instinct for composition that makes her work both contemporary and deeply human.
A graduate of the Dunedin School of Art and NMIT in Nelson, Candy Clarke’s art is held in collections throughout Aotearoa and beyond.
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Original Artwork by Cakkie Lou
Geraldine, South Canterbury
Mixed Media on Canvas: 2 layers of Swiss voile fabric, inks, acrylic paint, pastels & fabric paint
Dimensions: 450x610mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
My art is strongly shaped by this connection to wild places and the freedom and emotion it inspires within me. I am never as strong or as free or as deeply human as when I am fossicking and painting pictures in and of the natural world. I believe this freedom and the powerful energy of life force both within and without permeates my work. My landscape paintings are always metaphorical in concept, highlighting both the resilience and grace in life.
My main medium is oil paint due to the richness of colour and being able to work with layers, building them up and scraping them back to achieve a symbolical rawness. I apply paint in a quick energetic, expressive manner, with bold gestural marks letting the work unfold organically.
I am keenly aware of the loss of man’s connectedness to the Creator and Creation in our world. This is often seen in our disregard for the natural environment. I use landscape elements and occasionally allegorical iconography to showcase this struggle and to highlight humanities need for wild places.
I have been inspired by artists such as William Turner, Anslem Kiefer and Euan Macleod who use landscape to symbolise man’s quest for the spiritual and our place in the greater cosmos.
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Original Stoneware Sculpture by Aimée McLeod
Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington
Coil built out of groggy stoneware, once her general shape was finished, I refined her with a hacksaw blade until she was smooth. When dry, she was bisque fired to 1000°. Then glazed with a copper-based glaze and fired in reduction to 1300° in a gas kiln.
Dimensions: 610x320x200mm
Much maligned, “bird women” appear in myths and folktales in many cultures.
Often seen as portraying evil, contrasting stories however show her in protective roles or associate her with music and love.
Though the Furies in Greek mythology had bird wings rather than a bird head, this is my slant. My interpretation is that the macho world feels threatened by mentally powerful women and therefore see her as ugly or evil.
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Copper Sculpture by Michael Phillip Bennett
100% copper, internally brazed. Comes with steel bracket to mount to the wall. Complimentary install within Canterbury (T&Cs apply).
Dimensions: approx. 650×850×600mm
Weight: approx. 12.5kg
This item is deemed oversized, additional freight may be added at time of purchase dependent on location.
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
In the tranquil village, nestled on the volcanic slopes of Whakaraupo, Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand, Michael Phillip Bennett crafts his vision in his Cass Bay studio.
Inspired by a deep respect for natural elements, Mick’s artistry blends his life’s experiences with his enduring creativity, capturing forms that evoke themes of solitude, resilience, and harmony with the Earth.
Mick’s journey into art evolved over years of honing skills from diverse paths, eventually shaping his passion for sculpture. Working with repurposed copper, he hand-cuts each piece, layering and shaping it with careful precision. Each stage of his process is meticulous: after forming, the metal is clamped and brazed, then further reinforced internally to create sculptures durable enough for outdoor display and all weather. Indoors, his pieces reveal intricate layers and fine details that invite the viewer to experience them up close.
Whether outdoors or in a home, Mick’s sculptures exude a raw, organic presence. Each piece carries a story, born through the transformative power of fire and metal that bridges worlds, rekindling our bond to something elemental, enduring, and deeply rooted.
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Original Painting by Serena Buonaguidi-Haynes
Whakatū Nelson
Oil paint and water colour pencils on canvas
Dimensions: 380×760mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
Serena’s paintings evoke a sense of quiet wonder — works that feel both mythical and dreamlike. Birds, deer, and swimmers often appear in her compositions, inspired by her move from the intensity of city life to the gentle rhythm of nature and ocean living in Nelson.
Her process is as intuitive as it is distinctive. Serena paints with her canvases laid flat, building bold, expressive backgrounds with sweeping brushstrokes. Figures emerge through finger painting, while wire scratching and pencil markings add delicate layers of texture and detail.
Originally from the UK, with Danish and Italian heritage, Serena has cultivated a devoted following both in New Zealand and internationally.
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Original Painting on Canvas by Jade Barclay
Pausing to savour the delicate depths of this moment, she treasures every drop, allowing it to enrich her heart. This, here, now - wow.
Dimensions: 510 x 510mm
Materials: Acrylic, mixed media and oil stick on canvas
Framing: Framed in a handcrafted natural Tasmanian Oak floating frame - a light, organic finish that complements a wide range of interiors. Ready to hang
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
An original painting from Under The Same Sky Collection
Tracing paths, each with our own rhythm and reason - yet, under the same sky, we are held together, woven as one.
Inspired by everyday life - and the art of awareness.
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Bronze Sculpture by Jay Lloyd (Koa Bronze)
Waiheke Island
Hanging Cast Bronze Sculpture
Dimensions: 510×510mm
Cable: approx. 2100mm
Showing now at Ashe as part of ‘In Good Company’ a special group exhibition celebrating One Year of Ashe
17-31 August 2026
The essence of nature around us can be expressed with simple clean lines and movement. I try to capture this essence, to evoke memories, without the complication of unnecessary detail.
Bronze has for centuries been revered for its unparalleled qualities by sculptors. I take pride in the hand craft nature of what I do and have been on this journey for more than 30 years. I do a variety of work from jewellery to sculpture and my work is exhibited throughout New Zealand and is held in private collections in New Zealand, America, Europe and Asia
I qualified as an industrial designer the 1980’s but I’m fortunate that my work has allowed me to follow a different path.
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