Contemporary New Zealand Art & Design Objects
Discover original artworks, prints and sculptural objects from emerging and established artists from across Aotearoa.
Artist Feature
Jay Lloyd | Koa Bronze
For more than a decade, I've had the pleasure of working with Jay Lloyd through Ora & now Ashe, and I'm continually inspired by his creativity, craftsmanship and thoughtful approach to making. Every piece reflects decades of dedication to his practice and an incredible attention to detail.
Working in bronze for more than 30 years, Jay creates sculptural works that distil the essence of nature into elegant, flowing forms. His minimalist approach captures movement and memory without unnecessary detail, allowing each piece to evoke a quiet sense of connection and place. From intimate jewellery to striking sculpture, his work is held in private collections throughout New Zealand, Europe, Asia and the United States.
Discover a collection that celebrates timeless craftsmanship and the enduring beauty of bronze.
Bronze Albatross Sculptures on Pins by Koa Bronze (Jay Lloyd)
Waiheke Island
Cast Bronze Albatross in 200mm, 280mm and 370mm length. Steel Pin approx. 950mm included. Mounted in a Macrocarpa plinth 320×100×100mm.
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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Bronze Wall Mounted Kina by Koa Bronze (Jay Lloyd)
Available in three sizes
Jay Lloyd - Waiheke Island
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.
Bronze Desktop Sculptures by Koa Bronze (Jay Lloyd)
Dimensions Small (105mm) Large (145mm)
Jay Lloyd - Waiheke Island
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.
Hanging Bronze Sculptures by Koa Bronze (Jay Lloyd)
Dimensions:250mm
290mm
370mm
Jay Lloyd - Waiheke Island
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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Personalised interest-free payment plans are available on selected artworks.
Art Collections
Discover a curated collection of contemporary New Zealand art, including original paintings, limited edition fine art prints, sculpture and ceramic objects by emerging and established artists. Explore unique artworks and handcrafted pieces created across Aotearoa.
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Handcrafted ceramics made with New Zealand clay
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A curated collection of original screenprints, monoprints, open edition, limited edition and giclee prints.
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A diverse collection of original paintings. An exploration of different mediums, materials, and subject matter from emerging and established New Zealand artists.
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Original artworks, limited and open edition sculptures.
Featured Artworks
Discover the latest artworks and objects to our collection — handpicked pieces that bring new energy to your space.
Original Painting by Rob Barrington
Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington
Original Painting Acrylic on Canvas with Timber Float Frame
Dimensions: 700×900mm
Year: 2025
Rob Barrington is a New Zealand based artist whose work reflects a strong connection to place, character and the quiet stories of everyday life. Inspired by the landscapes and people of Aotearoa, Rob creates pieces that balance observation with imagination, often capturing moments that feel both familiar and evocative.
Working across painting and mixed media, Rob brings a thoughtful yet accessible approach to his art, inviting viewers to pause and look a little closer at the layers within each piece.
Fine. Art Giclée Prints available here.
Original Sculpture by Odelle Morshuis
Bannockburn, Central Otago
Raw Steel & Ceramic
470×120×120mm
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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Limited Edition Print by Michele Bryant
Oil relief print on hand painted canvas. Unframed.
Edition: Limited Edition of 100
Dimensions: 650×1240mm
Year: 2026
As a New Zealand contemporary artist, my work explores the relationship between identity, belonging, and how location influences personal decision-making. Growing up in rural New Zealand, the landscapes - forests, horses, and expansive skies - shaped my understanding of how our connection to place impacts who we are.
A key theme in my art is flight, symbolized by aeroplane and glider motifs, representing both literal and metaphorical journeys. These images of departure and movement reflect the decision-making process inherent in travel and relocation - the tension between staying grounded and seeking new horizons.
Recurring symbols like trees and horses evoke the pull of home and nature, reflecting the complexity of leaving and returning. I also incorporate text and numbers, personal markers that capture moments of departure, return, and the choices that shape them, adding layers of memory to each piece.
Working across a variety of media including printmaking, wood, and resin, I create tactile, emotional works that invite reflection on identity, place, and the transformative decisions we make. My hand printed fine art speaks to universal themes of home, freedom, and personal growth, encouraging viewers to consider how place shapes our paths in life.
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Original Painting by Hollie O’Neill
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Pigment soaked cotton canvas
Framed in black float frame
Dimensions: 200×300mm
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.
Limited Edition Print by Tim Christie (2 of 50)
This special limited edition print features wooden textures and detailing encased within a beautiful natural oak timber frame.
Dimensions: Large 871x1219mm
Tim Christie is a New Zealand–based contemporary artist whose practice explores how perception shapes reality. Working at the intersection of geometric design and figurative form, Christie challenges the idea that reality is fixed, instead inviting viewers to question how their own beliefs, experiences, and vantage points influence what they see.
From different perspectives, his compositions can shift between abstraction, representation, or a compelling synthesis of the two. This optical play is central to Christie’s work, which draws on influences from op art, pop art, geometric abstraction, and new media art. By combining traditional artistic techniques with contemporary fabrication processes, he creates works that blur the boundaries between art, design, and digital experience.
Christie’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, lightworks, weaving, digital and immersive art, as well as NFT-based projects. Through these varied media, he forges new pathways for digital creativity within the fine art context, encouraging viewers to reconsider how perception can be altered - and how, in turn, reality itself can be reshaped.
He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, with participation in group shows, solo exhibitions, fairs, residencies, and collaborations across Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Los Angeles. Tim Christie works from his own studio and gallery in central Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Limited Edition Print by Jade Barclay of Wild & Salty Studio
Unframed Paper Dimensions: (A3) 297×420mm
Printed in NZ with archival pigment inks (aka giclée printing) on heavy-weight 310gsm textured archival 100% cotton rag paper.
Limited Edition of 30
She draws in air as both necessity and gift — in the burn of summiting exertion and the quiet release of deep relaxation. Held by the land that displays such effort and ease, she is gently reminded: and breathe.
Inspired by the view of Aoraki/Mount Cook over Lake Pukaki, New Zealand.
A Modern Potter's Guide to Handbuilding with Clay
Create a collection of 23 stylish homewares with this modern guide to working with clay.
Covering the oldest and most traditional ways to make pots, Hand Built is a beginner's guide to hand building with clay – no pottery wheel required. This book will teach you the building blocks to working with clay and how to apply a professional finish to your pots including decoration, glazing and firing techniques. Learn how to create a collection of 23 stylish homeware designs using the three core techniques: coiling, pinching and slab building.
Beginning with the basics to get you started, discover how to wedge clay, add texture and work with moulds, then put your new skills to the test through the projects that include coffee cups, a tea pot, vase, dinner plates, candle holders and more.
Packed with stunning lifestyle photography to help inspire your own handmade journey alongside clear step-by-steps and Lilly’s expert tips will lead you through the process, Handbuilt is the ultimate modern guide this popular, tactile and ancient craft.
ISBN: 9781787139176
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 176
Dimensions: 26.20cm x 21.00cm
Publisher: Quadrille
Publish Date: May 11th, 2023
Lilly Maetzig is the maker behind Mae Ceramics. Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, Lilly has always had a keen interest in pottery. After graduating, she discovered a love for hand building techniques and now she makes ceramics to sell and offers workshops from her studio.
Original Painting by Scott McIntosh
Waitaha Canterbury
Riders Series
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 560×760mm
Scott McIntosh is a New Zealand artist based between the mountains and the sea on Te Waipounamu’s east coast. The local landscape especially the mountains is a heavy influence in his works but not in a traditional sense, you will see them mixed in with a good helping of tattoo and skate culture and a blending of painting styles to create bold bright unique works of art.
My experiences in this world are what shapes my work and the ability to see things for what they really are and then portray them often in a juxtaposition in my paintings is what I feel leaves people often with more questions than answers or a flash to a memory of their own lived human experience.
It starts with a vision.
Locally owned and operated, Ashe is a Contemporary New Zealand Art Gallery in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Collaborating with artists and makers from around the country.
It’s not your traditional art gallery.
Read more about our founder Ashleigh and what makes her tick!
Upcoming Events
There's always something happening at Ashe. From hands-on creative workshops to contemporary exhibitions and artist-led conversations, our events are designed to bring people together through art, creativity and community.
In Good Company Exhibition
12–30 August
Discover In Good Company, a group exhibition celebrating the work of more than 20 contemporary New Zealand artists. Explore a diverse collection of original artworks and celebrate Ashe's first year of art, artists and community.
Slow Viewings & Artist Talks
Wednesday 19 August | 5:00–7:30pm
Join us for an evening of slow viewing and conversations with featured artists from the Good Company exhibition. Learn about their practice, inspiration and the stories behind the work in a relaxed gallery setting.
Boobie Mug Club
Saturday 5 September
Join Christchurch ceramicist Megan Hope of Fluid Pottery at Ashe Gallery for a playful, beginner-friendly pottery workshop. Learn to hand-build and paint your own one-of-a-kind Boobie Mug - no experience needed!
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Flexible Payment Options
Collecting original artwork is often a considered and deeply personal decision. At Ashe Gallery, we understand that the right artwork doesn't always arrive at the right moment financially.
To support collectors in acquiring the works they love, we offer personalised, interest-free payment plans on eligible artworks. This service is designed to make collecting more accessible while continuing to respect the value of the artwork and the practice of the artists we represent.
Home Collections
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A curated collection of our favourite New Zealand art & design books.
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A curated collection of home design objects plus hand poured candles from Ōtautahi & Wellington.
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A curated collection of textile wall art. Plus a handcrafted range of interior design cushions and table runners.
Discover contemporary New Zealand homeware by local makers and designers - including books, furniture, home fragrance and textiles - all thoughtfully crafted to elevate your space and celebrate New Zealand design.
A Curated Gift Guide
Discover a curated collection of Contemporary New Zealand gift ideas to meet every budget. Gift thoughtful Art & Design Objects you know they will love. Can't choose? How about a Gift Voucher.
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The gift of art you know they will love. Both physical in-store gift certificates and online gift vouchers are available.
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Discover a curated collection of Contemporary New Zealand gift ideas to meet every budget. Gift thoughtful Art & Design Objects you know they will love.
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Discover a curated collection of Contemporary New Zealand gift ideas to meet every budget. Gift thoughtful Art & Design Objects you know they will love.
Ashe Journal
Explore the latest stories from Ashleigh, featuring artist interviews, studio visits, art collecting advice and tips for styling contemporary art in your home. Discover the people, inspiration and ideas behind today’s New Zealand artists.
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Featured in Home of Architecture and Design Guide, Ashe Gallery shares its philosophy on creating meaningful spaces through art and design. Discover how colour consultations, material selections, spatial planning, and in-home art consultations help Christchurch homeowners create interiors that feel cohesive, personal, and connected to contemporary New Zealand art.
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Go behind the scenes of a Canterbury House of the Year 2026 finalist and discover how thoughtful interior design shaped the project from concept to completion. From colour consultation and material selections to spatial planning, kitchen design support, and bespoke architectural details, explore how Ashe Interior Design collaborated with Summit Construction to create a home designed for comfort, entertaining, and everyday living.
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At Ashe, art is about more than what's hanging on the walls. It's about creating connection, supporting local artists, and building a welcoming creative community in Christchurch. Discover the philosophy behind the gallery, why art belongs in everyday life, and how meaningful conversations, relationships, and shared experiences help shape a thriving artistic culture.
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What goes into curating a gallery collection? More than most people realise. From light and scale to contrast, storytelling, and the placement of each work, thoughtful curation shapes how we experience art. Go behind the scenes at Ashe to discover how a Christchurch art gallery supports local artists, helps collectors buy New Zealand art, and creates exhibitions that inspire meaningful art collections and beautiful homes.
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