Contemporary New Zealand Art & Design Objects
Discover original artworks, prints and sculptural objects from emerging and established artists from across Aotearoa.
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.
It starts with a vision.
Locally owned and operated, Ashe is a Contemporary New Zealand Art Gallery in the heart of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Representing artists and makers from around the motu.
It’s not your traditional art gallery.
Read more about our founder Ashleigh and what makes her tick!
Featured Artworks
Discover the latest artworks and objects to our collection — handpicked pieces that bring new energy to your space.
Limited Edition Giclée Print by Rachel Walker
Limited edition of 100 giclee print on textured German cotton paper, flat packaged with card and cellophane, signed and numbered.
Dimensions: 340×450mm Unframed
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.
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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Sculptural Resin Planes by Michele Bryant
Dimension: 30cm width
Colour: Black
Michele Bryant - Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
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.
Original Painting by Jocelyn Friis
Mangawhai, Northland
Artwork Dimensions: 760×760mm
Material: Acrylic on Canvas
This painting, unplanned and intuitive, is an expression of my surroundings. Living in Mangawhai, in New Zealand’s north island, we have a beautiful estuary with unique sand dunes, alongside the ocean beach. It is my take on this beautiful corner of the world.
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.
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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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Original Painting by Catherine Roberts
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington
Acrylic on canvas with resin, finished in a painted float frame
Dimensions: 500×700mm
My work is a result of an intuitive dialogue between artist and canvas.
I’ve been painting for over two decades from the south coast of Wellington. My career journey has taken me from a self-taught amateur, selling pieces on the walls of local cafes, to the walls of art galleries across Aotearoa from Auckland down to Queenstown.
My craft is by hand and intentionally imperfect; a natural process, led by a strive for balance of colour, texture and contrast.
Playing with these elements and following the ebb and flow of creative process, I bring organic, intangible and ponderous conversations together on canvas.
In life I am not so confidently spoken, but I find my voice through my art. I create art with no set intentions, but a purpose to captivate those who view my work; to carry on the conversation.
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Fine Art Giclée Print by Rob Barrington
New Plymouth, Taranaki
Open Edition Giclée Print on 310GSM Textured Rag Paper
Individually Signed
A4 - 210 x 297 mm
A3 - 297 × 420 mm
A2 - 420 × 59 4mm
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.
Hanging Bronze Sculptures by Koa Bronze (Jay Lloyd)
Dimensions:
220mm
270mm
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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Upcoming Workshop
Pottery & Pasta
The ultimate winter workshop with Ashe Gallery in Christchurch.
Join Fluid Pottery for a relaxed, hands-on pottery workshop where you’ll learn coil-building techniques to create your own handmade pasta bowl. Expect good tunes, warm hands, and an easy Sunday lunch vibe.
After the workshop, we’ll head next door to Pasta Pasta for a hot bowl of fresh pasta - the perfect winter combo!
July Workshop SOLD OUT
August Workshop COMING SOON
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.
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.
Ashe Blog
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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There’s something special about living with art when you know the story behind it. Discover why choosing to buy New Zealand art supports local artists, strengthens creative communities, and creates a deeper connection to the work you bring into your home. Learn how a Christchurch art gallery like Ashe helps bridge the gap between artists and collectors, making it easier to support artists while building a thoughtful collection.
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Building an art collection doesn’t have to happen all at once. This guide explores how to buy art in Christchurch thoughtfully - mixing investment pieces with affordable works, supporting local artists, and creating a home that evolves over time. Whether you’re new to collecting or browsing Christchurch art galleries for your next piece, discover a more approachable way to live with art.
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Explore my curatorial overview of Blackmore Foster - Two Perspectives on Aotearoa Landscapes at Ashe Gallery, featuring contemporary New Zealand artists Jane Blackmore and Nic Foster in a dialogue of atmosphere, memory, and landscape.
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Discover how to approach buying original art in Christchurch NZ with intention and ease. This guide explores how to thoughtfully curate interiors that reflect the way you live - blending artwork, objects, and texture to create depth and balance.
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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.
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