About

Having completed two health-related degrees, Hamish worked as a physiotherapist before embarking on his artistic career in 1999 - initially concentrating on sculpture, then moving his attention to drawing and painting .

Hamish’s creative style is characterised by clean, precise imagery depicting stylised, representational New Zealand landscapes. Often incorporating distinctive objects and symbolism in his work. His interest in the relationship between the landscape and human intervention is inherently present, and he endeavours to portray this in a contemporary, lyrical manner.

Hamish’s work has a feeling of space and a sense of the serene created by leaving out superfluous imagery, creating a stripped back, essential image. Taking time to render a seamless drift of tone and a conscious pushing and pulling of perspective results in an intriguing and rewarding visual experience.

Hamish works from Ōtautahi, Christchurch, New Zealand where he lives with his partner and their two children.

Hamish’s original artwork is exhibited at - L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch; Chambers Gallery, Christchurch; Föenander Galleries, Auckland and York Street Gallery, Timaru. Gallery De Novo, Dunedin.

Recent Exhibitions

January 2024, group show, Föenander Gallery, Auckland.

December 2023, Group show - Nigel Brown, Jeffrey harris, Hannah Kidd, Yan L’Estrange, Hamish Allan, Jason Greig, Phil Trusttum - L’Estrange Gallery.

November 2023, Xmas group show, Gallery Denovo, Dunedin.

August 2023, Lessons from Suburbia, Lessons from the Sea. Chambers Gallery, Christchurch.

July 2023, group exhibition, Gallery DeNovo, Dunedin.

December 2022, group exhibition, Chambers Gallery, Christchurch.

December 2022, group exhibition, Gallery DeNovo, Dunedin.

August 2022, group exhibition featuring - Nigel Brown, Hannah Kidd, Ewan McDougall, Jason Greig, Alison Erikson, Philip Trusttum, Alan Pearson and Bryan L’Estrange. L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch.

June 2022, group exhibition, Gallery DeNovo, Dunedin.

December 2021, group exhibition, Gallery DeNovo, Dunedin.

October 2021, guest artist, group exhibition, Down by the Liffey Gallery.

September 2021 - Angst at the edge of the Pleasure Garden. Solo show, Chambers gallery, Christchurch.

June 2021, Group exhibition featuring - Nigel Brown, Hannah Kidd, Ewan McDougall, Jason Greig, Alison Erikson, Philip Trusttum, Alan Pearson and Bryan L’Estrange. L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch.

April 2021 - Eden, group show Gallery de novo, Dunedin.

January 2021 - Silent Anthems, Group show, Föenander Galleries , Mt Eden, Auckland.

December 2020 - Around Xmas, Gallery de Novo, Dunedin.

September 2020 - Semicolon, group show, Föenander Galleries , Mt Eden, Auckland.

September 2020 - Pūtahitanga exhibition in Ōtautahi. Hosted by Shared Lines Collaborative.

August 2020 - The Junction, Group show, Central Christchurch.

July 2020 - Transit Lane, Group show, Föenander Galleries , Mt Eden, Auckland.

June 2020 - Container exhibition, L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch.

May 2020 - Contributing artist for The Nomadic Art Gallery. Travelling art gallery truck hosting and exhibiting with various NZ artists throughout NZ. The Nomadic Art Gallery.

February 2020 - Small Work Salon, Foenander Galleries, Mt Eden, Auckland.

December 2019 - Ida Soliel - Group Show. Foenander Galleries, Mt Eden, Auckland.

December 2019 - Group Show, York Street Gallery, Timaru.

October 2019 - The Pleasure garden - metaphysical dreamscapes. Solo show, Chambers Gallery, Christchurch.

August 2019 - Reverie, group show in central Christchurch as part of the art week Winter Wander.

June 2019 -The intimacy of distance, group show, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

May 2019 - Group show, L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch.

Feb 2019 - Small work salon, group show, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

Dec 2018 - Summer show, group show, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

May 2018 - Group show, L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch

Feb 2018 - Small Work Salon, group show, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

Jan 2018 - Twelve Grapes, group show, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

Dec 2017 - Summer show, group show, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

August 2017 - Beer Goggles and Whimsy exhibitions as part of “Dreamscapes - First Thursdays at The Colombo, Christchurch.

June 2017 - Notes from a Poetic Universe, nkb Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland.

May 2017 - The Fifth Edition, Container Art Exhibition, L’Estrange Gallery, Christchurch.

March 2017 - Finalist in the Moly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, Whakatane.

March 2012 - Finalist in the moly Morpeth Canada Art Awards. Artwork - The Dance of the Anthropocene, 2012, pencil on paper.

March 2012 - finalist and selected for national touring exhibition for Adam Portraiture Award. Painting - Daydreaming in a Minor Chord, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 900 x 900mm. Private collection.

Features

Lessons from Suburbia, part 4 - Parking, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 900 x 1200mm. Stevenson Collection. Exhibited at the Super Gallery, ‘Give Me Shelter’, group exhibition, summer 2023-2024.

2019 - "Lemon Meringue Pie”, selected for cover artwork for Owen Marshall's new novel - "Pearly Gates" - Published by Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2019.

March 2012 - finalist and selected for national touring exhibition for Adam Portraiture Award. Painting - Daydreaming in a Minor Chord, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 900 x 900mm. Private collection.

2009 - 2024 - selected artwork featured in - The Landscape in Contemporary New Zealand Art, published by Potton and Burton.