As a self-taught stone carver,  Ngai Tahu  and European descent, I  reside in Te Tai Tokerau, New Zealand. My work began 12 year ago, with mortar and pestles, vessels and simple jewellery. More recent works include larger sculptures and patterned vessels.

I predominantly use power tools: saws, angle grinders, hammer and chisel, drills.

Areas of investigation and direction.

I wish the viewer to form a real connection with Nature; alongside  the more refined world of our everyday lives.

• Representing nature, ocean tidal rhythms, sea life , marine life in these stories, as I have strong connections to our oceans and their inhabitants.

- Investigating and honouring stories of Indigenous Peoples’ worldview in relation to  humans and our place / part of the natural world, ownership of land, connection to earth, migration of peoples’ and wildlife, ocean stories.

I am drawn to the idea sculpting works which focus on personal, cultural and societal reflection. On the ways in which we can reconnect to the natural world on a deeper level, with the assistance of old beliefs and knowledge.

Exhibitions and Events

CURRENT AND RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Finalist, Perpetual Guardian Small Sculpture Prize 2025, for ‘Hāora Tūturu/ Perpetual Sponge’, Waiheke Gallery, New Zealand.

R T Sculpture Awards, 2024 selected for Sculpture Exhibition as part of NZ Art Show Wellington, May 2025

Sculpture Northland, May 2025

Sculpture on the Shore 2023, Outdoor. Sculpture, 2 works sold.

Sculpture on the Shore, 2023, Indoor Gallery

Kings College Art Sale 2023

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, April 2023

Retail site, Womad 2023, March 2023

Key Resource Artist, Rock tent’ Collaborationz 2023,

King’s College Art Sale ‘Artbox’ and main gallery area, October 2022

Art Salon Exhibition , Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Oct-December 2022

Sculpture Northland, Quarry Gardens, Whangarei, May 2022

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, April 2022

Sculpture in the Garden, Whangarei 2021

Member’s Exhibition, Depot Artspace, Devonport, 2021

Collaborationz 2021, a collaborative 8 day workshop, head of Stone Section, with 70 New Zealand artists of numerous disciplines. Producing hundreds of artworks, auctioned off. 5/2021.

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail Exhibition, Reyburn House, 2020, 2021

Art in the Garden, curated sculpture tour in various private gardens around Whangarei , 2020

Feast, group exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, 8/2019

Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, Home Studio, 2019, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).

Taste of Auckland, 200 plates, VIP marquee dinner, as requested by Roots Restaurant owner and Best Chef Winner (GoodFood Awards, 2018), December 2016.

Upcoming EveCoborations 

COLLABORATIONS

Lyzadie Design Studio 2019 to present

Stone components of Candelabra and Bookends, Dance of Geometry Collection

Collaborationz 2021 and 2023, 2025, Rock tent Resource Person. see details above.

Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Northern Advocate, November 2023, Sculpture on the Shore Article.

Salt. Chef Natasha McAller, October 2022

Hiakai, Modern Maori Cuisine. Chef Monique Fiso 2020

Cuisine Magazine: Issue 192,Jan 2019, p.24  Engraved platter and bowl, Mark McAllister, Winning Entry, Ōra King Salmons Awards 2018. p.60: Craggy Range Restaurants advertisement.

Cuisine Magazine: Issue 191, Nov 2018, p.19  Good Food Awards, photo introduction. p.52-3, On The Make article, photo and column.  Good Food Awards Guide, front cover photo, p. 62, photo.

COCommissions

COMMISSIONS

Tahitian Pounder, Private. 2023

Cook Islands Pounder, Cook Islands Figure, Private 2023

Solomon Islands Pounder with ancestor figure. Black Granite, 400mm. Private. 2023

Hawaiian Tattoo Bowls, an Upcoming ‘Hawaiian Series’ Yenedakine (Chief of War) 2023

Mussel pendants, Private Commission 2023

Gabbro ring, Private Commission 2023

A series of pounders from around the Pacific, Solomon  Islands, Hawaii, Cook Islands, Marquesas Islands; Private Commission 2023

Hawaiian traditional Poi Pounders, and mortars, ‘Hawaiian Series’ Yenedakine (Chief of War) November 2022

Goddess pendants, in pounamu x 3, for a previous private commission 2022

Pounamu bulge ring, private commission 2022

28cm molcajete, Basalt, 11/2021

Octopus pendant, Pounamu, 12/2021

Mahe pendant, Pounamu, 2/2021

Previous:Various private commissions of mortar and pestles, bowls and plates, nudes, jewellery.

RESTAURANT COMMISSIONS

2016: Micks, Orewa ;O’Connell Street Bistro,Auckland; Bistronomy, Napier; Roots, Lyttelton; Malo, Havelock North

2017: Roots, Lyttelyon; Clooney, Auckland ; Meredith’s, Auckland 

2018: Hiakai, Wellington; Roots, Lyttelton; Kika,  Wanaka; Craggy Range Vineyard, Hawkes  Bay; Tantalus Estate Vineyard, Waiheke Island; Paperbark, Sydney; Saint Alice,  Auckland 

2019: Māha, Kerikeri; Tantalus Estate, Waiheke Island; The Grove, Auckland 

2020: Mr. Morris, Auckland 

2024: CRAGGY RANGE VINEYARD, HAWKES BAY.