HORIZONS
PRESENTED BY CHAPMAN TRIPP
Presented by Chapman Tripp, Horizons is a new section of the Fair designed to highlight new emerging talent from across Aotearoa and the Pacific. Horizons 2025 three artist-curated booths and one booth curated by The Art Paper — all featuring a selection of artists who represent the next generation. Horizons is curated by Editor of Art News Aotearoa and The Art Paper, Becky Hemus.
“For Horizons, I wanted to share some of the ideas that I hear artists speaking about — what they see as being influential or innovative within their cohort. Each of the booths is centred around the proposition, What art do you see defining the moment of now, what feels prescient to you?“, Curator, Becky Hemus
Curated by DJCS
Featuring artists Tobias Allen, Elvis Booth-Claveria, Jack Ellery, Kat Lang, and Aroha Matchitt-Millar
In ‘The Harvest’, DJCS brings together the work of Tobias Allen, Elvis Booth-Claveria, Jack Ellery, Kat Lang, and Aroha Matchitt-Millar.
Curated by Jamie R H
Featuring artists Lewis Vivian Cosgrave & Abigail Aroha Jensen
In this presentation, Jamie R H brings together the work of Lewis Vivian Cosgrave and Abigail Aroha Jensen, exploring how the image functions as a vessel for both personal and collective memory, while also becoming a site where memory is constantly renegotiated, fragmented, and recontextualized.
Curated by The Art Paper
Featuring Sophie Greig and Angela Pan
The Art Paper booth will present works by two recent Elam graduates, both of whom work within the realm of self-mythologizing. These young artists are creating unique identities by blending elements of magical realism, combining reality with fantasy to imagine new ways of thriving. Their art often feels unsettling, with distorted bodies, warped time, and surreal imagery. Sophie Greig’s paintings showcase meticulous technique, strange symbols, sickly green tones, and a mix of candy-like bling and technology. Angela Pan’s 3D animations and game art create serene, thought-provoking dioramas that explore the fragility of human existence.
Curated by Te Ara Minhinnick
Featuring Heremaia Barlow, Atareta Black, Pepi-Joy Gilgen, Maia Keane, Aroha Matchitt-Millar, Avara Moody, Moana Murray, Is Randell, Tessa Russell, Kahurangiariki Smith, Esther Stone, Matt Tini, Hōhua Thompson, Maia Wharewera-Ballard
‘Hoa Haere i te Ao’ features works by fourteen artists of Māori descent, each contributing pieces made to be worn. These are forms of toi kept across generations (taonga tuku iho) lived-in objects made to protect, to amplify, and to be passed on.
The title, Hoa Haere i te Ao, draws from an expression often shared after receiving moko, loosely translated as: a companion who walks with me through life.