Local Experience

The local members’ group of PCANZ, the Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand, is exhibiting print works in a range of printmaking methods, mediums and styles, but with a connecting theme of 'Local Experience'.

PCANZ promotes contemporary fine art printmaking nationally, with regional groups organising events to promote and showcase print work. The members are all experienced printmakers whose work includes a wide range of techniques and styles, and are keen to engage the public with the pleasure printmaking can provide.

All work will be for sale by bank transfer.

Exhibiting Artists

Gaby Reade uses oil paints and printmaking as her vehicle of expression. Her work comments upon the symbiotic relationship of insects and plants and draws from the rich tradition of storytelling she grew up in. She is a member of the Critique Group Ōtautahi Christchurch and PCANZ (Print Council Aotearoa New Zealand), and has exhibited extensively, with some of her works held in private collections in Aotearoa and Overseas. Of Polish and German descent, Gaby immigrated to Aotearoa in 1986. Since then, Ōtautahi Christchurch has been her home.

Vicki Mangan graduated with a BFA(Hons) Painting in 2020 from the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury and works as a painter and printmaker, with work appearing in over 30 exhibitions. Her printmaking practice is concerned with seemingly insignificant and often overlooked subjects. Places anchored by recognisable geological forms are combined with semi-abstract flora in the foreground; this reversal of perspective creates a dynamic tension which shares visual attention and moves the eye between both areas without placing either as more significant. 

A self-professed ‘cat lover’, Yuki Komiyama often finds inspiration in the animal kingdom and its relationship with humankind. She is passionate about nature and conservation, and enjoys spending time exploring her home of Christchurch, the Port Hills, and Banks Peninsula. Her innate creativity is realised through a variety of techniques including painting, printmaking, drawing, fine metals, ceramics, and fibre. United through her unique illustrative style, her whimsical artworks and jewellery pieces delightfully encapsulate animal personalities, aesthetics, and habitats.

Carolyn Currie graduated from Ara Institute in 2020 with a Bachelor of Design in Applied Visual Arts. Her printmaking practice is rooted in the distinctive landscape of Ōtautahi Christchurch, the Port Hills and Banks Peninsula - a place of dramatic contrasts, from volcanic outcrops to coastal settlements. The resulting images are not just reproductions of a scene, but a record of a moment in time, ensuring that these sites resonate within our collective memory. 

Carrie Dingwall is a Christchurch‑based printmaker whose work explores the quiet relationships within Aotearoa’s natural environments. Working with traditional linocut techniques and the luminous cyanotype process, she creates tactile pieces shaped by close observation of local plant life, the Ōpāwaho River, and the species that depend on these ecosystems. Her practice often highlights the connections between host plants and the moths or birds that live alongside them, as well as the tuna (eel), which she depicts as guardians of the river. 

Kathy Anderson trained as a printmaker at the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, graduating in 1982. She has been involved in Art Education since that time, teaching in several Canterbury schools and was Head of the Art Department at St Margaret’s College. Now living in Oxford, North Canterbury, she is involved with the Arts in Oxford Gallery. Her work reflects and responds to the environment around her such as changing moods in the landscape, seasons, plants and animals. She enjoys mixing and layering print media such as woodcut, monoprint, materials and techniques.

Masako Fisher has been drawn to visual arts since childhood and has enjoyed working creatively in various mediums, including watercolour painting, oil painting, ceramic art, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. Having now spent over half of her life in New Zealand after arriving from her homeland, Japan, she is particularly inspired by the beauty of New Zealand’s natural landscapes and plants. In her printmaking, she blends her love of New Zealand’s natural world with the Japanese culture that exists within her. Her artwork has been featured in exhibitions throughout New Zealand and sold in Japan.

Kate Buckley is an artist and a facilitator. She is interested in work which links art, people and place. Originally from Ireland where she studied at the Dublin National College of Art and Design, Kate now lives in Hokitika. Primarily working in intaglio and relief printmaking, Kate layers both texture and meaning in her work. She has exhibited widely and spent time as Artist in Residence at the National Folk Theatre of Ireland (Siamsa Tíre), with ArtsLab Theatre Company at Trinity College Dublin and at the Stamsund International Theatre Festival (Norway). She received many commissions and has work in the collections of the Irish president, Guinness (Ireland) Ltd, the Wallace Collection (NZ) and many of the Irish Regional Council art collections.

Jane McGowan completed a Bachelor of Design (Applied Visual Arts) at ARA Institute of Canterbury between 2017 and 2019, an education that underpins her thoughtful, process-driven approach to textile practice and printmaking. Jane has been largely working in fabric with work exhibited at Chambers Art Gallery and Little River Gallery, as well as being a finalist in the Cleveland Art Awards.

Asako Ridgen, originally from Japan, is a local artist who loves art, especially printmaking and has had work in several local art shows.