For Summer, here is our curator's pick of some of the works on show in the gallery, and some select works that have been made available by our artists.

For sales enquiries call Jodie Dalgleish on 021 054 7919 or (64 4) 499 8807. Enquiries: gallery@nzafa.com. 

Two dimensional works are offered by the following artists (please scroll to view): Kelsi Doscher, Grahame Sydney, Dean Buchanan, Michael Smither, Ian Hamlin, Carol Anne Bauer, Prakash Patel, Jane Blackmore, Anne-Marie Jean, Brian Carmody, and Alfred Memelink.

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Kelsi Doscher

Just new to the Academy, Kelsi Doscher is gaining recognition for the photographs of her 'Internal Landscapes' series. Included here are two of her best works: Echoes of Light and Expanding Within. Doscher travelled throughout New Zealand taking photographs with an antique camera that, by chance, also created  - in camera - an inverted scene of the one she was viewing through its lens. The resulting images present an intriguing kind of imagined landscape, made with, yet without, the artist.

Both works are available for viewing.

Kelsi Doscher, Echoes of Light (2/50), Archival pigment print on fine art rag, framed with a white box frame. Dimensions: 800mm x 800mm (frame size), 550mm x 550mm (image size). Price: $1,200.

Kelsi Doscher, Expanding Within (3/50), Archival pigment print on fine art rag, framed with a white box frame. Dimensions: 800mm x 800mm (frame size), 550mm x 550mm (image size). Price: $1,200.

Dean Buchanan

Top NZ artist Dean Buchanan has made his major work Mountain Landscape available through the Academy. Mountains have been a persistent subject in his thirty years of painting - he visits them, may even climb them, and then he paints them. The impact they have on him is made clear in this large painting. This is one of the strongest, perhaps even the strongest, mountain work in the artist's ouevre.

This work is available for viewing.

Mountain Landscape, Oil on unstretched canvas. Dimensions: 1530mm (w) x 1150mm (h) (image size), 1770mm (w) x 1365mm (h) (canvas size). Price: $3,900.

Michael Smither

Not available from any other gallery, Smither's Four Spectrums series comprises two sculptures dedicated to colours that spiral and shift through open New Zealand landscape. According to Smither, as the day's light shifts across the larger of the sculptures, he is mindful of the same light-movement that animates his landscape.

Four Spectrums I, painted wood on canvas base. Dimensions: 570mm (w) x 1570mm (h) x 570mm (d). Price: $10,000 (signed).

Four Spectrums II, painted wood on canvas base. Dimensions: 210mm (w) x 355mm (h) x 210mm (d). Price: $1,800 (signed). SOLD.

Ian Hamlin

Artist Ian Hamlin is part of a group of New Zealand painters dedicated to its landscape, exhibiting alongside Michael Smither and Grahame Sydney in the Academy's Artists as Activists exhibition, he also venerates NZ light and its effects.

This work is available for viewing.

Ian Hamlin, Kapiti Lights, oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 655mm (w) x 460 mm (h), $2,900.

Carol Anne Bauer

A senior 'elected artist' of the Academy, Carol Bauer has been exploring the magnified life of crystals over the last twenty five years. After seeing amino acid crytals under a microscope she has continually sought to capture something of their structure and light. The result has been a highly unique body of abstract works that have received national recognition, most recently with a solo exhibition at Ara Toi. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, and therefore essential to life. She has made her painting Blueprint for Beginning available for sale.

Blueprint for Beginning, oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 1,000mm (w) x 750mm (h). Price $2,000.

 Prakash Patel

Prakash is an award-winning emerging artist who has received national and international recognition for his abstract works. He is deeply interested in ideas of the cosmos and his works walk the line between accident and control. In his multi-layered painting, The Fisherman, Patel evokes a massive cosmis, or a minute microscopic world. In this work the artist references the play of a fisherman's lights on a dark night's water and the life that bursts beneath its surface - as if it were first life, drawn from the 'void'.

This painting is available for viewing. Viewing is recommended - it is difficult to capture its multidimensionality in a photograph.

The Fisherman, Prakash Patel, Acrylic on canvas. Unframed (sides of canvas painted black). Dimensions: 1070mm (w) x 1060mm (h) x 40mm (d). Price $3,900.

Jane Blackmore

This award winning emerging artist creates paintings that are figuratively abstract. Based on landscape, they use colour and gestural painting to evoke land-and-sky. Two works are being offered: Wistful and Under my Feet.

Both works are available for viewing. 

Jane Blackmore, Wistful, oil on canvas. Dimensions: 1010mm x 1010mm. Unframed (sides of canvas painted black). Price: $2,900.

Jane Blackmore, Under my Feet, oil on canvas. Dimensions: 1530mm (w) x 510 mm (h) x 30mm (d). Unframed (sides of canvas painted black). Price: $2,195. SOLD.

Anne-Marie Jean

This emerging artist has been inspired by Manet's peonies. Her large painting takes a small detail and makes a hero of it.

Anne-Marie Jean, Manet's Peony, oil on canvas. Dimensions: 1015mm (w) x 1015 mm (h) x 40 mm (d). Unframed (sides of canvas painted white). Price: $3,375.

Sue Lund

Artist Sue Lund has a wry sense of humour that permeates her work. In It's Still Life, she references and revisits the still life tradition.

This work is available for viewing.

Sue Lund, It's Still Life, acrylic on canvas. Dimensions: 1020mm x 1020mm. Price $2,200.

Brian Carmody

Senior watercolourist Brian Carmody has become well known over many years as a watercolourist and teacher dedicated to the art of watercolour. Consistently, the artist optimises the freshness and liquidity of the watercolour medium while he also manages to saturate his colours and create bold forms. Carmody's life's work will be honoured over January 2012 with a NZ Academy of Fine Arts Summer Tribute Show.

This work is available for viewing.

Morning Cloud, Takaka, watercolour on paper. Dimensions: 630mm (w) x 840mm (h) (frame size), 355mm (w) x 540mm (h) (image size). Price: $1,050. This work is glassed and framed with a white box frame. 

Alfred Memelink

A watercolourist known for his cityscapes and seascapes, Alfred Memlink's Antractic and Ross Sea Series is about to privately tour the country. One of the showcase works of that exhibition has been made available for sale.

This work is available for viewing.

Snowstorm Brewing over a Tabular Iceberg, watercolour on paper. Dimensions: 1220mm x 960mm (frame size), 890mm x 600mm (image size). Price: $1,800. This painting is glassed and framed with a wide white curve-profile frame.