TITLE: 4/6 (Variable) Pūriri blossoms and Pūriri moth.
MATERIAL: Woodcut reducation print on stonehenge paper - akua ink.
SIZE: 570mm x 450mm (paper size)

Gabrielle Belz
Ngāpuhi and Te Atiawa

Known for printmaking, but also working in other 2D formats, since 2002 Belz’s design work for public spaces around Auckland and Manukau has included parks furniture, inlays for paving, murals, and applications on glass walls. The inspiration is people, identity, the land, our history, and environments.

A founding member of Toi Whakataa – Māori print and she is a current Trustee of Toi o Taranaki ki te Tonga.

Relocated to Taranaki and setting up Gallery Patea with a local fellow artist, Gabrielle has had a long career in the visual arts working as an arts educator during the 80’s and 90’s, and by the early 90’s beginning to co-ordinate and curate exhibitions, taking part in international print exchanges, while exhibiting widely in NZ and overseas. She has been part of cultural exchanges in the US, Samoa, Australia, Hawaii and Canada. Her work is represented in public collections: the NZ Justice Department, The Sarjeant Gallery Whanganui, Pataka Gallery in Porirua Wellington, the Auckland City Council Collection, the Benneton Monde Project Collection, and in private collections in NZ and countries in Northern and Southern hemispheres.