emma bossley

Recently moving from Auckland to Tauranga has created the time and space to come back to making art after a long break. My current practice is an evolving exploration of portraits and studies of figures in interior spaces, a favoured subject brought about by our recent lockdown, and landscape paintings.

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friends & family

  • Goods

    'Goods' is an on-going project of painterly investigation by Damien Kurth.

  • Selvage

    ‘Selvage’ is my talented sister, Caitlin Bossley, creating a bunny for every baby born since the early 2000s.

  • Pete Bossley

    Pete Bossley is one of New Zealand’s foremost architects, he’s a little obsessed with drawing in sketchbooks. And he’s my Dad.

  • Alice Duncan-Gardiner

    Alice is an illustrator and designer from Tāmaki Makaurau. As well as her works on paper here, she also has custom rugs and knitwear here.

  • Josephine Cachemaille

    Josephine Cachemaille is an award-winning installation artist based in Nelson. And she’s my mate.

  • Isa Mathys

    Isa’s dreams inspire her surrealist paintings. So sweet, so funny - and she can paint!

  • Isaac Morton

    Craftsman Isaac creates simple, beautiful tactile jewellery from discarded kauri that has slept for many years in a river.

  • Bryony Matthew

    Self taught, mixed media visual artist, Bryony has painted from her experiences of the Hauraki Gulf, and coastal NZ as far North as Mounganui Harbour. Seeing land only from the perspective of the explorer, new migrant, or tide tossed driftwood, each painting is an emotional beat – while the Land Breathes Out.

shop friends & family

  • Selected as second place winner in The Upstairs Gallery 2021 Emerging Artist Award

    “The brightly coloured landscape seems simultaneously realistic and abstract, the colours indicative of more than one season and that strange feeling of time passing and also standing still.” Catherine Thomson, judge

  • Art in a time of Covid : Our Place Magazine Issue 37

    Skip to page 86 for the full article

  • A team effort: BOP Weekend Sun 22.11.21

    TAGteam Group Show at Gallery Te Puna.
    Read the full article here