New Kawakawa work 760mm x 760mm

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Art Before dishes. From today

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Work in progress.

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National Contemporary Art Award at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum & Gallery finishes on Sunday. So stoked to have had Rattle and Hum included. Rattle and Hum is a sealed vessel - a dried hue, fat from the rains of Cyclone Gabrielle. Rhythm hums across its surface; seeds remain hidden within. Tension gathers between stillness and unrest, containment and potential. The work listens more than it speaks, holding space for the future. #NZArtist #hue #ncaa #object

Kereru Collagraph

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Helen Beech 10/11/2025 Helen Beech 10/11/2025

Coincidently

Coincidentally, two exhibitions featuring my work conclude on the same day: Land Sea Sky at No1 Parnell Gallery in Rawene, and The National Contemporary Art Awards at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Museum and Gallery. Both will finish on Sunday 16th of November. Honoured to share my nature-inspired work in these shows. Grateful to the curators for creating beautiful and striking spaces.

Meanwhile, back in the studio, I have been making collagraph and woodcut prints, exploring some of the ideas that emerged during the intense period of creating work for the feature show at No1 Parnell. These are ideas I want to develop further—especially The Road to Paihia. I am looking forward to delving deeper into the colours of the land. Suddenly, Lemons Hill looms large.

Helen Beech 14/10/2025 Helen Beech 14/10/2025

Land Sea Sky

Great news! I am the featured artist at No1 Parnell Gallery Rawene for the next 4 weeks. Including during the amazing KOAST artist trail. Brilliant! If you want to check out the work but can’t make it to Rawene you can see the work available here.

Land, Sea, Sky explores the elemental forces that shape Aotearoa’s landscapes and the way we move within them. Paintings are built on strong, deliberate compositions and bold colour, capturing both the solidity of landforms and the shifting, unpredictable energy of sky and water.

Helen Beech 13/07/2025 Helen Beech 13/07/2025

ART News

Firstly, my painting ‘Dear Emily I Am Home’ has been shipped to Wellington for the Academy Prize for Visual Arts, which is a stand-in for the Parkin Drawing Prize. There's a public vote, and combined with the judges' decisions, finalists will be announced. I’d really appreciate your support—you can vote for my work here with Voting ID number 345, page 1. My sister-in-law Sal Spicer also has a fantastic piece in the lineup, ‘Florescent’ (ID 22, page 6).

Secondly, I’m thrilled to be the featured artist at No1 Parnell Gallery in Rawene this October/November. Work is well underway, and I’m excited about this wonderful opportunity.

I’ll also be participating in this year’s Printapalooza with Te Kowhai Print Trust at Hihiaua Cultural Center in Whangarei on Saturday the 25th. That involves designing and carving a 2.4m x 1m woodcut, which will be printed by driving a road roller over it—last time was epic, I can’t wait to do it again!

No printing this Sunday, but I did spend Monday afternoon printing and on Friday, my art friends Charlotte and Sian braved the weather to hang out, and we all tried tetra pak printing, which was super fun. We learned that water-based ink allows for multiple good prints from a single engraving.

Seems like a lot of information and not a lot of reflection.