We are very excited to announce that we are at the Aotearoa Art Fair again this year. This is such a wonderful opportunity for our small collective-based gallery and we do not hold it lightly. This year, we are showing in the Futures/Young section of the fair.
Let me introduce you to our 2026 Aotearoa Art Fair artists.
Nicholas Pound
in the studio at Karekare
Nicholas Pound lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. He holds first-class honours in Fine Art from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and a Master of Fine Arts from Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design (2024). Nicholas works primarily in oil painting. A student of contemporary poetry, his work explores rule-based systems and diaristic processes, his paintings register thought, response and gesture as reply. Attentive to the languages and capacities of paint, often project driven Pound's work has a collectable seriality.
Recent solo exhibitions include Floating Vote at Railway Street Gallery + Studios, Auckland (2025). His work has also been shown in artist-run and independent spaces including Fuzzy Vibes (2015), Playstation (2017), Sanc (2020), and Satchiandsatchiandsatchi (2023). Nicholas is the resident artist site manager at Karekare House. His work is held in the Art House Trust and private collections.
Sneak peek of work from studio visit 24/2/2026
Emma Hercus
in the studio at Plimmerton
Kyla Covic
at her 2024 solo show at Railway Street Gallery
(photo courtesy of Sait Akkirman @artsdiary)
Kyla Covic lives and paints in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. She is an AUT Design graduate and completed the BSA VAMP programme in 2022. Kylas work explores the relationship between the light and land. Her paintings capture transitory moments in time. The ‘golden hour', the last hour before the sun finally sets along the New Zealand coastline is a constant thread running through her work. Day is not quite finished, and night has not yet begun, within this transition of time, there is an invitation to look past and through the light, to discover something new in the lost and found edges of light.
Kyla's work is held in private collections throughout New Zealand. Her most recent commission of 7 paintings (2025) can be viewed at The Roki - Queenstown.
Sneak Peeks from the studio coming soon.
