The ARTbeat of the Hibiscus Coast
​Creative Community

Gallery Hours:  Mondays 9am to 3pm
​Tuesday to Thursday 9am to 4pm         Friday 9am to 3pm
Weekends: 10am to 3pm        Public Holidays: 10am to 2pm

April 2025

Congratulations to the winners:
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Outstanding Artist Awards:
  • Jocelyn Friss "Take me Home to Where the Rivers Flow" Acrylic
  • Chris Wadsworth "Racing Porsche 911’s on Scalextric" Cast acrylic, resin,  pigment 
Patron's Award:
  • Sue Hill "Roll over Don Quixote" Acrylic
Māori Art Award:
  • Sandy Gaskell "No 8 Wire" Traditional Maori Weaving, contemporary materials incluing taniko and feathers
Youth Art Award:
  • Amber Boyd "Shades of Blue" Oil on card

Merit Awards:
  • Cheong Hong "Girl 2023" Oil on canvas
  • Talia Russell "Hooker Valley to Mt Cook" Screenprint
  • Teresa Hall "Untitled" Encaustic
  • Gail Smith" Watercolour Bowl" Ceramics

Introducing our Judges fo rthe 11th Hibiscus and Bays Art Awards

Dina Jezdic
Dina Jezdic is an independent curator, art writer, and decolonial scholar. Her work critically examines the intersections of indigeneity, diaspora, and belonging, with a focus on structural inequities in gender, race, sexuality, and class. Her doctoral research, Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography, explores performance as a radical methodology for disrupting colonial narratives and catalysing institutional transformation.
Photo credit Amanda Billing.
Holly Aymes
Ko Holly Aymes tēnei. Nō Rongowhakaata, Kahungungu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Ingarani, Ngāti Hapanihi, Ngāti Paniora ōna iwi. Holly’s ancestors hail from the East Coast, England, Japan & Spain. She’s a local freelance hobby artist (exploring art forms from her many cultures), indigenous arts representative for Te Herenga Waka o Orewa Marae, Tūpuna Parenting Facilitator & māmā of 4. Her work ranges from murals (check out the Orewa bridge underpass), to sketching, painting, digital logos, tee shirt designs, handmade cards & more.