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TE WHANGANUI-A-TARA / WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND · CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
Tara Luty
Tara Luty explores the connections between people, landscape and the natural world. Working primarily through painting, alongside mark making, installation and photography, she allows the environments she engages with to shape both her materials and her process.
about
Born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1995, Tara is based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington. Her practice considers how we understand landscape and wilderness, and how ideas of culture and nature meet and overlap.
Research into particular places is central to her work. Rather than simply depicting a landscape, Tara involves the natural environment in making the artwork itself. Materials and encounters guide the direction of each piece, opening up questions about our place within the world and our relationships with other life forms.
Her work invites viewers to reflect on their own connection to the land, the position they occupy within it, and the responsibilities that come with belonging.
Tara completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours at Massey University Toi Rauwhārangi in 2023. She received the Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia and Latin America in 2023 and the Harry van der Lecq Classic Painting and Drawing Scholarship in 2022.
Her work has featured in group exhibitions at Webb’s Wellington in 2026 and Te Whare Hēra in 2025. Her second solo exhibition, After the Fever, took place at MEANWHILE in June 2026.
Because our connection to the land is also a connection to ourselves.
Tara Luty
meet Tara
Soft terracotta lines shift across the canvas, carrying traces of Wellington’s South Coast.
In Shifting, Tara Luty creates gently undulating bands of warm orange against a pale ground. Their layered edges move across the canvas like a landscape in continual motion, held within a custom Tasmanian oak frame.
The pigment is made from fragments of brick found along Wellington’s south coast. Once part of unknown structures, the bricks have been worn and rounded by the waves of Te Moana-o-Raukawa Cook Strait. Tara brings these fragments into her painting to reflect on the natural and cultural forces that shape a place over time.
With its earthy palette and quiet rhythm, Shifting would bring warmth to a living room, entranceway or reading space, complementing natural timber and soft neutral interiors.
Earthy · Reflective · Rhythmic
Oil on canvas, with pigment made from found brick · 76 cm wide × 101.5 cm high · 2024
FRAMED · Custom Tasmanian oak frame. Ready to hang.
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