Kirsty White

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Since her upbringing on a remote farm in the hills of the Tararua district, Kirsty has been left with a legacy of love for our landscape.

While attending Napier Girls High as a boarder, she emersed herself in art, photography and textile subjects, leaving with one of the highest marks in the country for bursary photography. Attending Massey University, Kirsty gained a bachelor in Design, falling in love with the print room along the way.  Now as a fulltime printmaker, she enjoys living on Wellington’s rugged south coast, translating this love of landscape from her sketch books into fine art, using layers of texture and tone through the printmaking process.  

Kirsty’s hand printed landscape and native bush etchings are merged with patterning, printed from bamboo wood engravings. This enables her to convey a narrative, reflecting a sense of this countries journey within a contemporary landscape.  Story telling through pattern work is common across cultures here in the Pacific, Kirsty incorporates it into her art as a way to express that. Kirsty’s work is highly original and imbued with her passion for the beauty and stories of Aotearoa.