To view Gina Kiel’s works is to get lost in the rhythm she creates with each wave and stripe. A regenerative cadence echoing nature, body and spirit. Whether intimate paintings, large-scale murals or handpoke tattoos, the feeling is the same. Bold, graphic and alluring.
Despite Kiel’s vivid black and whites, bending and contorting into large hypnotic swirls, there is a delicacy in her pieces. Each face or hand becomes rendered with softness - a perfected navigation of light and shadow. The tip of a nose, the point of a crescent moon or the smooth muscles of a horse, all sharp and glossy - their expressions content, peaceful, contemplative. Based in Te Whanganui a Tara, exhibiting independently as well as a member of the renowned Dreamgirls Art Collective - Gina Kiel’s exploration of transformation and renewal asks us to sit on the edge of contemplation. Caught between the worlds of deities and concrete alike.
EXHIBITIONS
Tidal Bodies, Solo Show, 22 February – 15 March 2025
INTERVIEW
PRESS
The Post | ‘Artist’s first solo show thrums with energy and mysticism’
Colossal | ‘Monochrome Figures Drip and Slice Into Chromatic Layers’
The New Zealand Herald | ‘Seven-storey tribute by Dreamgirls Collective’
Ensemble Magazine | ‘The dream girls painting magic all over town’
ARTWORKS
INSTALLATION VIEWS
