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Being

Creative visual thinking is fundamental to us all as human beings as we strive to understand our sense of self and the world. Chartwell seeks to deepen understanding about the importance of art and creative thinking for our future and our wellbeing.

Seeing

Chartwell is an explorer of the visual world. We want to know more about how and what we see. When both the eye and the mind are active, the creative process opens to the artist and viewer. The Chartwell Collection provides the viewer many examples of creative visual thought in action.

Making

Chartwell supports artists as they make and think. Making is an active and connected process, involving the interaction of intention, intuition and intellect with the mediums of the world. Chartwell is making too - making a difference through philanthropy and enabling access to creative activities and research.

Thinking

Chartwell encourages everyone to think about art and the creative process with a commitment to drive an understanding about the significance of the visual arts to general creative thinking. We share a curiosity to know and learn more: an imaginative, ongoing investigation.

Return to Artists

Chris Heaphy

After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University, in 1991, Chris Heaphy spent time exhibiting and practising in Aotearoa New Zealand before completing a Master of Fine Arts at RMIT University, Melbourne, in 1998. He received the Olivia Spencer Bower Fellowship in 1995.

Incorporating symbols, signs and anamorphic figures inspired by everyday objects, pop art and traditional Māori rock drawings, Heaphy’s paintings traverse cultural divides to explore concepts relating to culture and identity.

Tepu No. 1

Untitled (The Brothers)

Untitled Red Pink Yellow

Untitled Pink Red Green

Stereo (Practice and Value)

Aldrin Tranquility

Walk This Way

Into The Black

Untitled