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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

Emily Karaka

When at intermediate school, Emily Karaka was encouraged to pursue art by her teacher, Greer Twiss. Twiss and his friend Colin McCahon, as well as Arnold Manaaki Wilson and Auckland Girls’ Grammar teachers Elizabeth Ellis and Trixie Illingworth, were early influences on Karaka’s artistic development.

Karaka’s abstract expressionistic paintings are notable for their exuberant use of colour, strong imagery, densely layered application of paint and political commentary. Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Waitangi), and the subsequent claims brought to the Waitangi Tribunal, often form the starting point of Karaka’s work.

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