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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.

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Star Gossage

Star Gossage is a painter using film, theatre and poetry as a part of her creative practice. Influenced by the art careers of her parents, Peter and Tilly Gossage, she studied at Otago Polytechnic and graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1995.

The natural world influences the colour palette of her works – made up of pigments like fish oils, burnt kauri gum, clay, lime and earth. The female figures that often emerge in her paintings reference herself, whānau (family) and the spiritual essence of wāhinetanga (womanhood).

A Day at Pareparea Bay