Christian Dimick
and Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood
May Art Fair
The first breathe, 2025 & Listening to the house with my shell, 2025 (installation)
For the inaugural May Art Fair, Grace presented new work by Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood and Christian Dimick.
Grace at May Art Fair, 2025 (installation)
Christian Dimick Accompanist, 2025 Oil, pencil, calico on canvas. 450 x 550
Christian Dimick Listening to the house with my shell, 2025 Oil, pencil, and calico on canvas
350 x 450
Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood Hīkoi ki te tōpito o te Ao, 2025 Red stoneware and glaze. 380 x 450 x 250
Christian Dimick Chagrin, 2025 Oil and pencil on canvas 1260 x 860
Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood Untitled, 2025 (detail) Red stoneware and glaze. 360 x 320 x 320
Christian Dimick House, tree, person (Goodnight), 2025 Oil, pencil, calico on canvas
860 x 1210
Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood The first breathe, 2025 Red stoneware and glaze. 480 x 350 x 350
Christian Dimick What we have now, 2025 Oil, pencil, pastel, calico on canvas
450 x 650
Georgia Tikaputini Douglas Hood (Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Pākehā) is an uku (clay) artist from Tāmaki Makaurau. She graduated with an Honours degree at Whitecliffe College of Creative Arts in 2021.
Hood’s exhibitions include Pianola (2024) with Christian Dimick and Samuel Scully at Studio One Toi Tū, and Āmene (2024) at Grace Aotearoa. She recently undertook a residency in Crete, where she studied ancient Greek pottery.
Christian Dimick is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau who paints and draws.
Dimick graduated with a BFA (First class Honours) from Massey University, Wellington, in 2022. Since then he has shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in both Aotearoa and Australia, including at Paper Anniversary and Grace. Most recently, Dimick’s work featured in Three Approaches, Three Rooms at Gus Fisher Gallery.
In 2024, Dimick became the inaugural artist peer of Grace.
Alex Laurie Desert - sample, 2025
Plaster, Aluminium Foil, 5w festoon bulbs, tinned copper wire. Dimensions variable
Coinciding the opening of ‘reception’ at Blue Oyster, the Grace booth was illuminated by Alex Laurie’s Desert - sample (2025). Working alongside artist Yukari Kaihori, Laurie has installed a site specific installation of light in the Dunedin gallery. Director of Blue Oyster, Simon Palenski writes of Laurie’s work:
“Laurie’s spidery lightworks are made of construction materials: plaster and aluminuim—substrates that are usually painted over in interior spaces, and auto bulbs and tinned copper wire. The wire acts as a conductor, channeling electricity and casting soft pools of light across the room. Its effect is subdued, and, unlike much artificial lighting encountered today, it produces illumination while admitting shadow.”
reception at Blue Oyster Alex Laurie & Yukari Kaihori 3 May - 7 June