Lori Tuiavi ' i Maxwell

Lori was born in 1979; a first generation Kiwi with Australian and Samoan roots. She grew up in the largely state-housing area of Elsdon, Porirua. The State House played a central role to her first exhibition with two other local artists at Gallery De Novo in 2006. This show was extremely well received with most of her State House paintings selling out.

A year on and Lori held another exhibition, this time looking at the various landforms of the Otago region. Her works maintain her unique technique with diluted acrylic on canvas topped with worked oil canvas. This technique she recently adapted to record animal forms such as cows, bulls and sheep - the combination of technique and subject matter has worked incredibly well.

Lori has further developed her painting and sketching skill to record a series of works looking at figures under the water. Below are the pastel works from her third exhibition, Treading Water (all framed with white conservation matt boards and a white box frame).