Current guest artist
Simon Kaan
Untitled intaglio woodcut 2009, from the Moth Series.
Simon Kaan is of Chinese, Ngai Tahu and Pakeha ancestry. He graduated with a Diploma of Fine Art majoring in Printmaking at Otago Polytechnic in 1993 and has exhibited widely in New Zealand in both public and dealer galleries.
He has curated numerous exhibitions and completed many commissions. In 2007 with the support of Creative NZ and the Gate Gallery Residency he was able to visit Beijing for the third time. He first travelled to China in 2003 - the first member of his family to visit China since his grandfather arrived in Port Chalmers in 1896.
