Mar 17, 20231 min read

Creative Matters with Rebecca Hazard

Updated: Mar 20, 2023

A young emerging artist currently based in Tãmaki Makaurau Auckland, working primarily with oil paints.

Rebecca's work currently references raw meat to investigate our tangibility within existence and her own social concerns, offering the viewer a moment of mindfulness and philosophical reflection.

Her oil paintings are large scale with a limited palette of vibrant colour. Although the works are fundamentally representational there is also a distinct abstract, surrealist and sometimes geometric feel to her paintings.

Rebecca talks about her decision not to attend an art school after leaving school; her expectation of and drive to becoming a practising artist from the age of 19; how reading philosophy, researching and writing influence her practice; the different ways viewers see and respond to her work; and what drives her to make the work she makes.