Chris Moore

Chris is a visual artist with over twenty years’ experience and an expansive repertoire of technical skills to show for it, including design, oil painting, portraiture, blacksmithing and bronze casting. 

His studies in the traditional methods of the latter two took him to Europe for several years, after which he returned to New Zealand and set up a studio space in Oratia, West Auckland. Bringing the metals to life via an intensive process of forging, heating and shaping motivate his work, with which he aims to bring an unexpected lightness and texture to the material. 

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