Derek Cowie

As a scientist I know the crucial importance of getting our understanding of the environment and concerns about its degradation out to the public. The only way change can happen...

The act of capturing the human form is at once intimate and elusive. The specific contours of a face, the familiar outline of shoulders, the nape of a neck, the...

A familiar phrase used to describe wildly extravagant and destructive behaviour, the semantic origins of the well-worn idiom ‘paint the town red’ remain open to debate. Some claim the expression...

Featuring stockroom work from Star Gossage, Laura Williams, John Walsh, Gavin Chai, Toss Woollaston, Derek Cowie, Ngataiharuru Taepa, Vita Cochran, Hiria Anderson, Finn Ferrier, Lisa Reihana, Heather Straka, Paul...

Derek Cowie (b. 1956, Ruatōria, New Zealand) lives and paints in Pōneke Wellington. Cowie’s work is represented in several public collections including Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. The...

Derek Cowie doesn’t like to make things easy for himself. The artist revels in the awkward and the uncomfortable. “I like making things difficult”, he says. “And I want to...

The paintings of Derek Cowie have long been suffused with a surrealist sensibility and a preoccupation with eco dystopian realities and speculative fiction. Sadly those alternate environmental realities are no...