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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...