Harry Moores

New Plymouth artist, Harry Moores, describes his work as a contemporary look at portraiture. His work taps into the equivocal nature of abstraction, fusing this with lucid representations, and often, unmistakable familiarity.



Harry Moores was born in October 1987 and raised in New Plymouth. His interest in art started in high school, where he was taught by bronze artist, John Tullet, at New Plymouth Boys High School. After leaving school Moores and his brother set up an art studio called ‘The Drawing Room’ where he began to create sketches that were instructed more by intuition than by volition. He states:



“I found harmony in the facility and spaces of these lines, and I later found out that I was in some shape or form ‘automatic drawing’. I continued to draw and paint realistically before combining the ambiguity of automatism*, with realistic representations of people. I feel that there is something between these two opposites that touches at a sensation of art.”



Moores aims to find a meeting point between two opposites in his art, and, in the process allow the viewer to see/feel something that is not quite understood. He believes that the whole world is founded on dualistic principal...

Awards (Painting):

2010 1st TSB Community Trust Painting Award, Taranaki Art Awards

2010 2nd Peoples Choice Award, Taranaki Art Awards

2021 2nd Peoples Choice Award, NZ Art Show

2021 Winner of the ‘Most Creative Award’ Dunedin Art Show.

2022 Finalist. Parkin Drawing Prize. Academy of Fine Art, Wellington, NZ

Exhibitions (Painting):

2005 ‘People’ The Drawing Room, New Plymouth, NZ.

2010 ‘Vivid’ Kina Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ.

2010 NZ Art Show, Wellington, NZ.

2010 Solo Exhibition Real TArt, New Plymouth, NZ.

2011 ‘Vivid’ Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, NZ.

2011 ‘Mountain Men’ Exhibition, Taranaki, NZ.

2011 Sponsors Evening NZ Art Show, Museum Hotel, Wellington, NZ.

2011 Life Education Trust Art Exhibition, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington,NZ

2012 BDO Partners’ Annual Conference Auction, Plymouth Hotel, New Plymouth,NZ

2012 Masquerade Ball Auction

2013 NZ Art Show, Wellington, NZ

2014 Life Education Trust Art Exhibition, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington,NZ

2015 Orakei School Art Exhibition, Auckland, NZ

2019 Mt Albert Grammar School Art Exhibition, Auckland, NZ

2019 Carmel College Art Fusions Exhibition, Auckland, NZ

2019 Kings College School Art Exhibition, ...