Briar Tucker

Patience; a virtue which is lost in a world of instant gratification.
Not a naturally patient person Briar is however a perfectionist. Unfortunately one cannot live without the other, so photorealist drawing presented itself as a unique kind of challenge. With each work taking countless hours she had to go against her desire for immediate results and learn to be patient; with herself and her drawing.
Patience guides her to make each mark, tiny and precise. Patience compels her to fill in each detail as if it were to be seen, but often goes unnoticed overlooked by the bigger picture. Patience, her counsel, reminds her that all practice is progress. The paradox of this new found patience; she has overcome a need for perfection and has simply fallen in love with the process, not as a means to an end but as a means to creation.
Briar’s artwork can be characterised by the brilliant and richly saturated colours which give a luminescence so striking that they come alive before your eyes. Colour and light, integral elements explored throughout her work, are often intertwined with the dynamic qualities inherently found within the movement and stillness of water, along with her intrinsic curiosity for the human psyche and the fu...

BFA - 2007, Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland, NZ

2019
Taranaki National Art Awards, Sandfords Event Centre, Opunake, NZ
WSA Members Exhibition, ArtsPost, Hamilton, NZ
Parkin Drawing Prize, Academy of Fine Art, Wellington, NZ
Power of Colour, online, Gallery25N.com
Family Members, online, artcompetion.net

2017
Indik’Art, Indika, HCMC, Vietnam

2009
National Youth Art Award, Arts Post, Hamilton, NZ
Youth and Wisdom - with Peter Reid, Arts Post, Hamilton, NZ

2008
Youth and Wisdom - with Peter Reid, Cross St Studios, Auckland, NZ

2007
Mazda Emerging Art Awards, Hilton Event Centre, Auckland, NZ

2006
Mazda Emerging Art Awards, Hilton Event Centre, Auckland, NZ

Awards
2019
People’s Choice Award, WSA Members Exhibition, ArtsPost, Hamilton, NZ
1st prize, Power of Colour, Gallery25N.com
5th prize, Family Members, artcompetion.net