1. Peter Simpson, Untitled, 2022.

I stumbled upon this beautiful work by Peter Simpson in a Coastal Signs show. It’s a plank of old rimu with a loosely painted ngaru or kowhaiwhai running down the length in milky white house paint.

2. I love Kate Newby’s glass window panes

I thought her show, Had us running with you, at Michael Lett’s East St space was incredible.

3. Ammon Ngakuru, Four Figures, 2021.

I love. This work has a sort of glowing aura about it. The more you look at Ammon’s work, the more that they sort of unfold… it’s like looking at a dream.

4. Further afield (if I didn’t have any budget constraints and everything was available to me!)
Maybe a Wolfgang Tillmans photograph, or an edition of Tracy Emin’s, how it feels (1996), a giant Richard Prince Cowboy, if that’s not too anachronistic… or going way back, Gustavo Moreau’s Salome Dancing before Herod (1876).

5. Emma McIntyre’s paintings.

I’m lucky enough to own two of her works – the first painting I bought in 2018, and it was my first proper art purchase. Then in quite quick, slightly impulsive, succession, I bought another. It’s been a joy to watch her trajectory in LA, and now the show with David Zwirner in New York… wild!

6. Another piece of jewellery by New York-based Sarah Ysabel Dyne.

Futuristic-Archaic one-of-a-kind pieces.

7. Free Palestine

… actually, that should be top of my, and everybody’s, lists.