RANGE Artists
Charlotte Parallel is a contemporary artist based in Karitāne, Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Charlotte’s primary research interest is motivated by transduction, broadly thought of as the transformation of one energy to another. In 2016 she completed a Master of Fine Arts with Distinction at Dunedin School of Art. In 2017 Charlotte was awarded an Asia New Zealand Residency at Instinc Gallery in Singapore.
Since 2003, Ōtepoti Dunedin has been the home base for Charlotte Parallels artistic activity which includes a range of curatorial and community initiated collaborative art projects. From 2010 – 2024 specifically with The Anteroom, an artist-run project space based in Koputai Port Chalmers.
Image credit: Kate van der Drift
Shelley Simpson was awarded a practice-led visual art PhD in 2024 from Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau / AUT. She received an MFA (First Class Honours) from Elam in 2016. In 2017, 2020, and 2021, she attended a summer school programme exploring Posthumanism with Rosi Braidotti at Utrecht University. In 2018, she was the recipient of a Wild Creations grant from Creative New Zealand and the Department of Conservation.
She was the postgraduate representative for ASLEC-ANZ from 2021–2025. From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the RM Gallery and Project Space directorial collective.
Simpson lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau.
Image credit: Kate van der Drift
Madeline Jones is a Lecturer in Art and Design at the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, where she received an MA in Fine Art with First Class Honours in 2018 and a PGCert in Creative Education in 2019. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), a participant in the international collaborative drawing project Drawing Dialogue, and a founding member of the Hypatia Collective.
Jones lives and works in the UK.
Anne Marie Basquin is an artist and writer based in Leigh near Te Hāwere-a-Maki Goat Island Marine Reserve in Aotearoa New Zealand. She grew up in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the USA and south of Ōtepoti Dunedin on the South Island of Aotearoa between the Taieri and Akatore rivers. Her latest work has embraced walking long looping routes, listening to and working collaboratively with the landscape, and producing unstable cyanotype exposures, as a salve for dislocation and its impacts on the body.
Image credit: Kate van der Drift
Abbie Cossey is a photographic artist based in Mahurangi West, on the rural east coast north of Auckland. Her analogue practice is shaped by the surrounding regional park and dense stands of kānuka. Working with expired photographic papers and plant-based chemistry made from locally gathered kānuka, her work explores place, material reuse, and environmentally conscious photographic processes.
With a background in traditional darkroom practice and the film and television industry, Abbie’s practice investigates sustainable approaches to analogue photography through experimental plant-based developers and alternative darkroom processes. She has recently exhibited in Female Photographers Using Film, Collected Identity: Portraits of the North West and RANGE.
Cassey Locke is a photographic artist based in Whāingaroa/Raglan, New Zealand. Her work is a meditation on the ephemerality of people and things. She is influenced by philosophy and psychoanalysis and uses her creative practice to engage in an ongoing dialogue with death.
In 2022 she completed her Master of Creative Practice with First Class Honours at Unitec in Auckland. During her undergraduate degree, Cassey was awarded Contemporary Arts Excellence in Photography and Moving Image and was a finalist in the Eden Art Schools Award.
Christina Little is a Pōneke/Wellington-based photographic artist whose paper-based practice explores water, light, movement, and natural phenomena within the landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand. Working across digital and analogue forms of photography she creates abstract works shaped by close observation and immersion in the natural environment.
Christina explores coastlines and waterways throughout Aotearoa New Zealand including Southland, Marlborough Sounds, and the Chatham Islands. Her practice is informed by a deep curiosity about water as both a physical and mysterious force connecting everything.
David Loughlin is a New Zealand artist and architect based in Whāingaroa Raglan, currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Working across wet plate collodion, cameraless photography, moving image, and material experimentation, his practice explores relationships between whenua, whakapapa, ecology, and photographic process. Drawing from both Te Āti Awa / Ngāti Puketapu and Irish settler ancestry, his work often emerges through repeated return to specific sites, where image-making becomes a form of observation, ritual, and encounter.
Loughlin incorporates soil, plant matter, clay, silver, and hand-built photographic chemistry into works that move between photography, sculpture, and installation. Using historic large-format cameras and alternative processes, he investigates how material traces of land can be carried into the photographic surface itself. His recent work considers disturbance, repair, and the slow re-emergence of ecological memory within altered landscapes.
Aimee Magne is a photographic artist based in Mount Maunganui Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Aimee’s photographic practice is shaped by capturing tender moments spent in the natural world.
Lou Corry is a freelance photographer and artist from the deep south of Aotearoa. She studied photography at NMIT in Melbourne and art at Hungry Creek in Tāmaki Makaurau, developing a multidisciplinary approach that extends across photography, ceramics, and jewellery. Her work explores themes of place, memory, materiality, and connection through experimental and process-based methods. Alongside commissioned work, she maintains an independent art practice grounded in observation, storytelling, and abstraction. She has previously exhibited work in Women’s Work and the Auckland Festival of Photography. Drawing influence from the natural environment and human connection, her work reflects an ongoing interest in relationships between people, objects, memory, and place.