James Wallace Arts Trust

About Us

Learn how our charitable trust nurtures, preserves and shares contemporary Aotearoa art with future generations.

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The James Wallace Arts Trust champions contemporary New Zealand art, caring for a significant collection, supporting artists’ careers, and sharing diverse voices through exhibitions, residencies and education grounded in manaakitanga, kaitiakitanga and long-term stewardship.

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Our People

James Wallace

Director

Erinc Yikar

Operations Manager

Lee Calderon

Curator and Collection’s Manager

A meticulously curated gallery wall of contemporary New Zealand artworks, featuring a mix of bold abstract canvases, finely detailed landscapes, and experimental mixed-media pieces. Each work hangs on a pristine white wall inside a modern exhibition space, with polished concrete floors and subtle architectural lines. Soft, diffused museum lighting from recessed ceiling fixtures gently illuminates each artwork, creating controlled pools of light and minimal reflections on protective glazing. The mood is professional, contemplative, and quietly dramatic. Captured at eye level with a wide-angle photographic realism style, the composition uses the rule of thirds to lead the viewer’s gaze along the wall, with a slightly blurred background corridor hinting at additional galleries beyond.

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An archival storage room of the James Wallace Arts Trust, lined with custom metal racks holding carefully wrapped contemporary New Zealand artworks. Flat files, labeled with precise typography, are partially open to reveal glimpses of works on paper in muted charcoal, ink, and watercolor. The environment is clinically clean, with pale grey shelving and a subtle grid of ceiling panels. Cool, even fluorescent lighting provides neutral illumination, minimizing shadows and color casts. The mood is orderly, methodical, and highly professional, suggesting careful stewardship of the collection. Captured in photographic realism with a centered composition and moderate depth of field, the foreground drawers are in crisp focus while the receding rows of storage fade gently into a soft blur, conveying depth and scale.