Kia ora!

Ko Maunganui te maunga

Ko Waipoua te awa

Ko Kawerua te moana

Ko Māhūhū-ki-te-rangi te waka

Ko Te Roroa te iwi

Ko Matatina te marae

Ko Alex Nathan raua ko Alison (Avery) Nathan ōku matua

Ko Stephanie tōku ingoa

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Stephanie is an artist based in Whangārei, New Zealand.

Her work reflects themes of co-existence and interconnectedness, deeply honouring indigenous identity and whakapapa (genealogy) by visually expressing the enduring connection between people, ancestors and Te Taiao (the natural world).

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Growing up in a family of renowned artists and makers, Stephanie was immersed in creative expression from an early age. Self-taught as a painter and trained in spatial design, she brings a refined sense of proportion, structure, and balance to her abstracted figures and segmented compositions.

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Through the interplay of form, light and shadow, and the tension between presence and absence, her work explores collective belonging and a felt sense of unity.

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She invites viewers into a contemplative space to see themselves and reflect on their connections to place, people, and the unseen, shaped not just by who we are, but by who and what we are connected to.​  

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Inspired by the subtlety of human expression, natural forms, and the rhythms of the environment, Stephanie’s compositions often depict elements sitting alongside, overlapping, or dissolving into one another, each maintaining its own integrity while contributing to a larger, continuous flow. 

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Stephanie balances the art of family life, motherhood, and part-time work while crafting space for her lifelong pull towards creative expression as a painter.