Neil Frazer is a seventh generation New Zealander who was born in Canberra, Australia in 1961. He completed a BFA at Canterbury University in Christchurch before studying in painting at The New York Studio School on a Fulbright scholarship. Frazer received the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship at the University of Otago, Dunedin in 1993, and was an artist in residence at the Victoria College of the Arts in Victoria, Australia in 1994. In 1999 Frazer moved to Sydney, Australia to complete an MFA in painting at the University of New South Wales. Frazer is represented in major public and private collections in NZ and Australia.
He is a painter whose large gestural works celebrate the power and drama of the natural world without reference to human intervention. He travels within and throughout the landscapes he paints in order to experience, gather and absorb its grandeur.
Craig Potton (MNZM) is one of New Zealand's foremost landscape photographers and a noted conservationist. He has produced many books, written and presented two television documentary series and worked in the film industry. As well as co-owning a publishing company he has a gallery featuring his work from which prints of his images can be purchased. He has tramped and climbed extensively in the Southern Alps, including a three month traverse of the Southern Alps.