Meet the Maker

Based in New Plymouth, New Zealand, Morgan Paige Taitoko is an artist working across photography, painting, and installation whose work explores the distortions of reality.

Her practice begins with photographing colour and objects through human-made substrates, particularly obscured retro glass. This playful interaction with light, refraction, and surface produces uniquely distorted images that act as references for her acrylic paintings and fabric hanging works. Through abstraction, layered colour, and softened form, her work sits between the recognisable and the unfamiliar.

The resulting pieces reflect a quiet dialogue between nature and the constructed. Organic forms are filtered through industrial materials, creating work that subtly references New Zealand’s architectural heritage while challenging fixed ways of seeing.

Across mediums, Morgan invites viewers to experience the world through a beautifully altered lens One that embraces imperfection, blur, and the space in between.

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Exhibitions

  • 2026 Taiao, Group Exhibition, Pukeiti, NZ

  • 2025 Solo Exhibition + Pop-up Studio, Pukeiti, NZ

  • 2025 New Light, Duo Exhibition with Richard Landers, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, NZ

  • 2025 Yours Truly xx, Group Exhibition, Pukeiti, NZ

  • 2024 Art in the Park, Eden Park, Auckland, NZ

  • 2024 Pride of Place, Group Exhibition, New Plymouth, NZ

  • 2024 MAGS Art Show, Mt Albert Grammar School, Auckland, NZ

  • 2024 Taranaki Art Show, Group Exhibition, TSB Stadium, New Plymouth, NZ

  • 2023 Yours Truly x, Group Exhibition, Percy Thomson Gallery, Stratford, NZ

  • 2023 St Joseph’s Art Auction, New Plymouth, NZ

  • 2023 Taranaki National Art Awards, Ōpunake, NZ

  • 2019 MAGS Art Show, Mt Albert Grammar School, Auckland, NZ

  • 2018 MAGS Art Show, Mt Albert Grammar School, Auckland, NZ

  • 2018 Four the Love of It, Group Exhibition, The Virtue, New Plymouth, NZ

  • 2018 TSB Community Trust Emergence Exhibition, Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, NZ

  • 2017 Four Quarters, Group Exhibition, New Plymouth, NZ

  • 2017 Homework Taranaki Art, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, NZ

  • 2024 Juno Gin Blank Canvas Competition, Summer Edition Winner

  • 2018 TSB Community Trust Emergence Award for Young Taranaki Artist, Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, NZ

Awards

Qualifications

  • New Zealand Diploma in Arts and Design,
    Western Institute of Technologies

  • 2025 Mood Magazine, New Zealand. Front cover artwork and editorial. Summer Edition.

  • 2023 Art Edit Magazine, Australia & New Zealand. Issue #38.

  • 2023 Mood Magazine, New Zealand. Issue #11.

  • 2020 Mood Magazine, New Zealand. Front cover artwork and editorial. Summer Edition.

Publications

Morgan Paige Taitoko Artist