Chris Moore is a visual artist with over twenty years of experience and an expansive repertoire of technical skills to show for it, including in design, oil painting and portraiture, and blacksmithing and bronze casting.
His studies in the traditional methods of the latter two took him to Europe for several years, after which he returned to New Zealand and set up a studio space in Oratia, West Auckland. Bringing the metals to life via an intensive process of forging, heating and shaping motivate Moore’s work, with which he aims to bring an unexpected lightness and texture to the material.
He has exhibited extensively throughout New Zealand and has a number of large scale Public works in Auckland as well as many in Private collections