Kupesi Styles I

Dagmar Dycks work encompasses and reflects the three countries that are part of her heritage: Tonga, Germany and New Zealand. Dagmar is a New Zealand citizen, currently living on Aucklands North Shore. She attended Westlake Girls High School and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994 and Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts at Elam Art School in 1995. Dagmar works in the mediums of painting and print. Her prints focus on the silkscreen technique. She enjoys the immediacy of this process which allows extraordinary accuracy in reproducing the drawn line. This method also allows an organic effect to be retained enhancing the pacific influence seen in her work. Dyck has exhibited regularly in Auckland as well as overseas in Melbourne, Norway, Noumea, California and New York. She has also received commissions, both private and public with the most familiar for Aucklanders being her wall hanging at the Sky City Hotel. Her work has been reviewed extensively in magazines and has received project grants from Creative New Zealand as well as a scholarship from the Auckland City Council. She was a 2002 finalist in the Wallace Art Awards.