Queenstown artist Alice Blackley's work concentrates on the connections between mind and body experienced during meditation while Lower Hutt artist Jason Hicks delves into the connections between the land, indigenous culture and the migrants who have settled here over the past two centuries.
The calm cyclic imagery of Ms Blackley's work was inspired by the meditation space in the artist's residence she visited in Vermont in the United States earlier this year.
She decided to focus on drawings and generating ideas for future paintings.
Her drawings incorporate rubbings from the studio walls to add texture and as a place of reference.
She draws on the idea of meditation, being calm and focusing on the breath.
Spiralling circles and connective threads and bands illustrate inner connectivity - bringing the mind, body and spirit together.
Mr Hicks' exploration of biculturalism brings together concepts of maoritanga, nostalgia, history and belonging, from a Pakeha perspective.
It is is also one of the traveller who returns home with a greater appreciation of the land, environment, and of his own origins and roots, while forging ahead into a changing future.
Recurring elements have been used to bring these disparate ideas together.
Birds, tiki and teapots are juxtaposed with dramatic landscapes.
Both artists were excited to be exhibiting their work together.
Mr Hicks said it was good to meet the people he had been talking to by phone face to face.
The exhibition will run at Toi o Tahuna gallery in Church Lane, until July 15.
