BRUCE LUXFORD
CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND ARTIST · WELLINGTON
Through his art, Bruce Luxford offers more than just an aesthetic experience—he opens a portal to alternate realities, where the impossible becomes possible, and where the unseen depths of the mind can be explored and understood.
Artworks
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Valley Of Extinction
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United Lakes
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The Helmet
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Temple Guards
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Retinue
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Power Play
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Outpost
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One In Six
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Mystic Renovations
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Last Stand
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Land End Revisited
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Iron Poppies Too
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Golden Promise
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Dery-Dell Direct Flow
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Caravel
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Bolt-On Deities
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Bruce Luxford is Wellington's foremost surrealist painter — a distinctive and deeply thoughtful artist who has been building a celebrated body of work since the early 2000s. His paintings blend fantasy and realism, juxtapose the unexpected, and draw on the great tradition of Surrealism to create works that are simultaneously provocative, beautiful, and charged with ideas. Rooted in the human condition, the values, drives, and contradictions that underpin our actions, his paintings are pictorial stories that know themselves to be metaphorical, rhetorical, transformational, and fictional. He has exhibited at Kiwi Art House Gallery on Cuba Street in Wellington and is represented exclusively online through NZ Māori Art Gallery.
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FAQs
Q: Who is Bruce Luxford?
Bruce Luxford is a Wellington-based surrealist painter who has been creating work since the early 2000s. He is recognised as Wellington’s leading surrealist artist, known for paintings that combine fantasy and realism to explore human values, environmental themes, and the contradictions of contemporary life. His work is exhibited at Kiwi Art House Gallery on Cuba Street and is available online through NZ Maori Art Gallery.
Q: What style does Bruce Luxford paint in?
Bruce Luxford works in the tradition of Surrealism — combining incongruous elements, metamorphosis, and dream-like imagery to create paintings that are metaphorical and thought-provoking. His work draws on the original ideals of the Surrealist movement while engaging with contemporary New Zealand subjects, including environmental politics, identity, and the forces that drive human behaviour.
Q: What are some notable Bruce Luxford paintings?
Notable works include ‘Forrest Warrior’ — featuring an armoured kiwi as a symbol of the Predator Free NZ movement — and ‘The Prophet’s Brother’. He has also created a tribute to historian Michael King, and an exhibition coinciding with Te Papa’s Surrealism show in Wellington.
Q: Where does Bruce Luxford exhibit?
Bruce Luxford exhibits regularly at Kiwi Art House Gallery, 225 Cuba Street, Wellington. His work is also available to purchase online through NZ Maori Art Gallery (nzmaoriart.com).
Q: Where can I buy Bruce Luxford paintings?
Original Bruce Luxford paintings are available through NZ Maori Art Gallery (nzmaoriart.com), with international shipping to New Zealand, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
