​Raewyn Whaley is a Waikato based artist, and is a graduate Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of Auckland.                           
                                                                         
Her art practice comprises a philosophical viewpoint, which investigates ideas and notions of "being", and incorporates her interest in contemplative thought - that there is a dynamic and relational wholeness at the heart of everything.

Her practice of undirected drawing, is a continuation of the Abstract Expressionist tradition, which explores the workings of the mind and the unconscious.
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Raewyn was awarded the Arts Whakatane Award at the Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 2017 for her painting Between.   She was a finalist in the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award 2017, and a finalist in the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award 2019, and a finalist in the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award 2019.

Recent works:
-   What is real:  a series of paintings exhibited at The Mandarin Tree Gallery, June 2022.

-   Cloud of Unknowing paintings:   her series exhibited under the title PRESENCE, with Alex Whaley-Smith, at the Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, July 2021.

​Raewyn's past artistic experience includes figurative and portrait painting, and book illustration (Harry and the Anzac Poppy, Jean Batten, George Nepia).

Raewyn co-initiated the Dust Art Collective in 2007, a group of 15 women artists who exhibited together regularly and worked in a range of disciplines. 

Raewyn's work features in collections both nationally and internationally.

FULCRUM 760 X 1020mm Oil on canvas Finalist NZ Painting & Printmaking Award 2019