Alistair Oldham

Alistair began painting seriously in the past year, following a career in teaching documentary film production in Bristol, UK. As a filmmaker he made a series of short documentaries about subjects including recycled bicycles and political asylum (The Bristol Bike Project), the squatting scene in London in the 1980’s (Bonnington Square) and the reclamation of anti-monuments on the Thames Estuary (Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone).

As a painter, he is developing an abstract style that combines architectural composition, mixed-media collage, layered surfaces and gestural mark-making. Although he has lived most of his life in the UK, Alistair has dual nationality and maintains a strong connection with his New Zealand heritage.