brunelle dias primbs

fomo is a joota, 2023  Oil on Canvas 1500 × 900

january in mt maunganui, 2024 Oil on canvas 1000 × 1300

blue brother, 2024 Oil on canvas 900 x 700

mango season, 2022 (installation) Oil on canvas 1800 x 2300

P.O.T.E.N.T.I.A.L., 2022 Oil on canvas 1620 x 1230

snake skin, 2024 Oil on canvas 1300 x 1000

pakuranga falls,  2023 Oil on linen 1750 x 500 

HOW DO YOU AFFORD YOUR ROCK N ROLL LIFESTYLE? (i live with my family), 2023    Oil on unstretched canvas 1240 × 1600

untitled, 2025 Oil on Canvas 300 × 400

a posture of confession, 2024 Oil on canvas 1900 x 125

Portrait of brunelle dias primbs, 2026. Photo: Ophelia Harradine Bayly

brunelle dias primbs (India, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a painter who attends to the figure and its painterly ground. Often diaristic, her practice explores ideas around temporality, sacredness and the interconnection of the self and its environment. dias primbs holds a Master of Visual Arts from AUT School of Art and Design. 

Recent exhibitions include Dreaming from Afar (Gus Fisher Gallery, 2026); A Moment to Hold (The Arts House Trust, 2025); aaj kal (CoCA, 2024); yahaan (Corban’s Estate Art Centre, 2024); kiss taraf (The Art Paper Office, 2023); soft protest (Play_Station, 2023); and the way things are (The Physics Room, 2022).