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
Interview - A Moment to Hold with brunelle dias primbs, interview with Arts House Trust, 2026
Essay - Dreaming from Afar (Gus Fisher Gallery, 2026). Catalogue Essay.
Essay - who I’m loving most, who that makes me, Lucinda Bennett. The Art Paper, 2023
Essay - the way things are, The Physics Room, 2022. Accompanying Essay by Amy Weng
Profile - brunelle dias primbs, Artist Profile, Satellites Archive
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).