This Way Up Books This native NZ timber tealight

This native NZ timber tealight holder features engraved designs that draws inspiration from the rich tapestry of Māori art forms and practices such as Whakairo

A limited edition

Ruby Rock (Goodletite) is unique to New Zealand

birds and people

copper and sterling silver hoops

This Way Up Books This native NZ timber tealightenamel on board 2025 1200 x 900 A quieter yet profoundly symbolic work, This Way Up, focuses on Aotearoa New Zealand itself. Lambert has painted the country but flipped it upside down. The composition draws on a memory from his teenage years working the pea harvest in Hastings, where a Maori student who attended Te Aute College once said, Im going up to Dunedin. The phrase stuck with Lambert, disrupting the North is up, South is down orientation