Valerie Bos has been exhibiting with PAULNACHE since 2007. Predominantly a painter she periodically strays into other mediums. 

Bos makes use of symbols and allegory to explore aspects of the human condition: the interrelationships between people, the spaces people find themselves occupying, and forces that drive their energies.

For Bos, one body of work can be quite different to another in content and medium.
A new project or body of work might start with a vague motivating idea but rarely with any predetermined image in mind. It is through the process of painting that things become clearer.

Persisting with small scale works - for the time being - recent works are emboldened with a brighter more lustrous palette that hold their own at distance whilst closer inspection rewards the viewer with the materiality of her painting process.

Her approach to painting explores aspects of the human condition; the interrelationship between people, the spaces people create for themselves and forces that drive their energies. More recent works have introduced abstract elements.

Brief biography

Self-taught, her formative years as a painter were spent in Gisborne, when there was an active art scene. Thirty years later she has returned from Wellington to take up residence once again. 

Valerie was born in 1963, Palmerston North, New Zealand (of Dutch decsent). Her works are held in private collections throughout New Zealand, Australia and Singapore as well as Te Tairawhiti Museum Collection.

Anonymous (Series)

Valerie Bos, 2020, Acrylic ink & acrylic paint on paper, 29 x 21cm (unframed) Contact the Gallery

Paintings

Selected Exhibitions

• Valerie Bos + Virginia Leonard, 20 September – 26 October 2024

• The Meeting Place, Group Show, PAULNACHE, 27 January – 24 February 2023

• Valerie Bos, Anonymous, 3 Jan – 1 Feb 2020

• Valerie Bos & Lorene Clotworthy Taurerewa, New Work, Jul 15 – Aug 12, 2016

• Valerie Bos, Repeat, 4-26 July 2014

• Frameless at JJ Morgan & Co, Group show, 21-26 March 2014

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions

• 2020 Anonymous, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2017 Fragments: paintings, installation & video projection, Brooklyn, New York

• 2017 Transitional States, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae

• 2016 Valerie Bos and Lorene Clotworthy Taurerewa, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2014 Repeat, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2012 Walk, Memory, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2011 To Aid or Abate, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North

• 2008     New Work Valerie Bos- PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2007     New Work Valerie Bos- PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 1995     Sacrificial Barb, Manawatu Art Gallery

• 1994 Nothing If Not Plain, Fettucine Brothers (Cafe), Gisborne

• 1993 Fine Line to Flight, Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne

• 1993 Installation, Wharf Wine Bar, Gisborne

• 1991 Change of Tide, Scrumples Cafe, Gisborne

• 1990 Taking Flight, Flying Moas Gallery, Gisborne

Group Exhibitions

• 2022 Method curated by Eliza Webster & Michael Prosee, Pah Homestead, Auckland

• 2017 Flying Moas, Tairawhiti Museum and Art Gallery, Gisborne

• 2016 The Collector / The Gather Part 4, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville

• 2014 Lying in Space 30Upstairs, Wellington

• 2014 PaulNache, Melbourne Art Fair

• 2014 Frameless, Justin Jade Morgan

• 2013 Parallel Lines, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2012 Not Just a Pretty Picture, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North

• 2011 Upstairs 142 Cuba, PAULNACHE Wellington 

• 2010 Tairawhiti Landscapes, Tairawhiti Museum and Art Gallery, Gisborne

• 2010 Represent, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2010 Encore, Thermostat, Wellington

• 2010 First Test, Suite, Wellington

• 2009 Hoof and Hand, PAULNACHE, Gisborne

• 2009 Six Degrees of Separation, Suite, Wellington

• 2008  Waterfront Exhibition, Gisborne

• 1993 Here & Now-Contemporary Painters of Gisborne, Tairawhiti Museum, Gisborne

Media

The Gardner family’s art collection on Auckland’s Waiheke Island