With over three decades of experience behind the lens, Tracy Stamatakos creates works that blur the boundaries between photography, drawing, and painting. Using single-capture long exposure techniques, she paints with light, colour, and contrast directly in-camera, crafting atmospheric images that feel more like memories or emotions than literal landscapes.
Her work is not just a visual record of Aotearoa’s dramatic beauty—it is an emotional response to it. Each piece becomes a deconstructed expression of presence and place, balancing mood, movement, and form.
“My work is a meditation on connection to the land or sea, to the moment, and to myself. Each piece is both a reflection and a response, an invitation for the viewer not only to observe, but to feel.”
Currently Showing-
Phos Gallery, 59 9th Ave, Tauranga
Upcoming-
2026 Tauranga Art Show, Bay Park, Tauranga 28th - 30th August
2026 Art in the Park, Eden Park, Auckland 1st - 4th October
2026 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival, Phos Gallery, Tauranga 19th - 22nd November
Past Events-
2026 NZ Art Show, TSB Arena, Wellington
2026 Wayfarerion Group Exhibition, Phos Gallery, Tauranga
2025 BOP Open Studios, Tauranga
2025 To Paint with Light, The Collaboration, New Plymouth
2025 NZ Art Show, Wellington
2025 Taranaki Art Show, New Plymouth
2025 Meraki Exhibition - Phos Gallery
2024 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival, Tauranga
2024 Art in the Park, Eden Park, Auckland
2024 NZ Art Show, Wellington
2024 Tauranga Art Gallery - Tauranga Moana Waterscapes:1800s Present
2024 Elemental - Group Show, Taupo
2024 Bay of Plenty Open Studios
2023 “Fancy” Group Show with Suss Group, Tauranga
2023 Art in the Park, Eden Park, Auckland- Landscape Award
2022 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival
2022 “In Contrast” Group Show
2020 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival
2018 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival
2016 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival
2014 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival
2010 Parallel - Duo Exhibition with Lee Kleiman