About

Daniella Hulme is an established, published and award winning NZ artist. 

She has exhibited extensively throughout NZ and Internationally since 1998

Her work is inspired by and is a combination of her own Dutch heritage and the Samoan heritage of her children

Daniella is known for her large, vibrant, delineated, stylized oil paintings of Pacific Island women. 

Other series/bodies of work consists of Pacific navigation, flora and fauna, tropical series, Kupe series, Kiwiana series, pop art series , poppy series to name a few

Her work is collected by art patrons, Corporates, Diplomates, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, NZ Embassy in Den Hague, NZ ambassador to the US the late RT Hon Mike Moore. 

Governor-General Anand Satyanand commissioned a large triptych to be given as a gift from NZ to the Tokelau Islands in 2007. 

She also designed the Xmas cards for Government House in 2008 and 2009.   

Her works have been featured in Disney movie 'Johnny Kapahala' and a great number of  publications over the last 22 years such as  art books, art calendars, corporate calendars, magazines, diaries, news papers, tv programmes. 

She has been a finalist in many NZ art awards and has won 3 International Art Awards 

International awards

January 2011  Won 'Excellence in the arts' in the Palm Art Awards, Leipzig, Germany.

September 2011  Finalist in the Emerging artists discovery prize, hosted by Showartists, Santa Fe.

October 2011   Silver award winner in the 'Art Curated Prize September Classic' hosted by Showartists, Santa Fe. 

NZ publications:

2005 ‘NZ food wine and Art’, the journey continues, Chanel publishers LTD, Whangaparoa , NZ

2009  'NZ Favourite Artists' volume 1 by independent art consultant Denis Robinson.

2011  'Artists impressions of NZ' by Independent Art Consultant Denis Robinson.  

NZ publications:

2012 'International contemporary artists' volume 3, I.C.A publishing, NY

2012 'Who's who in Visual art' by Art Domain Whois Verlag, Germany

2013 'Who's who in Visual art' by Art Domain Whois Verlag, Germany

2017 New Zealand Kiwi Consciousness, Imagio Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy 

International exhibitions:

2002  Art Studio, Rarotonga,

2010  Agora Gallery, New York, USA 

2013  Beijing Art Fair

2016  Benetton World Art Collection, Italy. 

Invited artist:

to speak and teach at primary schools around the country over the years 

2000 3 day painting symposium part of the Americas cup