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-
Upcoming-
2025. BOP Open Studios, Tauranga - November
Past Events-
2025 To Paint with Light, The Collaboration, New Plymouth - June 19th - August 3rd
2025 NZ Art Show Wellington - May 30th - June 1st
2025 Taranaki Art Show, New Plymouth
2025 Meraki Exhibition - Phos Gallery
2024 Bay of Plenty Garden & Arts Festival
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