Ngati Wai – Manuhiri
Ati Awa – Ruahine
Aroha Gossage graduated with a Masters of Art & Design (Honours) in 2015 from the Auckland University of Technology. The James Wallace Trust acquired one of her Graduate Show paintings.
During 2016 Gossage was commissioned by the Kelliher Art Trust to paint a work of Little Barrier Island and the painting was unveiled in December 2016. In March 2017 the Kelliher Art Trust held an exhibition of their Collection — ‘New Zealand Landscapes, Six Decades: Leonard Mitchell to Aroha Gossage’.
Gossage has been represented at ARTIS Gallery, Parnell, Auckland, since September 2016 when she exhibited in a joint exhibition ‘Waenga’ with Māori artist, Zena Elliott.
Her first solo exhibition at ARTIS, ‘Whenua’, was held in March/April 2017. The huge interest in this exhibition resulted in all works selling — one of which was purchased by the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The body of work in ‘Whenua’ focused on a personal and spiritual relationship with the coastal area north of Auckland named Pakiri and Little Barrier Island, the ancestral home of Ngāti Manuhiri.
