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AB4014 – Auckland Parnell
March 12 @ 6:00 pm NZDT
Art Battle Parnell – March 12, 2026
Doors 6:00pm / Rnd 1 starts 7:00pm
269 Parnell – 269 Parnell Road, Parnell, Auckland
view on Eventbrite
Art Battle Parnell is a fun, free and interactive audience event – and it is back for more fast paced creativity!
Art Battle is the planet’s biggest LIVE painting competition across 70+ cities worldwide. 12 artists battle it out over 3 rounds. The audience decides..
FREE TICKETS: Secure your tickets for entry and to use your phone to vote & bid ; )
Snag yourself a bargain as all the artwork will be for sale at the silent auction at the end of the night.
Spot Prizes, Resene’s $250 Give-Away and more!
WILDCARDS: There will be 2 wilcard spots available – put YOUR name in the hat and challenge the artists.
CALL TO ARTISTS: Get your applications in now – spots are filling up fast for the new season – apply online at artbattle.com/artists
NB: Please advise your Auckland region when applying for any of the listed community battles – we will try to allocate you to the nearest battle to your region.
NB: Art Battle does experience a varying percentage of no-shows with FREE ticket events. Our priority is to provide equal opportunities for all, and a safe and meaningful experience for our artists, performers and guests. Due to limited venue capacities we are obliged to operate a 1 in 1 out policy if the capacity is reached. The events are LIVE streamed to help ensure nothing is missed.
Confirmed Competitors
Art Battle Auckland Parnell
10 confirmed artists
Clarissa Siddle
Clarissa is a multi‑disciplinary design graduate and artist who paints portraits full of feeling—beautiful, sad, happy, confused, smiling, worried, excited, hungry, and everything in between. She works across graphic design, illustration, and animation, and finished her communication design degree at AUT in 2024. Her style leans into bold colors, playful digital graphics, and a love for exploring emotion through every face she paints.
Francis (Paranihi) Hamon
Francis Hamon, grandson of the late artist Rei Hamon, is a contemporary Urban Māori artist whose work bridges heritage, craftsmanship with traditional and modern techniques.
Frankie Meaden
Frankie Meaden is a contemporary artist working primarily with fiber and mixed media to create large-scale, tactile works for public, commercial, and exhibition contexts. Her practice is grounded in material exploration and process-led making, with a strong focus on how work behaves over time and within space. Through layering, repetition, and considered construction, Frankie develops pieces that respond to site, scale, and audience, often blurring the boundary between textile, sculpture, and installation.
Jing Hunter
Jing is an architectural interior designer who’s been drawing and painting since she was little. She loves mixed media—watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pencil—and her work often drifts toward portraits and animals. She’s also into 3D modelling and photo‑realistic rendering, always exploring new styles and pushing her versatility.
JOHN EMMANUEL QUINONES GOLENA
John is a multi‑disciplinary artist and chaotically fast painter who works mainly in acrylic, watercolor, and even sewing. He’s been painting since he was five, starting out in Singapore and now creating most of his work in New Zealand. His art blends surreal nature elements with the figure, forming dark, whimsical, deeply personal hybrids full of tiny hidden surprises. After joining Art Battle Auckland as a Wildcard and loving every second, he’s pushing himself this year to share his surreal nature portraits with more people and keep growing as an artist.
Ken Faber
Ken is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of agency and human nature through animal art. A graduate of the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, he’s now trying to get a stronger sense of Auckland’s art communities by taking part in local events like Art Battle.
MÓNDÙC
MÓNDÙC is the moniker of New Zealand contemporary artist Kelly Williams; a former digital designer with roots in graffiti and animation, who blends contemporary styles with nostalgic influences across a growing body of sought-after pop art collectibles. His work is luxury street abstraction with character-driven energy. His works are created for collectors who value emotional resonance, refined aesthetics, and art that transforms a space with atmosphere and soul. Each piece is intentionally crafted to be original and created to hold presence.
Sam Doran
Sam is an artist drawn to creativity since childhood, finding fulfillment in exploring ever-changing styles. His recent exhibition focused on portraits, but he is now embracing landscapes and plein air painting. A recovering perfectionist, he values the process as much as the result. Sam’s current project, Caught By The Dawn, brings together art, clothing, and lessons—an evolving brand that invites others to join his creative journey.
sepideh Javanshir
Sepideh is a New Zealand–based artist whose work is rooted in spirituality, consciousness, light, and the emotional connection between humans and the universe. She creates poetic, intuitive, dreamy pieces that reflect her inner world and her bond with nature, color, and energy. Her style shifts with her mood, moving across watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil, chalk, raised texture, abstract expression, spiritual art, and symbolic imagery. She aims to make art that evokes a feeling rather than an image—something that touches the heart and lingers in the mind.
Yasmin Maria Lodhi
Yasmin began painting at fifteen, and art has remained inseparable from her life ever since. Her journey has explored the human form, animals, and faces, drawn to their emotional depth and expression. Recently, she has embraced abstraction, finding freedom in color, movement, and intuition. Bold, bright colors are central to her work, reflecting her energy and love for vibrancy. Currently completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Elam, she continues to experiment, challenge herself, and fully immerse in art.
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