Justin Boroughs New Zealand, b. 1952
Works
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Justin BoroughsPiha from the South, 2023Oil on board61 x 120.5 cmSigned -
Justin BoroughsBean Rock & the Tamaki Yacht Club, 2022Oil on board39.5 x 81 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsBean Rock and Clouds, 2025Oil on board57 x 122 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsBoat Sheds and Two Launches, 2025Oil on board39 x 102 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsEvening Light on Ohinerau / Mt Hobson, 2025Oil on board50 x 92 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsLast Light on the Hawkdun Range, 2025Oil on board66 x 132 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsMaungakiekie / One Tree Hill, 2025Oil on board59 x 110 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsNikau Palms at Awaawaroa Bay Waiheke, 2025Oil on board70 x 90 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsThe Cookhouse at Home Hills Run Road, 2025Oil on board64 x 117 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsWaitangi and North Head, 2025Oil on board56 x 110 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsBoatsheds at Rocky Bay, 2023Oil on board42 x 93 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsChapel at Judges Bay, Parnell, 2023Oil on board50 x 77 cmSigned
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Justin BoroughsNorth Head in a Stiff Southerly, 2023Oil on board54 x 103.5 cmSigned
Biography
Born in England in 1952, Justin Boroughs studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 1971 under Gretchen Albrecht, Don Binney, and photographer John B Turner. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975. Boroughs’ is currently a senior painting teacher at Auckland Grammar School.
Justin Boroughs is highly renowned as a realist landscape painter. The landscapes he paints are recognisable, however, they always present a point of difference from what is actual. Using intense colour, altering the effects of light, and manipulating the subject matter, Boroughs’ works portray a heightened reality. He possesses a deeply attuned eye for the regionalist dialogues of differing landscapes and buildings. His paintings resonate as much because of his exclusions as his inclusions; and in this way his work collectively establishes an idealised rhetoric and visual language. Nothing it seems is out of place, even when fiction.
Boroughs’ paintings are held in major public and corporate collections, including the Manawatu Art Gallery, Telecom New Zealand and Fletcher Challenge. Private collections are throughout New Zealand and in Australia, USA & United Kingdom.
Justin Boroughs is highly renowned as a realist landscape painter. The landscapes he paints are recognisable, however, they always present a point of difference from what is actual. Using intense colour, altering the effects of light, and manipulating the subject matter, Boroughs’ works portray a heightened reality. He possesses a deeply attuned eye for the regionalist dialogues of differing landscapes and buildings. His paintings resonate as much because of his exclusions as his inclusions; and in this way his work collectively establishes an idealised rhetoric and visual language. Nothing it seems is out of place, even when fiction.
Boroughs’ paintings are held in major public and corporate collections, including the Manawatu Art Gallery, Telecom New Zealand and Fletcher Challenge. Private collections are throughout New Zealand and in Australia, USA & United Kingdom.
Exhibitions
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Justin Boroughs
30 Oct - 24 Nov 2025Born in England in 1952, Justin Boroughs studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland in 1971 under Gretchen Albrecht, Don Binney, and photographer John B Turner. He graduated...Read more -
WINTER 2024
15 Jun - 7 Aug 2024Read more -
Landscapes
1 Apr - 21 May 2024Read more -
Justin Boroughs
Light on the Landscape 21 Nov - 11 Dec 2023Read more -
Justin Boroughs
Auckland Landscapes 22 Oct - 11 Nov 2020“The subject of this exhibition is landscapes around Auckland – landscapes that I know well and love. I consider myself an Aucklander, having come here to go to Elam School...Read more
