Purple Day Charity Art Auction 2025 • Epilepsy New Zealand

Now is the Time to Bid on Purple Day Charity Art Auction 2025

All proceeds from the auction go towards Our Mission: To improve the quality of lives of New Zealanders living with epilepsy.

In celebration of Purple Day 44 generous creatives have donated a purple art work to be auctioned on TradeMe. The bidding is now live. Please bid, share and enjoy the art. The auction closes on Purple Day 26th March 2025. Please ensure bids are placed before then to secure an original piece of art supporting a great cause.

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Purple Day Charity Art Auction Catalogue 2025

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Taking In The Best View, Anna Baker

My work life has included some years working as an educator with Epilepsy New Zealand. I wish to continue my support for those with epilepsy and hope my art work is worthy of some supportive bidders.

David North Sing a Rainbow Series #2 The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Sing a Rainbow Series #2: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, David North

I like to make artworks that are “fun” this one references the mental “fog” after a seizure and also the Jimi Hendrix song “Purple Haze” which seemed quite appropriate.

Always Blooming, Emily Rose Johnson

This piece that I have created is to send a message to those with epilepsy that no matter what life has thrown at you, you will always stay standing strong.

Becky McKenzie

Jolts and thunderbolts that represent seizures in the brain.

Anika Brice

Epilepsy seizures are out of our hands, but not this one.

Ella Davenport

Static to represent seizures and the electrical current.

I Will Sing, Michelle Neale

Michelle is an artist living in Bombay, Waikato, New Zealand. She is very inspired by nature, particularly flowers. She loves their form, colour, texture, and detail. Please visit Michelle’s website for more info and artworks. Commissions welcome.

Agata Smuzniak

As an artist I create mostly abstract painting, which are based on multidimensional layers of nature and human mind.

It's a cow!", Joanna Gordon

I am not much of an exhibitionist. I work mainly in collage and acrylics. And I love purple!

Focus for the Mind, Donna North

Crochet with it’s repeating patterns and constant counting can be very calming to an over stimulated mind. Likewise the mandala may be employed for focusing attention.

Caroline Eastall

I have used different materials and techniques to show how a seizure looks.

Zahra Lyford

My art for epilepsy.

Moody Night, Angela Stanfield

Angie.S. Handmade Designs – using handmade felt, textiles and natural fibres for fashion, decorative items & art.

Purple Hues, Frankie Baker

Frankie Bakker is a painter living and working in New Zealand. Here came the bird’s head representing this life without the chaos of idealism. Free to sing and dance when everyone is watching. Wallpaper is often her canvas quietly reminding us that there is always a history behind every move.

Keeping your positivity and vibrance flowing, Adele Ross

I am driven to create awareness towards Epilepsy through my artwork. Being free from Epilepsy for the past 10 years, I plan to fundraise and start giving back to people that need.

Jeremy Goddard

Epilepsy in art form.

Parth Mehta

I used cut-up pieces of cardboard with different shades of purple and specs of other colours to show the movement of epilepsy.

Thoughts Interrupted, Laurel Stephens

I am an amateur who enjoys playing with colour. I typically begin with paint and when I muck things up, add pastel or pencil and call it ‘mixed media’!

Wahine In Meditation, Tracey Laird

Wahine In Meditation – left side calm / clear (front area of brain). Right side high activity/chaos (back area of brain). Meditation helping to calm/balance vagus nerve running down centre, with clear quartz crystals.

Anton Kemp

I want to show what a seizure looks like. With the use of materials and paint.

Christian Jepsen

I have used string to make a face. The swipe of paints shows the movement of seizures.

Sofia Sidoruk

Light blub breaking is like a seizure happening. The splattered paint is like electricity going everywhere like a seizure.

Ben Kai Fong

This is my interpretation of what epilepsy looks like to me. In form of a pyramid and different designs.

Enrico Monteclaro

This light bulb represents a part of the brain. The splatter and broken part of the bulb showcases the frustration that happens when a seizure takes place.