James Cousins

New Zealander | 1965

James Cousins is a New Zealander Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1965.

How much does a James Cousins cost?

James Cousins's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 4,756 USD.

What is James Cousins's most expensive painting?

Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 4,756 USD for Gorge, sold at Dunbar Sloane Wellington in 2018.

Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gow Langsford Gallery, Onehunga have featured James Cousins's work in the past.

James Cousins in the news

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, James Cousins is featured in Circles and the forms of nature, a piece from New Zealand Herald in April 2013.

At Auction

Notable Lots

MR #3 , 2008

By James Cousins

Untitled , 2004

By James Cousins

The Liars Club , 2006

By James Cousins

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Recent Auction Results

A geometric composition featuring white shapes and circles against a mottled grey background.

About Faces , 2006

By James Cousins

ART+OBJECT

A geometric collage featuring a green cactus-like subject with sharp, angular overlays and scattered white dots.

No Relation , 6

By James Cousins

ART+OBJECT

Untitled

By James Cousins

Webb's

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Past Exhibitions

Annual Summer Exhibition

Gow Langsford Gallery, Onehunga

Auckland | New Zealand

Dec 06, 2025 - Dec 20, 2025

James Cousins: A Following Cadence

Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland City

Auckland | New Zealand

May 11, 2022 - Jun 02, 2022

Threshold

Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street

Auckland | New Zealand

Feb 17, 2021 - Mar 13, 2021

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Articles

Circles and the forms of nature

New Zealand Herald Apr 27, 2013

Geometric shapes and bold colour evoke the pioneering days of a bush-clad isthmus and its development into sprawling conurbation.

Coverage

“ ..Cousins' employs a range of paint applications and excavation processes that in their execution seem concurrently highly orchestrated and precise yet also spontaneous and imprecise... ”
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street

“ ..These processes become accumulated in the layers the works forming a kind of record of rebukes and convalescence that temper the artist decision-making... ”
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Gow Langsford Gallery, Lorne Street