CEO - Head of Design

Jane Mason is an artist, designer and inventor - the founder of wallCLIXX - who has spent more than 25 years working with art and the people who create, frame, install and live with it.

Through the commercial art and design businesses she ran in New Zealand and Hong Kong janemasonstudios, Jane has designed, created and installed artworks around the world for Shangri-La, Hyatt Regency, Four Seasons, Sino Land and Latham & Watkins, among others. Every installation had to look right, sit straight and stay secure often against tight deadlines and in challenging locations.

What troubled Jane was how little the mechanics had changed. Hooks, nails, wire and measuring were still followed by the same anxious questions: Is it straight? Is it secure? Is it on yet?

She saw experienced installers hesitate, heavy artworks create technical headaches and collectors too nervous to hang pieces they loved. To Jane, that mattered as much as the art itself. Art changes the way a room feels and reflects something of the people who live there. Putting it on the wall should feel satisfying, not stressful.

So she began rethinking the process from the wall out, considering the needs of the artist, the framer, the installer and the person at home. What if the system could confirm engagement at the point of connection? What if the artwork could be adjusted? What if marking its position were simpler?

Jane conceptualised the idea and brought in specialists - product engineering, toolmaking, manufacturing, independent testing to refine, prove and produce it. The result - wallCLIXX is a precision mounting system that positions artworks accurately, allows fine adjustment, locks them securely and confirms the connection with a click you can feel and hear.

It is a practical answer to a problem anyone who has ever hung an artwork will recognise. What she and her team have really made is the confidence to live with art.

Evan Thomas is an industrial designer and product development specialist and director of partnering studio "Made Evident". He has spent the last 14 years turning ideas into objects that can actually be made, at volume, without losing what made them good.

Working across injection-moulded plastics, sheet metal and aluminium extrusion, Evan has taken products from first sketch through tooling and into production for clients in New Zealand and offshore. The work sits in the gap most ideas fall into: the distance between a concept that works on paper and a part that comes out of a steel tool, ten thousand times, identically.

At wallCLIXX, Evan leads the product side from concept to production. That work is mostly translation - holding the original intent steady while every manufacturing constraint pushes against it. Tooling has rules. Materials behave how they behave. Cost, tolerance and geometry all pull in different directions, and each one offers a compromise that quietly erodes the thing that made the idea worth building. The job is to know which compromises are free and which ones cost you the product. Prototypes, test rigs, iterations with the toolmaker, then more iterations - until what comes out of the tool is the thing that was imagined, not an approximation of it.

Studio & Brand Experience Assistant

Zara supports the point where product, presentation and customer experience meet at wallCLIXX.

Her studio experience includes product photography, installation support, fine finishing, quality checks and coordinating substantial international shipments. This has developed her understanding of the care, precision and discretion required in premium product presentation and client delivery.

At wallCLIXX, Zara helps create studio content, supports product presentation and ensures every brand detail reflects the quality of the mounting system. Her background in competitive football, coaching and student leadership brings discipline, teamwork and composure under pressure.

Away from the studio, Zara is happiest on the football pitch - playing competitively and helping the next generation of footballers find their feet.

President of Creativity · creativeCLIXX Club
wallCLIXX brand character

Otto is not an engineer, installer or technical expert. He is wallCLIXX’s President of Creativity. His role is to stay curious, make room for ideas and remind us that precision and imagination belong together.

Otto claims to have spent twenty-five years in European workshops developing the obsession that would define his career: things that line up. Even his name is balanced it reads the same in either direction. A devoted student of engineering precision and design restraint, he holds one private conviction: symmetry is a form of kindness.

He came to New Zealand, he says, “for the light and the scenery,” and stayed for the ideas. Otto claims he can detect a frame half a degree out from across a room. He believes every wall deserves something worth looking at, keeps a watchful eye on the artworks mounted at the studio and signs off the way he signs off everything: with a click.

His tongue is orange. He has never explained why. The creativeCLIXX Club adopted it as its mark anyway.