Graduated: 2008
Dissertation topic: Painting; investigating the literal mechanics of painting
Recent work:
My practice exploits – through reversal – the communicative possibilities of painting itself. My work – drawings, paintings, self-formed objects and their photo micro-documentations - resists any performed gesture, investigating instead the deciphering of paint’s material action, with all its vagaries, intricacies and aberrances.
Employment:
Fine Arts lecturer, Media Arts, Wintec, Hamilton
Guest Artist – January Seminar, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design
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Exhibitions post MFA:
Group Exhibitions:
2010 Drawing: For the Given Value of Drawing - Blue Oyster Dunedin
2010 Drawer in a Chronological Manor- Rm Project Space Auckland
2010 Dimensions Variable – Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2010 La Mezz Gallery Drawing Show 2010-La Mezz Gallery Hamilton
2009 Various Constructions and Drawings -Chartwell Gallery Hamilton
2008 Running With Paint MFA Graduating Show -Randolph Street Gallery Auckland
Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Pink Gravity -La Mezz Gallery Hamilton
2008 Running With Paint -New Friends Contemporary Art Space Hamilton
Selected Exhibitions:
2011 Waikato Society of Arts National Painting and Printmaking Award
2010 Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award
2010 Molly Morpeth Canady Art Award Whakatane
Award:
2010 Waikato Society of Arts National Painting and Printmaking Award – Merit Award
