Masters in Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art, London 2004
Bachelor of Art, Otago University N.Z.
Double major in Design and Art History, 1994-1997
Awards/ Competitions:
2023 Top 10 Christchurch Art Show.
2022 Top 10 Christchurch Art Show.
2019 Best Contemporary award at the Queenstown Art Awards.
2019 Merit award at the Autumn Arts Festival.
2016-19 Christchurch Art Show top 10 artists.
2016 Aspiring Art Awards Finalist N.Z.
2011 2013 2015 Central Otago Art Awards Finalist N.Z.
2008 First prize, Dunedin Art Awards N.Z.
2006 First prize Hope and Sons Art Awards Dunedin, N.Z.
2004 Wimbledon Art School Drawing prize 2nd U.K.
1999 'The Artist' magazine 2000 competition 2nd place, U.K.
1997 Mainland Art awards finalist, N.Z.
1997 Wearable Art awards finalist, N.Z.
Collections:
Dunedin Public Library
National Bank of New Zealand Collection, N.Z.
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Collection, U.K.
Logica Collection, U.K.
Herbert Smith, London, U.K.
Chambers of Christopher Symons QC and
John Jarvis QC, Verulam Buildings, London, U.K.
Steptoe Johnson and Rakison, London, U.K.
Exhibitions (selected)
2024 Echo: Odelle Morshuis and Jillian Porteous Heaphey Gallery, Alexandra.
2003 Pukeiti Predator Free NZ, Taranaki Regional Gardens.
2023 Christchurch Arts Centre, Sculpture Festival Sept.
2023 Bannockburn Arts Festival, Oct.
2023 Wellington NZ Art Show May.
2023 Christchurch Art Show, March.
2023 Riversdale Art week July.
2022 Solo, "Just Visiting" Fox Galleries, Melbourne.
2022 Group, "In Contrast" Tirau gallery.
2022 Auckland Art Fair.
2022 Christchurch Art Show.
2022 NZ Art Show.
2021 Christchurch Art Show.
2020 Christchurch and Auckland Art Fairs, online.
2020 "Figuratively Speaking" 3 Artists at te Huanui Gallery, Darfield NZ.
2019 Melbourne Affordable Art Fair.
2019 Carrick Winery.
2018 Mt Difficulty Winery.
2019 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong.
2019 Hoglunds Glass art Gallery, Cromwell.
2018 " A Muster of Artists", Central Stories Gallery Alexandra.
2018 Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong.
2014-18 Christchurch Art Fair.
2014 Solo, Mint Gallery, Dunedin, NZ.
2014 Frontroom Gallery, Queenstown, N.Z.
2013-2005 Annual Solo, Hullabaloo Art Space, Cromwell, N.Z.
2012 Central Otago Art Awards.
2013 Wellington Art Fair.
2013 Solo Show, Fluid Art Space, Queenstown.
Selected publications/press/reviews:
Otago Daily Times, “Artists of Bannockburn”, 7 Oct 2019 by Simon Henderson
Otago Daily Times “Exhibition marks gallery milestone,” 27 Aug 2016
Otago Daily Times, Art Seen: Absence and Presence, Hullabaloo Art Space, Cromwell 3 Apr 2014 by Laura Elliot
Southland Times, “Going with the Flow,” 5 Sep 2013 by Che Baker
Otago Daily Times, ''Hullabaloo Art Space Group Show'' Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Alexandra 12 Sep 2013
All of my work – 2D and 3D – draws on the human form to create a narrative that explores how we interact with the space around us. It acknowledges that every space has a history of movement – a complex integration of accumulation and change, transitioning and overlaying human activity through the lens of time.
Time echoes, figures stand proud in the present and breathe softly into the past. Questions of identity, memory, relationships, and the essence of the human connection.
My current work is made up of figurative pieces that through simplification of form, open up interpretations to the intricacies of human interactions. Human relationships do not occur in isolation, they unfold against the backdrop of our surroundings and circumstances. Some relationships deplete us, some feed us and as the complexities multiply, we project our personal histories, hope and desires through our body and movement in space. These elements are not separate to us – they are part of what make us individual.