Ko Ngati Kurauia toku hapu te tahi nga hapu o Ngati Tuwharetoa

 

                            Date of Birth: 12 June 1975

                            Place of Birth: New Zealand

                

 

                            Education

 

        2008            Ted Seth Jacobs, Intensive Portrait Painting Program, Bay Area Classical Artists Atelier, Belmont CA, USA

        2007            Studio Escalier, Argenton, France

        2006            Atelier, Florence, Italy

        1998            Bachelor of Visual Arts, Auckland University Manukau Campus,

                             New Zealand, Major: Painting

 

                            Awards

 

        2007             Jouffrault Scholarship, Studio Escalier, Argenton, France

        2005             Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Art Scholarship

        1995             Third Place, Student Category “Windsor & Newton Painting Competition”

        1994             Senior Painting Prize, Howick College

                              Highly Commended, “Manukau Youth Art Awards"

        1993             Highly Commended, “Manukau Youth Art Awards”

        1992             Highly Commended, “Manukau Youth Art Awards”

 

 

                            Solo Exhibitions

 

        2008             Studio Works         S.O.C.A Gallery, Auckland

        2005             Istoria                     Milford Galleries Auckland

        2004             Untitled                  Mcpherson Gallery, Auckland

        2003             Cimmerii                Milford Galleries, Dunedin, South Island

        2002             Cameo Project     Corpus Te Tuhi – the Mark, Auckland

                              Untitled                  Mcpherson Gallery, Auckland

        2001             Humanals             Mcpherson Gallery, Auckland

        2000             Pintura                   Pakuranga Public Gallery, Auckland

 

                            Residencies

 

        2009            "Artists in Schools" Howick College Art Department, Auckland

        2004             "Artists in Schools" Howick College Art Department, Auckland

        1999              Pakuranga Community and Cultural Centre, Auckland

 

                        Selected Group Exhibitions

 

        2008             National Portrait Competition          Adams Portrait Gallery, Wellington 

        2007             Summer Show                                   S.O.C.A, Auckland 

        2006             Group Show.                                     The Angel Academy, Florence, Italy

                             Ngati Tuwharetoa Cultural Festival Taupo, NZ

        2005             Milford Galleries Stock Show.         Milford Galleries, Auckland

                        B.M.W Awards                    B.M.W Show-grounds, Auckland

                        National Portrait Competition         Adams portrait Gallery,Wellington

        2004             Portrait of Dorian Grey             S.O.C.A, Auckland

                        Wallace Trust Art Awards            Auckland

                        National Portrait Competition         Adams portrait Gallery, Wellington

        2003             The art of social Commentary         Te Tuhi – the mark, Auckland

                        Overview Figurative Work         Milford Galleries, Dunedin

        2002             Wallace Trust Art Awards             Auckland

        1997             From Here to There                 Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga and   Vanuatu

        1996             Six Pack – Polynesian Artists         Taupo District Museum of Art and History

                                

                            Teaching History

 

         2005 - 2010             Life Drawing Tutor, School of Art And Design, Auckland University of Technology                  

        2000 - 2010        Life Drawing Tutor, Art Station, Ponsonby

                    

                            Publications & Reviews

 

        Peninsula Hearts, San Francisco Examiner,  February 18th, 2009, USA

        Neo Glare from the Deep South, New Zealand Herald, October 5th, 2008

        New Zealand Portraits, Richard Wolfe, Penguin NZ, 2008

        Following the Masters,  Art New Zealand, Spring, 2008

        New York Art Magazine Website, Tips & Pic’s directory, 2006, USA

        Art News, Spring Edition 2006, Auckland

        Pacifica Magazine, Autumn Edition 2006, Auckland

        Giant Shocks Loaded with Emotion, N.Z Herald, October, 2005

        Tu Mai Magazine, October 5th 2005, Wellington

        B-guide magazine, Spring Edition 2005, Auckland

        The Galleries: Realism meets Abstract, New Zealand herald, December 15, 2004

        State of the Arts, May Edition 2004, Australia

        Dutch Courage Goes Down A Real Treat, New Zealand Herald August, 2004

        Place to Dissect the Past, New Zealand Herald, June 19, 2003

        Master Strokes, Sunday Star Times, September 2003

        Figures in Chiaroscuro Inhabit Southon World, Otago daily times, 9 October, 2003   

        A History of the Life Model in New Zealand Art, by Sandra Chesterman,

        Canterbury Press Publications 2002

        Between Rock and a Soft Place, New Zealand Herald, 16 June, 2002

        Outbreak Backs Figure Argument, New Zealand Herald, 22 July, 2002