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, B.A.C.A.A, Belmont CA, USA

 

2007     Studio Escalier, Argenton Chateau, France

 

2006     Sabbatical, Florence, Italy

 

1998      Bachelor of Visual Arts, Manukau School of Visual Arts, New Zealand

 

 

Awards

 

2007     Waterway Fellowship, Studio Escalier

 

2005    Martin Hughes Contemporary Pacific Art Scholarship

 

1995     3rd Place, Student Category "Windsor & Newton Painting Competition"

 

1994    Senior Painting Prize, Howick College

 

1994    Highly Commended, "Manukau Youth Art Awards"

 

1993     Highly Commended, "Manukau Youth Art Awards"

 

1992     Highly Commended, "Manukau Youth Art Awards"

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

2002    Cameo Project, Te Tuhi - the Mark, Auckland

        

2002    Corpus, Mcpherson Gallery, Auckland

 

2001     Humanals, Mcpherson Gallery, Auckland

 

2000     Pintura, Pakuranga Public Gallery, Auckland

 

 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2011    About Face Aspects of Portraiture, Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland

 

2011    19th & 20th Century Paintings, Jonathan Grant Galleries, Auckland

 

2010    National Portrait Competition, Adams Portrait Gallery, Wellington

        

2010    Wallace Trust Collection, The Pah Homestead, Auckland

 

2009    Wallace Trust Art Awards, Auckland

 

2008     National Portrait Competition, Adams Portrait Gallery, Wellington 

 

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

 

2006    Group Show, The Angel Academy, Florence, Italy

        

2006    National Portrait Competition, Adams portrait Gallery, Wellington

 

2005    Ngati Tuwharetoa Festival, Taupo Community & Cultural Center, Taupo

        

2005    Milford Galleries Stock Show, Milford Galleries, Auckland

        

2005    B.M.W Awards, B.M.W Show-grounds, Auckland

 

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

        

2004    Wallace Trust Art Awards, Auckland

        

2004    National Portrait Competition, Adams Portrait Gallery, Wellington

 

2003     The Art of Social Commentary, Te Tuhi - the mark, Auckland

        

2003    Overview Figurative Work, Milford Galleries, Dunedin

 

2002     Wallace Trust Art Awards, Auckland

 

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

 

1996    Six Pack - Polynesian Artists, Taupo Museum of Art and History, Taupo

                                

                            

Teaching History

 

2005 – present         Life Drawing Tutor, School of Art And Design, Auckland University of         

                             Technology                  

 

2000 - 2010            Life Drawing Tutor, Art Station, Ponsonby

                    

                            

 

Selected Publications & Reviews

 

Edward Hanfling, "About Face: Aspects of Portraiture", Art New Zealand, Winter 2011, p13

 

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

 

T.J. McNamara, "Neo Glare from the Deep South", NZ Herald, October 5th 2008

 

Richard Wolfe, New Zealand Portraits, Penguin NZ 2008, p216-217 (plate 80)

 

Sandra Gilliam, "Following the Masters", Art New Zealand, Spring 2008, p34-37

 

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

 

Zarahn Southon, "Florentines and Angles", Art News, Spring Edition 2006, p70-71

 

T.J. McNamara, "Giant Shocks Loaded with Emotion", NZ Herald, October 2005

 

"Crouching Taniwha, Hidden Heritage", Tu Mai Magazine, October 5th 2005, p12-13

 

Alex Lovell, "A Kiwi Master", B-guide magazine, Spring Edition 2005, p38-41

 

T.J. McNamara, "The Galleries: Realism meets Abstract", NZ Herald, December 15th 2004

 

Charles Tongue, "Young Guns", State of the Arts, May Edition 2004

 

T.J. McNamara, "Dutch Courage Goes Down A Real Treat", NZ Herald, August 2004

        

T.J. McNamara, "Place to Dissect the Past", NZ Herald, June 19th 2003

        

Helen Watson Wright "Master Strokes", Sunday Star Times, September 2003

 

Richard Dingwall, "Figures in Chiaroscuro", Otago Daily Times, October 9th 2003   

 

Sandra Chesterman, A History of the Life Model in New Zealand Art, Canterbury Press Publications 2002, p121-123

 

T.J. McNamara, "Between Rock and a Soft Place", NZ Herald, June 16th 2002

 

John Daly-Peoples, National Bussiness Review, August 3rd 2001

 

T.J. McNamara, "Outbreak Backs Figure Argument", NZ Herald, July 22nd 2001