Anna Ward is a Jeweller living and working in Auckland currently working part time at Masterworks Gallery as gallery assistant and Jewellery curator. More...
Ben Pearce is a multi-media artist working out of Cicada Studios in Hawke's Bay.
He graduated from Wanganui Quay School of fine arts in 2003 majoring in Sculpture. He is primarily interested in displaying childhood memory in a sombre nature. Ben initiates a series of memory jogging images for the viewer taking him or her on a trip into the childhood realm, where circumstances can be threatening and unfamiliar, and on the other hand be magically humorous. Ben’s play on this world has become his congruent theme throughout his work. Characters and creatures are born from old parts, plaster, metal and wood. More...
Born in Palmerston North in 1980, the artist moved to Hamilton at age five. He initially studied design at Massey University in Wellington, then later chose to study fine arts.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with first class honours from Massey University in 2003, he went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in Museum Studies at Victoria University, Wellington in 2004. He is currently working as an Exhibition Preparator at the Govett-Brewster art gallery in New Plymouth. Phillips’ current body of work is concerned with exploring and provoking thought about how scientific theory and liberal politics impacts on what it means to exist at the present moment. More...
Dane has a catalogue that is being published by the Physics Room, Christchurch NZ. It will be available through their website and during SPARK05 at Wintec. More...
Born Sydney, 1980.
Currently lives and works Wellington.
Completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Time-based Arts at Massey University Wellington in 2003.
Over the past four years Daniel has been actively involved in the visual arts as an artist, writer and curator. His work has been exhibited at project spaces throughout New Zealand – including Artspace, High Street Project and Enjoy. His writing has been published in Natural Selection and Staple.
Daniel has a strong association with Enjoy Gallery, and was a trustee from 2002 to 2003. He is the Guest Editor for the December issue of New Zealand Journal of Photography. More...
Born Auckland 1973. Fiona Amundsen's academic background is located within social anthropology and she is currently finishing a master's thesis at the University of Waikato.
Her research addresses relationships between key theorists - Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Susan Sontag - and their writings on photography. Loosely located within an ethnographic and post-structuralist framework, the resulting thesis will use each theorist's work to outline the broader currents of post 1960s photographic discourse. Her work in anthropology is largely disseminated into her arts practice using photography. She has been exhibiting in artist run spaces, dealer galleries and public institutions over the past eight years. In short, Amundsen's practice unravels how photography culturally and socially performs; it is about a theory (rather than a politics) of representation. For a more detailed analysis please see www.fionaamundsen.com More...
Glenys Ng is currently based in Auckland. She is a former Lecturer at manukau School of Visual Arts. In 1999 she moved to England to study an MA (Fine Art) at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, University of Arts, London.
While working as a Lecturer at Northampton College frmo 2002 - 2004, she received an East Midlands Arts New Commission and Works grant for her Ocean installation in Northampton, England. More...
Born in Auckland, lives and works in Auckland and Paris. Makes strange pictures in the world's cities exploring the notion of parallel lives and the often absurd ambiguity of modern life.
"An urban dream at the edge of reality" Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
Exhibits regularly in Europe and has work in major public and private collections.
Has had nine books and editions published with publishers in Britain, France and Germany including FIRST EVER PICTURES OF GOD, (galerie Florence Loewy. Paris) 2003 and KILLING TIME IN PARADISE, (Schaden.com Cologne) 2005. More...
Helen Calder graduated with a Master of Fine Arts [Painting] with Distinction at the University of Canterbury in 2004 and for the past two years has been a tutor in the Painting Department there.
Her solo shows have included Paint Set at 64zero3 in Christchurch and The Signal, Hamilton, Lamination at Janne Land in Wellington, Stain and Four Walls at the School of Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Canterbury. More...
In 2003 I returned to New Zealand to complete an MFA at Elam, and over the last two years I have been researching the areas of thought surrounding sentimentality in art and the various conceptions of the decorative.
I have also been interested in the utopian pursuit in art – and how, for example, the early twentieth century quest for a pure art separated from the decorative and the popular was a utopian ideal, a ‘no-place’ which was desired but never able to be fully realised. Here I am interested in a departure into a different kind of utopia; an other-world infused with sentimentality, supplementarity, and play. More...
B Ed (Art&Craft), MSC Melbourne
MFA, RMIT Melbourne
For the last ten years held the position of Head of Photography on the Bachelor of Visual Arts at Auckland University of Technology. Twice (1985 and 1988) accepted as a finalist for the Salon de la Researche Photographique in Royan France. In 2005 I became a finalist in the NZ Vodafone Digital Art Awards. Have recently exhibited a suit of large colour photographs (from my Loving Me Loving You series) in Los Angeles at MB Fine Art LA, with Massimo Vitali, Sally Mann et al. Gallerist is Deborah White at Whitespace Gallery in Auckland. More...
Janice Abo Ganis completed a Bachelor of Media Arts from Waikato Institute of Technology (1996) and a Master of Fine Arts from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.(2001). More...
Jonathan Brown 34, was born in Glen Innes, East Auckland, New Zealand. He emerged as an artist in 1995 after completing a Bachelor in Art and Design and then went on to be awarded a Post Graduate Fellowship at Auckland University of Technology.
Jonathan has exhibited throughout New Zealand and was a founding member of the artist collective Indicator, an artist-run-project/studio based in Auckland since 1994. In 2004 he received a first class Honours in Visual Arts and is now completing the 2nd year of the Masters programme at the School of Art and Design, Auckland University of Technology. Jonathan is currently employed at Auckland University to run the print-making workshops and is also employed to assist in exhibition set-up within the school. More...
I am a practicing artist who lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.
I am, at this point, unable to provide an honest, coherent and cohesive statement that perfectly encapsulates my art practice or myself as an artist. Any attempt at such will, I fear, appear too visibly contrived and calculated: I suspect because there is no actual honesty, coherence or cohesiveness in myself or my practice so forgive me, I am still a mess.
My current favourite things are: a thick book called ‘The Secret Language of Relationships’, Stevie Wonder and my boyfriend’s red Spiderman jumper. More...
Benson's current research explores velocity and perceptions of time-space; through site responsive spatial works, temporal interventions with fragile materials, evensecent drawings and their digital translatons, the use of video and duplicated installations - the impact of viewing is subsumed.
Benson completed her MFA through the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2001 and is currently lecturing in Painting, Photography and Digital Media in Hamilton's own Media Arts. Benson is currently exhibiting in New Zealand, Australia and Korea, has plans to research in Antarctica and aspirations for space travel. More...
I am fascinated by the uncertain dimension of human behavior which lies somewhere between social and mediated experience. The process by which all that is biological or ‘natural’ (that wonderfully problematic word), is ‘processed’ and codified into a highly complex system of signs.
I work with a wide range of media but often photography, video, text, sound, and built environments. I have collaborated consistently throughout my career with different artists in a wide variety of ways
I am an amateur phenomenologist who lives and works in Auckland New Zealand; I listen to music as much as possible and smoke about half the time and will give up one day. More...
Lives, and works on a farm outside of Dunedin. Married with 3 children.
Teaches part time at the Otago Polytechnic School of art , Dunedin.
Has exhibited Nationally and Internationally for the past 25 years.
Has work in numerous public collections both here and overseas. More...
Mark Purdom is from London, England. He is an artist whose work, while a commentary on people's influence on the environment, also plays with our concept or arguably our preconceptions of the picturesque.
His last completed body of work whilst in England, was a study of the urban environment of East London. A series of photographs from this project won Mark a Silver Award from the Association of Photographers UK.
Since moving to New Zealand in 2003 he has completed various photographic projects; his most recent questions our notions of progress and In Such Multiples As Is Almost Incredible is the first series of pictures from this current project.
Paul Johnston is senior lecturer in Design and the Principal Lecturer/academic at the Manukau School of Visual Arts.
Prior to joining the just established MSVA in 1995, Paul had successfully combined Secondary art teaching with a developing printmaking practice.
Since then He has developed a visual arts practice that moves between the 2D; the painting series of ‘Poles of the Heart’ (1995), ‘Excavated Sites’ (1998 – 2001), and ‘Untitled’ (2001) works on paper, and the 3D; of which ‘Ordered Observations’ (1997), ‘Model for a Navigatorium’ (1998), ‘Model for a Navigatorium II’ (2003), and now, ‘Model of a camping table’, are all tables of contents. More...
For the past two years I have been working with moving image. I am particularly interested in animation, specifically experimental techniques for making animation. My work to date has included animation made for exhibition on monitors, as video installation and for projection onto sculpture.
I would say the fundamental element of my art practice is drawing. My process for making animation involves firstly drawing, documenting the drawing with a digital photo before erasing and redrawing in the next position. This series of documentary stills are then loaded into a film editing programme and edited to form a moving image work. As the drawings evolve, are reworked and rubbed out, there is always a shadow, a residue or trace of what has been, left on the paper. More...
Richard Orjis was born in New Zealand, and is currently living and working in Auckland city. His work has been shown widely in New Zealand, America and Spain.
He is currently completing a Masters in Fine Arts at Elam and is the curator of Dep_art_ment gallery.
Richard Orjis is represented by Galeria Luis Adelantado in Spain. More...
Ruth Cleland was born in Hamilton in 1976. She completed a Master of Fine Arts Degree (with distinction) in 2002 and is a lecturer at the Otago School of Art in Dunedin. Ruth has won a number of major awards including the Waikato National Art Award in 2003, the Cranleigh Barton National Drawing Award in 2001 and a Merit Award in the National Drawing Awards held at Artspace (Auckland) and the Physics Room (Christchurch) in 2004.
Ruth is going to have an exhibition early next year (2006)at the Blue Oyster Gallery in Dunedin. This exhibition will be called Sunny Days and will consist of a series of drawings and paintings of suburbia - the work in the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award is an introduction to this series. More...
I am currently living and working in Auckland, having moved back here for the Master of Fine arts at Elam. Previously I had been based in Melbourne, Australia, where I was busy getting to know a completely new art community and city. This year I will complete my Masters but plan to stay in New Zealand. I feel that the arts community here is thriving and yet always in need of committed people and new projects. More...
Sean studied photography after completing a degree in Anthropology. The different ways that people experience and remember physical space, is of particular interest to him. More...
Susie Pratt is an artist based in Auckland. She is currently completing her masters at Elam School of Fine Arts. She is also Co-Editor of Crease Magazine www.crease.org.nz More...
