1947 Born Nelson, New Zealand
1970 Graduated University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts
1971 Graduated Christchurch College of Education, Dip Tchg
Practicing Artist - current
1972 - 1976 Secondary Teaching
1977 - 1980 Travel
1981 - 2000 Tertiary teaching, CPIT
2000 > full time art practice
Selected Commissions and Public Art:
2008 Reach, Wanaka
Kaputone Creek Pedestrian Bridge, Christchurch
Insight, St Margaret’s College, Christchurch
2006 Engage, Christchurch South Library
2005 Reasons to Return, Connell’s Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island
2004 Fixing Positions, Rocky Bay, Waiheke Island
2003 Reasons for Voyaging, Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Lines Extending Kurashiki City, Japan
2002 Tribute to Firefighters, Christchurch
1997 Sea/Sky/Kaipara The Farm, Kaipara
2008 2007, NZ Japan Exchange Programme (NZJEP) Grants
2000 1996, 1995, Asia 2000 Foundation Grants
1996 Trustbank Community Trust Arts Excellence award
1995 Fellowship in Visual Arts, New Zealand Arts Council, Toi Aotearoa
1990 New Zealand Arts Council Grant
1988 Artist in Residence, Nelson Polytechnic
1984 New Zealand Arts Council Grant
Solo Exhibitions and Installations:
Selected group participation:
2010 Shapeshifter Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
2009 Sculpture on the Peninsula, Canterbury
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana
Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
Sculpture in Central Otago, Rippon Estate, Wanaka
2008 Promoarte Gallery Tokyo
Attitude, with Mild Red, Galerie Paris, Yokohama
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana
Conversations Across Time, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
Save our Water, Ng Gallery Christchurch
3Bs, Milford Galleries, Auckland
ID Dunedin in collaboration with Mild-Red
Shapeshifter, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
2007 Sculpture in the Park, Waitakaruru , Waikato Sculpture Trust
NZ Artists, Taipei Art Fair, Taiwan
Koru Gallery, Hong Kong
ID Dunedin, collaboration with Mild-Red
Collaborative Tapestries, Marilyn RaeMenzies, Ng Gallery, Christchurch
Sculpture on the Peninsula, Guest exhibitor, Christchurch
Manifest, Guest exhibitor, Nelson Arts Festival
Art in Central Otago, Bannochburn
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana
Second Side, The Arthouse, Christchurch
Group Exhibition, North Art, Auckland
2006 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, Australia
Shapeshifter, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
Gowshed opening exhibition, Connells Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island
Sculpture in Central Otago, Bannochburn,
2005 Crowded House, The Arthouse, Christchurch
Sculpture in Central Otago, Bannochburn,
Trilogy, Diversion Gallery, Marlborough
Shriek Revisited, 100 International Artists, Medialia Gallery, New York
COCA, Large-scale tapestry weaving with Marilyn Rae-Menzies
2004 NZ Onshore, Takapuna, Auckland
Shapeshifter, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
Dowse Foundation Auction for the Galvan Macnamara/James Mack Tribute
Sculpture in Central Otago, Bannochburn
Transit of Venus, Milford Galleries, Auckland
After Woollaston, Catchment Gallery, Nelson
Seven, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2003 Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
2002< Participated in innumerable group exhibitions in the period
1979 - 2002 in New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Japan, USA .
Selected Bibliography:
Conversations Across Time, Whakawhiti Kōrero. Michael Reed, Karen Stevenson. ISBN978-0-908668-72-4
How Near, How Far, Koru Contemporary Art catalogue 2008, ISBN978-988-17747-2-9
Connells Bay Centre for Sculpture, pp 48 – 51, Robin Woodward
Squaring the Circle: New Work by Graham Bennett, Gina Irish and Ruth Harvey for Milford Galleries
Reasons to Return, DVD Documentary on Connell’s Bay commission, Mindseyeflicks 2006
Craft Arts International, N 60 ‘Changing Reflections’ Dr Cassandra Fusco
ArtPrice Vol 10, 08/04 ‘World Artist’ Feature article in a Korean Art magazine
World Sculpture News, Vol. 10 No. 1 2004 ‘Of Time and the Ocean’ Dr.Cassandra Fusco
VIP Magazine Summer 04/05
Sculpture Vol 23. No.3 April 2004 (ISC, USA), ‘Reasons for Voyaging’, Jennifer Hay
‘The Farm, Kaipara New Zealand‘, James Ross
‘Walking Through, Graham Bennett’s Reasons for Voyaging’, - Editor John Freeman-Moir, Southwalk Publishing 2003
‘Journey, The Story of the Steel’. - Rosa Shiels, published by Christchurch City Council 2003
Christchurch Press , Arts feature, October 23, 2002. ‘Fire and steel’ Christopher Moore
Christchurch Art Gallery Bulletin,125. Winter 2001, ‘Reasons For Voyaging’ Felicity Milburn
Meguro Museum, Tokyo catalogue, 2001.’ A shriek from an invisible box’
International Craft Arts [Aust] Issue 49 2000 ‘Praxis in practice’ Dr. Cassandra Fusco
World Sculpture News Volume 3 Number 2 Spring 1997 ‘The Importance of Dialogues’ Cassandra Fusco
Sculpture (International Sculpture Centre, USA) recent commissions - Amy Blankstein, October 1996
100 New Zealand Artists - Warwick Brown, Godwit Publishing 1996
Pacific Way. ‘Diverse Talent Focussing on Place’ - Adrienne Rewi, April 1995
‘The Crane and the Kotuku’ - Dianne and Peter Beatson, Manawatu Art Gallery Catalogue August 1994
Art NZ no 72, ‘Making Relations Forms and Forces’ - Cassandra Fusco, September 1994
Bibros, vol 12 - Fukuoka Japan, July 1992
Craft New Zealand no 38 ‘Objects in Landscape - Landscape in Objects’ - John Freeman-Moir, Dec 1991
Christchurch Press - Naomi Gilling, October 1991
Contemporary NZ Prints - Jill McIntosh. Allen & Unwin, 1989
Art NZ no 51 ‘Artists Construction of Nature’ - John Freeman-Moir, 1989
Art NZ no 44 Jonathan Smart, 1987
Louise Beale Gallery newsletter no 108 - John Freeman-Moir, 1987
‘Parameters’ - Robert McDougall Gallery Catalogue, 1987
New Zealand Art, A Modern Perspective - Elva Betts. Reed/Methuen, 1986
Landfall no 44 - Jonathan Smart, 1985
