Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
- Jewelry Drops, Milano Jewelry Week 2022, October 20-23rd 2022.
- Annual International Graduate Exhibition 2022, Galerie Marzee, Lage Marks 3, Nijmegen, Netherlands. 22 September -23 November 2022.
- Open Home II, my home, 3 Stirling Street, Kakanui, New Zealand, March 2022.
- Open Home I Online Video, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial, 4—12 September 2021.
- Open Home I, My Home, 3 Stirling Street, Kakanui, New Zealand. August 2021.
- Bodies of Knowledge, The V Space, The Robertson Library, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, 2020.
- Clink Project #6. Radian Pavilion, Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial, 2019.
- Exposed Objects, an artist talk and workshops held in conjunction with an exhibition at The Rotorua Arts Village, which was part of an internship sponsored by the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust. November 2018- February 2019.
- ArtsMadd, Artist Talk, The Monarch Room, Rotorua, Tuesday, November, 2018.
- Multiple Threads, Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, Graduate Show, 2017. The Monarch Room, The Princes Gate Hotel, Rotorua.
- Matariki Celebration – A Group Show, Helium Gallery, Rotorua. Wednesday 28 June – Tuesday 1 August, 2017.
Education
- Masters of Fine Arts (Jewellery), Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2022.
- Graduate Diploma in Creative Entrepreneurship, (Level 7), Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, Rotorua, New Zealand, 2017.
- Graduate Diploma of Education, Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch, New Zealand. 2010.
- Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary), Wellington College of Education, Wellington, New Zealand, 2002.
- Bachelor of Arts (Art History), Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 2002.
I am interested in the structures that constrict and dictate our daily lives. My recent work has been dominated by the home and my local environment. Through expanding my understanding of the objects that surround me, I experiment and play with them as co-conspirators in the experience of making. These procedures are often repetitive in action, and using simple tools, as part of the making process. This allows a full body experience that amplifies the understanding and knowing of patterns, behaviours, events, environments and the world I inhabit. I use a feminist framework in my approach and encourage participation in making and experiencing the pieces