Biography
Born Auckland, New Zealand
Education
2001 Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design, Auckland
Upcoming
Group Show, Yusto/Giner, Madrid, Spain, June 2022; Australia Ceramic Triennale, Alice Springs, Australia, July 2022; Group Show, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, September 2022; Splash, Taste Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland, September 2022; Design Miami/Paris, Side Gallery, Paris, France, October 2022; Solo Exhibition, Hastings City Gallery, Hastings, New Zealand, November 2022
Selected Exhibitions
2022 - No One Will See Me Walk to Deny Me Grace, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (solo); Exposed Material, Side Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (group); artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group); Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, New Zealand; Group Exhibition, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (group)
2021 - Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group); Golden Legs and Other Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, (solo); Distorted Duets, Taste Contemporary, La Fonderie Kugler, Geneva, Switzerland (group); miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (group); Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy (Winner - Main Prize); Odd & Even, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France (group); Urns For Unwanted Limbs, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ (solo); Full House, Artist-run exhibition, Auckland, NZ (group); Threshold, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (group); Summer Exhibition, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, NZ (group)
2020 - Design Miami / Basel, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (group); Sydney Contemporary, Gow Langsford Gallery & PAULNACHE, Sydney, Australia (group); miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy, September 2020 (group); Breath Holder, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (solo); Auckland Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ (group); The Backbone of Things, Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ (group); Ladies Bits, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US, (group); The Cook and Her Driver, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, Australia (Residency Exhibition)
2019 - Hot Mess, Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland, NZ, (group); Beau-laid, Masons Yard, St. James, London, UK (group); The Dowse Art Museum, Dirty Ceramics, Wellington, NZ (group); International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics 2019, Geneva, Switzerland (group); Gloria, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (solo); Sydney Contemporary, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (group); Autumn Exhibition, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (group); miart, Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (solo); Trans-Pacific Dialogue, NCECA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (group); National Treasures, Contemporary Ceramics from Australia and New Zealand, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group); Open to Art, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy (group); artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (group)
2018 - I Come Out Of Surgery Looking Golden; Virginia Leonard with Gretchen Albrecht, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (solo); It Only Hurts When I Bend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, US (solo); All I Want is a Facelift, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand (solo); Melbourne Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Melbourne, Australia (solo); Auckland Art Fair, PAULNACHE, Auckland, New Zealand (solo); miart, Erastudio Apartment Gallery, Milan, Italy (group); Collective Design Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, New York, US (group); artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (solo); Exodus, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
2017 - Pulse Art Fair, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami Beach, US (group); Installation Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia (solo); Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (solo); Farvestralende Keramik, Guldagergaard, Denmark (solo); Village huha, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)
2016 - HANDBUILT made in clay, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand (group); Christmas Time at Middlemore, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand (solo); Spring 1883, PAULNACHE, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne, Australia (group); MUD, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (group); Graffiti Lounge, PAULNACHE, Gisborne, New Zealand (group)
2015 - Potters & Painters, The Vivian, Matakana, New Zealand (group)
Awards
2021 - Winner - Main Prize, Officine Saffi Award 4, Milan, Italy
2020 - First Runner-Up Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
2019 - Winner Artist-in-Residence Prize in Finland, Open to Art Ceramic Award, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy
2018 - Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand
2017 - Finalist Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland; Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show
2016 - Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show; Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand; Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2015 - Merit Award Portage Ceramic Awards, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show; Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand; Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
2014 - Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland, New Zealand, Travelling Show; Finalist Molly Morpeth Canaday Sculpture Award, Te kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatane, New Zealand; Finalist National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand; Finalist Waiheke Small Sculpture Prize, Waiheke Art Gallery, Waiheke, New Zealand
Selected Public and Private Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia; Rigo-Saitta Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand; Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kansas, USA; Ann Tennenenbaum Collection, New York, USA; Girls Club Collection, Miami, USA
Residencies
Glass House/Stone House, Chenaud, France; Guldagergaard - International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark
Publications
100 Sculptures of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson; Ceramics Art + Perception #113; Ceramics New Zealand, Volume 1 issue 2, Essay by Kim Paton; The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 57 No1, Essay by Anna Briers