Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand. Originally from Hakatere, Ashburton, New Zealand (b.1989)
I deal in the removal and representation of images. I make paintings from screen captures of film footage.
In their original state these stills are blanketed in obscurity, and through a process of adaptation into paint, these uncertain elements are further emphasized. That original image is transcended and it is the paint itself that challenges the hierarchy of the figurative subject. Ideas are investigated around painting as an object through my hand made, often unusually shaped support structures, which play against the surface. Lately, my works have been made from stills of videos I shot around my hometown. The locations for filming were from specific places that I have distinct childhood memories from. My dreams as an adult are almost always located in these real life places. These places are not necessarily of rose-tinted nostalgia.
EDUCATION
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (hons) University of Canterbury, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand
2008 – 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Majoring in Painting University of Canterbury, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand
SCHOLARSHIPS
2012 Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship, University of Canterbury 2012 College of Arts Honours Scholarship, University of Canterbury 2011 Harry van der Lecq Painting Scholarship, New Zealand
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 For Lack of a Better Word, Bartley and Company Art, Wellington 2018 Sublunary Drawings, BJOY Image, Xiamen, China 2018 Auckland Art Fair, Auckland 2018 Pink Frost, Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne 2017 Doubles and Trebles(Reprise), Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch 2017 Shot Silk, Bartley and Company Art, Wellington 2017 Swept Under, PG Gallery , Christchurch 2017 Slow Burning, Meanwhile, Wellington 2017 Doubles and Trebles, a collaborative exhibition with Emily Hartley- Skudder, RAMP Gallery, Hamilton 2016 The Big Swim, 30 Courtenay Place,Wellington 2016 Group Exhibition, PG Gallery, Christchurch 2015 Three Painters, Bartley and Company Art, Wellington 2014 Indefinite Article, Chambers 241, Christchurch 2014 Young & Gifted, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 2014 Adding C, D, and E, Toi Poneke Gallery, Wellington 2013 Annual Wallace Award, Pah Homestead, Auckland 2013 Remake, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington 2012 Select, Ilam campus Gallery, Christchurch 2012 Pretty Things, The Colombo Gallery, Christchurch 2012 It’s a Small World, Painted, Artist run space, Dunedin 2012 PG, Casting Room, Christchurch 2011 Dreaming of Electric Sheep, SFA Ilam Gallery, Christchurch 2011 Going Underground, Casting Room, Christchurch 2010 Three, SFA Ilam Gallery, Christchurch 09–11 Skub Salon, SFA Ilam Gallery, Christchurch