RESUME
Public Sculpture
The Red Forest
2010 Denver, USA (in progress)
Dancers On A Lakefront
2009/10 – Belconnen Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia (in progress)
Voyager
2009/10 – City of Gisborne, New Zealand (in progress)
Sinuous Red
2010 Abu Dhabi
Ripples and Journeys
2010 City of Monash, Melbourne, Australia
Red Echo
2010 Palm Springs, California, USA (in progress)
GreenBlack
2008 Auckland International Airport.
PULSE
2007 University of the Sunshine Coast, Buderim, Queensland
Colour Field
2007 VicUrban residential development, Epping, Melbourne
Red Centre
2006 Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, commissioned by Federation
Square and sponsored by Arts Victoria, Australia
Windgrass
2005 Internal kinetic public sculpture commissioned for the New Zealand
Pavilion, World Expo, Aichi, Japan
Kete (Treasure Basket) Connells Bay Sculpture Park, New Zealand
2004 Connells Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Pacific Grass
2001 Wellington, New Zealand; commissioned by the Wellington Sculpture Trust,
sponsored by Meridian Energy & gifted to the City of Wellington.
Winner 2002 Wellington Civic Initiative award for sculpture.
Award winner 2004 Kinetic Art Organisation international competition for kinetic public sculpture.
Selected private sculpture commissions
Blue Tree In A Red Landscape
2010 RACV Healesville Country Club, Melbourne, Australia
Red Monarch
2008 Gisborne, New Zealand
Plumes
2007 Wellington, New Zealand
Red Field
2007 Melbourne, Australia
Chapel
2007 Napier, New Zealand
Glass Chapel
2007 Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Yellow Carex
2006 Kerikeri, New Zealand
Firebird
2005 Melbourne, Australia
Grassland
2005 Queenstown, New Zealand
Red Ridge
2005 Arrowtown Sculpture Park, New Zealand
Relevant exhibitions
2009 Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2008 Melbourne International Art Fair 2008 (Conny Dietzschold Gallery)
2007 Auckland Art Fair (Conny Dietzschold Gallery)
2007 Cologne Art Fair (Conny Dietzschold Gallery)
2007 Conny Dietzschold Gallery, SydneyFin
Installations
The Blue Trees
2010 Vancouver Biennale
Black Parthenon
2009 Festival of Light, Federation Square
Sacred Grove – the blue forest, afforestation art action
2005/6 Commissioned by the City of Melbourne
Black Pharoahs Appropriation – migration and The Diaspora
2005 Nagoya, Japan
The Tattooed Tailor – an immigrant’s story
2005 L’O`real Melbourne Fashion Festival Arts Program
Red Tree Blue Tree – global deforestation
2004 Kings Domain, Melbourne, Australia.
Works from a Savage Garden – cultural domination
1999 Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
Level 4 – the destruction of natural resources by humans
1998 Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand
1997 Rotorua Museum of Art, Rotorua, New Zealand
Virus: a study on Level Four phenomenon
1998 The Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Kroc and the creation of the big byte
1997 Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Paradise Lost – how violent images affect society
1995 Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
Awards and Invitations
2010 Selected to exhibit Rothko’s Chapel Boston Harbour Shipyard Sculpture Park USA
2009 Invited to create The Blue Trees installation for the 2010 Vancouver Biennale
2007 Finalist, Rothko’s Chapel, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
2007 Art Gallery of NSW Best Site-Specific Sculpture Award for Cypher at
Sculpture by the Sea
2007 Finalist, Cypher, Sculpture By the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
2006 Finalist, Black Cube, Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award
2004 Finalist, Chicago Public Sculpture International Competition
2004 Kinetic Art Organisation International Award for Public Kinetic Sculpture,
Pacific Grass, Wellington, New Zealand
2003 Invited speaker, Landscape Architecture Conference, Wellington
2002 Winner, Civic Initiative Award for Sculpture, Wellington
2001 Guest speaker, National Library of New Zealand
2001 Guest Judge, Wellington Regional Architectural Awards
2000 Finalist, Wallace Art Awards, Auckland City Gallery
1999 Finalist, Waikato Contemporary Art Award
1996 Finalist, Cranleigh Barton Drawing Award, Christchurch
1994 Finalist, Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
1992 Invited artist, Goodman Suter Biennale, Nelson, New Zealand
Curatorial work
Paradisos: images of Hellenic life in Wellington
2002 National Library Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Malaghan Institute – Curated 25 New Zealand artists
2001 Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Foreign Element
1998 Six immigrant artists, Petone, Wellington
Strange New Land
1994 International Festival of the Arts 1994, Wellington, New Zealand.