EXHIBITIONS
2023 `COLONIAL ROAD’ Pah Homestead Gallery, Courtesy of Mokopopaki, Auckland
2022 ‘STORIES OF PLACE; PARIHAKA & MANAIA, Kiwi North, Whangarei
2020 `COLONIAL ROAD’ Mokopopaki, Auckland, Auckland
2020 `HERE & THERE; CONTEMPLATING THE LANDSCAPE’ MD Gallery, Whangarei
2019 `WE’RE NOT TOO BIG TO CARE’, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, exhibiting with Angela Tiatia, Aroha Novak, Billy Apple, Cao Fei, Cushla Donaldson, Deborah Rundle, Duvet Brothers, Emily Hartley-Skudder, Gabrielle Amodeo, Hikau Clarke, John Baldessari, James R Ford, Julian Dashper, Mervyn Williams, Miranda Bellamy.
2019 `POCKET EDITION; smallworks for large walls, group exhibition NorthArt.Community Gallery, Auckland
2019 `XIV STATIONS OF THE CROSS’, Group Exhibition, NorthArt Community Gallery
2018 `NIKAU DELICATESSEN’, Solo Exhibition, Mokopopaki, Auckland
2017 `OTHER PERSPECTIVES’ Group Exhibition, Mokopopaki, Auckland
2017 `TEA UNDER MANAIA’, New Artists Group Exhibition, Mokopopaki, Auckland
2017 `DRAWINGS AFTER DAUMIER’, `White Night/White Works’ ,group exhibition NorthArt
2016 `SHORTHAND; TAKAPUNA MOMENTS’; Pocket Edition, NorthArt
2016 ‘PAPER WORKS’, NorthArt
2016 `TEA UNDER MANAIA’, The Deck, Whangarei Heads. Oil paintings on wood.
2016 XIV Stations of the Cross, NorthArt
2015 WE ARE INTRODUCED; Pocket Edition; Small Works for Large Walls, NorthArt
2015 `WHITE NIGHT’, `The Russiansky Bridge’ , Northart, group exhibition.
2015 `STATIONS OF THE CROSS, Northart, group exhibition.
2014 ` EASTER CELEBRATION’, Birkenhead Community Church gallery. Photographic, sculpture, drawing.
2014 ‘PRO PATRIA; FOR COUNTRY’ WWI Centenary Living Remembrance Floral Carpet, Whangarei Art Museum
2014 `TRUE DAUGHTERS OF THE NORTH’ Northart, Small sculptural works.
2013 `POCKET EDITION, Small Works for Large Walls’, Northart. Group exhibition.
2013 IPIPIRI ART GALLERY, Pahia, group exhibition.
2012 `THE LAMENTATIONS OF TEWHARA’ photographic exhibition, exhibited at Whangarei Central Library, The Deck Café, and Whangarei Heads School, including slide demo ‘Pucha Kucha’ in the Whangarei Old Library.
2012 `COLONIAL SERVICE’ Solo exhibition, Tuatara Gallery, Whangarei City
2011 `WAYFINDING’ a series of ellipsoidal landscape paintings, `Permanent Collection/Display, Whangarei Art Museum
2011`THE LAMENTATIONS OF TEWHARA’ a photographic exhibition supported by Creative NZ, The Bream Head Trust, Whangarei Refinery & Whangarei New Library.
2011 ‘COLONIAL SERVICE’ Solo exhibition, Northart
2010 `ON A PLATE’ Northart Members Exhibition
2010 - 2012 LIVING HALLS by Fiona Jack – toured Group exhibition & booklet – paintings of New Zealand’s war memorial halls. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum, & Papakura Art Gallery.
2010 `MS ELLIS REGRETS SHE IS UNABLE TO LUNCH TODAY’ Northart, curated by Carole Prentice, Exhibiting with Allie Eagle, Sheryl O’Gorman, Tatjana Stefanovich nee Este, Maree Saunders, Vickie Worthington, Emily Hill, Frances Riddell
2010 `HALO, IT’S GOOD TO BE HERE’ Tuatara Design Store `Exhibition Gallery’, Whangarei. Solo show of new works
2009 `NORTHART MEMBERS EXHIBITION’
2007 `TEARS FOR TANE’S CHILDREN’ E-North Gallery, Whangarei Art Museum/Outreach Gallery, Kauri Festival Group Exhibiting with Liam Barr, HelenBerronsall, Nigel Brown, Andrew Drummond, T.L. Drummond, Joanna Fieldes, Herb Foley, Ian Hamlin, Anahera Kingi, Eric Lee-Johnson, Jenny Rendall, Nelson Thompson, Greer Twiss, W. Reed, Warren Viscoe.
2007 `FLAG TO FLAG’, E-North Gallery, Whangarei Art Museum/Outreach Gallery, Exhibiting with Ralph Hotere, Robert Ellis, John Edgar, Greer Twiss, John Lyall, Ellen Smith, Chris Wilkie & Mary Anderson
2006 `WHAKAIRO ART & DESIGN GRADUATES EXHIBITION’ Tuatara Gallery, Whangarei
2006 SPRING CATALOGUE 2006, Warwick Henderson Gallery, Parnell, Auckland Central
2006 ‘DRAWINGS INSPIRATION’, Geoff Wilson Gallery, Whangarei City - Exhibiting with Grant & Helen Beran, Laurence Berry, Murray Gibbs, Sarah Hewlett, Lindsay Marks, Roger McClean, Manos Nathan.
2006 `SELECTED WORKS’ Milford Galleries Queenstown Exhibiting with Mike Petre, Michael Hight, Callum Arnold and Katherine Smyth.
2006 `25 YR CELEBRATION EXHIBITION’ Warwick Henderson Gallery, Exhibiting with Philippa Blair, Trevor Moffatt, Philip Trusttum, Mervyn Williams, Nigel Brown, Eion Stevens, Fatu Feu’u, John Walsh, April Shin, Nick Wall, Robyn Gibson, Justin Summerton, Josephine Cachemaille, Jenny Rendall, Don Driver, Jan Nigro, Greg Burton, Paul Deans, Robyn Kahukiwa.
2006 `FINDING LONGITUDE’ Milford Galleries Dunedin
2006 `FRESH FACED’ BartleyNees Gallery, Wellington Group exhibition
2005 `FINDING LONGITUDE’ NorthArt
2005 `FINDING LONGITUDE’ Whangarei Art Museum
2005 `BABY WON’T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT’ PPG Gallery, Auckland Central Exhibiting with Rebecca Steedman, Stephanie Ross, Emma Springford Gough, Aimee MacMillan & Hadley Bishop.
2005 `MOLLY MORPETH CANADAY TRUST AWARDS’ Whakatane District War Memorial
2004 `NORTHART MEMBERS SUMMER EXHIBITION’
2004 ‘PROTOTYPE’, a private showing of works to date.
2003 ‘WHANGAREI DISTRICT COUNCIL ART AWARD’ Finalist
2003 `THE DRAWING SHOW’ NorthArt
2002 `NORTHART MEMBERS SUMMER EXHIBITION’
2002 `CELEBRATING THE NEW COASTAL ENVIRONMENT’ North Shore City Art Awards
2002 `BIRKENHEAD LICENSING TRUST ART AWARD’
2002 `OUR LAND’ Waikato National Art Award finalist
2001 `SMALL ONE;AN EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS’ George Fraser Gallery, Auckland University works by graduating & master students of Elam School of Fine Arts, directed by Carole Shepheard.
2001 `BANNED PRACTICES’ Auckland, Khyber Pass - Group Exhibition curated by Anthony Byrt, directed by Judy Millar
2001 `ART GOES MAINSTREET’ Remuera Shopping Centre/Elam School of Fine Arts group exhibition; sponsored by John Leech Gallery
2001 `DEFUSED’ Toshiba Towers, Cnr Queen St & Mayoral Drive, Auckland. Elam School of Fine Arts Graduates self-organised exhibition. Exhibitors included Carole Prentice, Leila Ataya, Hamish Palmer, Karen Kent, Amelia Cooke, Hye Eun Park, Julian Dyne, Natalie Pryor, Terri Yi, Tatjana Stevanovic, Milan Haber; curated by Carole Prentice including design of invitations/brochure.
1999 `TAONGA MAURI : OBJECTS OF OUR AFFECTION’ Artstation Gallery, Ponsonby , Auckland - Exhibiting with Allie Eagle, Jane Zusters, Martin Ball, Susan Jowsey, Miriam Harris, Theresa Franco-suarez, Emily Siddell, Michael Parekowhai, Marcus Williams, Nuala Gregory, J. la Trobe-Burton, S. Ross, Matthew Elwood, Kazu Nakagawa, Hamish Palmer. Directed and curated by Cushla Parekowhai
DESIGN
2017 `Taniwha & Manaia’ design on ceramic platter.
2014 `Maori Willow’ design on ceramic platter.
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
2023 `Mokopopaki Trio on Birkenhead History & Ornithology’,, eyecontactmagazine.com/2023/05 John Hurrell art review.
2023 ‘Colonial Road’, Auckland: Mokopaki & The Arts House Trust
2020 `Between A Mountain A River And Me; The Collected Works of Carole Prentice 1996 to 2016’ - BLURB Publications.
2020’ Colonial Road’, Auckland: Mokopopaki
2019 ‘We’re not too big to care’, Amy Weng, Circuit, 28 April, 2019.
2019 John Hurrell, Mokopopaki (Art Collector, No.87, 2019), pp 189-191
2019 ‘This Joyous, Chaotic Place: He Waiata Tangi-a-Tahu’, Auckland: Mokopopaki & Spiral
2018 ‘Nikau Delicatessen’, Auckland: Mokopopaki
2017 'Art News: NorthArt', Channelmag, Issue 74, March
2017 ‘Korekore Whakapiri’, Auckland: Mokopopaki
2015 `The Lamentations of TeWhara’ a visual essay’ - a BLURB Publication.
2014 ‘Pro Patria; For Country’ Northern Advocate: World War I Centenary Living Remembrance Floral Carpet, Whangarei Art Museum, in collaboration with Whangarei District Council and Returned Services Association
2013 `Fiona Jack Living Halls’, pg 151, Govett-Brewster Gallery
2012 'Artshed Gets a Fresh Start', Whangarei Leader, Feb 7, Denise Piper review
2011 'Lament for the Watcher of Te Whara; History Alive on Canvas', Advocate Weekend, Whangarei, Oct 15
2010 'Fiona Jack Living Halls', Home Magazine, June/July, Josie McNaught art review.
2010 'Fiona Jack Living Halls', Listener, Aug 14, 2010 pg 42-43, Mark Amery art review
2010 'Fiona Jack Living Halls', Art News New Zealand, pg 70-73, Virginia Were art review
2010 'Combining Cultures in Art', Whangarei Leader, Mar 9
2010 'Vines of Spiritual Worlds Interwoven in Art', Northern Advocate Whangarei, Mar 25, Laurence Clark
2008 `NZ’s Favourite Artists 2’ Ed. Denis Robinson pg 88, 89
2007 'Flag to Flag', e-north, Whangarei Art Museum Media Release, exploring the use of the flag motif in New Zealand Contemporary Art, Mar 5, Marie Saunders
2006 'From the Start', Northern Advocate Whangarei, Sept 14, Jenny Bennett
2005 `Narratives of Place’ Art News New Zealand Spring Issue pg84
2005 `Artists Push Their Boundaries’ The Northern Advocate Whangarei, Wed, Aug 24
2005 'A Children’s Classic comes to PumpHouse' (North Shore Times, 29 September, 2005), pp 16-17
2005 'Alumni of the University of Auckland make waves at home and abroad' (Ingenio, Spring 2005) pp. 30-31
2002 `Panmure - a sense of place scrapbook’ pg 68 `Artist’s Book’ by Caroline Robinson; Publication held in the Mt Wellington Library; viewing on request.
2001 ‘Banned Practice: Studio III and IV Painting, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
PUBLIC DISPLAY
Auckland Museum Collections, Whangarei Art Museum Permanent Collection; Whangarei Council Chambers; Whangarei Public Library; Marsden Point Refinery; CBD, Shortland Street; Hewlett Packard, Auckland City; Dataview, Whangaparoa; CCC Office, Orange Ballroom, Newton; Mt Wellington Public Library; Glenfield Public Library, Glenfield Area Office.
QUALIFICATIONS
2006 Whangarei Polytech, Whakairo Maori Art & Design, (First Maori design course offered in Northland, tutored by Andrea Hopkins)
2001 Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University- Bachelor of Fine Arts -A- in the discipline of Painting tutored under Carole Shepheard, Nuala Gregory, Judy Miller,
Leigh Martin, Dennis Watkins, Louise Fong, James Cousins and Cushla Parekowhai. Papers completed: Nationalist Themes in New Zealand Art, Art of 20th Century in Europe & USA, Special Topic in European Art - Landscape Art, Topics in 18th & early 19th Century Art, Realism, Impressionism & Post Impressionism, High Renaissance Art & Architecture
1997 Rutherford High School- Certificate in Art & Design - Pre-foundation Program – Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture
1996 Tamaki College/Northcote College - University Entrance - Design (Scholarship) A*, History of Art A, Painting B
2023 `COLONIAL ROAD’ Pah Homestead Gallery, Courtesy of Mokopopaki, Auckland
2022 ‘STORIES OF PLACE; PARIHAKA & MANAIA, Kiwi North, Whangarei
2020 `COLONIAL ROAD’ Mokopopaki, Auckland, Auckland
2020 `HERE & THERE; CONTEMPLATING THE LANDSCAPE’ MD Gallery, Whangarei
2019 `WE’RE NOT TOO BIG TO CARE’, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, exhibiting with Angela Tiatia, Aroha Novak, Billy Apple, Cao Fei, Cushla Donaldson, Deborah Rundle, Duvet Brothers, Emily Hartley-Skudder, Gabrielle Amodeo, Hikau Clarke, John Baldessari, James R Ford, Julian Dashper, Mervyn Williams, Miranda Bellamy.
2019 `POCKET EDITION; smallworks for large walls, group exhibition NorthArt.Community Gallery, Auckland
2019 `XIV STATIONS OF THE CROSS’, Group Exhibition, NorthArt Community Gallery
2018 `NIKAU DELICATESSEN’, Solo Exhibition, Mokopopaki, Auckland
2017 `OTHER PERSPECTIVES’ Group Exhibition, Mokopopaki, Auckland
2017 `TEA UNDER MANAIA’, New Artists Group Exhibition, Mokopopaki, Auckland
2017 `DRAWINGS AFTER DAUMIER’, `White Night/White Works’ ,group exhibition NorthArt
2016 `SHORTHAND; TAKAPUNA MOMENTS’; Pocket Edition, NorthArt
2016 ‘PAPER WORKS’, NorthArt
2016 `TEA UNDER MANAIA’, The Deck, Whangarei Heads. Oil paintings on wood.
2016 XIV Stations of the Cross, NorthArt
2015 WE ARE INTRODUCED; Pocket Edition; Small Works for Large Walls, NorthArt
2015 `WHITE NIGHT’, `The Russiansky Bridge’ , Northart, group exhibition.
2015 `STATIONS OF THE CROSS, Northart, group exhibition.
2014 ` EASTER CELEBRATION’, Birkenhead Community Church gallery. Photographic, sculpture, drawing.
2014 ‘PRO PATRIA; FOR COUNTRY’ WWI Centenary Living Remembrance Floral Carpet, Whangarei Art Museum
2014 `TRUE DAUGHTERS OF THE NORTH’ Northart, Small sculptural works.
2013 `POCKET EDITION, Small Works for Large Walls’, Northart. Group exhibition.
2013 IPIPIRI ART GALLERY, Pahia, group exhibition.
2012 `THE LAMENTATIONS OF TEWHARA’ photographic exhibition, exhibited at Whangarei Central Library, The Deck Café, and Whangarei Heads School, including slide demo ‘Pucha Kucha’ in the Whangarei Old Library.
2012 `COLONIAL SERVICE’ Solo exhibition, Tuatara Gallery, Whangarei City
2011 `WAYFINDING’ a series of ellipsoidal landscape paintings, `Permanent Collection/Display, Whangarei Art Museum
2011`THE LAMENTATIONS OF TEWHARA’ a photographic exhibition supported by Creative NZ, The Bream Head Trust, Whangarei Refinery & Whangarei New Library.
2011 ‘COLONIAL SERVICE’ Solo exhibition, Northart
2010 `ON A PLATE’ Northart Members Exhibition
2010 - 2012 LIVING HALLS by Fiona Jack – toured Group exhibition & booklet – paintings of New Zealand’s war memorial halls. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, The Dowse Art Museum, & Papakura Art Gallery.
2010 `MS ELLIS REGRETS SHE IS UNABLE TO LUNCH TODAY’ Northart, curated by Carole Prentice, Exhibiting with Allie Eagle, Sheryl O’Gorman, Tatjana Stefanovich nee Este, Maree Saunders, Vickie Worthington, Emily Hill, Frances Riddell
2010 `HALO, IT’S GOOD TO BE HERE’ Tuatara Design Store `Exhibition Gallery’, Whangarei. Solo show of new works
2009 `NORTHART MEMBERS EXHIBITION’
2007 `TEARS FOR TANE’S CHILDREN’ E-North Gallery, Whangarei Art Museum/Outreach Gallery, Kauri Festival Group Exhibiting with Liam Barr, HelenBerronsall, Nigel Brown, Andrew Drummond, T.L. Drummond, Joanna Fieldes, Herb Foley, Ian Hamlin, Anahera Kingi, Eric Lee-Johnson, Jenny Rendall, Nelson Thompson, Greer Twiss, W. Reed, Warren Viscoe.
2007 `FLAG TO FLAG’, E-North Gallery, Whangarei Art Museum/Outreach Gallery, Exhibiting with Ralph Hotere, Robert Ellis, John Edgar, Greer Twiss, John Lyall, Ellen Smith, Chris Wilkie & Mary Anderson
2006 `WHAKAIRO ART & DESIGN GRADUATES EXHIBITION’ Tuatara Gallery, Whangarei
2006 SPRING CATALOGUE 2006, Warwick Henderson Gallery, Parnell, Auckland Central
2006 ‘DRAWINGS INSPIRATION’, Geoff Wilson Gallery, Whangarei City - Exhibiting with Grant & Helen Beran, Laurence Berry, Murray Gibbs, Sarah Hewlett, Lindsay Marks, Roger McClean, Manos Nathan.
2006 `SELECTED WORKS’ Milford Galleries Queenstown Exhibiting with Mike Petre, Michael Hight, Callum Arnold and Katherine Smyth.
2006 `25 YR CELEBRATION EXHIBITION’ Warwick Henderson Gallery, Exhibiting with Philippa Blair, Trevor Moffatt, Philip Trusttum, Mervyn Williams, Nigel Brown, Eion Stevens, Fatu Feu’u, John Walsh, April Shin, Nick Wall, Robyn Gibson, Justin Summerton, Josephine Cachemaille, Jenny Rendall, Don Driver, Jan Nigro, Greg Burton, Paul Deans, Robyn Kahukiwa.
2006 `FINDING LONGITUDE’ Milford Galleries Dunedin
2006 `FRESH FACED’ BartleyNees Gallery, Wellington Group exhibition
2005 `FINDING LONGITUDE’ NorthArt
2005 `FINDING LONGITUDE’ Whangarei Art Museum
2005 `BABY WON’T YOU COME OUT TONIGHT’ PPG Gallery, Auckland Central Exhibiting with Rebecca Steedman, Stephanie Ross, Emma Springford Gough, Aimee MacMillan & Hadley Bishop.
2005 `MOLLY MORPETH CANADAY TRUST AWARDS’ Whakatane District War Memorial
2004 `NORTHART MEMBERS SUMMER EXHIBITION’
2004 ‘PROTOTYPE’, a private showing of works to date.
2003 ‘WHANGAREI DISTRICT COUNCIL ART AWARD’ Finalist
2003 `THE DRAWING SHOW’ NorthArt
2002 `NORTHART MEMBERS SUMMER EXHIBITION’
2002 `CELEBRATING THE NEW COASTAL ENVIRONMENT’ North Shore City Art Awards
2002 `BIRKENHEAD LICENSING TRUST ART AWARD’
2002 `OUR LAND’ Waikato National Art Award finalist
2001 `SMALL ONE;AN EXHIBITION OF SMALL WORKS’ George Fraser Gallery, Auckland University works by graduating & master students of Elam School of Fine Arts, directed by Carole Shepheard.
2001 `BANNED PRACTICES’ Auckland, Khyber Pass - Group Exhibition curated by Anthony Byrt, directed by Judy Millar
2001 `ART GOES MAINSTREET’ Remuera Shopping Centre/Elam School of Fine Arts group exhibition; sponsored by John Leech Gallery
2001 `DEFUSED’ Toshiba Towers, Cnr Queen St & Mayoral Drive, Auckland. Elam School of Fine Arts Graduates self-organised exhibition. Exhibitors included Carole Prentice, Leila Ataya, Hamish Palmer, Karen Kent, Amelia Cooke, Hye Eun Park, Julian Dyne, Natalie Pryor, Terri Yi, Tatjana Stevanovic, Milan Haber; curated by Carole Prentice including design of invitations/brochure.
1999 `TAONGA MAURI : OBJECTS OF OUR AFFECTION’ Artstation Gallery, Ponsonby , Auckland - Exhibiting with Allie Eagle, Jane Zusters, Martin Ball, Susan Jowsey, Miriam Harris, Theresa Franco-suarez, Emily Siddell, Michael Parekowhai, Marcus Williams, Nuala Gregory, J. la Trobe-Burton, S. Ross, Matthew Elwood, Kazu Nakagawa, Hamish Palmer. Directed and curated by Cushla Parekowhai
DESIGN
2017 `Taniwha & Manaia’ design on ceramic platter.
2014 `Maori Willow’ design on ceramic platter.
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
2023 `Mokopopaki Trio on Birkenhead History & Ornithology’,, eyecontactmagazine.com/2023/05 John Hurrell art review.
2023 ‘Colonial Road’, Auckland: Mokopaki & The Arts House Trust
2020 `Between A Mountain A River And Me; The Collected Works of Carole Prentice 1996 to 2016’ - BLURB Publications.
2020’ Colonial Road’, Auckland: Mokopopaki
2019 ‘We’re not too big to care’, Amy Weng, Circuit, 28 April, 2019.
2019 John Hurrell, Mokopopaki (Art Collector, No.87, 2019), pp 189-191
2019 ‘This Joyous, Chaotic Place: He Waiata Tangi-a-Tahu’, Auckland: Mokopopaki & Spiral
2018 ‘Nikau Delicatessen’, Auckland: Mokopopaki
2017 'Art News: NorthArt', Channelmag, Issue 74, March
2017 ‘Korekore Whakapiri’, Auckland: Mokopopaki
2015 `The Lamentations of TeWhara’ a visual essay’ - a BLURB Publication.
2014 ‘Pro Patria; For Country’ Northern Advocate: World War I Centenary Living Remembrance Floral Carpet, Whangarei Art Museum, in collaboration with Whangarei District Council and Returned Services Association
2013 `Fiona Jack Living Halls’, pg 151, Govett-Brewster Gallery
2012 'Artshed Gets a Fresh Start', Whangarei Leader, Feb 7, Denise Piper review
2011 'Lament for the Watcher of Te Whara; History Alive on Canvas', Advocate Weekend, Whangarei, Oct 15
2010 'Fiona Jack Living Halls', Home Magazine, June/July, Josie McNaught art review.
2010 'Fiona Jack Living Halls', Listener, Aug 14, 2010 pg 42-43, Mark Amery art review
2010 'Fiona Jack Living Halls', Art News New Zealand, pg 70-73, Virginia Were art review
2010 'Combining Cultures in Art', Whangarei Leader, Mar 9
2010 'Vines of Spiritual Worlds Interwoven in Art', Northern Advocate Whangarei, Mar 25, Laurence Clark
2008 `NZ’s Favourite Artists 2’ Ed. Denis Robinson pg 88, 89
2007 'Flag to Flag', e-north, Whangarei Art Museum Media Release, exploring the use of the flag motif in New Zealand Contemporary Art, Mar 5, Marie Saunders
2006 'From the Start', Northern Advocate Whangarei, Sept 14, Jenny Bennett
2005 `Narratives of Place’ Art News New Zealand Spring Issue pg84
2005 `Artists Push Their Boundaries’ The Northern Advocate Whangarei, Wed, Aug 24
2005 'A Children’s Classic comes to PumpHouse' (North Shore Times, 29 September, 2005), pp 16-17
2005 'Alumni of the University of Auckland make waves at home and abroad' (Ingenio, Spring 2005) pp. 30-31
2002 `Panmure - a sense of place scrapbook’ pg 68 `Artist’s Book’ by Caroline Robinson; Publication held in the Mt Wellington Library; viewing on request.
2001 ‘Banned Practice: Studio III and IV Painting, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
PUBLIC DISPLAY
Auckland Museum Collections, Whangarei Art Museum Permanent Collection; Whangarei Council Chambers; Whangarei Public Library; Marsden Point Refinery; CBD, Shortland Street; Hewlett Packard, Auckland City; Dataview, Whangaparoa; CCC Office, Orange Ballroom, Newton; Mt Wellington Public Library; Glenfield Public Library, Glenfield Area Office.
QUALIFICATIONS
2006 Whangarei Polytech, Whakairo Maori Art & Design, (First Maori design course offered in Northland, tutored by Andrea Hopkins)
2001 Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University- Bachelor of Fine Arts -A- in the discipline of Painting tutored under Carole Shepheard, Nuala Gregory, Judy Miller,
Leigh Martin, Dennis Watkins, Louise Fong, James Cousins and Cushla Parekowhai. Papers completed: Nationalist Themes in New Zealand Art, Art of 20th Century in Europe & USA, Special Topic in European Art - Landscape Art, Topics in 18th & early 19th Century Art, Realism, Impressionism & Post Impressionism, High Renaissance Art & Architecture
1997 Rutherford High School- Certificate in Art & Design - Pre-foundation Program – Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture
1996 Tamaki College/Northcote College - University Entrance - Design (Scholarship) A*, History of Art A, Painting B
WORLD WAR I CENTENARY LIVING REMEMBRANCE
FLORAL CARPET DESIGN for WHANGAREI CITY - COMMISSION
Pro Patria
Pro Patria is constructed on a circular base of the ground creeper Muehlenbeckia astonii interwoven with large heart-shaped leaves of kawakawa Macropiper excelsum which when crushed exude a sweet but melancholy perfume. This is the scent of enduring sadness. It is the quality that sets the tone for this work by remembering not only the funereal garlands worn by Maori during times of great lamentation and loss but also the tender fronds of fresh green willow still worn by English villagers in ancient celebrations acknowledging the cycle of the seasons and the transience of youth. Also integrated into the form of the wreath are stems of arum Zantedechia aethiopica the elegant white lily most loved in 19th century New Zealand as a colonial symbol of grief as well as some resinous sprigs of rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis the fragrant herb of remembrance bound together with spiked sprays of gorse Ulex europaeus whose treacherous thorns prick at both the conscience and the heart. Also included is a small bundle of manuka Leptospernum scoparium tied with flax Phormium tenax which refers to the uniquely Kiwi custom of mailing parcels of ti-tree twigs for homesick New Zealanders to consign to Northern hemisphere hearths during the long dark winter of a cold European night. Burning manuka cuttings releases not only the astringent and healing oil but also an aromatic sense of nationhood and family nostalgia as the smell of a well-remembered summer barbeque or whanau hangi is carried by the smoke.
NORTHERN ADVOCATE: The World War I Centenary Living Remembrance Floral Carpets were designed by Brett A'Court, Fiona Pardington, Jo Hardy, Carole Prentice and Scott McFarlane. The project was organised through Whangarei Art Museum, in collaboration with the Whangarei District Council and Returned Services Association. It is made possible with a $12,000 grant from national heritage funding that will support events in communities all over New Zealand that commemorate World War I. Julie-Anne Smith Rylev, from Bloom Flowers, has overseen the creation of the art installations, in which volunteers have woven thousands of blooms into the floral carpets.