SEE MY CV below these paintings

'Two Worlds' (above) depicts the often-difficult process

of living between two worlds ( traditional and modern),

juggling traditional cultural beliefs with European 'Christian' values.

'Mixed Heritage' (130 x 130cm).. A genealogy of mixed parentage

'Lost Traditions' (130cm x 60cm)
(based on a work by Gustav Klimt)

above:'Awakening' (tryptich)

above:'Colonial Heritage' (140cm x 600cm)
...A statement about Assimilation...

Upon completion of my 'Legacy' Series, I began work on the painting below

'ANCESTRAL ROOTS' (Triptych-2m x 1.3m)


BELOW IS MY CV

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

*Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Curtin University , Perth, WA)
* Indigenous Studies (University South Australia, 2002-3) *Winner 2003 ‘People’s Choice Award’ (Telstra Aboriginal Art Award, Darwin)
*Finalist 2003 Nationwide Indigenous RAKA Award (Melbourne)
*Commendation : 2003 Minnawarra Art Award (Perth, Western Australia)
*Finalist 2003 Bunbury Biennale (Bunbury, Western Australia)
*Finalist 2002 Telstra Aboriginal Art Award, (Darwin)
* Special Runner-up 2002 Perth Royal Show’s Open Art Award (Perth, WA )
*Finalist 2002 Mandorla Religious Art Award (Fremantle, Western Australia)
*OVERALL WINNER 2000Waiheke Art Award (Auckland, New Zealand)
*OVERALL WINNER 1999 Mainland Art Award (Dunedin, New Zealand)
*Category Winner 1997 LDS International Art Award (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
*Category Winner 1997 Waiheke Art Award (Auckland, New Zealand)
*OVERALL WINNER 1997 St Helier’s Bay Art Award (Auckland, New Zealand)
*Category Winner 1996 Waiheke Art Award (Auckland, New Zealand)
Born New Zealand,1949-- married with 3 children--Artwork published in “Waiheke ‘Artists and Poets’ 1992--Worked 8 yrs as ‘Gulf News’ Arts Columnist,(Auckland,NZ 1992-2001 )--Illustrated Maori language Reader, 'Kapa Haka', for Maori children's book author, Katerina Mataira (commiss. NZ Dept Ed,1999) .
Note :Works held in private collections in Tahiti, Europe, USA (incl.Salt Lake City LDS Museum of Art/ History), New Zealand, Australia (incl. University West Sydney & Berhnt Museum of Anthropology, Perth). Currently living in Brisbane, Australia.

EXHIBITIONS:

2008* Tina Cooper Art & Glass Gallery,Eumundi (Sunshine Coast, Qld), Escape Gallery, Murwillumbah (NSW) 2007:* Tina Cooper Art & Glass Gallery, Eumundi, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
2006 :*'Lifting the Veil', (Bond University Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland). * 'Legacy' Escape Gallery, Murwillumbah (NSW)
2004 : *Sydney Affordable Art Show (Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney)
*Joondalup Invitation Art Exhibition(Perth, WA)
*‘What Colour is your Heart’ (Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane,Qld, Australia)
*Melbourne Art Fair (Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne,Vic, Australia)
2003 : *Telstra Art Award Exhibition (Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin)
*Kate Challis RAKA Award, (Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Aust)
*Fisher Ghost Art Exhibition (Campbeltown Gallery, NSW, Aust.) *New Works: Jody Broun & Sylvia HdeS (Indigenart , Perth, Western Aust.)
*‘Identity and Country’, (45 Downstairs, Melbourne,Vic, Aust)
*Bunbury Biennale Invitational Exhibition (Bunbury Art Gallery, WA)
*Minnawarra Invitational Art Exhibition ( Armadale Admin. Bldg. Perth,W.A )
*Sydney Affordable Art Show (Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney, Australia)
*Melbourne Art Fair (Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne,Vic, Australia)
2002: *‘Eyes of a Nation’, SOLO Exhibition (Indigenart Gallery, Perth W.A) *Salek Minc Exhibition for Jewish Women Artists (Perth Jewish Centre, W.A)*Telstra Art Award Exhibition (Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Darwin)
2001: *Rockingham Indigenous Art Exhibition (PCYC Cntr, Rockingham, W.A) *Melbourne Art Fair (Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Aust)
*Rockingham Art Show (Rockingham Arts Centre, Rockingham, WA) *Perth Royal Show Art Exhibition (Royal Showground Exh. Centre, Perth, W.A)
*Mandorla Religious Art Award Exhibition(Moores Building, Fremantle, W.A)*Mandorla Selected Finalist’s Exhibition (New Norcia Gallery, New Norcia,WA)

In 2001 I moved from New Zealand to Perth, Western Australia

2000: *‘Family Culture’(The Edge Gallery, Auckland, NZ)
*Waiheke Art Award Exhibition (Artworks, Auckland, NZ)
*LDS International Art Award ( Museum of Art/History, Utah, USA) * S.W.A.N Exhibition (Joint NZ/Aus Women artists, Tapp Gallery, Sydney) *Toi Maori Arts Festival (Rotorua Convention Centre, Rotorua, NZ)
*Mainland Art Award Exhibition (Academy Fine Arts Gallery, Dunedin,NZ 1998 *’Colour in Excess’ (Solo Exhibition, Harrison’s Gallery, Tauranga, NZ)
*Invited Artists Garden Party Exhibition. (Government House, Auckland, NZ)*Open Artists Exhibition (open theme)… (BONZ Gallery, Queenstown,N.Z) *No Te Manawa Ringa (Te Taumata Gallery, Auckland
*‘All Creatures Great and Small’ (Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Auckland,NZ)*Waiheke Art Award Exhibition (Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ) *LDS International Art Award ( Museum Art/History, Salt Lake City,Utah,USA)
1996* ‘Going Solo 8’ (SOLO Exh.-Academy Fine Arts Gallery, Wellington, NZ)
*‘Tangata Whenua Re-visited’ (SOLO Exh- Harrison’s Gallery,Tauranga,NZ) *’Pacific Pallette’ (Art By the Sea, Auckland, NZ)
1995*Open Exhibition (Prints Gallery, Auckland, NZ)
*‘Images of Egypt’ (Artworks Gallery, Auckland, NZ)
*Works by Artist, SOLO Exh.(Hotel Pan Pacific Foyer, Auck, NZ)
*‘ Painted Garden’(NZ Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Wellington, NZ)
*‘The Sky’s the Limit’ (NZ Academy of Fine Arts Gallery,Wellington, NZ)
*Open Exhibition (Harrison’s Gallery, Tauranga, NZ)*Open Exhibition(Studio Contemporary Art, Auck.NZ)
*‘The Mail Must Go Through’ (Artworks Gallery, Auckland, NZ 1994*‘Portraits of Polynesia’ ,Galerie Baye de Cooke, French Polynesia)
*Open Exhibition, (Harrison’s Gallery, Tauranga, NZ)
1993 * Joint Auckland Artist’s Exhibition (Art By the Sea, Auckland,NZ)
1992 *’Portraits of the Soul’ Solo Exhibition (Morgan-le-Fay Gallery, Auck. NZ)*’Five With a Vision’ (Artworks Gallery, Auckland, NZ) *’Pathos in Paradise’ (Artworks Gallery, Auckland, NZ)
*‘The Hinehopu Look’ (Solo Exhibition, Tait Gallery, Rotorua, NZ)
1990* The Family of Man’.Solo Exhibition. (Toured 6 of Auckland’s Art centres, incl.John Yates Gallery, Massey Homestead & Otara Arts & Music Centre)

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