Selected group exhibitions

2024

Fingers Group Show.  Fingers,  Auckland (and every year since 1996)

Bead Show, Masterworks, Auckland

2023

Button Up.  Masterworks, Auckland (Every second year from 2017)

2022

Art Matters: 30 Years of AVID Gallery. AVID, Wellington

2020

Makers series no. 2 Jewellery.  Kauri Museum, Matakohe, Northland 

The National at Frame: Schmuck 2020, at home.  The National, Christchurch

2019

Verdadero es Lo Hecho (True is What Has Been Made).  Folk Craft Museum, Buenos  Aires.

19 Gallery: Relocating Frances Hodgkins. Auckland Art Gallery : Toi o Tamaki.

The National at Frame: Schmuck 2019, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany

2018

Southern Gothic, Milford Gallery, Dunedin

Curious Creatures and Marvellous Monsters. Te Papa, Wellington

The Language of Things, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower HuttCreatures, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui

Stockroom, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne and The National, Christchurch

IWA : New Zealand Makers, The Frame, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany

2017

Jewellery: Made By, Worn By. Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands

Expose, Musee du Bijou Contemporain, Espace Solidor, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

Oligopoly, (with Anna Wallis and Octavia Cook), The National, Christchurch

Schmuck, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany

2016

Fingers Group Show, Fingers, Auckland (and every year since 1996)

Ridiculous Sublime . Dunedin Public Art Gallery

30 x 30 : 30th Anniversary Show, Masterworks, Auckland

2015

Chain Show, Masterworks, Auckland

Wunderruma, Auckland Art Gallery

Wundermeke, Fingers, Auckland

Pearl. Masterworks, Auckland

Fine Company. Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland

Symmetry is the work of the Devil. Objectspace, Auckland & Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland

Trophies : In the reign of Coyote, Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum, Munich, Germany

2014

Fingers: Jewellery for Aotearoa New Zealand. Objectspace, Auckland

Workshop 6 – 21st Anniversary Show, Fingers, Auckland

Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne

Wunderruma. Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany & Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.

Kete : Contemporary Craft and Design Fair. Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington

Menagerie. The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

2013

Neckware, Masterworks, Auckland

Myths, Monsters and Magical Things. Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

2012

Kete : Contemporary Craft and Design Fair. Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington

On Your Wings, Quoil, Wellington & Royal, Auckland

Rosary, Lure, Dunedin

2011

Lugosi’s Children, Objectspace, Auckland

National Jewellery Showcase – Regal Castings Awards, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

A Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewellery. Racine Art Museum, Racine, WN, USA

Gold. Fingers, Auckland

All Creatures Great and Small. Masterworks, Auckland

Gold Finger, Lure, Dunedin

2010

Small Stories. TheNewDowse, Lower Hutt

Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellers, Fingers, Auckland

Once Upon a Time, Form, Christchurch

A Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewellery, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA,; Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston MA; USA

Neck Lace, Lure, Dunedin

2009

Talisman, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch

National Jewellery Showcase – Regal Castings Awards, Auckland Convention Centre, Auckland

Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh, Royal Jewellery Studio, Auckland

Fingers Group Show, Fingers, Auckland

Small Wonders: 7 Installations By 7 Curators, Objectspace, Auckland

2008

10 Years Making, Royal Jewellery Studio, Auckland

Treasure Trove, Masterworks, Auckland

Workshop 6 Crystal Anniversary Show, Fingers, Auckland

2007

Small Wonders, Objectspace, Auckland

Spinning Straw, Masterworks, AucklandPermit, Fingers, Auckland

Remember Me, Lure, Dunedin

Brand Spanking New, National Jewellery Showcase, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

The Originals, Quoil, Wellington

Unidentified Portrait, Quoil, Wellington

2006

Molly Morpeth Canaday Jewellery Awards, Whakatane Museum & Gallery, Whakatane

Growing Up : 20 years of the Unitec Jewellery Studio, Objectspace, Auckland

Wildthings, Masterworks, AucklandDrawn and Quartered, Inform, Christchurch

Neckware, Masterworks, Auckland (and most years since 2002)

2005

X Lure Dunedin

2004

Board Art, CoCA, Christchurch; Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

From a Different Landscape, Horti Hall, Melbourne, Australia

South, Fingers, AucklandBlank Statement, Objectspace, Auckland

2003

Passion Fruit, Lure, Dunedin

Tin Years, Fingers, Auckland

Man, Fingers, Auckland

Pin-Up, Masterworks Gallery, Auckland (and in 2000)

2002

Memos for the New Millennium, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland

Body as Site, Royal Easter Show, Auckland

2001

Noble, Lure, Dunedin

Anon Event, Fingers, Auckland

2000

Door to Door, Fisher Gallery, Manukau City

Seen : an exhibition on view, Window Galleries, Auckland

1999

925, Fingers, Auckland

Contemporary Wearables ‘99, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Qsld, Australia (and 1997)

1998

Piece on Earth, Lure, Dunedin

Royal Jewellery Studio Opening Exhibition, Royal Jewellery, Auckland

Pretty, Workshop 6, Herzog, Auckland

1997

Gold, Otago Museum, Dunedin

Cleveland Art Awards, Dunedin Centre, Dunedin

1996

Big Christmas Show, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, Adelaide Australia

Workshop 6, Fingers, Auckland

1995

Class of ‘95, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, UK

Bones, Fingers, Auckland

Big Day Art, Ericson Stadium and Strange Cargo Gallery, Auckland

1994

Exhibit A, Texan Art Schools, Auckland

1993

Recent Auckland Glass, Fisher Gallery, Auckland

Awards and grants

2017

Creative New Zealand.  Grant to travel to Munich to attend Schmuck

2014

Creative New Zealand.  Grant to present Rococo Revolution at Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco.

Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery, Finalist.  Gallery Funaki, Melbourne

2014

Creative New Zealand.  Grant to research ornament in Europe and UK.

2011

National Jewellery Showcase – Regal Castings Awards, Finalist. Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

2009

National Jewellery Showcase – Regal Castings Awards, Winner. Auckland Convention Centre, Auckland

2007

National Jewellery Showcase – Regal Castings Awards, Finalist. Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington

2006

Molly Morpeth Canaday Jewellery Awards,  Winner Aotearoa Award. Whakatane Museum & Gallery, Whakatane

2002

Creative New Zealand.  Grant to produce Straw Into Gold, publication and exhibition

Public collections

Die Neue Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.

Tūhura Otāgo Museum , Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand

Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Hawkes Bay Museum, Napier, New Zealand

Te Papa Tongarewa = Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, New Zealand

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Education

1991 - 1994

Diploma in 3D Design : Jewellery. Unitec, Auckland

1988 - 1989

Maori Language, Maori and Pacific Art.   University of Auckland

1982 - 1984

Bachelor of Arts, University of Otago.  Major in Phenomenology of Religion, additional papers in Anthropology, History, Art History, Maori Language, Philosophy.   

Other interests

1988-1996 Bass Player for band Able Tasmans, (releasing 3 albums, 1 ep)

1982-1988 Bass Player for band The Verlaines, (releasing 2 albums, 2 singles, 2 eps)

Music, art, literature, conversation, travelling, gardening, history, natural history, walking, yoga.