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Leafa Wilson talks about my merit award winning work 'Me Too (2019)'
Me Too (2019. Lynette Fisher Art, filmed with thanks by Jute Ramson
Awards
2019
Rotorua Museum Art Award Merit. ‘Me Too (2019)’ acquired and held in public collection.
2018
Venetta Miles Art Awards. Ethel McMillan Award.
2017
First Impressions III print awards. Mairangi Bay Arts Centre, Auckland - Finalist
Parkin Drawing Prize. NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington - Finalist
Rotorua Museum Art Award. Howard Morrison Events Centre, Rotorua - Finalist
Toi Ohomai Woman Graduate prize
2016
Tauranga Start Up Weekend Winner ‘Pocket Museum’
2015
Toi Ohomai First in Graphic Design
2013
Molly Morpeth Canaday Award - Finalist
2010
Venetta Miles Art Awards, Tauranga Art Gallery. Emerging Artist award
2002
Adam Portrait Award. New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington - Finalist
Exhibitions
2020
Social Print Exhibition. Lysaght Watt Gallery, South Taranaki Art Gallery.
2019
Rotorua Museum Art Award, Energy Events Centre, Rotorua
La Petit Mort. Group show. Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville
111 Group Show. The People’s Gallery - toi ka rere, Tauranga
2018
110 Group show. The People’s Gallery - toi ka rere, Tauranga
IAMWHATIPLAY Solo exhibition. The Incubator Gallery, Tauranga
Venetta Miles Art Awards. TGA Art Gallery, Tauranga
Whakaranu (Mix) Toi Ohomai Staff exhibition. Group show. Zeus Gallery, Tauranga
All In 3. Selected group show. Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.
Antimatter 18. Group show. The People’s Gallery - toi ka rere, Tauranga
2017
Pivot Year 3 BCI graduate exhibition. Group show. Toi Ohomai, Tauranga
Tightrope contemporary drawing exhibition. Group show. BSA Gallery, Auckland
All In 2. Selected group show. Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville
Mix. Group show. Toi Ohomai, Windemere Campus, Tauranga
2016
Use the Ugly. Group show. Creative Bay of Plenty, Tauranga
2015
The House of Cards. Group show. The Incubator Gallery, Tauranga
Foot Traffic. Tauranga CBD installation 'OCCUPY', Tauranga Arts Festival.
New Works - New Walls. Group show. Zeus Gallery, Tauranga.
2014
Blink. Pushinguppixels collective group show. Blur eyecare, Tauranga
It’s not the size that counts. Group show. Zeus Gallery, Tauranga
2013
Molly Morpeth Canaday Award
The Midnight Circus. Group show. Gallery 59, Tauranga
Group show. The Artists Room Fine Art Gallery, Dunedin.
Local Talent. Group show. Zeus Gallery, Tauranga
2012
Venetta Miles Art Awards. Tauranga Art Gallery - FINALIST
2010
Venetta Miles Art Awards. Tauranga Art Gallery
2007
There’s a paintbrush in my pinot. Fisher Brown Gallery, Tauranga
2002
Adam Portrait Award. New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington - FINALIST
2000
There’s a paintbrush in my tiara. Harrisons Gallery, Tauranga