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Education and professional development
2023 Jungle Gym an art residence at Te Atamera Queenstown
2023 Nelson Jewellery Week
2023 Munich Jewellery Week
2022 Jewellery Symposium - Object Space
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2021 Studio 42 Jewellery School owner-operator Queenstown
2021 Artist residence at Queenstown Contemporary - Painting
2021 Nelson Jewellery Week - Guest Jewellery tutor
2020 Guest speaker at the cultural graduation - Wakatipu High School
2020 Gallery Assist Queenstown Contemporary - Sales - Social media - Curation
2019 Branding and Marketing Workshop with Double Denim
2018 Unpacking the Language of Things, Symposium Wellington New Zealand
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2017 Studio 42 Jewellery School starts - Owner operator Queenstown
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2017 Small business development course, level 4
2016 Not to Precious Jewellery Symposium, National Craft Gallery, Ireland
2016 Handshake1, professional development and exhibition programme
2016 David Clarke workshop, Dunedin
2016 Munich Jewellery Week
2015 Workshop assistant for Warwick Freeman, Auckland
2015 Octavia Cook Workshop, Studio 6, Auckland
2012 Munich Jewellery Week
2012 Masterclasses with Karl Fritsch, and Marcel Van Kan for Atelier Ted
Noten, Manon Van Kouswijik, Fabrizio
Trident, Jemposium Wellington.
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2010 Bachelor Visual Art and Design, Whitireia Polytechnic Porirua
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2010 Workshop with Lisa Walker, Wellington
2009 Textile Symposium, Napier.
2009 Workshop with Andria Daily, Wellington
2008 Workshop with Renee Bevin, Wellington
2008 Workshop in Printmaking with Linna Marsh, Wellington
2008 Workshop with Warwick Freeman, Wellington
2008 Volume, Object Conference, Napier
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2000 Foundation Visual Arts certificate level 4, Whanganui Polytechnic
Stand out Awards and Media
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The Most Magical Experience award through Airbnb experience -The Contemporary Jeweller - 2021
Why do we fly film Queenstown Airport -2020
Featured in Mind Food Magazine - 2018
Featured on Design TV - Sydney Australia - 2016
Featured in Black Magazine - 2014
Fingers Gallery graduate award - 2010
Marzee Graduate Award - 2011
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Coming Exhibitions
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2024
Collect Art Fair - With Objects Beautiful in London
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Solo Exhibitions
2023 Lost in Translation - Munich Germany
2021 Nelson Jewellery week - Artist talk and Jewellery Performance
2020 Hubba Buba Queenstown Contemporary
2017 Expand, The See Here Wellington
2016 Curiosity Box, Bound, Queenstown
2015 Chapogrophy, Visual Culture Gallery, Wellington
2013 Celebration / Commiseration, Angel Devine, Queenstown
2012 One of One, Thistle Hall Gallery, Wellington
2011 Build, Jewellery Box Master Works, Auckland
2010 Embellish yourself, Thistle Hall, Wellington
2005 Painting from the Pacific - Chronicle Glass Whanganui
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Group Exhibitions
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2023
Unloosed in current obsession Munich Jewellery week
Lost in Translation a solo exhibition in Munich Jewellery Week
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2022
Photoshoot with Ben Ruffel - Terzann Eliatte - Claire Todd on Mt Deawer
Guest painter for DFS Galleria opening Queenstown
Art in the Garden Christ Church
Fingers Group Gallery Exhibition - Auckland
Stark White Queenstown - Recollections may Vary - Painting Exhibition
Stark white Artist talk - Folded Painting works
Delimit Exhibition - Wellington
Guest Artist - Sherwood Queenstown
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2021
Apple Star Banana - Folded painting show Broker Queenstown
Jewellery Collective - Opening show Queenstown
Fingers Gallery group exhibition
Jewellery Box - Flora Fauna Queenstown
001 Folded paintings - Broker Queenstown
From the Depths - Origin Gallery - Nelson Jewellery Week
Unloosed - Collaboration with Paul Green - Nelson Jewellery Week
Chain reaction - Handshake project 10-year celebration - Refianry Nelson
Guest Artist - Sherwood Queenstown
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2020
The BIG ART SALE QT Contemporary
Strategic Disconnection Room 2 QT Contemporary Queenstown
Vintage Liberation - JW Collaboration Launch Sherwood Queenstown
Spring Loaded QT Contemporary Queenstown
Art Now QT Contemporary Queenstown
Fingers Gallery Group show, Auckland
Guest Artist - Sherwood Queenstown
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2019
Unloosed stage 3 Queenstown Contemporary Queenstown
Fingers Gallery Group exhibition
Unloosed, A collaboration with Paul Green, Te Auaha Gallery Wellington
Matariki Exhibition Te Auaha Gallery Wellington
Unloosed stage 1 Photoshoot and jewellery show - Sherwood Queenstown
Guest Artist - Sherwood Queenstown
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2018
Fingers Gallery Group show, Auckland
Public, Pataka Gallery Porirua, New Zealand
Jewel and The Jeweller, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Decades of Decadence, Queenstown, New Zealand
Collective exhibition, Smoke and Reload, Auckland
Guest Artist - Sherwood Queenstown
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2017
Artisan Jewels, Palazzo Giureconsulti di Milano, Italy
Fingers Gallery Group show, Auckland
Art in the Garden, Christchurch
Group show, Kina Gallery New Plymouth
Bespoke Art Evening, Queenstown
Guest Artist - Sherwood Queenstown
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2016
Specials, a HandShake Alumni Exhibition, Munich Germany
Practitioners, Front Room, Queenstown
Fingers Gallery Group show, Auckland
Art in the Garden, Christchurch
Bespoke Art Evening, Queenstown
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2015
Moving Towards Light, Radiant Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia
Wunderruma, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland.
Wundermeke, Fingers Gallery, Auckland.
Honed, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Annual Group Exhibition, Fingers Gallery, Auckland.
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2014
Wunderruma, New Dowse Gallery, Wellington
Cluster, Pataka Museum, Porirua, Wellington
Wunderruma, Das handwork, Munich, Germany
KETE, at the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Wellington
Fingers group exhibition, Fingers Gallery, Auckland
The year of the horse, The National Gallery, Christchurch
The Jewellery Box, Cloakroom Gallery, Queenstown
Kina group exhibition”, New Plymouth
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2013
Handshake, collaboration with Warwick Freeman, Object Space, Auckland
Fingers group exhibition, Fingers Gallery, Auckland
Mad Dog Quinn, Wardrobe assistant for Terzan Elliott, Queenstown
Handshake 1, within Das handwork exhibition, Munich, Germany
Photography collaboration with The Pixel Trade, Queenstown
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2012
Handshake, National Gallery, Christchurch
Jemposium, Master class exhibition, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Wellington.
Handshake Exhibition, Toi Panoko Gallery, Wellington
Half Full or Overflowing exhibition, curated and exhibited, Queenstown.
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2011
The Secret Bloom, New Balance Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Handshake, Year 1 collaboration with Warwick Freeman,
Fingers group show, Fingers Gallery, Auckland
Graduate Exhibition, Marzee Gallery, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Fingers Graduate Award, exhibition, Fingers Gallery, Auckland
Handshake 20/17 Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
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