LAURA WILLIAMS
Auckland
New Zealand
Phone: +64 0272920608
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Instagram: takingthepastiche
BIO
Laura is a painter living in Auckland, New Zealand. She studied at Auckland University, graduating with a first-class MA in Sociology 2005. She began exhibiting her paintings in 2013 with a solo show at The Kreisler Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne. Since then her work been shown throughout New Zealand: Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth, Artists Room, Dunedin, Art Ache, Auckland, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Henderson and Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York. Over the past seven years Laura has had eight solo shows, nine group shows and undertaken several commissions. Her works have been acquired by the Wallace Arts Trust as well as notable New Zealand and overseas private art collections. October 2018 Laura attended her first artist residency at ChaNorth in the Hudson Valley and in May – September 2019 will be exhibiting as part of the Wassaic Project’s Summer Exhibition, also in the Hudson Valley region of New York.
EDUCATION
2005 Masters of Sociology, First Class, University of Auckland
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2018 ChaNorth, Chashama,2600 NY-199, Pine Plains, NY, USA
OPEN STUDIO
2018 ChaNorth, Chashama,2600 NY-199, Pine Plains, NY, USA
AWARDS
2019 Finalist Craigs Aspiring Art Awards, Highly Commended
2019 Finalist New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Shelf Life, Kreisler Gallery, Melbourne, AUS.
2014 Twee peaks, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2014 Quiet Life, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth NZ
2015 Up Pompeii, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2016 Taking the Pastiche, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2017 Arcadian Crumpet, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2019 Duchess County Picnic, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2019 Capturing Liberty, Gallery One, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
GROUP SHOWS
2013 Christmas Presence, Kreisler, Melbourne, AUS
2014 Outsider art Fair, Auckland, NZ
2014 General Sales, Black Asterisk, Auckland NZ
2015 Birthday Show, The Artists Room, Dunedin, NZ
2016 Black Asterisk Fifth Birthday Exhibition Group Show
2016 Big Little Things: The Great Small Art Group Show, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2017 Art Ache, Golden Dawn, Auckland, NZ
2018 Still Life with Flowers, Gallery One, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
2019 Wassaic Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, USA
REVIEWS
2019, March, Eye Contact, Critical reviews on art and visual culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://eyecontactsite.com/2019/03/sophisticated-faux-naivity
2019, March, Eye Contact, Critical reviews on art and visual culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://eyecontactsite.com/2019/03/painting-and-print-competition