Laura Williams
Taking the Pastiche
LAURA WILLIAMS b. 1965
Email: tweepeaks@gmail.com
Instagram: @takingthepastiche
EDUCATION
2005 Masters of Sociology, First Class, University of Auckland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Thinly Veiled, Page Gallery, Wellington, NZ upcoming
2019 Capturing Liberty, Gallery One, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
2019 Dutchess County Picnic, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2017 Arcadian Crumpet, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2016 Taking the Pastiche, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2015 Up Pompeii, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2014 Quiet Life, Lesley Kreisler Gallery, New Plymouth NZ
2014 Twee Peaks, Black Asterisk, Auckland, NZ
2013 Shelf Life, Kreisler Gallery, Melbourne, AUS.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022 Aotearoa Art Fair, Laree Payne Gallery, Auckland, upcoming
2022 Fumbles for Rhymes, Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, Morrisonville, NZ
2021 Fumbles for Rhymes, Wallace Arts Trust, Pah Homestead, Auckland, NZ
2021 Figure Skating, Page Gallery, Wellington, NZ
2021 Flagrant Gardens, Laree Payne Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
2020 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award Finalist Exhibition, Hamilton, NZ
2020 Virtual Auckland Art Fair, Weasel Gallery, NZ
2019 Ida Soleil, Föenander Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2019 Three is the Magic Number, Sunset Tattoo, Auckland, NZ
2019 ChaNorth 2019 Alumni Group Show, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Face Time, Föenander Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2019 National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, NZ
2019 Indoor Voices, The Yard, Williamsburg, NY, USA
2019 Small Works 2019 Online Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2019 Wassaic Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, USA
2019 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award Finalist Exhibition, Hamilton, NZ
2019 Aspiring Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Wanaka, NZ
2018 ChaNorth Open Studio, Chashama,2600 NY-199, Pine Plains, NY, USA
2018 Still Life with Flowers, Gallery One, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
2017 Art Ache, Golden Dawn, Auckland, NZ
2016 Big Little Things: The Great Small Art Group Show, Black Asterisk, Auckland,
2016 Black Asterisk Fifth Birthday Exhibition Group Show
2015 Birthday Show, The Artists Room, Dunedin, NZ
2014 Group Show, Black Asterisk, Auckland NZ
2014 Outsider art Fair, Auckland, NZ
2013 Christmas Presence, Kreisler, Melbourne, AUS
AWARDS
2020 Brian Perry Charitable Trust Painting Merit Award
2020 Finalist New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
2019 Finalist Craigs Aspiring Art Awards, Highly Commended
2019 Finalist New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award
2019 Finalist National Contemporary Art Award
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2022 Golden Foundation Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY, USA upcoming
2018 ChaNorth, Chashama,2600 NY-199, Pine Plains, NY, USA
OPEN STUDIOS
2022 Golden Foundation Artist Residency, New Berlin, NY, USA upcoming
2021 Akepiro Studio, 2020 Auckland Art Week, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
2020 Akepiro Studio, 2020 Auckland Art Week, Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 ChaNorth October Residency, Chashama,2600 NY-199, Pine Plains, NY, USA
REVIEWS
2020, October, Eye Contact, Critical reviews on art and visual culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.eyecontactsite.com/2020/10/avoiding-enfeeblement
2019, March, Eye Contact, Critical reviews on art and visual culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://eyecontactsite.com/2019/03/painting-and-print-competition
2019, Number 171/Spring 2019, Art New Zealand, 2019 National Contemporary Art Award Review
2019, August, Eye Contact, Critical reviews on art and visual culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://eyecontactsite.com/2019/08/ncaa-in
2019, March, Eye Contact, Critical reviews on art and visual culture in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://eyecontactsite.com/2019/03/sophisticated-faux-naivity
MEDIA & PRINT
2021 Two Hundred and Fifty Years of New Zealand Painting
2019, Number 172/Summer 2019, Art New Zealand, Blooming Late: The Painted Worlds of Laura Williams, pg. 59-61
2018 http://artsdiary.co.nz/beenthere037.html
2018, May, Sunday Star Magazine, Sunday Magazine, My Sunday
2017 https://artache.bigcartel.com/product/laura-williams
https://idealog.co.nz/design/2017/11/art-ache-and-importance-art-cultural-conversations
2017 November, Idealog
2017, November 2017 New Zealand Herald
http://www.viva.co.nz/article/culture-travel/dick-frizzell-art-ache/
2017, Stuff Homed
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/decor/91203180/meet-the-maker-artist-laura-williams
2017, October, Paperboy
http://www.noted.co.nz/culture/whats-on/a-fringe-fave-new-art-exhibitions-and-more-auckland-events
2017, October 2017 New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11930498
2017 October, Good net Auckland Art Week Promo
2017 Stuff Homed
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/88481941/create-a-home-studio-that-inspires
2016 Phantom Billstickers Café Reader, illustration for poem by Magali, page 70
2013 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/about-town/your-weekend-out-and-about-20130913-2tocc.html
RADIO
Bfm Art Bank https://player.fm/series/95bfm-artbank/artbank-september-18-2016
Bfm Who Arted http://95bfm.com/bcast/painter-laura-williams