ARTIST CV
Curatorial, production & arts employment
2023
Sanctuary
Ōtautahi Creative Spaces
Curator and producer
Co-design and run a ‘creative takeover’ of the central library over 6months with a community of artists who experience mental distress. Exhibition, activations, events & workshops.
WORD Christchurch
Programmer at Large & Community Projects Coordinator
(Artist) Life School
Manager/producer
Education seminars for emergng artists, in collaboration with The Physics Room & Toi Ōtautahi
2022
Ignite: First Fridays Timaru
Consultant
Audio Description workshops with Judith Jones
Production of event presented by The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space with Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities
WORD Christchurch
Community Projects Coordinator
Te Mana Ora: Art Bites, Pūtahitanga
Staff wellbeing through arts project series
Isolation Hotel by Heather Straka
Canterbury Museum
Guest public programme curator
2021
WORD Christchurch: New Regent St pop up Festival Curator, producer, public engagement coordinator
2020
Shared Lines: Pūtahitanga
Curator, producer
Shared Lines: Aotearoa
Curator, producer, research assistant, featured artist
2019
Shared Lines: Kaikōura
Producer, featured artist
2018-2022
The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space
Access & public programmes coordinator
2019–2020
Glitterbox Pursuits
Co-director, partner
2017
Shared Lines: Wellington
Production assistant, featured artist
2016
CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Curatorial intern for relaunch of CoCA
2014 - 2017
First Thursdays Ōtautahi Christchurch
Curator, producer
WELCOME (2017)
DREAMSCAPES (2017)
LIFE AQUATIC (2016)
ABRACADABRA (2016)
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE (2015)
PAPER, SCISSORS, ROCK ‘N ROLL (2015)
LOST IN SPACE (2015)
STARS OF SYDENHAM (2014)
2013 – 2017
The Social Artist Collective
Co-administrator & organiser
2010 – current
Dr Sketchy’s Anti Art School: Christchurch branch Co-director & producer
Projects, exhibitions & events
2023
Performance Art Week Aotearoa Wellington
Art Chemist: Ngāmotu
ReImagine Festival, New Plymouth
THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHING’S FINE
Solo exhibition
Ashburton Art Gallery
Art Chemist: Tāmaki
Auckland Pride Festival, Auckland
2022
Art Chemist: Whakatū
Nelson Arts Festival, Nelson
Lippyvid
Collaboration with Jennifer K Shields As part of Perilous: unheard stories from the collection
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award
Winner for Art Chemist
Ashburton Art Gallery
The Great Waiheke Nude
Performance painting with Julia Holden as part of A Day at the Beach exhibition
Waiheke
Art Chemist: Tahuna
Te Atamira, Queenstown
Art Chemist: Poneke
Performance Arcade Wellington
2021
Art Chemist
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Creativity is Transformation
Education workshop, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
2019
Hobble
Tiny Festival at CoCA
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Gallery Guide
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Public programme event
Timely Additions
Eastern Southland Gallery
Gore
Touch-Stones
SCAPE Public Art 2019
Winter Wander
8 day arts festival in the central city
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Shared Snood
Shared Lines: Kaikōura
Polaris
Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne
2018
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial
Chandigarh, India
Shopop – Until Works End
Enliven Places Project for Christchurch City Council
Millennial Fortune Telling
Nostalgia Festival, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Shared Snood
Ōtautahi Korerotia, Ōtautahi Christchurch
6-week community focused arts project
2017
Shared Lines: Wellington
Thistle Hall, Pōneke Wellington
Season 2017, SCAPE Public Art
Making Space – Toi Moroki CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Break Me Harder
RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
The Mayfield Residence
Ashburton Art Gallery
2016
Performance Art and Identity: Youth Performance Workshop – CoCA, Ōtautahi Christchurch
An ABCERD Egress
Chambers, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Exhibition with Iain Cheesman
Event Horizon
SoFA Gallery, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial
Chandigarh, India
Participating artist and exhibitor
2015
Movement Art Practice research residency - Ōtautahi Christchurch
UnCAGed: New works by Christchurch Artists
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Curator and artist in group exhibition
Boom Limbo
First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
Artist residency and performance
Ell oh Ell
Fresh and Fruity, Dunedin
2014
To and Fro
Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland
Group show and residency
Performance Art Week Aotearoa Wellington
Art Chemist: Ngāmotu
ReImagine Festival, New Plymouth
THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHING’S FINE
Solo exhibition
Ashburton Art Gallery
Art Chemist: Tāmaki
Auckland Pride Festival, Auckland
2022
Art Chemist: Whakatū
Nelson Arts Festival, Nelson
Lippyvid
Collaboration with Jennifer K Shields As part of Perilous: unheard stories from the collection
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award
Winner for Art Chemist
Ashburton Art Gallery
The Great Waiheke Nude
Performance painting with Julia Holden as part of A Day at the Beach exhibition
Waiheke
Art Chemist: Tahuna
Te Atamira, Queenstown
Art Chemist: Poneke
Performance Arcade Wellington
2021
Art Chemist
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Creativity is Transformation
Education workshop, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
2019
Hobble
Tiny Festival at CoCA
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Gallery Guide
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
Public programme event
Timely Additions
Eastern Southland Gallery
Gore
Touch-Stones
SCAPE Public Art 2019
Winter Wander
8 day arts festival in the central city
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Shared Snood
Shared Lines: Kaikōura
Polaris
Trocadero Arts Space, Melbourne
2018
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial
Chandigarh, India
Shopop – Until Works End
Enliven Places Project for Christchurch City Council
Millennial Fortune Telling
Nostalgia Festival, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Shared Snood
Ōtautahi Korerotia, Ōtautahi Christchurch
6-week community focused arts project
2017
Shared Lines: Wellington
Thistle Hall, Pōneke Wellington
Season 2017, SCAPE Public Art
Making Space – Toi Moroki CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Break Me Harder
RM Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
The Mayfield Residence
Ashburton Art Gallery
2016
Performance Art and Identity: Youth Performance Workshop – CoCA, Ōtautahi Christchurch
An ABCERD Egress
Chambers, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Exhibition with Iain Cheesman
Event Horizon
SoFA Gallery, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial
Chandigarh, India
Participating artist and exhibitor
2015
Movement Art Practice research residency - Ōtautahi Christchurch
UnCAGed: New works by Christchurch Artists
Ōtautahi Christchurch
Curator and artist in group exhibition
Boom Limbo
First Floor Gallery Harare, Zimbabwe
Artist residency and performance
Ell oh Ell
Fresh and Fruity, Dunedin
2014
To and Fro
Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland
Group show and residency
Commentary & reviews
2023
Stratford Press
9 Oct, 2023
Ilona Hanne
The Art Chemist gives a prescription for art as part of Taranaki Arts Festival - Reimagine
Art New Zealand
Number 186/Winter 2023, pg54
Grant Banbury
Review of THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHNG’S FINE
She’s so fine
Artbeat and Metropol Magazine - Warren Feeney
9 Oct, 2023
Ilona Hanne
The Art Chemist gives a prescription for art as part of Taranaki Arts Festival - Reimagine
Art New Zealand
Number 186/Winter 2023, pg54
Grant Banbury
Review of THIS IS FINE, EVERYTHNG’S FINE
She’s so fine
Artbeat and Metropol Magazine - Warren Feeney
2022
Art Chemist prescribing arts at Nelson Arts Festival
RNZ - Interview with Nathan Rarere
Art Chemist - A prescription for Aotearoa
The Big Idea
The power of art and connection explored during Nelson Arts Festival
Stuff - Frances Chin
2021
On defying convention
The Big Idea - Mark Amery’s Lowdown
Prescribing art for wellbeing
Art Chemist - All Right newsletter
Art Chemist
The Press/Stuff
Art Chemist
Art Beat
2018
Who got the gig: the aggressively gentle Audrey Baldwin
The Big Idea – Emanuella De Ruiter
2017
Outside the Box
The Big Idea – Lucy Ovenden
Matchmaker for Christchurch Art, Business and Community
The Press – Joel Ineson
Conservative Christchurch? Meet the Artists Shattering the Mould
Avenues Magazine - Kim Newth
The State of the Arts
The Press - Warren Feeney
Op Shop Paradise
Eye Contact – Warren Feeney
2016
Swimming Pools and Waves
Art News – Megan Dunn
Event Horizon Exhibition…
The Press - Warren Feeney
2015
Christchurch Artists Star in UnCaged
The Press – Vicky Anderson
Mothers: A Gaby Montejo Performance
Freerange Press
2014
Creative Thinkers of Chch
Pantograph Punch – Brie Sherow
In response to the exhibition to and fro
Artspace Aotearoa - Victoria Wynn-Jones
2013
Kissing Booth
Christchurch: The Transitional City, Part IV pages 356-357
2012
Post Object and Conceptual Art
Te Ara The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Writing by Audrey Baldwin
2018
Response
Movement Art Practice - Innocent Bystanders
Art review and Agony Art (with Jennifer Shields)
HAMSTER art magazine online copies
Audrey Baldwin: author and regular contributor
Art Beat – Monthly art newspaper