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

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 


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