Graham Bennett
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Born 1947, Nelson, New Zealand
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EDUCATION
1970
Graduated University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts
1971
Christchurch College of Education, Diploma of Teaching
1970
University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, New Zealand
PROFESSIONAL
1972 - 1976
Secondary Teaching
1977 - 1980
Travel
1981 - 2000
Tertiary teaching, CPIT
2000 - Now
full time art practice
Solo Exhibitions and Installation
2013
Heavy Shadows, Whitespace, Auckland
Survey, Aigantighe, Timaru
2012
Hard to Swallow, Diversion, Picton
2011
Weighting and Waiting, Millford Galleries, Dunedin
2010
Auger Augur, Whitespace, Auckland
Pivot, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2009
Diversion Gallery, Grove Mill Winery, Marlborough
Latitude, The Arthouse, Christchurch
A Part, Cable Bay Vineyard, Waiheke Island
2008
How Near, How Far?, Koru Gallery, Hong Kong
Latitude, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
ZAIM Contemporary Art Space, Yokohama, Japan
Converse, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2007
Affinity, Shiori Gallery, Kurashiki, Japan, with Wataru Hamasaka
Seek, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2006
Squaring the Circle, Milford Galleries Auckland
Squaring the Circle, Milford Galleries Dunedin
Ukabu, The Arthouse, Christchurch, with Wataru Hamasaka
2005
Five Spaces, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2004
Trajectories – Diversion Gallery, Grove Mill Winery, Marlborough
Spheres of Influence - The Arthouse Christchurch
2003
Behind Reasons for Voyaging, Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Wai Whetu
Defining Markers, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2002
Making Connections - Diversion Gallery, Grove Mill Winery, Marlborough
2000
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
Milford Galleries, Dunedin
1999
NICAF International Arts Festival Tokyo representing Galerie Paris, Japan
Hashimaya Gallery Kurashiki, Japan
1998
Salamander Gallery, Christchurch
1997
NICAF International Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
1996
1+1=3, Joint exhibition with Gavin Hitchings, Potters Gallery, Wellington
1+1=3, Joint exhibition with Gavin Hitchings, Salamander Gallery, Christchurch
Installation: ‘Demarcation’ 300 cast iron frames. Boulder Bank Nelson
Canal City (Gallery Miyabi) Fukuoka, Japan
1995
Mie Prefecture Contemporary Art Museum, Japan
Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka, Japan
New Zealand Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Miyabi, Fukuoka, Japan
Gallery Arte Ferrana, Hamamatsu, Japan
1994
Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
1993
Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka, Japan
1992
Gallery Miyabi, Fukuoka, Japan
Installation in steel and glass, Grey River flood wall, Westland
Left Bank Gallery, Greymouth
Aeroclub Gallery, Port Chalmers, Dunedin
1991
Installation Sea/Sky/Stone #2, Boulder Bank, Nelson waterfront
Installation Sea/Sky/Stone, Archery lawn, Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Suter Gallery, Nelson
Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
1990
Installation Sea/Sky/Stone #1, Boulder Bank, Nelson waterfront
1989
Exhibition of 1988 Artist in Residence work, Suter Gallery, Nelson
Annex Gallery, Robert McDougall, Public Art Gallery Christchurch
1987
‘Parameters’ (invited Artists Project), Robert McDougall Public Gallery, Christchurch
Carnegie Centre, Dunedin
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
1986
Gingko Gallery. Christchurch
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
Bishop Suter Gallery, Nelson
1985
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1984
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
1983
Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
Red Metro Gallery, Dunedin
1982
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Gingko Gallery, Christchurch
Bishop Suter Gallery, Nelson
1981
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1980
Art of Man Gallery, Sydney
Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
Selected Group Exhibition
2013
Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
2012
ISF 2012, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2011
Laisee, Koru Gallery, Hong Kong
Auckland Art Fair, representing Whitespace
Sculpture in the Garden, Auckland Botanic Gardens
Here I Stand, Diversion Gallery, Picton
Moving On, Canterbury Artists, Art in Oxford Gallery
NZ Art, Whitespace, Auckland
Sculpture on the Peninsula, Canterbury Sculpture in Central Otago, Wanaka
Chambers 241 Opening exhibition, Christchurc
2010
My City, Whitespace, Auckland
Shapeshifter Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
PromoArte, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Sculpture on the Peninsula, Canterbury
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana
Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
Sculpture in Central Otago, Rippon Estate, Wanaka
2008
Promoarte Gallery Tokyo
Attitude, with Mild Red, Galerie Paris, Yokohama
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana
Conversations Across Time, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
Save our Water, Ng Gallery Christchurch
3Bs, Milford Galleries, Auckland
ID Dunedin in collaboration with Mild-Red
Shapeshifter, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
2007
Sculpture in the Park, Waitakaruru , Waikato Sculpture Trust
NZ Artists, Taipei Art Fair, Taiwan
Koru Gallery, Hong Kong
ID Dunedin, collaboration with Mild-Red
Collaborative Tapestries, Marilyn RaeMenzies, Ng Gallery, Christchurch
Sculpture on the Peninsula, Guest exhibitor, Christchurch
Manifest, Guest exhibitor, Nelson Arts Festival
Art in Central Otago, Bannochburn
Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Matakana
Second Side, The Arthouse, Christchurch
Group Exhibition, North Art, Auckland
2006
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, Australia
Shapeshifter, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
Gowshed opening exhibition, Connells Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island
Sculpture in Central Otago, Bannochburn,
2005
Crowded House, The Arthouse, Christchurch
Sculpture in Central Otago, Bannochburn,
Trilogy, Diversion Gallery, Marlborough
Shriek Revisited, 100 International Artists, Medialia Gallery, New York
COCA, Large-scale tapestry weaving with Marilyn Rae-Menzies
2004
NZ Onshore, Takapuna, Auckland
Shapeshifter, Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Arts Festival
Dowse Foundation Auction for the Galvan Macnamara/James Mack Tribute
Sculpture in Central Otago, Bannochburn
Transit of Venus, Milford Galleries, Auckland
After Woollaston, Catchment Gallery, Nelson
Seven, The Arthouse, Christchurch
2003
Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
2002< Participated in innumerable group exhibitions in the period
Selected Commissions and Public Art
2012
Tipping Point, Songchu Art Valley, South Korea
2010
Reflect, Sumner Christchurch Traverse, Hotel reception, Christchurch
2008
Reach, Wanaka
Kaputone Creek Pedestrian Bridge, Christchurch
Insight, St Margaret’s College, Christchurch
2006
Engage, Christchurch South Library
2005
Reasons to Return, Connell’s Bay Sculpture Park, Waiheke Island
2004
Fixing Positions, Rocky Bay, Waiheke Island
2003
Reasons for Voyaging, Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Lines Extending Kurashiki City, Japan
2002
Tribute to Firefighters, Christchurch
1997
Sea/Sky/Kaipara The Farm, Kaipara
Selected Awards
2013
Residency Lincoln University
2012
ISF Residency, Seoul, South Korea
2008 – 2007
NZ Japan Exchange Programme (NZJEP) Grants
2000, 1996, 1995,
Asia 2000 Foundation Grants
1996
Trustbank Community Trust Arts Excellence award
1995
Fellowship in Visual Arts, New Zealand Arts Council, Toi Aotearoa
1990
New Zealand Arts Council Grant
1988
Artist in Residence, Nelson Polytechnic
1984
New Zealand Arts Council Grant
Selected Publication
Conversations Across Time, Whakawhiti Krero. Michael Reed, Karen Stevenson. ISBN978-0-908668-72-4
How Near, How Far, Koru Contemporary Art catalogue 2008, ISBN978-988-17747-2-9
Connells Bay Centre for Sculpture, pp 48 – 51, Robin Woodward
Squaring the Circle: New Work by Graham Bennett, Gina Irish and Ruth Harvey for Milford Galleries
Reasons to Return, DVD Documentary on Connell’s Bay commission, Mindseyeflicks 2006
Craft Arts International, N 60 ‘Changing Reflections’ Dr Cassandra Fusco
ArtPrice Vol 10, 08/04 ‘World Artist’ Feature article in a Korean Art magazine
World Sculpture News, Vol. 10 No. 1 2004 ‘Of Time and the Ocean’ Dr.Cassandra Fusco
VIP Magazine Summer 04/05
Sculpture Vol 23. No.3 April 2004 (ISC, USA), ‘Reasons for Voyaging’, Jennifer Hay
‘The Farm, Kaipara New Zealand‘, James Ross
‘Walking Through, Graham Bennett’s Reasons for Voyaging’, - Editor John Freeman-Moir, Southwalk Publishing 2003
‘Journey, The Story of the Steel’. - Rosa Shiels, published by Christchurch City Council 2003
Christchurch Press , Arts feature, October 23, 2002. ‘Fire and steel’ Christopher Moore
Christchurch Art Gallery Bulletin,125. Winter 2001, ‘Reasons For Voyaging’ Felicity Milburn
Meguro Museum, Tokyo catalogue, 2001.’ A shriek from an invisible box’
International Craft Arts [Aust] Issue 49 2000 ‘Praxis in practice’ Dr. Cassandra Fusco
World Sculpture News Volume 3 Number 2 Spring 1997 ‘The Importance of Dialogues’ Cassandra Fusco
Sculpture (International Sculpture Centre, USA) recent commissions - Amy Blankstein, October 1996
100 New Zealand Artists - Warwick Brown, Godwit Publishing 1996
Pacific Way. ‘Diverse Talent Focussing on Place’ - Adrienne Rewi, April 1995
‘The Crane and the Kotuku’ - Dianne and Peter Beatson, Manawatu Art Gallery Catalogue August 1994
Art NZ no 72, ‘Making Relations Forms and Forces’ - Cassandra Fusco, September 1994
Bibros, vol 12 - Fukuoka Japan, July 1992
Craft New Zealand no 38 ‘Objects in Landscape - Landscape in Objects’ - John Freeman-Moir, Dec 1991
Christchurch Press - Naomi Gilling, October 1991
Contemporary NZ Prints - Jill McIntosh. Allen & Unwin, 1989
Art NZ no 51 ‘Artists Construction of Nature’ - John Freeman-Moir, 1989
Art NZ no 44 Jonathan Smart, 1987
Louise Beale Gallery newsletter no 108 - John Freeman-Moir, 1987
‘Parameters’ - Robert McDougall Gallery Catalogue, 1987
New Zealand Art, A Modern Perspective - Elva Betts. Reed/Methuen, 1986
Landfall no 44 - Jonathan Smart, 1985
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