Areta Wilkinson
Areta Rachael Wilkinson (b 1969) is a New Zealand jeweller of Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Irakehu and Ngāti Wheke descent.[1]
Education
In 1991 Wilkinson received a Diploma in Craft Design and in 2001 she completed a Bachelor of Design from Unitec Institute of Technology, where she studied under the esteemed Pauline Bern.[2][3] In 2014 she completed a PhD in Fine Arts at Te Pūtahi-ā-Toi School of Māori Art, Knowledge and Education at Massey University in Palmerston North.[4]
Career
Wilkinson has been a practicing jeweller for over 20 years and her work explores customary Māori adornment while pushing the boundaries of contemporary New Zealand jewellery practices.[5] "Her work emerges from the encounter of two things: contemporary jewelry, which she would define as a critical studio craft practice which makes objects that are grounded in an awareness of the body; and Maori systems of knowledge, which place people in specific relationships to each other and to the world and which sometimes use objects to mediate these connections." [6]
Wilkinson has exhibited nationally and internationally and has work in both private and public institutions including Te Runanga-o-Ngāi Tahu, The Dowse Art Museum, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and The Auckland War Memorial Museum.[7][8][9]
On February 28, 2016, Wilkinson gave a lecture with Alan Preston at the Pinakothek die Moderne in Munich Germany.[10]
Recognition
- 2015 Recipient of the Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship[11]
- 2012 Guest Judge for the Objective Art Awards 2012 Auckland Council Manukau Arts Centre
- 2009 Winner of The New Dowse Gold Award
- 2006 Premier Award winner of the Oceana Gold National Jewellery Awards.[3]
- 2004 Aotearoa /NZ Maori Delegation for 9th Festival of Pacific Arts in the Republic of Palau.
- 2002 Commissioned by Ngāi Tahu to make a gift for Queen Elizabeth who visited a Ngāi Tahu marae whilst on a Royal New Zealand Tour. The result was a brooch called Aoraki Lily that was made from family heirloom white heron kotuku feathers in the shape of the native flower, a Mount Cook Lilly.[3]
Selected Exhibitions
- 2016 Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, with Te Rongo Kirkwood, Auckland War Memorial Museum[12]
- 2015 ARCHIVES Te Wahi Pounamu (with Mark Adams), Dunedin Public Art Gallery[13]
- 2014-2015 Whakapaipai: Jewellery as Pepeha, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch; Objectspace, Auckland; The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt.[14][15]
- 2012 Pepeha Bartley and Company Art, Wellington[16]
- 2012 Collecting Contemporary, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa[17]
- 2003 Te Puāwai o Ngāi Tahu: Twelve contemporary Ngāi Tahu artists", Christchurch Art Gallery[18]
Further information
- Megan Tamati-Quennell, Archives – Te Wāhi Pounamu, Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 22 December 2015
- Mark Amery, Show me your motion, The Big Idea, 26 August 2015
- Interview with Areta Wilkinson, The Dowse Art Museum podcast, August 2015
- Richard Bell, The Third New Zealand Jewellery Biennial: Turangawaewae: A Public Outing, Lower Hutt: The Dowse Art Museum, 1998.
- Deborah Crowe, 4th New Zealand Jewellery Biennale: Grammar: Subjects and Objects, Lower Hutt: The Dowse Art Museum, 2001.
- In Conversation with Areta Wilkinson, Art Jewelry Forum, September 2015.
References
- ↑ Schamroth, Helen (1998). 100 New Zealand Craft Artists. Auckland: Random House. ISBN 1 86962 030 5.
- ↑ Were, Virginia. "Flying Carpet". Art News New Zealand. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- 1 2 3 Tyler, Linda. "From small beginings come beautiful things". Art News New Zealand. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Whakapaipai: Jewellery as Pepeha". Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Areta Wilkinson". The National. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "All The World Over: The global ambitions of contemporary jewelry | Art Jewelry Forum". artjewelryforum.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "Nuku: Symbols of Mana". The Dowse Art Museum. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Made in New Zealand". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Encounter Gallery". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Event - MCBW 2016". www.mcbw.de. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ↑ "$100,000 Creative New Zealand Craft/Object Fellowship awarded to Areta Wilkinson". Creative New Zealand.
- ↑ "Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu". Auckland Museum. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ↑ "ARCHIVES Te Wahi Pounamu". Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
- ↑ "Areta Wilkinson, Whakapaipai - Jewellery as Pepeha". Objectspace. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ↑ "Areta Wilkinson: Whakapaipai—Jewellery as Pepeha". The Dowse Art Museum. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ↑ "Pepeha". Bartley and Company Art. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Collecting Contemporary". Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Te Puāwai o Ngāi Tahu: Twelve contemporary Ngāi Tahu artists". Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. Retrieved 13 June 2015.