Accolades and Exhibitions

1983  –  Finalist in the Team McMillian Art Award

1983  –  Solo exhibition at the Charlie Grays “Last and First Cafe”

2015  –  Finialst in the Wallace Art Awards

2016  –  Double Finalist in the National Contemporary Art Awards

2016  –  Supreme Winner of the Miles Art Award

2017  –  Finalist in the Molly Morepeth Canaday Art Award

2017  –  Finalist in the Wallace Art Awards

2018  –  Finalist in the Wallace Art Awards

2019  –  “No Vital Signs”, Solo Exhibition, NZAFA, Wellington

2020 –  “Supa Cuba Dupa ” Group Exhibition, Potocki Paterson Gallery, Wellington

2021 – Finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award

2022  –   Finalist  in the Miles Art Award

2022  –  Achievement Award, Luxembourg  Art Prize

2023  –  “Signs Fiction”, Solo Exhibition, Soul Gallery, Hamilton

2023 –   Archievement Award, Luxembourg Art Prize

2024  –  “No Vital Signs – USA” Exhibition, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

A little Bio

”My work questions popular and prevailing perceptions, conceptions about our own world view and our own New Zealand story; to take a look under the rug, to peel back the curtain, to see the shadows, to ingest the popular and unpopular, the familiar and the unfamiliar – to confront the message that we want to just drive by.

It is deeply rooted in Americana – a vaste, popular cultural wasteland that seeps and leaks its way into New Zealand culture. I extract design elements from the street and put them into the Gallery space… and I call this practice ‘Signtology’.”

Born in 1957 in Auckland
Lives at Papamoa Beach, Bay of Plenty,
North Island, New Zealand.