Artist Biographies

Mark-Antony Curtis

(Rev.) Mark-Antony Curtis is an artist and designer who has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in New Zealand and internationally. Curtis graduated from RMIT University in 2004 with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts and currently lectures at Mediarts, Wintec.

2004 March Norsewear Art Award (finalist) Hastings
May Peter Doig Art Award (finalist) Marlborough
August Contemporary Art Award (finalist) Waikato Museum, Hamilton.
March Emerging Researcher Award, Wintec, Hamilton

2006 February Waikato Painting & Printmaking Award (finalist)
August Contemporary Art Award (finalist) Waikato Museum, Hamilton. Judge: Mercedes Vicente
December National Drawing Award (finalist) The Physics Room Gallery, Christchurch.

2007 January National Drawing Award (finalist)
Artspace Gallery
February Waikato Painting & Printmaking Award
(Merit Award) Judge: Prof. Elizabeth Grierson

www.markcurtis.co.nz

Margaret Feeney

Margaret Feeney is an artist with an exhibiting history in Wellington, Auckland and Melbourne. Margaret tutors at the School of Fine Arts, Massey University and is currently collaborating on a film and sculpture project with artist Marisse Rewiri. Margaret is a MFA graduate from RMIT University, Melbourne.

Maree Wilson

Maree Wilson was born in Waitakere City, currently lives at Muriwai beach and is Programme leader of the M.I.T Visual Arts at Rutherford College, Auckland.

Education
2003 MFA, R.M.I.T University, Australia
1992 BFA, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Selected Individual Exhibitions
2004 Forgotten and Hidden Spaces: The Anxious Domestic,
Art Station, Auckland
2001 Maree Wilson, P.C.L Exhibitionists, N.S.W, Australia
2000 Space, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
1999 Scanned, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland
1998 Inside Out, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Maree Wilson, Sue Daly, Mark Curtis, P.P.g Gallery, Auckland
2003 MFA Exhibition, Faculty Gallery, R.M.I.T University
2002 Siemans R.M.I.T Fine Arts Scholarship Exhibition, Project
Space, Melbourne
2001 P.C.L Exhibitionists, Sydney, Australia; Royal Overseas League,
Touring Exhibition, London and Edinburgh

Selected Awards and Commissions
2005 Finalist Waikato Contemporary Art Award
2003 Finalist Siemans R.M.I.T Fine Arts Scholarship
2004 Finalist Siemans R.M.I.T Fine Arts Scholarship
1999 Merit finalist Birkenhead Art Award
1998 Finalist, Royal Overseas League, London
1993 Winner, Waitakere Art Award, Auckland

Alex Sunde (b.1924 - d.1999)

Alex Sunde, painter, designer and musician is one of New Zealand’s great unrecognised talents. Growing up on the family orchard in Oratia in the 1930s and 40s, Alex was inspired by the people and environment around him. He attended Elam at the University of Auckland and while he continued to be involved in the family business on and off over the years, his creativity spurred him into various artistic occupations. He designed advertising illustrations for a local PR firm and labels for wine growers, while still producing prolific amounts of paintings and drawings in his spare time.

His style is eclectic; flowing sinuous brush strokes with heavily laden colour, boldly delivered line-drawings and lightly washed water-colours, all translated into a variety of subject areas from self-portraits to landscapes to abstract forms. An exhibition was not possible during Alex’s lifetime because he didn’t consider any of his work finished enough for display - in this and indeed in most things, Alex was a perfectionist – his work is a vibrant testimony to a creative life.