Sara Hughes biography

Born 1971                                           

Education

2001                                                       Masters in Fine Arts with first class Honours, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

1999                                                       Bachelor of Fine arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006                                                       The Big Stick Up, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia

                                                                Crash, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland

2005                                                       Wish you were here, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa                                                                                              Tongarewa, Wellington

                                                                Beyond the horizon, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington

                                                                Patterns of Resistance, Criterion Gallery, Hobart, Australia

2004                                                       Digital Mosaics, Hocken Library, Otago University, Dunedin; Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

                                                                Love Me True, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland

For My Darling, Bartley Nees Gallery, Wellington

2003                                                       Love me Tender, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

2002                                                       Dot·land, Te Tuhi -The Mark, Auckland

Places for paintings, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

2001                                                       Dot …, Graduation exhibition (MFA), Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University.

2000                                                       Made in Hong Kong, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006                                                       Pattern Recognition, Object Gallery, Sydney

                                                                Op Shop, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

                                                                Melbourne Art Fair, Gow Langsford Gallery, Melbourne

2005                                                       Snake Oil, Recent acquisitions from the Chartwell

                                                                Collection, Auckland Art Gallery

                                                                Code NZ, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Rotterdam Art Fair, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Wallace Art Award, Wallace Arts Trust Gallery, Auckland

Norsewear Art Award, Hawkes Bay Exhibition Centre, Hastings

2004                                                       Cutting edges, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Telecom Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington

Sticky, Whitecliffe Gallery, Auckland

A Cut Across, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia

Melbourne Art Fair, Bartley Nees Gallery, Melbourne

Waikato Art Award, Waikato Museum, Hamilton

2003                                                       Shine, Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

Millions of Colours, Bartleynees Gallery, Wellington

Dirty Pixels, Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington

Dirty Pixels, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin

Dirty Pixels, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton

2002                                                       Screens, Vavasour Godkin Gallery Auckland.

New works, Vavasour Godkin Gallery Auckland

Dirty Pixels, Artspace, Auckland

2001                                                       Provenance, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

Window work, Elam Arts Festival, Auckland

Summer show, (Matrix) Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

2000                                                       From, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton.

1999                                                       Stewed, Canterbury Arcade, Auckland

Upstarts, Peter Muir Petford Gallery, Auckland.

Awards

2005                                                       Wallace Art Award, Paramount winner

                                                                Norsewear Art Award, 2D Winner                   

2000                                                      Auckland University Masters Scholarship    

2001                                                       Joe Raynes Scholarship, Auckland University

                                                                Auckland University Masters Scholarship

1991                                                       Denise Gerald Scholarship, Auckland University

Residencies

2003                                                       Frances Hodgekins Fellowship, Otago University, Dunedin

2007                                                       International Studio and Curatorial Programme, New York

Public Commissions

2004                                                       Garden for Joseph, Darling Island Apartments, Sydney

2005                                                       Firewall, St Kentigern College, Auckland

2006                                                       All my dreams fulfil, Lowe, Auckland

Public Collections

Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland

University of Auckland Art Collection, Auckland
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
Hocken Pictorial Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin

Wallace Trust Collection

National Gallery of Australia

Selected Publications

2006

Rhana Devenport, “Sara Hughes”, Artlink, Volume 26, No 3. 2006

Rhana Devenport, The Big Stick Up, Catalogue essay, 2006

Patton, Justin, “How to look at a painting”, Ginger Series, Awa Press, 2006

Tessa Laird, , “A bigger splash”, The New Zealand Listener, 204, June, 2006

Roke,  Rebecca, “dot, dot, dot”, Monument magazine, no 72, 2006

2005

Chappel, Dan “Love thy neighbour”, NZ Art News, Winter 2005

Devenport, Rhana, Pattern Recognition, Object Magazine, Issue 48, Dec 05

Gardiner, Sue Art Monthly No 177, Australia, March 2005

Gardiner, Sue Art Monthly No 185, Australia, November 2005

Kalina, Richard “Report from New Zealand, Change of Empires”, Art in America, October

Leonard, Robert Snake Oil, Catalogue, 2005

Rankin-Reid, Jane Pattern Resistance review, Australian Art Collector, Issue32, April- June

Rice, Rebecca “Wellington review”, Art New Zealand, Summer 2005-06

2004

Amery, Mark “Painting in NZ alive and kicking”, Dominion Newspaper, 3 September 2004

Angeloro, Dominique Cutting edges, review Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2004

Brennan, Stella “Pattern Recognition”, Art New Zealand, Spring 2004

Clifford, Andrew “Maths inspires designing woman”, New Zealand Herald, 30 June 2004

Lambert, Jessie Love Me Tender, review North and South, March 2004

Lewis, Stephen “Sara Hughes: Contemporary New Zealand Artist”, Masters Dissertation Otago University, Dunedin

Lonie, Bridie “Mathematica”, The New Zealand Listener, 192, March 2004

Lonie, Bridie “Global or Local, The Melbourne Art Fair”, Art New Zealand, Summer,

McNamara, T.J Love Me Tender review, New Zealand Herald, 19 May 2004

Parkinson, Jaenine Dirty Pixels review, www.nzartmonthly.co.nz, April 2004

Paton, Justin, Brennan, Stella, Hunt, Pennie Sara Hughes, Love Me Tender, Software for Ada, Digital Mosaics, Catalogue publication, 2004

Pendergrast, Kelly “Mosaics of the artist as a young woman”, Critic Te Arohi, No 8,2004

Watson, Arran “Left brain-right brain”, Art Zone, No 4 2004

2003

Dunn, Michael New Zealand Painting a Concise History, 2003

Ellis, Kim “Interview with Sara Hughes, Frances Hodgkins Fellow for 2003”

www.nzartmonthly.co.nz, April 2003

Smith, Charmian “Love art a paisley-patterned thing”. OtagoDaily Times. October 9 2003

2002

Brennan, Stella Dirty Pixels, Catalogue essay. September 2002

Campbell, Suzie Dot.land, catalogue essay.  February 2002

McNamara, T.J Dot.land, review. New Zealand Herald, 28 January 2002

McNamara, T.J Places for paintings review. New Zealand Herald, 15 July 2002

Bill Williams, “Hodgkins Fellowship for Elam Graduate”, University of Auckland News. November 2002

2000-2001

Laird, Tessa Made in Hong Kong, Catalogue essay, June 2000

Vrbancic, Mario The sublime and the ridiculous, Catalogue essay November 2001