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Exhibitions

Forthcoming

all instinct like the bird in drouth got water out of the end of a jar by throwing in pebbles, group exhibition with Wesley John Fourie, Sarah McGaughran and Regina Gorge, opening March 28 2025, Art Attic, Waihōpai Invercargill

2025

Molly Morpeth Canaday Award 2025 Exhibition, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi Whakatāne Library and Gallery, Whakatāne

2024

Anhedonia, duo exhibition with Sarah McGaughran and Eliza Glyn, New Lands. Gallery and Project Space, Dunedin

Allbell & Associates, group drawing show, Slant Art Project Space, Dunedin

2023

Awen, presented at the Dunedin School of Art graduate show SITE:2023, Dunedin

2022

Curio, presented at the Dunedin School of Art graduate show SITE: 2022, Dunedin

2021

Group show, Allbell Chambers, Dunedin

Group drawing show, Allbell Chambers, Dunedin

Select Performances (Perry Buoy)

2024

Grvdggr, Kerian Varaine, Perry Buoy, B& [ssand], Yours, Dunedin

A Dream is like a Magic Cloak, Perry Buoy, Pearl Diver, Dunedin

2022

The Adoration Space, Allbell Chambers, Dunedin – closing performance with Lucy Hill

Masonic Lodge, Dunedin

New Drawings, AYU, Dunedin – opening performance for Motoko Kikkawa’s exhibition

2021

Sine Rave, Fringe Festival, Dunedin

Masonic Lodge, Dunedin

2020

Pyrrha, Audio Foundation, Auckland – opening performance for Beth Hilton’s exhibition

2019

Kreuser/Cailleu (Berlin), A Ghost Within (Argentina), Rubbish Film Unit (Dunedin), S.A.T.O.R.I/Perry Buoy, Pioneer Women’s Hall, Port Chalmers, Dunedin

2018

Fringe Festival Blackbox, Dunedin Fringe Festival

Disco Mountain 2, with Finn+Adam, Moody, and Stef Animal, The Manor, Dunedin

2017

Hotline 666, with Vanessa Worm and Acid Police, None Gallery, Dunedin

Support act for Symmetrix (Australia) with Jaggers x Lines, Inch Bar, Dunedin

Radio One 91.0 Live-to-air performance, Dunedin

Dunedin Winter Solstice, Dunedin

2016

Sight #36 666, None Gallery, Dunedin

The (H)ex Waves, Funeral Orgies, Perry Buoy, The Crown Hotel, Dunedin

Awards

William Akel Runner-up Award - 2025 Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards

Writing

2024

McGaughran Sarah, “The Ōtepoti Ecogothic: Trending Towards an Entangled Awareness” in Scope: Contemporary Research Topics: Art & Design 26, August (2024), Dunedin: Otago Polytechnic Press, 63-67, https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.1026

McGaughran, Sarah, exhibition text for Judy Darragh ONZM, From The Waist Down (2024), New Lands. Gallery and Project Space, Dunedin  

Press

Ed Hanfling, review of “Anhedonia”, in Art New Zealand, Summer 2024/25

Joanna Osbourne, “Art Seen: July 18”, exhibition review of Anhedonia, in The Otago Daily Times, 18th July 2024, https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/art-seen-july-18-0

Pennie Hunt, exhibition text for Anhedonia, in New Lands. Gallery and Project Space, July 2024, read the text here

ODT, 2023

ODT, 2016

Education

Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) with First Class Honours, Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, The Dunedin School of Art, 2023

Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry), University of Otago, 2015

Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts with Distinction, Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, The Dunedin School of Art, 2022

Certificate in Māori and Indigenous Art, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, 2024

Work Experience

Founder/Co-Director, Slant Art Project Space, Dunedin

2022

Gallery Attendant, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin

Volunteer, Wave Art Project Space, Dunedin