Sarah Walker-Holt
1967 Born Stockport, England
Education
2008 – 2010
-Studied
Auckland University Bachelor of Visual Arts at Manukau School Visual Arts
(MSVA), Manukau, New Zealand
2007
-Studied Diploma in Visual Arts, Manukau School Visual Arts, Manukau,
New Zealand
Projects
2016-2017
-‘Handshake 3’ New Zealand ,
http://www.handshakeproject.com/handshake3.html
2014-2015
-‘Handshake 2’, Handshake:
Prentice and Prodigy, New Zealand, http://www.handshakeproject.com/
2013
-‘Collective
Production’ Left-field, Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-‘Kitset’ Te Uru,
Titirangi, New Zealand
2013
-‘You’d-Prolong’ Occupation
Artists, Wellington, New Zealand
- ‘The Object for Which Something Exists’ Masterworks THINKspace, Ponsonby, Auckland, New
Zealand
2012
-‘You’d’
Masterworks Jewellery Box, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Situational Personalities’ (in
association with JEMposium) Thistle Hall Gallery, Te Aro, Wellington
2011
-‘Implement Detachment’, Curiosity
Cabinet, Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected/Invited Group
Exhibitions
2016
-‘Specials’,Einsàulensuaal, Munich
Residenz Palace, Munich, Germany
2015
-‘Handshake2’, Pah
Homestead, Hillsborough, Auckland new Zealand
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’
Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Handshake2 and
Mentors’, Avid Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘R.A.W. Reactions
after Wunderruma’ Ironbank Building, Auckland New Zealand
-‘Wundermeke’ Fingers
Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Wunderruma’ Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Handshake2’, Stanley
Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
-‘Close to the Heart’, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Is, New
Zealand
2014
-‘X 10 Years’ The National,
Christchurch, New Zealand
-‘Handshake 2’, Toi
Poneke Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’
Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Out of the Shed’, Uxbridge
Arts Centre, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand
- ‘Salon Rouge’, A performance piece by
Wellington jeweller and artist Vivien Atkinson, a mobile gallery in a coat,
Wellington New Zealand
-‘Wunderruma’ The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
-‘Brace Yourself” Masterworks, Ponsonby,
Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Wunderruma’ Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
2013
-‘Fingers Annual Group
Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Objective Art awards,
Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, New Zealand
-‘Neckware 10’ Masterworks,
Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Autumn Exhibition’ Nelson
Suter Art Society, Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
2012
-‘Respect, Respond, Prolong’
The National, Christchurch, New Zealand
-‘Fingers Annual Group
Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Objective Art awards,
Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, New Zealand
-‘Future Building or the Art of Living
Creatively’ Papakura Art Gallery, Papakura, New Zealand
-‘Presentation Winners Marzee
Graduate Prize 2011 ‘Work in Progress’ Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands
-‘Neckware 9’
Masterworks, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
-‘Fingers Annual Group
Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Objective’ Art
Awards, Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, New Zealand
-‘New Zealand Jewellery Show’, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington,
New
Zealand
-‘Fingers Graduating
Students Award’ Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Neckware 8’,
Masterworks, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘BOM, Brooch of the
Month Club’, Masterworks, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Best in Show’,
Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2010
-‘MSVA Selected Student Showcase’, The New
Zealand Jewellery Show, Skycity, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
-‘Changing Threads’, Refinery Artspace,
Nelson, New Zealand
Collaborations
2013
-‘Collective
Production’ Left-field, Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand with Printmaker Toni
Mosley
2012
-‘Respect Respond Prolong’, The
National, Christchurch, New Zealand with Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova and Gillian Deery
Group Exhibitions
2010
-‘MSVA BVA Final Year
Student Show’, Manukau, New Zealand
-‘Weeds’ Manthel
van Resign Studio, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Pod project’ Satellite
Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
-‘Tonic’ Collective, Smalldog
Gallery, The Depot, Devonport, New Zealand
-‘MSVA Student
Showcase’, The New Zealand Jewellery Show,
Skycity, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Post Stitch’, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New
Zealand
Masterclass Workshops Attended
2016
-‘Hilde De Decker Masterclass’, Handshake 3, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘Sofia Bjorkman Jewelcamp’, Handshake 3,
Wellington, New Zealand
2015
-‘Ben Lignel Masterclass’, Handshake 2, Wellington, New Zealand
2012
-‘Masterclass’ Jemposium, Wellington, New Zealand
Awards and Scholarships
2011 -‘Winner’ New Zealand Jewellery Show, Contemporary
Jewellery finalist, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington.
2010 -Senior Prize in Visual Arts, UA.
-Annual Prize in Visual Arts, UA.
-Fingers Graduate Award, MSVA
-Studio Art Supplies, High Academic
Achiever Award, MSVA
-Bonded Merit Scholarship Recipient,
Studylink.
2009 -Bonded Merit Scholarship Recipient,
Studylink.
2008 -Bonded Merit Scholarship Recipient,
Studylink.
2007 -Graham Dawson prize for excellence, MIT.
Publications
Kitset, Deborah
Crowe, Te uru Catalogue, 2015
Art News New
Zealand, Summer, 2014
Fingers: Jewellery
for Aoteroa New Zealand, Damien Skinner & Finn McCahon-Jones, 2014
Wunderrύma, Gallrie
Handwerk & The Dowse Art Museum, 2014
500
Art Necklaces, Larks Books, July 2013
Portrait of an
Artist; Panoramas by Sophie Merkens, 2012
Threaded Ed X, Best
in Show, 2011.
Public activities
-Presentation:
Smashing Designs, Kings Collage, 2016
-Judge for Auckland Home Educators Art Fair at Te
tuhi Art Gallery 2015
-‘Questions for Mary’ https://draftredesign.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/questions-for-mary.pdf Interview: Mary Curtis 2014,
-Introduction and
Thank you -‘Autumn Exhibition’ Nelson
Suter Art Society, Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand 2013
-Presentation: My practice
after Graduation – MSVA – lecturer, Rebecca Hobbs, 2011
Contact
102 Kawakawa/Orere
Rd
Kawakawa Bay
RD5 Papakura 2585
Auckland
New Zealand
+64 9 2922208
+64 211040716
