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This year, the International Fulbright Program celebrates its 75th anniversary and Fulbright commissions all around the world are hosting unique events to celebrate.
Fulbright NZ is delighted to present a special in-person panel discussion with three celebrated Fulbright NZ alumni visual artists, chaired by art historian and Director of the Adam Art Gallery, Christina Barton.
The event takes place on:
Thursday 9 December, 2021
5.30pm
National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
Corner of Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Wellington
Featuring:
Anne Noble is a Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Massey University Wellington and contemporary photographer who has been at the forefront of photographic practice in Aotearoa New Zealand since the early 1980s. Creating bodies of work that mark sustained engagement with particular places, sites, histories, issues and more recently species, her images are known for their beauty, complexity and conceptual rigour.
Her most recent projects are concerned with the non-human world and human impacts on natural biological systems. Her long engagement with the honeybee has centred on their intimate physiology and their contemporary predicament in the light of escalating environmental stresses. The most recent iteration of this ongoing project is the recent publication of Conversatio: In the Company of Bees (MUP).
Noble received a Fulbright NZ Scholar Award to attend Columbia College, Chicago, in 2014. She lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand.
Steve Carr is a leading contemporary artist whose work defies easy categorisation. Spanning moving images, photography and sculpture Carr creates visually stunning and technically demanding work that explores the precise moment of transformation. Employing and interfering with a range of mediums from apples and watermelons, to balloons filled with paint, shuttle-cocks, fireworks and smoke, he has turned fire extinguishers into glass, bear rugs into wood and tyres into bouquets. The artist is often the subject of the change and through his work has become half-animal, a strange man-child, a pre-teen girl and popcorn.
Recent solo exhibitions include Steve Carr: Chasing the Light, a six-screen video installation, which debuted at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in 2018 and travelled to City Gallery Wellington, and National Gallery of Victoria in 2019.
Carr was the Fulbright NZ Scholar – Visual Artist Award winner in 2012 and spent three months at the Headlands Center of Art Residency, San Francisco. Carr lives in Christchurch where he is a Senior Lecturer at Ilam School of Art.
Leanne Williams is one half of the collaborative creative practice Crystal Chain Gang established with her partner Jim Dennison in 2003. Together the pair craft exquisite textured glass objects from lead crystal that traverse the intersection between art, craft and design and redefine the technical and artistic possibilities of glass. Rooted in the centuries old practice of creating cast glass works from wax moulds, they reimagine the debris of everyday life in a way that is both art historical and utterly contemporary.
Their work can be found in public collections overseas and in Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent exhibitions include Crystal Chain Gang: In Flux at Arotoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History in 2020/2021.
Leanne Williams and Jim Dennison received a Fulbright NZ Travel Award to attend the Creative Glass Centre of America at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Centre in 2008. They live and work in Martinborough.
Join us for an illuminating discussion as Christina Barton and former Fulbright scholars and distinguished artists Steve Carr, Anne Noble and Leanne Williams reflect on their Fulbright experience and the impact their time in the US had on their life and work as a practicing artist.
Thursday 9 December
5.30pm
National Library Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
Corner of Molesworth and Aitken Streets
Wellington
As spaces are limited, please RSVP to [email protected] by December 3.
Please note, the standard rules regarding Covid restrictions apply and social distancing, masks, and signing into the venue will be required. You will be notified by email if there is a change prior to the event.