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New Zealand artist, curator, and essayist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stella Brennan (born 1974) is a New Zealand artist, curator, and essayist.
Stella Brennan | |
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Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Auckland, New Zealand |
Education | University of Auckland |
Known for | installation art |
Brennan was born in 1974, in Auckland, New Zealand.[1] She graduated from the University of Auckland with an MFA in 1999. She currently lives in Auckland.[2]
Brennan is a mixed media installation artist. She utilises a variety of materials including found objects, video projection, and sculpture. Her work explores concepts of space and time between individuals and address issues such as industrialisation, colonialism, and technology.[2]
Brennan has published as an art critic and appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, the New Zealand Listener and Art New Zealand. She has also worked as an essayist for artists Patricia Piccinini and Ann Veronica Janssens.[2]
In 2001 Brennan was the artist in residence at Artspace Sydney and in 2004 she was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the Department of Screen and Media Studies at University of Waikato.[3] In 2007 she received a fellowship at Apex Arts in New York.[4]
Brennan is a co-founder of Aotearoa Digital Arts[2] and was co-editor, with Su Ballard, for the Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader.[5]
In 2006 she was a finalist for the Walters Prize, with her installation Wet Social Sculpture, first shown at St Paul St Gallery, Auckland.[6]
Work by Brennan is held in the collection of the Chartwell Collection in the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.[7]
Brennan is represented by Trish Clark Gallery.[2]
Brennan has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe.[2]
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