JANA WOOD

 

My art practice is process-driven, engaging with abstract methodologies in paint.  My subject matter is primarily the encounter in nature, observing fragility and the passing of time, and meandering within the unknown (emotionally, spiritually and physically)  Over the last few years I have been focused on developing a deeper connection to the Port Waikato area where my studio is now based.  My whakapapa links back to the Waikato through my Ngati Raukawa/Ngati Kikopiri ancestry. Ongoing post-graduate research is into NZ’s Colonial and Ecological history, and the history of representation in landscape painting.

AWARDS

Selected Finalist, National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton 2022

Selected Finalist, Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Painting and Drawing, Whakatane, 2021

Selected Finalist, National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton2019

Selected Finalist, Estuary Art Awards, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, 2018

Merit Award Winner (Zinnie Douglas) Walker & Hall Art Awards, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island, 2016

Selected Finalist, Estuary Art Awards, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, 2012

SELECTED SHOWS

2023  Sub-Urbia, Northart, Mothermother Archive Iteration 22

2023  The Table, Aotearoa Artfair The Cloud, Mothermother Archive Iteration 20

2023 “Gestures, the Land Speaks”, Wallace Gallery Morrinsville

2022  Iteration 15, Mother Mother Archive, Lot 23, Auckland

2022 Lurky Spaces, Artful’s Arcadia Pop-up, Queens Arcade, part of Auckland Arts Festival

2022 National Contemporary Art Awards (Finalist), Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Waikato Museum, Hamilton

2021 A’Float, Arthaus Contemporary, Orakei, Auckland

2021  Wallace Arts Trust Recent Acquisitions Show, The Pah Homestead, Hillsborough, Auckland

2021  Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Painting and Drawing, Te Kōputu a te Whanga a Toi, Whakatāne Library and Gallery

2020  Three Painters, McLeavey Gallery, Wellington,

2020  Living Room, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Parnell, Auckland

2019  National Contemporary Art Awards (Finalist), Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Waikato Museum , Hamilton

2019  Networks and Grids, Art Bureau Gallery, Mt Eden, Auckland

2018 Meandering in Places, Spaces and Grids – Elam School of Fine Arts, PostGraduate Show, Auckland University

2018  InlookOut, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland

2018  Critical Groupings, Lot 23, Auckland

2018  Estuary Art Awards (Finalist) Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, Auckland

2016  Walker & Hall Art Awards, Winner of The Zinnie Douglas Merit Award – Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island

2015 Multiplicity, AD15 Auckland University of Technology Graduate Show

2015 Desperately Real, St Paul Street Gallery 3, AUT University, Auckland

2013 Square Art, Transit Collective, Pop Up gallery, Newmarket Square, Auckland 

2012 Square Art ,Transit Collective, Pop Up gallery, Newmarket Square, Newmarket

2012 The Imaginary Museum – Korero – 10 Artists, 10 Poets – visual artists respond to the written word, Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, Auckland

2012 Viewpoint, Depot Artspace, Devonport, Auckland

2012 Estuary Art Awards (Finalist), Malcolm Smith Gallery, Howick, Auckland

2011 “How Diversity Works” – Curated by Diversityworks Trust, Studio One Toi Tū, Ponsonby, Auckland http://www.diversityworks.org.nz/how-diversity-works/

2009/2010 Student End of Year Exhibitions – “Painters Progress & Painters Studio” Artstation

2008 Foundation Course End of Year Exhibition, Artstation

EDUCATION

Post Graduate Diploma Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, 2017-2018 

Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT University, Auckland, 2012-2015

Painting Practice 1,2 with Matthew Browne, Artstation

Foundation Course 1-Year, Artstation

Mauri Ora Foundation Certificate in Maori Culture, Te Wananga, 2011

Spatial Design, Whitecliffe School of Art and Design, 2000

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Sir James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

MEDIA

Aug 2011 The Aucklander http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/news/bricks-and-mortified/1071170/

Sep 2011 Te Waha Nui, Student Newspaper Auckland