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