biography & reviews
| 1966 | born Essex, England |
| EDUCATION | |
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| 2001-02 | M.F.A, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2006 | 2nd Nature, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin |
| 2006 | My Dearest, Dearest Creature, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland |
| 2004 | Insides Outsides, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland |
| 2003 | Carnivora, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland |
| 2002 | Wild-deer-ness, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland |
| 2001 | Ghost Sheep, Blue Oyster Art Gallery, Dunedin |
| 2000 | Chthonic, Chiaroscuro Art Gallery, Auckland |
| 1999 | Pogrom, Chiaroscuro Art Gallery, Auckland |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS | |
| 2011 | Upcoming: Reconstructing the Animal Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania. Mark Dion, Angela Singer, Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Harri Kallio, Alicia King, Yvette Watt. |
| 2010 | The Enchanted Palace. Kensington Palace, London. Hedge Row, Cabinet of Curiosities. 26 March 2010 – November 2010. Curator Echo Morgan. Wildworks, Echo Morgan, Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Boudicca and Aminaka Wilmont. |
| 2009 | Creature Discomforts. Suter Art Gallery, Nelson, NZ. Mind Games: Surrealism in Aoteraroa New Zealand. Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, NZ. Real Art Roadshow collection tour. |
| 2008 | Wallace Art Awards touring exhibition, Aotea Centre, Auckland & TheNewDowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ. |
| 2007 | Troubled-over Phantoms. Angela Singer & Liyen Chong & Sarah Smuts-Kennedy. Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, NZ. Existence: Life According to Art, Waikato Art Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ. Curator Leafa Wilson. Brand New Wilderness. Windows project. Auckland Arts Festival AKO7. Curator Natasha Beckman. Wallace Art Awards touring exhibition, Aotea Centre, Auckland & Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ. Rap Show. Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, NZ. Curator Michelle Armistead. |
| 2006 | The Idea of the Animal. Melbourne International Arts Festival. RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne. Bruce Armstrong, Joseph Beuys, Jazmina Cininas, Marian Drew, Hupert Duprat, Peter Ellis, Katrin Isabel Ernst, Rew Hanks, Kate James, Nicholas Lampert, Linda Marrinon, Kevin Mortensen, David Noonan, Selina Ou, Diego Perroni, Patricia Piccinini, Lisa Roet, Anne Ross, Joan Ross, Angela Singer, Kathy Temin, Jenny Watson. Curators Dr Linda Williams & Suzanne Davies. Wallace Art Awards: touring exhibition, Aotea Centre, Auckland & Pataka Museum, Wellington, NZ. Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award exhibition, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ. Waikato National Art Award exhibition, Hamilton Gardens Pavilion and Arts Post, Hamilton, NZ. |
| 2005 | Animal Nature. The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S. Steve Baker & Edwina Ashton, Catherine Chalmers, Jim Duesing & Jessica Hodgins, Lane Hall & Lisa Moline, Andrew Johnson, Eduardo Kac, Dorijan Kolundzija, Lyne Lapointe, Per Maning, Olly & Suzi, Michael Pestel, Nigel Rothfels, Angela Singer, & Stephen Wilson. Curator Jenny Strayer. Auckland Arts Festival AKO5. Wallace Gallery, Auckland, NZ. Auckland Art Fair, Britomart, Auckland, NZ. In Season, Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland, NZ. |
| 2004 | Wallace Art Awards: touring exhibition Wallace Gallery, Auckland & Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, NZ. Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award exhibition, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ. Norsewear Art Award exhibition, Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre, HB, NZ. |
| 2003 | Animality. Jordan Baseman, Catherine Chalmers, Nicky Coutts, Karl Grimes, Kate Rohde, Angela Singer, Kathryn Spence, Daniel Unverricht, David Wilkinson. Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ. Curator Angela Singer. Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award exhibition, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ. Waikato National Art Award exhibition, Hamilton Gardens Pavilion Arts Post, Hamilton |
| 2002 | Fruit & Flowers, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ. Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award exhibition, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, NZ. Waikato National Art Award exhibition, Hamilton Gardens Pavilion Arts Post, NZ. Leather Show, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ. Pre View,Oedipus Rex Gallery, Auckland, NZ. |
| 2001 | Wallace Art Awards: touring exhibition Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland. Massey University, Wellington. Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, NZ. Summer Lovin’… ‘I wuv you’, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ. Cotton Show, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, NZ. |
| 2000 | Life of Laika, 2nd UK Space Art Forum, The Arts Catalyst, Whitechapel, London, UK. Norsewear Art Award exhibition, Waipukurau Museum, NZ. Wallace Art Awards exhibition, Wallace Gallery, Auckland, NZ. |
| 1998 | Wallace Awards exhibition, Wallace Gallery, Auckland, NZ. |
| 1997 | Winner Mary Vigor Brown Award, Hawke’s Bay Museum, HB, NZ. |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS | |
| 2010 | Jeffreys, Tom. Magic and Melancholy - Enchanted Palace. Spoonfed. 25 March, 2010. Fantasy fashion fit for a princess, The Independent newspaper, London. 29 March 2010. Hedge Row, The Enchanted Palace, Kensington Palace, London. The Guardian newspaper, London. 10 April 2010. Hedge Row. Enchanted Palace, Kensington Palace, London. Wallpaper*. 24 March 2010. Poliquin, Rachel. Taxidermy and Longing. (Harvard University Press, forthcoming) Baker, Steve. Art Before Ethics: Animal Life in Artists’ Hands (Minnesota University Press, forthcoming). Potts, Annie. The natural and cultural history of gallus gallus domesticus – the chicken (London: Reaktion Books, forthcoming). Kararehe: Animals in New Zealand Art, Literature and Everyday Life. Potts, Armstrong & Brown. (Auckland University Press, forthcoming). |
| 2009 | Pacheco, Jesus. Animals with a double life: Thomas Grunfeld, Angela Singer, Daniel Firman, Susan Bozic, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir and Mark Wilson. El Angel. Reforma newspaper, Mexico City, Mexico. 16 August 2009. Baker, Steve. ‘Autoportrait avec humain: en accompagnant les autres animaux de l’art’ (trans. B. Sibona), in Notre animal intérieur et les théories de la créativité, edited by Bruno Sibona (Paris: L’Harmattan, Octobre 2009), pp. 71-89. ISBN 978-2-296-101118-0. Connor, Steven. The Right Stuff. Modern Painters arts journal, March 2009. Baker, Steve. Tier Werden, Mensch Werden exhibition catalogue, NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin , Germany, May 2009. Animaux en scène: éthique des animaux dans l’art contemporain. Les Cahiers de théâtre JEU magazine, #130 March 2009. Daniela Bonetto, Ooh la art: controversial art from Manet and Andy Warhol to Alex Soth, Angela Singer and Gregor Schneider. Flair magazine, March 2009. Big Book of Essays Silver Collection and DVD Silver Collection. Real Art Roadshow, NZ. Essay by Mary-Jane Duffy, 2009. Potts, A. Kiwis Against Possums: A Critical Analysis of Anti-Possum Rhetoric in Aotearoa New Zealand. Society and Animals journal, Volume 17, Number 1, 2009,pp. 1-20.Publisher Brill. |
| 2008 | Jackson, Anna. Little Animals, NY Arts Magazine, New York. January - February 2008 Hofstatter, Amrei. My dearest, dearest creature. Belio art magazine, Spain. Wildlife issue #27, August 2008 (bilingual edition Spanish/English). Pgs 25-36. Arlien-Søborg, Mads. New artists. DANSK magazine, Denmark. #19 Autumn 2008. Aloi, Giovanni. Animal rights and wrongs. Death of the Animal. Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, UK. Issue 7, 2008. ISSN 1756-9575 |
| 2007 | Mudie, Ella. Angela Singer, NOTHING MAGAZINE, Melbourne, Australia. Issue 20 August/September 2007. Editor Dr Gaby Esser-Hall. Leafa/Janice Wilson. Existence: Life According to Art exhibition catalogue, Ramp Press and Waikato Museum, Hamilton, New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-12072-6X McNamara,TJ. Art from the old curiosity shop. The New Zealand Herald, Auckland. 4 October. |
| 2006 | Suzanne Davies and Dr Linda Williams. The Idea of the Animal exhibition catalogue. Melbourne International Arts Festival. RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. ISBN 0-9579495-4-5 Webb, Penny. The Idea of the Animal. The Sunday Age, M, Melbourne, Australia. 22 October. Eggleton, David. In Arcadia. New Zealand Listener. 16 – 22 September Vol 205 No.3462 The Animal Studies Group (eds): Killing Animals. University of Illinois Press ISBN 0-252-03050-8 Body, Ralph. 2nd Nature. Critic Te Arohi magazine. 1 September. Franks, Alison. Artzone gallery magazine, Wellington. Nov/Dec 2006. Amery, Mark. Treasure Hunt. Dominion Post newspaper, Wellington, NZ. Cook, Marjorie. Confection. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 13 January. Megget, Katrina. Exhibition influenced by research into bird flu. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 26 August. Campbell, Megan. Viewers Challenged to think again. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 31 August. |
| 2005 | Baker Steve, Hall Lane, and Strayer Jenny. Animal Nature exhibition catalogue The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S. Shaw, Kurt. Carnegie Mellon exhibit looks at how we see animals. Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Pittsburgh, US. 11 September |
| 2004 | Hanfling, E. Exhibitions Insides Outsides, Art New Zealand magazine. Number 113 Summer. Williams, Linda. The Owl of Minerva and Recent Art, Eyeline magazine, Queensland, Australia, no.56, Summer. Lonie Bridie & Ballard Susan. Space Invaders catalogue. Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin. Herrick, Linda. Four Legs Good, The New Zealand Herald, Auckland. 1 September. Dashfield, Prue. Wild at art. New Zealand House & Garden magazine. February. Dashfield, Prue. Animal Art New Zealand House & Garden magazine. May. Big Picture, Insides Outsides. The New Zealand Herald, Auckland. 7 October. |
| 2003 | Baker, Steve. Something’s gone wrong again: Art, animals, ethics and botched form, Animality exhibition catalogue Blue Oyster Art Gallery, Dunedin, NZ.. Eggleton, David. That looks nice 2…best in New Zealand art 2003. New Zealand Listener. 27 December. McNamara, TJ. Carnivora. The New Zealand Herald, Auckland, NZ.. 24 September. Brendan Philip. Fruit & Flowers, Critic Te Arohi no.13 Smith, Charmain. Creations Pose Serious Questions. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin. 19 June. |
| 2002 | Puklowski, Tracy. Superb survey. Waikato Times newspaper, Hamilton, NZ.. 19 August. Cartmill, Matt: Wild-deer-ness exhibition catalogue Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, NZ. Were, Virginia. Collective Consciousness. Art News magazine. Winter. |
| 2001 | Baker, Steve. Animal rights and wrongs (Haunted by the Animal). Tate: The Art Magazine, London no. 26, Autumn. Zega, Nigel. Feeling sheepish. Sunday Star-Times newspaper, NZ.. 29 July. Mutch, Nicola. Young love writ large and lightly on walls. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 1 February. McCluskey, Maari. The Cotton. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 21 June. Cook, Marjorie. Ghost sheep come to Dunedin. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 24 July. Dingwall, Richard. Homage to the sheep holds mixed message on animal rights. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, NZ.. 2 August. |
| 2000 | Clarke, Barry. Taking art straight from the Abbatoir. Sunday Star-Times newspaper, NZ. 7 May. |
| 1999 | Schamroth, Helen: Pogrom exhibition catalogue Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland. Cleave, Louisa. Art Exhibition Designed to Shock. The New Zealand Herald, Auckland. 24 May. |
| SEMINARS | |
| “Contemporary art and animal rights” Minding Animals, International Academic and Community Conference on Animals and Society. NSW, Australia. Dr Steve Baker, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire. 2009. | |
| “Antipodean Animal” King’s College, London, UK. Dr Steve Baker, Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Central Lancashire. 2008 | |
| “Something’s Gone Wrong Again: The Collision of Creativity, Ethics and Botched Form” The Research Centre In Creativity, London Metropolitan University, London, UK. Dr Steve Baker. 2003 | |
| RESIDENCIES | |
| 2006 invited International Artist in Residence, School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. | |
| WEB PROJECTS | |
| www.criminalanimal.org | |
| TELEVISION AND RADIO | |
| Taxidermy has become dead posh Campbell Live, TV 3 news, , 8 Jun 2009. | |
| The Gravy. Series 2, Episode 9, Television New Zealand 6, 18 & 21 May 2008. Director Jess Feast. | |
| Windows, Auckland Arts Festival Radio New Zealand National programme. Interviewed by Jim Mora 8 March 2007. | |
| The Idea of the Animal. The Deep End arts programme ABC Radio National, Australia. Interviewed by Sally Nowlan 23 October 2006. | |
| Melbourne International Arts Festival Animal Theme Sunday Arts, ABC TV, Australia producer Freya Michie 22 October 2006. | |
| 2nd Nature. Radio 1, 91FM, NZ. Interviewed by Emma Dish 23 August 2006. | |
| Insides Outsides. Nightline, Television 3, NZ. 24 August 2004. | |
| Ghost Sheep, Arts Week. Radio New Zealand National programme. Interviewed by Lynn Freeman 26 July 2001. | |
| Chthonic. Breakfast, Television New Zealand, TV1, 3 May 2000. | |
| Chthonic. News Talk ZB, NZ. 11 May 2000. | |
| Is it Art? Assignment documentary, Television New Zealand, TV1, 1 July 1999 |