Geraldine Stevens - Artist’s Bio
Geraldine Stevens grew up by the sea in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her childhood was steeped in the natural world leaving her with a deep sense of connection to nature.
Geraldine went on to have a rich and varied career in creative industries in Aotearoa and abroad. These include: Fashion manufacturing, Costume for Film, Television and Theatre. She has worked in Art galleries, on theatre sets and interior decoration. Geraldine has been a member of artistic communities in Switzerland and Samoa. In 2023, Geraldine established herself once more in the Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-Tara Art community.
Geraldine has studied Art, Fashion, Business and International Politics in New Zealand and abroad. Her passions have always been for Art, Politics, and Ecology - all which serve as inspiration for her work. Now resident back home in Aotearoa, Geraldine continues to exhibit in group and solo exhibitions. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, Colombia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro, Samoa, Switzerland, USA and New Zealand.
Geraldine Stevens - Artist Statement.
I am a painter of abstract and philosophical thought. I have a need to illustrate the complexity of those thoughts and to encourage deep contemplation in a world where we are constantly distracted. My art aims to remind us of the tenuous nature and beauty of human existence, by appearing both complex and simple through a nuanced layering of colour and shadow. What appears on the surface is not necessarily representative of what we can't see in the darkness of matter.
I strongly feel that to be an artist is an act of defiance and resistance. We have an intense human urge to be creative yet that need is often suppressed and discouraged. Art is political and historical, it shows us the present and the past. Art also allows us to have the imagination to think of alternative futures. I fight for the place of Art in society as Art must be seen. It reflects the very things that make us sentient .
Geraldine Stevens grew up by the sea in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her childhood was steeped in the natural world leaving her with a deep sense of connection to nature.
Geraldine went on to have a rich and varied career in creative industries in Aotearoa and abroad. These include: Fashion manufacturing, Costume for Film, Television and Theatre. She has worked in Art galleries, on theatre sets and interior decoration. Geraldine has been a member of artistic communities in Switzerland and Samoa. In 2023, Geraldine established herself once more in the Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-Tara Art community.
Geraldine has studied Art, Fashion, Business and International Politics in New Zealand and abroad. Her passions have always been for Art, Politics, and Ecology - all which serve as inspiration for her work. Now resident back home in Aotearoa, Geraldine continues to exhibit in group and solo exhibitions. Her work is held in private collections in Australia, Colombia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro, Samoa, Switzerland, USA and New Zealand.
Geraldine Stevens - Artist Statement.
I am a painter of abstract and philosophical thought. I have a need to illustrate the complexity of those thoughts and to encourage deep contemplation in a world where we are constantly distracted. My art aims to remind us of the tenuous nature and beauty of human existence, by appearing both complex and simple through a nuanced layering of colour and shadow. What appears on the surface is not necessarily representative of what we can't see in the darkness of matter.
I strongly feel that to be an artist is an act of defiance and resistance. We have an intense human urge to be creative yet that need is often suppressed and discouraged. Art is political and historical, it shows us the present and the past. Art also allows us to have the imagination to think of alternative futures. I fight for the place of Art in society as Art must be seen. It reflects the very things that make us sentient .
EXHIBITIONS
COLLABORATION
- Group Exhibition, NZ Art Show, TSB Stadium, Wellington, May/June 2025
- Solo Exhibition, Phantom Vision, Rice Pudding Gallery, Wellington, February 2025
- Group Exhibition, Toi Open, Toi Pōneke Art Center, Wellington, December 2024
- Group Exhibition, Inside the Outside, Hunters and Collectors Gallery, Wellington, November 2024
- Group Exhibition, Geneva Buzz Art, Galerie Humanit'art, Switzerland, May 2022
- Ateliers Portes Ouvertes des artistes de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2021
- Solo Exhibition, Immanence, Transcendence, #Herstreet gallery space, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2021
- Joint exhibition, "Paper", works on, and with paper, Empi Mörn and Geraldine Stevens, Viverra, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2019.
- Solo Exhibition, A look within an Unseen Space, #Herstreet gallery space, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2019
- Group Exhibition, LGB Annual Exhibition, Les Centres des Arts, Grange Canal, Switzerland, May 2019
- Group Exhibition, LGB Annual Exhibition, Les Centres des Arts, Grange Canal, Switzerland, May 2018
- Group Exhibition, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, D10 Gallery, Geneva Switzerland, 2017
- Group exhibition, Rowing for Gold, Premier House Gallery, Wellington New Zealand, 2016
- Group Exhibition, 3 Hundy, Toi Poneke Arts Center, Wellington, New Zealand, 2016
- Group Exhibition, South Wellington Art Show, Wellington, New Zealand, 2016
- Solo Exhibition, Compression - Decompression, Residence of the New Zealand Ambassador, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015
- Group Exhibition, Ecolint Annuelle, Espace Nouveau Vallon, Chêne Bougeries, Switzerland, 2013
- Group Exhibition, Tiapapata Art Center, Samoa, 2007, 2006, 2005.
COLLABORATION
- Collaboration with Sarah Scott, Wellington based Poet, responding to Phantom Vision, Rice Pudding Gallery, Wellington, February 2025.
- Collaboration with Margaret Davies in joint canvas for Inside the Outside, Hunters and Collectors front window display, Wellington, November 2024.
- Collaboration with Poornima Shettygar, Actor for theatrical interpretation of Immanence, Transcendence , #Herstreet Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2021.
- Collaboration with George Nuku, Artist in residence at the Museum of Natural History, Geneva, Switzerland. http://institutions.ville-geneve.ch/fr/mhn/votre-visite/museum-dhistoire-naturelle/expositions-temporaires/bouteille-a-la-mer-2120-te-ao-maori/ September, 2020.
- Independent art curation Geneva, 2012 - 2015; D10 Artspace, Contrast Art gallery, WTO exhibition space, Art Zurich. 2013 - 2019.
- Toi Poneke Artists Group Studios, New Zealand 2015 - 2017 and 2024 -2025 participating in group promotion, exhibitions and development. https://toiponeke.nz
- Tiapapata Art Center Samoa, 2004 - 2007 as a practicing artist and potter. Participated in artist community and teaching studio, specialising in kiln fired pottery, painting and elei wood block fabric printing. http://www.creativesamoa.com/
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