Geraldine Stevens - Artist’s Bio
Geraldine Stevens grew up by the sea in the North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her early study and work focus was in the fashion industry as a designer, maker and producer ; later working in costume design and production for the New Zealand film and television industry. In 1997, Geraldine moved to Geneva, Switzerland, then to Samoa in 2004, where she spent three years developing her ceramic work. In 2011 Geraldine returned to Geneva from New Zealand, continuing to work in theatre as well as co-managing a private art gallery. From 2012, she began focussing upon her painting practice, participating in group and solo shows at private and public galleries in Geneva. 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.
My work explores the tapestry of nature, humanity and the temporary.
My background is from fashion, thus textiles form my vision. The ‘cloth’ of our existence is woven from memories of people, places and events. We wear our cloth as a self representation, as a protective wrapping and as a net to catch our prey. My work begins from an observation of the natural world at a given moment. Digital imagery is not far from my mind, with its saturated colours and photo like finish but I counter that with the visible hand of the artist so as not to lose touch with our human essence.
Geraldine Stevens grew up by the sea in the North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her early study and work focus was in the fashion industry as a designer, maker and producer ; later working in costume design and production for the New Zealand film and television industry. In 1997, Geraldine moved to Geneva, Switzerland, then to Samoa in 2004, where she spent three years developing her ceramic work. In 2011 Geraldine returned to Geneva from New Zealand, continuing to work in theatre as well as co-managing a private art gallery. From 2012, she began focussing upon her painting practice, participating in group and solo shows at private and public galleries in Geneva. 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.
My work explores the tapestry of nature, humanity and the temporary.
My background is from fashion, thus textiles form my vision. The ‘cloth’ of our existence is woven from memories of people, places and events. We wear our cloth as a self representation, as a protective wrapping and as a net to catch our prey. My work begins from an observation of the natural world at a given moment. Digital imagery is not far from my mind, with its saturated colours and photo like finish but I counter that with the visible hand of the artist so as not to lose touch with our human essence.
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EXHIBITIONS
COLLABORATION
- 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 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 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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