The Associates Programme

The Artists

• Audrey Baldwin
  

  Audrey Baldwin
  Ōtautahi

  Christchurch based artist Audrey Baldwin’s practice is predominantly performance based and centres around the body as a fraught space of constant contention. She investigates identity, power and control narratives, seeking to destabilise public/private, abject/erotic and subject/object binaries. Often utilising everyday actions and routines, Audrey seeks to reframe these actions in an absurd or ritualistic manner.

  Her work has been presented in galleries and as part of festivals around New Zealand as well as in Zimbabwe, Japan and India. 2016 saw her attend Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial in India alongside other performance artists from around the globe.

  Since 2010, Audrey has been performing and creating interventions and events in and around the Christchurch CBD, through her roles as both artist and arts event manager/co-ordinator for The Social artist collective and curator for First Thursdays Chch.

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• Gaby Montejo
  

  Gaby Montejo
  New Zealand

  Gaby Montejo approaches art through photo, music, interviews, and temporary installation often with performative actions.  Gaby’s work explores democracy and hierarchy in a way where the finished work is often consumed or destroyed during the process of making. Whilst exhibiting internationally, Gaby stays pivotal in the social initiatives and collaborative interventions of Christchurch and is a key member of the collective The Social. Born to Cuban parents, Gaby attended art school in Australia and America and moved to Christchurch in 2006.
  
  Exhibitions and works include The Pie Shop Surveillance Project for Open Workshop, XCHC, 2016;  National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, 2015; Pay for the Printer, Triple Major, Shanghai, 2015; Milk Fight, 100 Peterborough Street, Christchurch, 2014; OPP, Chambers, Christchurch, 2013; Bring A Plate, Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2013; Goat in a Bikini, None Gallery, Dunedin, 2012;  The Art of Photography, San Diego Art Institute, California, 2012; New Zealand Sculpture OnShore, Auckland, 2012;  Shared Lines, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan, 2012;  Poltergeist, White Elephant Arts, Melbourne, 2011; and ...Nah It's Only Gaby, ABC, Christchurch, 2011.

   

• Mark Soltero
  

  Antipodean Self Portrait, archival inkjet, 30x20cm, 2014

  Mark Soltero
  Christchurch

  Mark Soltero is an artist based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He completed his Masters in Fine Arts with Merit at Dunedin School of Art, extramurally, while working full time in 2014. Mark has had exhibitions throughout NZ and been a finalist in many competitions including the National Contemporary Award, judged by Aaron Kreisler in 2015 and the 5th International Open Print Show in 2017/2018. His deliberately limited and monotone palette is a reference to the predominance of black that has been employed at critical junctures in Modernist and Postmodernist Painting. Additionally, the limitation serves as a discipline in his proess, forcing his decision-making.

  The title of Mark’s ongoing project, Back Catalogue in Black and White, refers to memories and histories which, in hindsight, have come to carry greater meaning through their subsequent influence over time. A catalogue or register involves selecting, gathering and enumerating – putting down and declaring. In this capacity he draws things from formative moments in history into his work, constructing a dialogue between those moments and the present.

  Soltero’s recent work within the Back Catalogue is a response to transformations that images underwent in the late 70’s, when the concept of Image became synonymous with Projection. For Mark, particular memories from this time become like visual shards and are further fragmented by digitisation, increasing the layers of time and distance. Their context is a position corresponding to strings of one’s and zero’s – saved and copied, moved and shared. Existing in light and space, their place in time is precarious.

  Fragments of a Memory is a growing body of work within Soltero’s Catalogue that initially developed out of the detritus produced from layers of vinyl stencils made for a painting project based on the dilapidated interior of Irving Theatre in San Francisco.

• Sarah Anderson
  

  Sarah Anderson
  Ōtautahi

  Environmental themes underpin Sarah Anderson’s practice. As an artist she utilises multiple disciplines including drawing, painting and performance. She is actively engaged in conservation and sustainable living issues on a local and national level.

  
  In 2013 she co-published a book, Vanishing Point, working with artists Bing Dawe, Keith Walter and John F Emery. The book highlights the environmental stresses threatening the Mackenzie Basin. She sees her work as part of a larger conversation responding to the urgent need to shift our collective consciousness into understanding how best to protect our environment. The interaction between humans and the land we occupy, and the multiple pressures these engender are questions she is asking herself. She creates hypotheses and uses her imagination to guide her research – this allows her to observe her environment through the lens of her practice. Sarah uses drawing as a starting point for recording, observing and exploring ideas and as a platform for further development – In whatever direction best serves the project.

  Sarah Anderson has exhibited in Auckland, Christchurch, Tauranga, Te Aroha, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Martinborough and Hamilton. She holds a BFA (Sculpture) University of Canterbury anda PGDip. Art Curatorship University of Canterbury. 

  Web site

Audrey Baldwin
Ōtautahi

Christchurch based artist Audrey Baldwin’s practice is predominantly performance based and centres around the body as a fraught space of constant contention. She investigates identity, power and control narratives, seeking to destabilise public/private, abject/erotic and subject/object binaries. Often utilising everyday actions and routines, Audrey seeks to reframe these actions in an absurd or ritualistic manner.

Her work has been presented in galleries and as part of festivals around New Zealand as well as in Zimbabwe, Japan and India. 2016 saw her attend Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial in India alongside other performance artists from around the globe.

Since 2010, Audrey has been performing and creating interventions and events in and around the Christchurch CBD, through her roles as both artist and arts event manager/co-ordinator for The Social artist collective and curator for First Thursdays Chch.

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Gaby Montejo
New Zealand

Gaby Montejo approaches art through photo, music, interviews, and temporary installation often with performative actions.  Gaby’s work explores democracy and hierarchy in a way where the finished work is often consumed or destroyed during the process of making. Whilst exhibiting internationally, Gaby stays pivotal in the social initiatives and collaborative interventions of Christchurch and is a key member of the collective The Social. Born to Cuban parents, Gaby attended art school in Australia and America and moved to Christchurch in 2006.

Exhibitions and works include The Pie Shop Surveillance Project for Open Workshop, XCHC, 2016;  National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, 2015; Pay for the Printer, Triple Major, Shanghai, 2015; Milk Fight, 100 Peterborough Street, Christchurch, 2014; OPP, Chambers, Christchurch, 2013; Bring A Plate, Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2013; Goat in a Bikini, None Gallery, Dunedin, 2012;  The Art of Photography, San Diego Art Institute, California, 2012; New Zealand Sculpture OnShore, Auckland, 2012;  Shared Lines, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan, 2012;  Poltergeist, White Elephant Arts, Melbourne, 2011; and ...Nah It's Only Gaby, ABC, Christchurch, 2011.

 

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Antipodean Self Portrait, archival inkjet, 30x20cm, 2014

Mark Soltero
Christchurch

Mark Soltero is an artist based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He completed his Masters in Fine Arts with Merit at Dunedin School of Art, extramurally, while working full time in 2014. Mark has had exhibitions throughout NZ and been a finalist in many competitions including the National Contemporary Award, judged by Aaron Kreisler in 2015 and the 5th International Open Print Show in 2017/2018. His deliberately limited and monotone palette is a reference to the predominance of black that has been employed at critical junctures in Modernist and Postmodernist Painting. Additionally, the limitation serves as a discipline in his proess, forcing his decision-making.

The title of Mark’s ongoing project, Back Catalogue in Black and White, refers to memories and histories which, in hindsight, have come to carry greater meaning through their subsequent influence over time. A catalogue or register involves selecting, gathering and enumerating – putting down and declaring. In this capacity he draws things from formative moments in history into his work, constructing a dialogue between those moments and the present.

Soltero’s recent work within the Back Catalogue is a response to transformations that images underwent in the late 70’s, when the concept of Image became synonymous with Projection. For Mark, particular memories from this time become like visual shards and are further fragmented by digitisation, increasing the layers of time and distance. Their context is a position corresponding to strings of one’s and zero’s – saved and copied, moved and shared. Existing in light and space, their place in time is precarious.

Fragments of a Memory is a growing body of work within Soltero’s Catalogue that initially developed out of the detritus produced from layers of vinyl stencils made for a painting project based on the dilapidated interior of Irving Theatre in San Francisco.

View artwork

Sarah Anderson
Ōtautahi

Environmental themes underpin Sarah Anderson’s practice. As an artist she utilises multiple disciplines including drawing, painting and performance. She is actively engaged in conservation and sustainable living issues on a local and national level.

In 2013 she co-published a book, Vanishing Point, working with artists Bing Dawe, Keith Walter and John F Emery. The book highlights the environmental stresses threatening the Mackenzie Basin. She sees her work as part of a larger conversation responding to the urgent need to shift our collective consciousness into understanding how best to protect our environment. The interaction between humans and the land we occupy, and the multiple pressures these engender are questions she is asking herself. She creates hypotheses and uses her imagination to guide her research – this allows her to observe her environment through the lens of her practice. Sarah uses drawing as a starting point for recording, observing and exploring ideas and as a platform for further development – In whatever direction best serves the project.

Sarah Anderson has exhibited in Auckland, Christchurch, Tauranga, Te Aroha, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Martinborough and Hamilton. She holds a BFA (Sculpture) University of Canterbury anda PGDip. Art Curatorship University of Canterbury. 

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