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Curriculum Vitae

​b. 1968

Otaki, New Zealand

Solo Exhibitions

Op Shop Archaeology
Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

 

Shadowlands

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

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Of Slender Means

Linden New Art, Project Space, Melbourne

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Steelo

Members Vitrine, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

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Immaterial,

Gallery 1, Unitec, Auckland

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Morphogenesis

Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne

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Adhere

Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

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Embedded

Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Melbourne

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If I Knew Now What I Knew Then

Five Walls, Melbourne

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Lucid Blooms

Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne

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Pre-emptive Nostalgia

Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Melbourne

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Ultrasight

Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North

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Pulse

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

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Sleep

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

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Tides of the Heart

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

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Surfacing

Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

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Selected Group Exhibitions

Working Memories: Contemporary Textiles
Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne

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Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture

Deakin University, Melboure

 

Leftover Love: New Directions
Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville

 

Sculpture Now

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

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Bond Clean

Maggie Lane, Melbourne

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Stories in the Landscape 2022

The Sculpture Park, Waitakaruru

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Design Fringe

Linden New Art Gallery, Melbourne

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The Off Season

Assembly Point Vitrines, Melbourne

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Sculpture Now

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

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Leftover Love

Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

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Immerse 2021

City of Knox

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Albert Park Art Walk

Albert Park, Melbourne

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Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture

Deakin University, Melbourne

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From Nature 18

Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

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Women for Women: Making Space

The Artist Guild, Melbourne

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From Nature 17

Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

 

Sweet FA

Trocadero Arts Building, Melbourne

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From Nature 16

Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

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The Postcard Show

Linden New Art, Melbourne

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Art After Dark

Smart Artz Gallery, Melbourne

Ambush Gallery, Sydney

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Light Sensitive

Century Gallery, ACAVA, London

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Embody

Robert McDougall Annex, Christchurch

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Water, Water Everywhere

Hawke’s Bay Museum, Napier

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Pins and Needles

Suter Art Gallery, Nelson

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Inside the Solid

Robert McDougall Annex, Christchurch

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Praxis

South Island Art Projects, Christchurch


Occupation

Arts Center, Christchurch

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By Invitation Only

South Island Art Projects

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Little Jewels

AMBA, Wellington

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Group Show

Vasasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

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T’arting Up Town

Christchurch Council,  Christchurch

 

Nature TaToo

High Street, Gallery, Christchurch

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Education

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1994

1991

Master of Fine Art

Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, London

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Diploma of Secondary Teaching

Christchurch College of Education, Christchurch

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch

Awards and Residencies

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2021

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2019 -

2022

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Winter Residency

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Melbourne

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The Searle x Waldron Architecture - Domestic Space Award, Linden New Art Gallery, Melbourne

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Artist in Residence

Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne

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Love My Place Funding

Albert Park Art Walk Grant, City of Port Phillip

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Artist in Residence

Linden New Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne

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Travel Grant

Creative New Zealand

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Crown Jewels Sculpture Residency

Queen Mary Hospital, Hamner Springs

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Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship

University of Canterbury

 

Rosemary Johnson Muller Scholarship

University of Canterbury

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Publications, Reviews, Essays

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Ashley Ragg, Leftover Love - New Directions,

Townsville Galleries, catalogue, p 11

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Gina Ferguson, Immaterial,

Unitec, catalogue

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Jennifer Hay, Life Flow,

The Christchurch Press, November 14, p37

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Robyn Usher, Take Pick from Plenty,

The Christchurch Press, May 26, p19

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Priscilla Pitts, Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture,

David Bateman Ltd, Auckland, p39

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Jonathan Bywater, Pins and Needles,

The Suter Gallery, Nelson, pgs 5-6

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Justin Paton, Carolyn Menzies, Kristy Gorman, Andrea Gerbic,

Art New Zealand, vol 4 

I respectfully acknowledges the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditonal Owners of the land on which I work. I pay my respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. I acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.

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© 2025 Carolyn Menzies

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