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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

Of Slender Means

Linden New Art, Project Space, Melbourne

Steelo

Members Vitrine, Craft Victoria, Melbourne

Immaterial,

Gallery 1, Unitec, Auckland

Morphogenesis

Tinning Street Presents, Melbourne

Adhere

Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

Embedded

Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Melbourne

If I Knew Now What I Knew Then

Five Walls, Melbourne

Lucid Blooms

Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne

Pre-emptive Nostalgia

Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, Melbourne

Ultrasight

Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North

Pulse

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

Sleep

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

Tides of the Heart

Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch

Surfacing

Vavasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

2025

2023

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

1999

1997

1995

Selected Group Exhibitions

Marquette Sculpture Award 2025
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery

 

Working Memories: Contemporary Textiles
Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne

 

Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture

Deakin University, Melboure

 

Leftover Love: New Directions
Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville

 

Sculpture Now

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

Bond Clean

Maggie Lane, Melbourne

Stories in the Landscape 2022

The Sculpture Park, Waitakaruru

Design Fringe

Linden New Art Gallery, Melbourne

The Off Season

Assembly Point Vitrines, Melbourne

Sculpture Now

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

Leftover Love

Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne

Immerse 2021

City of Knox

Albert Park Art Walk

Albert Park, Melbourne

Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture

Deakin University, Melbourne

From Nature 18

Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

Women for Women: Making Space

The Artist Guild, Melbourne

From Nature 17

Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

 

Sweet FA

Trocadero Arts Building, Melbourne

From Nature 16

Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

The Postcard Show

Linden New Art, Melbourne

Art After Dark

Smart Artz Gallery, Melbourne

Ambush Gallery, Sydney

Light Sensitive

Century Gallery, ACAVA, London

Embody

Robert McDougall Annex, Christchurch

Water, Water Everywhere

Hawke’s Bay Museum, Napier

Pins and Needles

Suter Art Gallery, Nelson

Inside the Solid

Robert McDougall Annex, Christchurch

Praxis

South Island Art Projects, Christchurch


Occupation

Arts Center, Christchurch

By Invitation Only

South Island Art Projects

Little Jewels

AMBA, Wellington

Group Show

Vasasour Godkin Gallery, Auckland

T’arting Up Town

Christchurch Council,  Christchurch

 

Nature TaToo

High Street, Gallery, Christchurch

2025

 

 

 

2024

2023

2022

2021

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2002

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

Education

2001

1994

 

1991

Master of Fine Art

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

Diploma of Secondary Teaching

Christchurch College of Education,

Christchurch

Bachelor of Fine Arts

University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, Christchurch

Awards and Residencies

2026

 

2023

2021

2020

2019 -

2022

1996

1993

1991

Bundanon Residency
Bundanon Trust, Illaroo, NSW

 

Winter Residency

Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne

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

Melbourne

Artist in Residence

Australian Tapestry Workshop,

South Melbourne

Love My Place Funding

Albert Park Art Walk Grant, City of Port Phillip

Artist in Residence

Linden New Art Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne

Travel Grant

Creative New Zealand

Crown Jewels Sculpture Residency

Queen Mary Hospital, Hamner Springs

Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship

University of Canterbury

 

Rosemary Johnson Muller Scholarship

University of Canterbury

Publications, Reviews, Essays

2023

2019

2001

1999

1998

1996

1995

Ashley Ragg, Leftover Love - New Directions,

Townsville Galleries, catalogue, p 11

Gina Ferguson, Immaterial,

Unitec, catalogue

Jennifer Hay, Life Flow,

The Christchurch Press, November 14, p37

Robyn Usher, Take Pick from Plenty,

The Christchurch Press, May 26, p19

Priscilla Pitts, Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture,

David Bateman Ltd, Auckland, p39

Jonathan Bywater, Pins and Needles,

The Suter Gallery, Nelson, pgs 5-6

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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