Marie Shannon

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

Born in Nelson in 1960. Shannon graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland in 1983. She received a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council grant in 1989, and a grant from Creative New Zealand in 1997. She represented New Zealand at the Asia Pacific Triennale, Queensland Art Gallery in 1996 and also exhibited that year at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. In 1998 Shannon showed at the Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. In 2000 she was included in the exhibition ACProjects, New York, Five Shows, Five Curators. Many of Shannon's photographic series are focused on her immediate domestic environment — for instance her son's building block constructions 50s lino; a stiched fabric collage of a Gordon Walters koru painting; photographs of her own childhood drawings. Shannon's recent exhibition at Sue Crockford Gallery was a series of black and white photographs of the watercolours she painted of Donald Judd's furniture at Marfa, where she stayed in 2001. She lives and works in Auckland.



CHRONOLOGY

1960 : Born in Nelson, New Zealand
          : Educated in Auckland
1982 : Begins making panoramic (joined) photographs at School of Fine
           Arts, Auckland University
1983 : Graduates Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography), University of
           Auckland
1988 : Makes artist`s books of black and white photographs
1989 : Makes models using pipecleaners and cardboard and photographs
           them
         : Receives QEII Arts Council Professional Development Grant
1993 : Makes a short animated film
1994 : Makes first text-based photographs
1995 : Artist in Residence for one month at School of Fine Arts,
           University of Canterbury
1996 : Son Leo is born.
          : Has work plagiarised by Saatchi & Saatchi.  Takes no legal
            action.
1997 : Receives Creative New Zealand Grant to  make new work for a year.
            Begins working on interpretations of the art works of others.
2001: Visits the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas for 10 weeks. Makes
           watercolour sketches of art works and furniture.
2002 : Experiments with weaving felt. Makes felt bags, shoes, rugs.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1983 : Real Pictures Gallery, Auckland
1985 : Real Pictures Gallery, Auckland
1986 : New Vision Gallery, Auckland
          : Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1987 : Room 11 Gallery, Auckland
1988 : Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington
1989 : George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
1990 : Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland:
         : Catherine Scollay Gallery, Wellington
1991 : Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1992 : Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1993 : Centre For Contemporary Art, Hamilton
         : Fisher Gallery, Auckland
         : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
         : Museum of New Zealand, Wellington
1994 : CBD Gallery, Sydney
         : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
1995 : In Bed With Marie Shannon, Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth
         : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
1997 : Survey, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland.
1998 : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
         : Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1999 : Leo, Gordon and I, Room 3, Auckland.
2000 : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2002 : Watercolour, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
         : Sketchbook, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2004 : Felt Works, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2005 : Felt Works, PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
         : Love Notes, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
2009 : Large Still Life 10 February - 7 March, Sue Crockford Gallery,             
          Auckland
         : Marie Shannon: Love Notes (2005)
           Courtenay Place Light Boxes,19 June – 19 December 2009
           Curated by Heather Galbraith, Senior Curator / Manager Curatorial        
              Programmes, City Gallery Wellington, Te Whare Toi
              Proudly supported by the Wellington City Council Public Art Fund.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1979 : Works 1979, Society of Arts, Auckland
1980 : Art From The Art School, University of Auckland
         : B.Y.O  Show, Real Pictures, Auckland
         : Little Works, Outreach Gallery, Auckland
1982 : N.Z. Landscape Show, Real Pictures, Auckland
         : Pohutukawa Show, Real Pictures, Auckland
1983 : House Show, Real Pictures, Auckland
         : Centenary Show, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland
1984 : House Show, Real Pictures, Auckland
         : Exposures Gallery, Wellington
1985 : Christmas Show, Brooke-Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
1986 : New vision Gallery, Auckland
         : The Self, Suter Gallery, Nelson (travelling)
         : Content/Context Part II, National Art GalleryShed 11, Wellington
         : Five Photographers, Artis Gallery, Auckland
1987 : Room 11 Gallery, Auckland
         : A.S.A Gallery, Auckland. Finalist, T.M.F. Art Award
1988 : Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington
         : Two Photographers (with Fiona Pardington), Waikato Art Museum,  
           Hamilton
         : Hearts and Minds, Six Stories By Katherine Mansfield,
           National  Library Gallery, Wellington
         : Seven Photographers Update, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
         : Mezzanine Gallery, New Zealand High Commission, London
1989 : Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington
         : Moet et Chandon N.Z. Art Fellowship Touring Exhibition
         : Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington
         : Art Too, National Library, Wellington
         : Imposing narratives, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington (touring)
1990 : Summer Show, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
         : Eye to Eye, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
         : Treasures and Landmarks, National Gallery, Wellington
         : Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui: United Banking Group/Sarjeant Gallery
         : Photographic Award (withdrew work)
         : Photographers, Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
         : Space Fictions, Catherine Scollay Gallery, Wellington
         : Inheritance - Art, Heritage and the Past,  Wellington City Gallery,
           Wellington
         : Panoramas of Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery
1991 : Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1992 : Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art, MCA, Sydney,
          Australia
         : Home Made Home, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
         : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
         : Hit Parade, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
         : Scenes From Real And Imaginary Lives, Wellington City Gallery,
          Wellington      
1993 : Mediatrix, Artspace, Auckland
         : From Liquid Darkness, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
         : Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
1995 :  Stazione Topolo - Postaja Topolove, Topolo, Italy
         : Hangover, Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton (travelling)
         : Residence no. 9, Amsterdam, Holland
1996 : Beyond the Sublime, Part 1, Australian Centre for Photography,
          Sydney, Australia    :
         : Visa Gold Art Award, New Gallery, Auckland
         : The Asia PacificTriennial, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland,
           Australia           
         : Identi-kit, Lopdell House Gallery,Auckland
1998 : Close Quarters, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
           Melbourne. (Touring)
         : Leap of Faith, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth.
1999 :  Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
         : Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
         : Wonderlands, Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth.
2000 : Five Shows, Five Curators, ACProjects, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2002 : Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
2003 : Home Sweet Home, Works form the Peter Fay collection, ANG,
           Canberra, Australia (Touring)
2004 : The Way Things Are, Grant/Pirrie Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2005 : www, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
         : Small Wonders, a return to innocence, in the home of Matthew Dean  
           Ashman, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. Curated by Joshua D. Lux
         : Solaris, Matakana Pictures, Matakana
         : Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, (to coincide with the
           launch of the book of the same name) Starkwhite, Auckland
2007 : Group Exhibition, with Mladen Bizumic, Eddie Clemens, Caroline
           Rothwell, Marie Shannon
2008 : Drawings, 8 - 26 April, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stacy, Gwen        The "Panoramic" Photographs of Marie Shannon, Art New
Zealand 35, Winter 1985,pp 62 - 65 (Illustrated)

Bosworth, Rhondda  :Marie Shannon, Domestic Scenery, Six Women
Photographers, Photoforum 56, 1987,pp 49 - 57 (Illustrated)

Barr, Jim and Mary   Spacefictions, published to coincide with the
exhibition of the same name,Catherine Scollay Gallery, Wellington, 1991

Leonard, Robert & McKenzie, Stuart   Something from Nothingness Comes,
Art New
Zealand 61, Summer 1991-2, pp 54-55 (Illustrated)

Kirker, Anne   New Zealand Women Artists : A Survey of 150 Years, 1993

Strongman, Lara   Making the Best of Things, Mediatrix Catalogue,1993

Burke, Gregory (Ed)   Imposing Narratives Catalogue, 1989

Dale, Richard   Art & Text (Review), September 1993

Smith, Allan   Romantic and Symbolist Tendencies in Recent New Zealand
Photography, Art New Zealand 64,Spring 1992, pp 80 - 84 (Illustrated)

Harris, Miriam   Art New Zealand 64, Spring 1997

Strongman, Lara (Ed) Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Mountain
View Publishing 2005


PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

       Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
       MONZ Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
       Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
       Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Wellington
       B.N.Z Collection, Wellington
       National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
       Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
       Manawatu Public Art Gallery, Palmerston North
       Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
       Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland