Art and Textile
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Lee Harper
Lee Harper BCA (Hons.), Dip. Art, Craft & Design
B: Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (First Class Honors), SVPA, University of Tasmania, 2011
Bachelor of Contemporary Arts -Visual Arts, SVPA, University of Tasmania, 2011
Diploma Art, Craft & Design, 2009
New Zealand Certificate IV of Creativity, 2017
Certificate IV Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, < 2009
Certificate IV Arts Administration, < 2009
Certificate IV Business Administration (Community Engagement), < 2009
Finalist - Changing Threads Awards 2022, Arts Council Nelson The Refinery, New Zealand March 2022
Finalist - ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award 2021, Ashburton Gallery, New Zealand. March 2021
Finalist - ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award 2020, Ashburton Gallery, New Zealand. March 2020
Finalist - ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award 2019, Ashburton Gallery, New Zealand. March 2019
Finalist - Changing Threads Awards 2019, Arts Council Nelson The Refinery, New Zealand March 2019
Finalist - Material Girl, Regional Arts Tasmania, Moonah Arts Centre, June 2012
Winner - #QUILT - Best in Show, Juried, Christchurch Quilters, Great Hall -Arts Centre, Christchurch, August 28-1st September 2019
Solo Exhibitions
A Seamstress of Sorts, August 2018, Art Box, Christchurch Central, New Zealand
Slumber, Ten Days Window Experiment, Hobart, Tasmania, 12th -18th January 2015,
Spinous Process - Mils Gallery, Sydney, August 2014
Spinous Process - Blindside Gallery Melbourne June 2014
...and the sorrow - Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, December 2013
...and the sorrow - 146 Gallery, Arts Tasmania. Hobart, October 2013
Somoar - M16 ARI Canberra, March-April 2013
Spinous Process - Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania, November 2012,
Somoar - Objects Of Memory, Side Space Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, 2012
Under - Grad, Power House Gallery, Launceston Tasmania, 2011
The Redundant Art Exhibition - UTAS SVPA Gallery A, Launceston Tasmania, 2007
Group Exhibitions
Percipience, The Associates, Chambers Art Gallery, Christchurch NZ, May 2024
Lyrical, The Associates, Chambers Art Gallery, Christchurch NZ, May 2023
Place, The Associates, Art on the Quay, Kaiapoi, NZ June 6th-13th July 2022.
Related to and arising from... , The Associates, The Columbo, Christchurch NZ, 10 Nov. - 5 Dec. 2021
A stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, The Associates, Ashburton Gallery, 18 April-18 June 2021
Associated-Center of Contemporary Art CoCA, Christchurch, December thru January 2019
CAT Members Exhibition, CAT Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2018
Ka Awatea - the time of awakening, Lyttelton, Christchurch, September thru December 2018
CAT Members Exhibition, CAT Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2017
PSUSI Demolition Exhibition, Christchurch, NZ, November 13th & 18th, 2017
CAT Members Exhibition, CAT Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2016
Skulltopia- Christchurch New Zealand 12-14 August 2016
Sawtooth Members Exhibition, Launceston Tasmania, 2015
... StrANGE BEDfeLLOWs..... Project Lyttelton, In The Body Festival-Christchurch
11th October 2015, St Saviors at Holy Trinity Church, Lyttelton New Zealand
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2015
Sawtooth Members Exhibition 2014
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2014
Sawtooth Members Exhibition 2013
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2013
Come to Life, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery & CAST Gallery, Launceston July 2012- Feb. 2013
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2012
Establishment, CAST Gallery Hobart, July 2012
Material Girl, Regional Arts Tasmania, Moonah Arts Centre, June 2012
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2011
Out of Hand, Stitching and Beyond, Rosny Barn, Hobart, December 2011
LOCO, UTAS SVPA Graduate Show Launceston, December 2011
Stitched Science, London Science Museum, Stitchit London, England, June 2011
Stitching & Beyond, Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart Tasmania, February 2011
Best of the SVPA Summer School, UTAS SVPA, Summer School, Launceston, January 2011
The F Word, Stitching and Beyond, Regional Arts Tasmania, Touring 2010 & 2011
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, December, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2010
Make Me a Sandwich, UTAS SVPA Grad. Show, UTAS Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, December 2010
From the Heart to the Jewel, Junction 2010, Australian Regional Arts Conference, Tasmania, 2010
Who am I?, London Science Museum, Stitchit London, England, June 2010
In-Style, Contemporary Textile Artists UTAS, SVPA, Launceston, February 2010
CAST Members Exhibition, CAST Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2009
TAFE Tasmania, Student Show, SVPA Gallery, Launceston Tasmania, 2007 & 2008
Pivotal Moments, Drysdale House, Launceston, Tasmania, 2007
Publications
Changing Threads - Contemporary Fibre Art Awards 2022, Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson New Zealand 2022
The Associates- A stone to strike and a rock to stumble over, Ashburton Gallery, New Zealand 2021
ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award 2021, Ashburton Gallery, New Zealand. March 2021
ZONTA Ashburton Female Art Award 2020, Ashburton Gallery, New Zealand. March 2020
Changing Threads - Contemporary Fibre Art Awards 2019, Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson New Zealand 2019
Associated, Centre of Contemporary Art, 2018.Christchurch New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-46645-9
International Arrivals, Thorne, N. 2018. Christchurch New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-473-45657-3
Gallery Ten Window Experiment, Ten Days on The Island, 2015, Hobart, Tasmania.
Spinous Process, Bourke E & Deeth J, Harper L, 2013, Launceston Tasmania
Collections
Private 2008-2019
Public-Launceston General Hospital, DHHS Launceston Tasmania
Donations of Works
2013 Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS
2013 Launceston City Council Cancer Council
2012 Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS
2012 In-Flight ARI, Hobart, TAS.
2011 Arts Alive/Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, TAS.
2010 Enchanted Makeovers- Recipes of Hope, Kansas City, USA.
2008 Prudence Mapplethorpe Pink Project Auction, AUS.
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