Kathryn Carter
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Kathryn is an expressionist landscape painter born and practising in Aotearoa New Zealand
MessageKathryn is an expressionist landscape painter, writer and registered architect born in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
She is currently based between Te Tai Tokerau Northland and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
She attended the University of Auckland Architecture School during the mid-eighties and graduated in 1987.
During her architectural studies she was tutored by Pat Hanly and Claudia Pond Eyley from Elam School of Fine Arts and Kerry Morrow for drawing classes studying form, volume light and perspective. Their influence on her art practice has been life long.
She gained registration as an architect in 1992 and since that time has continued to work, draw and paint whilst bringing up her family.
She is a founding member of Railway St Studios and Gallery in Newmarket, Auckland.
As a writer and painter in both Northland and Auckland.
Kathryns work is held in private collections in NZ and Australia, Japan, US, UK, France, UAE and corporate collections NZ and Australia.
Statement
The Northland landscape intrigues her with its constantly changing light and atmosphere affected by the sea, sun, wind and rain.
She attempts to capture something of the atmosphere in her work – its junction with the sea and its connection to the land through the seasons.
She like to paint in acrylics on paper, canvas and panel, and oils on canvas and panel.
She is inspired by the experience of the human condition in relation to the landscape by New Zealand poets and writers Brasch, Tuwhare, Curnow, Frame, Baxter and Fairburn. Painters such as McCahon, Hotere, Hanly and Albrecht inspire her for their use of colour and passion for New Zealand’s unique landscapes.
Art Education
- Current Railway St Studios
- 2011-12 Artstation Professional Practice painters studio Mathew Browne
- 2008 Elam Masterclass Max Gimblett i
- 2006 Drawing studies Anton Chapman
- 2000
- 2001 Drawing and Painting Mathew Browne Studio
- 1995
- 1996 Drawing studies Belinda Wilson
- 1993 Drawing studies Art Station Mathew Browne and Wendy Leach
- 1992 Drawing studies Philippa Blair and Richard Lewer
- 1983-6 Drawing studies Auckland University School of Architecture Patrick Hanly and Claudia Pond Eyely
- 1982 Stage 1 Art History ,Renaissance and Contemporary , Stage 1 English Literature
- Chaucer and 20th cent poetr , Italian language and culture, Anthropology physical and social history
- 1981 Drawing studies Nelson Thompson
- 1981 Art History 98 , English 98 History 89 A Bursary
Professional Education
- Current Registered Architect
- 2017-11 Auckland Architecture Association
- 2004-7 Hobson Community Board Planning Commissioner and Tree Spokesperson
- 1992 Registered Architect ANZIA
- 1992- 86 Architectural Studies
- 1986-1992 University of Auckland School of Architecture
- 1981-75 St Cuthberts College
- 1982 Highest Bursary marks St Cuthberts with 96 / in Art History and English – 89 / History
Exhibitions : Solo Shows
- 2021 Oct – Nov Megan Dickinson Gallery ‘Marking Time ‘
- 2020 Oct – Nov Railway St Studios Rangitapu
- 2017
- Oct
- Railway St Studios - Archipelago
- 2015
- Railway St Studios –
- Between Earth and Sky
- 2013
- Railway St Studios –
- Towards Another Summer
Exhibitions : Group Shows
- 2023 Dec Railway Street Studio and Gallery ‘Fluidity’
- 2022 Dec – Feb Megan Dickinson Gallery ‘ Ringleaders’
- 2020 RSS Allora
- 2019 RSS Group Show
- 2019 Ikon Sydney International Avis Campaign M2 Gallery Surrey Hills
- 2018 RSS Summer Show
- 2018 RSS Wishlist
- 2014 – 17 Molly Morpeth Canaday ( MMCAA ) Art Award Exhibition
- National Library Whakatane
- 2016 Waikato National Art Award Finalists Exhibition Hamilton Gardens
- 2015 RSS Manifest
- 2014 Uxbridge Arts Centre – Landscape Seen and Unseen
- 2014 Marlborough Arts Centre – Painting Our Place
- 2013 RSS Inscape
- 2012 RSS – Still with Ruth Phipps
- 2011 Fanshawe St Gallery Landscape A Collaborative Show
- 2011 Artstation – A Painters Studio
Charitable Exhibitions
- 2019 Ikon Sydney billboard campaign ‘ Journeys into the landscape ‘ landscape paintings on digital airport billboards
- 2017 , 18 Hibiscus Coast Hospice
- 2018 Milford Cruising Club fundraiser
- 2017 Lifepod Art Exhibition Sir Ray and Lady Avery Medicine Mondiale
- 2014 – 20 Kings College, Baradene and Orakei Schools Art Exhibitions
Awards
- 2017 Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Award
- Finalist – Late Autumn in the Far North ( oil on canvas )
- Semi Finalist This Summer Past ( oil on canvas )
- 2016 Waikato National Art Awards- Rakino Resting Place of the Winds (oil on canvas )
- 2015 Peters Doig Marlborough Art Awards
- Marlborough Arts Society Award Prize – 1st place Island Escarpment ( oil on canvas )
- 2015 Molly Morpeth Canaday National Award finalist
- 2014 MMCAA finalist
- 2013 Waiheke Walker and Hall National Art Awards finalist Towards Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi ( ink on paper )
- 2009 Citizenship Award ACC Community Service
- 1985 Auckland University Architectures School
- Fletcher Teamwork Awarded
- 1984 AUAS Monier Prize for Design
- 1982 AUAS Vernon Browne Memorial Prize
Collections
- Private and corporate collections NZ and Australia
- Private collections Japan, US, UK, France, UAE
Publications
- 2022 Northland Design Build and Garden ‘ The Joy of Art ‘ Summer Afternoon Matapouri – Kathryn Carter by Megan Dickinson
- 2017 Art NZ 161 / Autumn Molly MorpethV Art Award finalists
- 2015 The Hobson Carolyn Enting “Light Work “
- 2013 - 19 - Exhibition Catalogues
- 2013 Women in Architecture Snapshot 500
- Architecture and Women in NZ
- Edited Julia Gatley
- Publisher Balasoglou Books
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