Cirriculum Vitae
Sarah Walker-Holt
1967 Born Stockport, England
Education
2008 – 2010
-Studied Auckland University Bachelor of Visual Arts at Manukau School Visual Arts (MSVA), Manukau, New Zealand
2007
-Studied Diploma in Visual Arts, Manukau School Visual Arts, Manukau,
New Zealand
Projects
2016-2017
2014-2015
-‘Handshake 2’, Handshake: Prentice and Prodigy, New Zealand,
2013
-‘Collective Production’ Left-field, Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand
Solo Exhibitions
2015
-‘Kitset’ Te Uru, Titirangi, New Zealand
2013
-‘You’d-Prolong’ Occupation Artists, Wellington, New Zealand
- ‘The Object for Which Something Exists’ Masterworks THINKspace, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
2012
-‘You’d’ Masterworks Jewellery Box, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Situational Personalities’ (in association with JEMposium) Thistle Hall Gallery, Te Aro, Wellington
2011
-‘Implement Detachment’, Curiosity Cabinet, Lopdell House, Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected/Invited Group Exhibitions
2018
-‘Paper Bag’, Left-field:An Artist Inititive, Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand
-Te Kohao O Te Ngira - The Eye Of The Needle, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke, Auckland, New Zealand
2017
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Out of Order’, ArtHAUS, Orakei, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Alumni Update’, Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Handshake 3’, Dowse Art Musuem, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘It Will All Come Out In the Wash: Dialogue Collective meets Handshake’, Munich Jewellery Week, Munich, Germany
-‘Handshake 3: Concept and Conception’, Frame Galleries, Schmuck 2017 Internationalen Handwerksmesse Munich, Germany
-‘SculpT’, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke, Auckland, New Zealand
2016
-‘Labour of Love 2’ On-line exhibition,
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Handshake3’, Platina, Stockholm, Sweden
-‘Handshake3’, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Exhibition One’, Studio 541, Mt Eden, New Zealand
-‘Specials’,Einsàulensuaal, Munich Residenz Palace, Munich, Germany
2015
-‘Handshake2’, Pah Homestead, Hillsborough, Auckland New Zealand
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Handshake2 and Mentors’, Avid Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘R.A.W. Reactions after Wunderruma’ Ironbank Building, Auckland New Zealand
-‘Wundermeke’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Wunderruma’ Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Handshake2’, Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
-‘Close to the Heart’, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Is, New Zealand
2014
-‘X 10 Years’ The National, Christchurch, New Zealand
-‘Handshake 2’, Toi Poneke Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Out of the Shed’, Uxbridge Arts Centre, Howick, Auckland, New Zealand
- ‘Salon Rouge’, A performance piece by Wellington jeweller and artist Vivien Atkinson, a mobile gallery in a coat, Wellington New Zealand
-‘Wunderruma’ The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
-‘Brace Yourself” Masterworks, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Wunderruma’ Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
2013
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Objective Art awards, Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, New Zealand
-‘Neckware 10’ Masterworks, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Autumn Exhibition’ Nelson Suter Art Society, Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand
2012
-‘Respect, Respond, Prolong’ The National, Christchurch, New Zealand
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Objective Art awards, Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, New Zealand
-‘Future Building or the Art of Living Creatively’ Papakura Art Gallery, Papakura, New Zealand
-‘Presentation Winners Marzee Graduate Prize 2011 ‘Work in Progress’ Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
-‘Neckware 9’ Masterworks, Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand
2011
-‘Fingers Annual Group Show’ Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Objective’ Art Awards, Mangere Arts Centre, Mangere, New Zealand
-‘New Zealand Jewellery Show’, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand
-‘Fingers Graduating Students Award’ Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Neckware 8’, Masterworks, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘BOM, Brooch of the Month Club’, Masterworks, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Best in Show’, Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
2010
-‘MSVA Selected Student Showcase’, The New Zealand Jewellery Show, Skycity, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
-‘Changing Threads’, Refinery Artspace, Nelson, New Zealand
Collaborations
2016
-‘Handshake3’, Objectspace, Auckland New Zealand with jeweller Helen Britton
2013
-‘Collective Production’ Left-field, Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand with Printmaker Toni Mosley
2012
-‘Respect Respond Prolong’, The National, Christchurch, New Zealand with Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova and Gillian Deery
Group Exhibitions
2010
-‘MSVA BVA Final Year Student Show’, Manukau, New Zealand
-‘Weeds’ Manthel van Resign Studio, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Pod project’ Satellite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009
-‘Tonic’ Collective, Smalldog Gallery, The Depot, Devonport, New Zealand
-‘MSVA Student Showcase’, The New Zealand Jewellery Show,
Skycity, Auckland, New Zealand
-‘Post Stitch’, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Masterclass Workshops Attended
2016
- Masterclass ‘Helen Britton: Structures, Folds and Rivets’, Akademie für Gestaltung und Design [Academy of Art and Design], Munich
- Masterclass ‘Hilde De Decker’, Handshake 3, Wellington, New Zealand
-‘Sofia Bjorkman Jewelcamp’, Handshake 3, Wellington, New Zealand
2015
-‘Ben Lignel Masterclass’, Handshake 2, Wellington, New Zealand
2012
-‘Masterclass’ Jemposium, Wellington, New Zealand
Awards and Scholarships
2011 -‘Winner’ New Zealand Jewellery Show, Contemporary Jewellery finalist, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington.
2010 -Senior Prize in Visual Arts, UA.
-Annual Prize in Visual Arts, UA.
-Fingers Graduate Award, MSVA
-Studio Art Supplies, High Academic Achiever Award, MSVA
-Bonded Merit Scholarship Recipient, Studylink.
2009 -Bonded Merit Scholarship Recipient, Studylink.
2008 -Bonded Merit Scholarship Recipient, Studylink.
2007 -Graham Dawson prize for excellence, MIT.
Publications
Contemporary Jewellery in Context: A Handshake Blueprint, Ed: Peter Deckers, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Germany 2017
http://www.noovoeditions.com/blog/handshake-3-expands-the-artistic-collaboration-once-more/
Objectspace ‘Reader’ Handshake3, Objectspace 2016
Kitset, Deborah Crowe, Te Uru Catalogue, 2015
Art News New Zealand, Summer, 2014
Fingers: Jewellery for Aoteroa New Zealand, Damien Skinner & Finn McCahon-Jones, 2014
Overview, Situation Critical, Issue 18, 2014
Handshake 2: Prentice and Prodigy
Wunderrύma, Gallrie Handwerk & The Dowse Art Museum, 2014
500 Art Necklaces, Larks Books, July 2013
Portrait of an Artist; Panoramas by Sophie Merkens, 2012
Threaded Ed X, Best in Show, 2011.
www.sarahwalker-holt.blogspot.com
http://broachofthemonth.com/2012/04/22/sarah-walker-holt/
http://www.objectspace.org.nz/Downloads/Assets/2173/BIS+2011+Catalogue_final+ISBN.pdf
Public activities
-Presentation: Blikfang Talks, Blikfang Art and Antiques, Northcote, Auckland, New Zealand, 2017
-Presentation: Jewel Talk, Estonia Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia with Tanel Veenre, 2017
-Presentation: Top Art Evening Talks, Te Tuhi Gallery, Pakaranga, New Zealand, 2016
-Presentation: Smashing Designs, Kings Collage, 2016
-Judge for Auckland Home Educators Art Fair at Te Tuhi Art Gallery 2015
-‘Questions for Mary’ Interview: Mary Curtis 2014,
-Introduction and Thank you -‘Autumn Exhibition’ Nelson Suter Art Society, Suter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand 2013
-Presentation: My practice after Graduation – MSVA – lecturer, Rebecca Hobbs, 2011