Young Members | Women Artist Mingle

Looking to build your arts network? In the spirit of our new exhibition Modern Women: Flight of Time, we are bringing senior and junior women artists and arts professionals together to connect and celebrate each other’s work. At this Women Artist Mingle event, you get to ‘speed date’ with up to four seasoned creatives and kōrero over a shared potluck lunch.

Participating senior artists and arts professionals are: Lucinda Bennett, Zoe Black, Henrietta Harris, Ngahuia Harrison, Tasha Jenkins, Claudia Jowitt, Yona Lee, Virginia Leonard, Claire Olsen, Rosanna Raymond, Melanie Roger, Nat Tozer, and Julia Waite.

If you are a young/aspiring wahine art practitioner, get your hands on one of 24 tickets now to secure your spot for this fun and intimate networking event. All attendees are asked to bring a plate of food to share. Your ticket will include drinks, thanks to our partners Trinity Hill wines and Almighty.

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Lucinda Bennett is a writer and educator. She writes regularly for various galleries and publications, including Art News, Artforum, The Spinoff and by artist commission. She holds an MA (First Class Honours) in art history from The University of Auckland. 

Zoe Black (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Pākehā) is the deputy director of Objectspace and has been working in galleries for the past 10 years. Her curatorial practice focuses on community development and advocating for critically under-represented craft and object art forms.

Henrietta Harris is an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. She has exhibited widely, particularly in Australasia and the United States, A 2018 residency in Iceland encouraged Harris to explore the possibilities of landscape.

Ngahuia Harrison (Ngātiwai, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Kahu o Torongare) is a lens-based artist who works with analogue and digital photography, as well as moving image. Harrison completed her award-winning PhD in 2022 at Elam School of Fine Arts and the James Henare Research Centre.

Tasha Jenkins is Head of Art at Webb's, where she plays a key role cultivating client relationships, securing consignments and sales, and leading the Art team members. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Cultural and Creative Practice and enjoys contributing to Aotearoa's strong art scene.

Claudia Jowitt is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa who is of Pākeha and iTaukei, Fijian heritage. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau’s Elam School of Fine Arts, a Bachelor of Art and Design (Hons) and Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT University in Auckland and she studied at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Yona Lee is an artist who makes sculptures that combine structures of stainless-steel tubing with everyday materials of urban and domestic spaces. Her work ranges in scale from tabletop objects to installations that occupy entire buildings and interior architecture. Yona Lee is represented by Fine Arts, Sydney.

Virginia Leonard has a Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design. She won the Artist-in-Residence Prize in Finland, and Open to Art Ceramic Award, Milan, Italy. Leonard’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Australasia and in the northern hemisphere, including exhibitions in Switzerland, Italy, Miami and Denmark.

Claire Olsen is a Collections Registrar at Auckland Art Gallery Toi Tāmaki, and a collection care specialist. On completion of a Master of Visual Arts Olsen’s work has been focused on museum, library and gallery environments.

Rosanna Raymond has a multifaceted practice that encompasses performance, institutional critique, fashion, writing, curation and pedagogy. Raymond is a long-standing member of artist collective, the Pacific Sisters, and the founding member of the SaVĀge K’lub. She received the Creative New Zealand 2018 Senior Pacific Artist Award and is a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Melanie Roger has around thirty years’ experience in both the public and private art sectors. She is currently director of Melanie Roger Gallery on Karangahape Rd where she works with both established and emerging artists from Aotearoa and beyond.

Nat Tozer is a Tāmaki Makaurau-based multi-media artist exploring narratives of the underground. She is a director at LOT23, which specialises in producing high-production moving image for visual artists, and is the founder and curator of mothermother, an artist-run network and platform that provides intergenerational support for local artists. 

Julia Waite is curator of New Zealand art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi Tāmaki. Her research interests are focused on the development of modern art in New Zealand, global modernisms and documentary photography. She has a Master of Arts in art history (First Class Honours), a Master of Museum and Heritage Studies and is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau.

Image credits: Gil Hanly, Serving the Meal, 1984. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1986.