Curriculum Vitae - Kylie Sinkovich
My practice is informed by sensitivity to the materials I use and to create objects that connect with the body on both physical and intellectual levels. My work focuses on the socio-political landscape, sustainability of life systems and the psycho-spiritual realms. I am drawn to the practice of installation and how an environment can activate both an object and audience’s emotional response to a work.
As I operate between the intersection of craft and design, both paths inform each other's progression.
Exhibitions
2023 |
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20 - 29 Oct |
Bay Art Awards, Takaka, Golden Bay |
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7 - 29 Oct |
Fingers Annual Group Show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
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13 - 23 Apr |
Containment/Uncontained - Bollard Exhibition, Nelson Jewellery Week |
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Jan - Feb |
Present Matter - An Activation - Art Vault, Takaka |
2022 |
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8 - 30 Oct |
Fingers Annual Group show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
2021 |
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27 Mar - 17 Apr |
CHAINReaction - The Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson |
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10 - 31 Oct |
Fingers Annual Group show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
2020 |
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| 10 - 31 Oct | Fingers Annual Group show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
| 1 - 23 Oct | Makers of Traditional Change - Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney |
| 6 Sep - 28 Feb 2021 | Creating with Kauri, Maker series part 2 - The Kauri Museum, Matakohe, Northland |
2019 |
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| 12 Dec - 9 Jan 2020 | A Jeweller's Game - Studio One Toi Tu, Auckland |
| 21 - 24 Feb | Splore Festival installation, Tapapakanga Regional Park |
2018 |
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| 6 - 29 Oct | Fingers Annual Group Show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
| 14 Sep - 14 Oct | JEWELdisplayJEWEL - Pataka Art Museum |
| 7 Sep - 21 Oct | 'Polarity' Handshake 4 - Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland |
| 10 Apr | 'Passage' No Filter – Nik Hanton's hallway, Hinau Road, Wellington |
| 9 - 29 Mar | 'Process' Handshake 4 – Toi Poneke Gallery, Wellington |
2017 |
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| 31 Oct – 10 Dec | 'Leanings' Handshake 4 – The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland |
| 10 – 24 Oct | 'Alumini/Update' – Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
2016 |
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| 17 – 30 Aug | 'Fingers Graduate Award' Show – Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
| 22 Apr – 21 May | 'The Way of Matter' Emerging Practice Show – Objectspace Gallery, Auckland |
2015 |
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| 24 – 28 Nov | ' Made' Hungry Creek Graduation Show – Allpress Gallery, Auckland |
| 28 Sep – 24 Oct | Masterworks Gallery Jewellery Box Award Show , Auckland |
| 18 – 20 Jul | 'Attentive Encounters' – Wunderweek solo Pop Up Show . Work I Shop, La Gonda Arcade, K-Rd, Auckland |
| 17 Feb – 1 Mar | 'Repeat Repeat Repeat' Group Show – Matchbox Studio, 166 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington |
2014 |
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| 7 – 11 Dec | 'Sphere' Group Show , Thievery Studios. K-Rd, Auckland |
| 16 – 28 Nov | Hungry Creek Graduate Show, Northart Gallery, Northcote, Auckland |
| 5 Sep | 'Clink' Project (Collaboration with Otago Polytechnic), Auckland CBD |
2013 |
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| November | Hungry Creek end-of-year group show. Albany campus, Auckland |
| December | 'Creekers' exhibition, Matakana Country Park, Matakana |
2012 |
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| November | Hungry Creek Graduation Show, Albany campus, Auckland |
2000 |
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| December | Natcol Graphic Design Graduate Show, Kilmore St, Christchurch Campus |
1998 |
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| November | CPIT Photography Graduate Show. CoCa Gallery, Christchurch |
Experience/Workshops/Residencies/Programmes
| 2020 | PopUp business School Aotearoa |
| 2019 | Beginner's Jewellery night school tutor - Hungry Creek Art & Craft School |
| 2017 – 2018 | Handshake 4 exhibition/mentoring programme |
| 2016 | |
| January – December | Artist in residence – Hungry Creek Art & Craft School |
| October | Artslab creative career development programme |
| March 2015 | Sustainability within the Visual Arts workshop – Dunedin School of Art |
| February 2015 | Benjamin Lignel Writer's workshop with Objectspace Gallery – The non-objective, non-neutral relationship that binds texts to the objects they describe |
| July 2014 | Tessa Laird Writers Workshop – Putting objects on the page – Objectspace Gallery |
| 2001 – 2005 | Graphic designer for S.A.F.E & The Design Shop – Christchurch |
| 1994 – 1999 | Hanmer Springs Pottery - Made and sold items for sale while a student – Hanmer Springs, Nth Canterbury |
Awards / Competitions
| 2023 | 3D Award - Bay Art Awards, Takaka, Golden Bay |
| 2016 | Fingers Graduate Award - Fingers Gallery |
| 2012 –2015 | Top Student in Year award – Hungry Creek Art & Craft School |
| 2015 | Jewellery Box Award show - Masterworks Gallery |
| 2014 | 2nd Runner up – Creative Hush Minuit Ring Competition |
Education
| 2012 – 2015 | Hungry Creek Art & Craft School – Advanced Diploma in Jewellery, NZQA Level 7 |
| 2000 | Natcoll Design Technology – Diploma in Computer Graphic Design, NZQA Level 5 |
| 1997 – 1998 | Christchurch Polytechnic – Diploma in Professional Photography, NZQA Level 6 |
