CV
EXPERIENCE
Artist, Homeground Stonecrafted Limited, 2015- present
As a self-taught stone carver, I set up all aspects of my practice and company, Homeground Stonecrafted. Through this, I have gained experience in website design and building, graphics, branding, painting signage. My daily business involves crafting mortars and pestles, bowls and plates as well as more recently, small sculpture and finer pendants. I predominantly use power tools: saws, angle grinders, hammer and chisel, drills.
Commissions
Current:
Poi Pounders, an Upcoming ‘Hawaiian Movie’
Past:
Goddess pendants, in pounamu x 3, for a previous private client
Pounamu bulge ring, private
28cm molcajete, Basalt, 11/2021
Octopus pendant, Pounamu, 12/2021
Mahe pendant, Pounamu, 2/2021
Previous:Various private commissions of mortar and pestles, bowls and plates, nudes, jewellery.
Restaurant Commissions
2016
Micks, Orewa ;O’Connell Street Bistro,
Auckland; Bistronomy, Napier; Roots, Lyttelton; Malo, Havelock North
2017
Roots, Lyttelyon; Clooney, Auckland ; Meredith’s, Auckland
2018
Hiakai, Wellington; Roots, Lyttelton; Kika, Wanaka; Craggy Range Vineyard, Hawkes Bay; Tantalus Estate Vineyard, Waiheke Island; Paperbark, Sydney; Saint Alice, Auckland
2019
Māha, Kerikeri; Tantalus Estate, Waiheke Island; The Grove, Auckland
2020
Mr. Morris, Auckland
Exhibitions and Events
Sculpture Northland, May 2022
Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, April 2022
Sculpture in the Garden, Whangarei 2021
Member’s Exhibition, Depot Artspace, Devonport, 2021
Collaborationz 2021, a collaborative 8 day workshop, head of Stone Section, with 70 New Zealand artists of numerous disciplines. Producing hundreds of artworks, auctioned off. 5/2021.
Whangarei Heads Arts Trail Exhibition, Reyburn House, 2020, 2021
Art in the Garden, curated sculpture tour in various private gardens around Whangarei , 2020
Feast, group exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, 8/2019
Whangarei Heads Arts Trail, Home Studio, 2019, 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19).
Taste of Auckland, 200 plates, VIP marquee dinner, as requested by Roots Restaurant owner and Best Chef Winner (GoodFood Awards, 2018), December 2016.
Upcoming Events
Selected for the King’s College Art Sale ‘Artbox’ October 2022
Art Salon Exhibition , Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Oct-December 2022
Grey Lynn Park Festival, November 2022
Collaborationz, March 2023
Womad, March 2023
Collaborations
Lyzadie Design Studio 2019 to present
Stone components of Candelabra and Bookends, Dance of Geometry Collection
Collaborationz 2021, see details above.
Publications
Salt. Chef Natasha McAller, October 2022
Hiakai, Modern Maori Cuisine. Chef Monique Fiso 2020
Cuisine Magazine: Issue 192,Jan 2019, p.24 Engraved platter and bowl, Mark McAllister, Winning Entry, Ōra King Salmons Awards 2018. p.60: Craggy Range Restaurants advertisement.
Cuisine Magazine: Issue 191, Nov 2018, p.19 Good Food Awards, photo introduction. p.52-3, On The Make article, photo and column. Good Food Awards Guide, front cover photo, p. 62, photo.