SARAH GUPPY – AUCKLAND ARTIST
COURSES OF STUDY AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS
1987 - Gilding Apprenticeship, London, UK
1983 - Flood Street Studio, Chelsea, London (a regular group practice of five painters)
1981 - Adult education classes in fine arts at Morley College, London, UK
1976 - Auckland Society of Arts (day & evening classes)
1975 - Graphic Design, Auckland Technical Institute
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 - ‘Corrogated Colour’ Visual Culture Wellington
2014 - ‘Waterland ‘ Visual Culture Wellington Simons & Guppy
2011 - ‘Open Studio’, Wharf Rd, Putiki Bay, Waiheke Island
2010 - Awarded ‘Artist in Residence’ Waiheke Art Gallery
2010 - ‘Fruits of Air’, Waiheke Community Gallery, Waiheke Island
2009 - ‘Gilded Blessing’, Objectspace, Auckland
2008 - ‘Corrugated Colour’, Milford Gallery, Dunedin
2007 - ‘Golden Doors’, Auckland Fringe Festival
2006 - ‘Courting Colour’, G2 Gallery, Auckland
2005 - ‘Love Loops’, G2 Gallery, Auckland
Garment of Landscape’, Milford Gallery, Queenstown
2004 - ‘Brilliant Shadow’, G2 Gallery, Auckland
2003 - ‘Elliptical Narratives, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
2002 - ‘Full Circle’, G2 Gallery, Auckland
2000 - ‘New Works on Glass’, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1996 - ‘Slide into the Unknown’, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1993 - ‘New Work’, Long & Ryle, London, UK
1992 - ‘Mixed Blessing’, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1986 - ‘Under the Moon’, Osborne Gallery, London
1985 - ’12 New Paintings’, Westminster Gallery, London
1984 - ‘Monkeys & Magic’, Cambridge University, England
PAINTINGS SELECTED FOR GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - ‘Over coming Mt Difficulty” Finalist Walker & Hall Awards
2021 - Rangitiki Painting Retreat
2020 - ‘Painter, Potter, Printmaker’ Simons,Guppy, Dresher Waiheke Art Gallery
2020 - “Source of Water’ Selected for Parkin Art Award Wellington
2020 - ‘Treasured Cargo’ Selected Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Gallery
2020 - ‘Panacea’ Reidy, Stevenson and Guppy Studio Show
2020 - Papatuinuku Art Week Open Studio Guppy & Ball
2020 - Artist talk at Tim Melville Gallery interview with Eve de Castro-Robinson
2019 - Walker & Hall winner of Michael Evans Award
‘Out of my hands’ Waiheke Art Gallery
‘Same but different’ Browne School of Art
2018 - ‘Illumination’ Collaborative work with printmaker Lauren Dresher for her exhibit at ‘The Gilded Owl” – Hudson – New York . Twenty gilded works.
Baradene Art Fair – Bas Relief works
Selected or Walker & Hall – Waiheke Art Gallery
Mobile Art ‘ Big little show’ 3 Paintings
2017 - Diocesan School Art Auction – Bas Relief
Ten Year Survey – Artist in Residence – Waiheke Gallery - Plaster carved work
Triaratina Arts and Culture Book publication
2016 - ‘Ornithology’ Visual Culture Wellington
2015 - ‘Painter and Potter ‘Helen Perrett The Vivian Matakana
‘Shipping News ‘ Waiheke Art Gallery
‘All that Glitters’ The Vivian Matakana
2014 - Waiheke Art Gallery Members Show
2013 - ‘Small Things’, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
Still life Ceramics at Visual Culture Gallery, Wellington
2012 - Small Sculpture Award, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
Baradene Art Fair, Diocesan Old Girls Exhibition
‘Fire & Clay’, Wallace Arts Centre, Pah Homestead, Hillsborough, Auckland
2011 - ‘Small Things’, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
2010 - ‘8 Gestures’ show, Artstation, Ponsonby, Auckland
2010 - ‘Islanders’ show’, Toi Gallery, Waiheke Island
2010 - Walker & Hall Awards finalist, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
2010 - ‘Art & Text’, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Waiheke Island
2007 - Real Art Charitable Trust Travelling Art
Liggins Institute Art Auction
2006 - BMW Painted Bonnet Art Awards, invited participant
‘Thursday Potters’, curated and exhibited
2005 - ‘Alchemy & Meaning’, Marco Gallery, Auckland
Waiheke Art Awards, selected finalist
Norsewear Art Awards, selected finalist
'Glass Invitational’ (touring show), Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2004 - ‘Group Exhibition’, G2 Gallery, Auckland
‘Transit of Venus’, Milford Galleries, Dunedin
2003 - ‘Nudes & Balls Show’, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland
Group Show, Art Depot, Auckland
2002 - Group Show, Tinakori Gallery Wellington
‘Christmas Show’, G2 Gallery Auckland
2000 - ‘The Chair Show’, Milford Galleries, Auckland
1999 - ‘100 x 100 Show’, works on glass at McPherson Gallery, Auckland
‘Christmas Show’, John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1995 - ‘The Ipswich Open’, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, UK
1993 - ’Three Painters’, Long & Ryle Gallery, London, UK
1992 - ’Twentieth Century Art Fair’, Royal College of Arts, London, UK
’French Landscapes’, La Girarde, Bordeaux, France
1991 - ‘Art for Equality’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1990 - ’Group Show’, Mall Gallery, London
1989 - ’Art on Wheels’, Scotts of Sloane Square, London
1988 - ‘The Day Book’, Smith St Gallery, Soho, London
1987 - ’New Works on Paper’, Galeria Arte Elemental, Tarifa, Spain
1985 - ‘Group Show’, Stephen Bartly Gallery, London, UK
1984 - End of year show, Morley College, London, UK
1983 - End of year show, Morley College, London, UK
1980 - King Arthur-themed show, Waxhall Gallery, London, UK
PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONS
2013 - Dancer for Kazu Nakagawa’s catwalk event, Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island
2010 - Artist in Residence, Waiheke Community Art Gallery
2008 - Three-week residency at Anderson Ranch Ceramic School, Colorado, USA
Guest teacher, King St Collective, Masterton
2006 - Inclusion in New Zealand’s Favourite Artists, Volume One, by Denis Robinson
2005 - Commission from FHE Gallery for Auckland Hospital Neo-Natal Unit (large paintings
on glass)
1998 - Attended Arts & Business Conference, Slovia
1996 - Teacher at 'Spirit of Andalucia' Teaching Summer School, Gaucin, Spain
Attended Narrative & Metaphor Conference, Auckland
‘Art for the Soul’, Schumacher College, Totnes, Devon, UK
1993 - Schumacher College purchased painting
1992 - NZ Art Group purchased ‘Lemon Sky’
Long & Ryle Art Gallery, London, UK, purchased work for corporate placement
1990 - Private commission, ‘Jacobs Ladder’, Cambridge, UK
1986 - Veere Grenney Interior Designs, London, UK – commissioned mural