[-empyre-] Introducing Stella Brennan

["Melinda Rackham" <melinda@subtle.net>]

Stella Brennan
[ http://www.stella.net.nz ]
is an Auckland-based artist, writer and curator. As Waikato University's
inaugural Digital Artist in Residence, she founded the Aotearoa Digital Arts
discsussion list in 2003, and has hosted two subsequent ADA meetings. Her
artwork is based in video and installation.
Recent works include an installation using i-tunes to create fake responsive
environments and a video attempting to create a Friedensreich
Hundertwasser-style village from pottery class throw-outs.

Stella teaches at the Auckland University of Technology. She is also
Freelance Art Writer (New Zealand Listener, Art Asia Pacific, Art New
Zealand, Pavement Magazine)
 and Director of the  George Fraser Gallery, Auckland University


Residencies:

2002-2003
Digital Artist in Residence
Waikato University
2001-2002
Creative New Zealand Residency
Artspace, Sydney

Selected Exhibitions:

solo
2004
Tomorrow Never Knows
Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, April
The Physics Room Christchurch, May


2003
End User
Room 103, Auckland; The Calder-Lawson Gallery, Waikato University
Theme for Great Cities
Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton
2002
Another Green World
Artspace, Sydney
2001
Dell
Lightbox Exhibition Space, Auckland
2000
The Fountain City
The Physics Room, Christchurch
Fedex
The Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin
1999
Anima
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
1998
Loom
Window project, Auckland Art Gallery

Group
2004
Everday Minimal
Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki
Vacancy
Te Tuhi; The Mark, Manukau City
2001
Fuse
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2000
Sister Spaces
Southern Exposure, San Francisco
In Glorious Dreams
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth

Curatorial Projects:

2002/3
Dirty Pixels
Artspace Auckland; Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington;
Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Waikato Museum of Art and History
Stella Brennan, Joyce Campbell, Michel Gondry, Sara Hughes, Tim Ryan, John
Simon Jr, Martin Thompson

1999
Nostalgia for the Future
Artspace Auckland
Fiona Amundsen, Stella Brennan, Julian Dashper, Mikala Dwyer, Guy Ngan, Ann
Shelton,
Jim Speers