About
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is an artist based in Wellington. She has exhibited at galleries throughout New Zealand and Australia and has works represented in both private and public collections. She is actively involved in the local arts community as Director of the Creative Freedom Foundation and Trustee for Enjoy Public Art Gallery. She has also previously been Project Administrator for the One Day Sculpture series at the Litmus Research Initiative, and was recently named one of The 25 Most Powerful People in Tech by the National Business Review.
Working in a diverse and interdisciplinary manner, her most recent work has utilised 3-dimensional printing technology and the internet, and she has historically worked with drawing, painting, video, performance, installation, photography, and various other media. While often site-responsive, her work carries a common interest in new technologies and the futuristic ideals and challenges that these technologies may bring. Internet culture and virtual experiences have sparked some of her previous investigations, and she often draws from, builds upon, and creates connections with the past as a means of envisioning the future and imagining the fantastic.
She is one-half of the band Elbow vs. Knee and is the Secretary for Unlimited Potential, an incorporated society that runs events for Wellington’s IT community.
Artist CV
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
b. 1982, Wellington, New Zealand
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours)
Massey University, 2006
Exhibitions & Projects
2009
- Ringworm
- Clubfoot Initiative, Wellington, 19 December
- Ghosts in the form of gifts
- Permanent installation, Executive Seminar Suite, Massey University Wellington and online, 8 December – present
2008
- The Third Artist's Film Festival, curated by Paula Booker
- New Zealand Film Archive mediaplex, Wellington, 11 April - 17 May. Also shown at The Physics Room, Christchurch, 4-7 June
- Séance for Nam June Paik, curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark
- School of Fine Arts Gallery Basement, Christchurch Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand. Screened as part of Tending Networks: the fifth Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) symposium, and in conjunction with The Physics Room's public exhibitions programme, 23 February
2007
- Living Together, curated by Jessica Reid
- Hirschfeld Gallery: City Gallery, Wellington, 23 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
- Mighty Box
- Square2: City Gallery, Wellington, 5 November - 9 December
- Territorial Pissings, curated by Caroline Johnston
- The Engine Room Gallery, Wellington, 8-25 August
2006
- An Introduction to the Theory of Everything, curated by Jessica Reid
- Hirschfeld Gallery: City Gallery, Wellington, 21 December 2006 - 11 February 2007
- Wildlife (solo)
- Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 27 October - 5 November
- The Drawing Show
- The Engine Room Gallery, Wellington, 16 August - 1 September
- Working Title
- Show Gallery, Wellington, 13 July - 5 August
- Makebelieve
- Rm 103, Auckland, 6-15 July
- Draw'n'
- 110 Devon St New Plymouth, 24-25 June
2005
- To There and Back Again
- University of Southern Queensland, Toowomba, 20 April - 15 May
2004
- CupCup
- Dowse Art Museum, 11 September - 14 November, 2004
Bibliography
2010
- 3D printer deployed for the cause of art: Exhibition poses questions about technology and art, Rob O'Neill
- Computerworld, 28 January. Published online
- Makers and their magic machines, Rob O'Neill
- Sunday Star Times, 17 January, p. C9.
2009
- Working Title, Raewyn Martyn
- SHOW, pp. 92-94. Enzyme Publishing, 2009. ISBN 0-9582706-0-0
2007
- S.O.S. - Save us from ourselves, Mark Williams
- Enjoy 2006 Catalogue, pp. 68-71. Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2007. Published online
2006
- Interview with the artists, Jessica Reid, et. al
- City Gallery Wellington, 2006. Published online.
- Wildlife, Bronwyn Smith and Louise Menzies
- Published for the exhibition Wildlife, 2006. Available from Enjoy Public Art Gallery.