'Borderland' - new paintings by Hana Carpenter, 12 May-3 June 2023, Gilberd Marriott Gallery, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington, Aotearoa new Zealand

Hana Carpenter 'Borderland' - 12 May-3 June 2023 at Gilberd Marriott Gallery, 37 Courtenay Place, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ

Borderland opens in Room 1 on Friday 12th May, 5pm-7pm. I will add more photographs of Hana Carpenter's paintings here once the exhibition is open, but we would love you to come and see the original artworks in the gallery first.
We have a Photospace Gallery exhibition - 'Pilgrimage' - by Jake Giles opening in room 3 at the same time.

Artist's statement
Borderland explores the interconnectedness of the human body and the natural world. The works reference sonographic (ultrasound) imagery, used to visualise the subterrain of both body and land. The liminal spaces are painterly biopsies, capturing and containing the body’s energy expended in mark making.

Bio
Hana Carpenter has Scottish, Irish and Danish ancestry, ngāi te Tiriti te iwi.  She was born in Te Kuiti, Aotearoa. She lives in Tāmaki Makaurau.
 
She has been a finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize, the Wellington Regional Art Awards, the Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards, the NZ Painting and Printmaking Awards and the Wallace Awards.
 
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam, Auckland University, and exhibits in Tāmaki Makaurau and Pōneke.

Recent exhibitions
2023  

• Across a Crowded Room, group exhibition, Broker Galleries, Queenstown (online)
  
• Immediate Action, exhibition with Ekaterina Dimieva and Mo Stewart, Waiheke art gallery, Waiheke Island    
• The Dinner Party, exhibition with Tony Guo, Chantel Matthews and Eric Roebeck, RM gallery, Auckland CBD

2022 

• Land Body Time, exhibition with Elliot Collins, Grey gallery, Grey Lynn, AucklandGush Gush, Flow, Seep, on-site painting project and solo exhibition, Whirinaki Whare Taonga public art gallery, Wellington
  
• You Are Not Alone, group show, The Good The Bad gallery, Auckland
• Bread and Butter, group show, Grey gallery, Grey Lynn, Auckland                  

2021

• Suspended Movement, solo show DepotArtSpace gallery, Devonport, Auckland                 
  

2020

• Feel it Out, exhibition with sam dollimore,  Grey gallery, Grey Lynn, Auckland
  
• Unseen, solo show Schmid gallery, Martinborough