CV
EDUCATION
2017
Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours, majoring in Drawing)
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic
EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2023
SOLO
-TAUTIAKI HAPTIC, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti
-PUAKI PŪANGI A COOL BUCKET OF WATER, Woof!, Ōtepoti
GROUP
-Spring time is heart break-Contemporary Art in Aotearoa, Christchurch Art Gallery, Ōtautahi
-Haerenga, Tini Whetū, Ōtepoti
-Huikaau-where currents meet, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti
-That is the most emo Māori tattoo I’ve ever seen!, Tini Whetū, Ōtepoti
-Grow Home, Anteroom project space, Ōtepoti
-Te Mahi Peita, Tini Whetū Project Space, Ōtepoti
2022
SOLO
-toko by and by, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti
GROUP
-Pollen in the Trough, Wormhole Gallery, Edgecumbe
- Ka mua ka muri, Otago Museum and Te Pūkenga, Ōtepoti
-Kindling Glints, Wave Project Space, Ōtepoti
-Gift, Ashburton Gallery
-The Secret Path, George Street via Tini Whetū and Dunedin Dream Brokerage, Ōtepoti
DESIGN
-Te Taura Takata, BNZ Bloomberg Trading Lab, Otago Business School, Otago University
2021
SOLO
-Basking, Dunedin Dream Brokerage, Ōtepoti
CURATED
-He Reka te Kūmara, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti
GROUP
- Paemanu: Tauraka Toi, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti
-Soft Stones with Motoko Kikkawa, Olga Gallery, Ōtepoti
-POST, Mail project with Blue Oyster Project Space, Ōtepoti
-Kei Waho i te Kēti, Community Gallery, Ōtepoti
-Exquisite Corpse, Olga Gallery, Ōtepoti
2020
SOLO
-Wading in place, Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, Christchurch
GROUP
-The Complete Entanglement of Everything, Dunedin School of Art
-Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
-Max A3, Adjo, Dunedin
-Drawing as of September, Allbell Chambers, Dunedin
-Group Show, Allbell Chambers, Dunedin
-Our Oceans, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru
2019
SOLO
-Gateway Twitching, Adjo, Dunedin
GROUP
-Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
-Floor Talk, Law Library, Otago University
-Ocean Acidification Street Campaign, Dunedin and Christchurch
-Ōtepoti Zine Fest, Laurel Project Space, Dunedin
-Art and Water, HD Skinner Annex, Otago Museum
-Laurel Salon Hang, Laurel Project Space, Dunedin
-Escape from the Animal Attic, Museum of Natural Mystery, Dunedin
MURAL
All Things Connected, Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Waitati
2018
SOLO
Locator/Translocator, AS Gallery, Webb Farry
GROUP
-Art and Oceans, HD Skinner Annex, Otago Museum
-Care Ecologies, with Marion Wassenaar, Dunedin School of Art
-Envoys Onwards, with Marion Wassenaar, Te Uru, Waitakere
2017
GROUP
-Art and Genetics, HD Skinner Annex, Otago Museum
-SITE 2017, Dunedin School of Art
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023
-Finalist, Molly Morpeth Canaday Award
2023
-Springboard award (mentor: Peter Robinson), Te Tumu Toi Arts Foundation
2022
-Blue Oyster Caselberg Trust Summer Residency, Broad Bay, Ōtepoti
2020
-Te Matatiki Toi Ora Creative Residency, Arts Centre Ōtautahi Christchurch
-Finalist, Parkin Prize
2019
-Finalist, Parkin Prize
2017
-First in Postgraduate Study, DSA
-Postgraduate Prize for Drawing, DSA
-Finalist, Wallace and Warburton Scholarship
2016
-Webb Farry Grant for 2017
-Lindsey Crooks Memorial Prize for Life Drawing
-Achievement in Painting, DSA
CONTRIBUTIONS
2023
Folk Nationalism and Other Stories, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi (Ayesha Green, Francis McWhannell, Lachlan Taylor, Sarah Hudson, Matariki Williams, Elle Loui August, Hanahiva Rose, Jess Nicholson, Moewai Marsh and Madison Kelly)
Nirun, University of Otago (Sorawit Songsataya with Catherine Hammond, May Adadol Ingawanij, Madison Kelly, Moewai Marsh, Mya Morrison-Middleton, Robyn Maree Pickens, Riar Rizaldi, Hanahiva Rose, Ashley Thompson)
Landfall: Spring 2022, University of Otago
MEDIA
2022
Baby and fire : on collective curation reframing the experience of toi Māori at the arts institution, Ana Iti, Pantograph Punch.
Pukahu : the abundance of Paemanu at DPAG, Bridget Reweti, Art New Zealand issue 181.
2021
Dunedin art in unexpected places, Standing Room Only, Radio New Zealand. Aired 28th February 2021.
2020
Ilk Publication, Issue 1, artist contributor
2019
Uncertain Observer: visual arts practices for threatened species,
Animals at the Edge Symposium, Dunedin School of Art
2018
Critical Visibility: Representing Endangerment in Art, Anthropocene Symposium, Otago University
2017
"Kakī, Reared and Sampled", Forsdick, Natalie ; Kelly, Madison. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, Dec 2017, Issue 18, p.58-65.
COLLECTIONS
Otago Polytechnic
Paemanu collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Private Collections, Aotearoa New Zealand