Ilam Campus Gallery

The Ilam Campus Gallery produces a series of limited edition artist prints as part of our exhibition programme. Limited editions are created exclusively in the Print Studio at the Ilam School of Fine Arts by exhibiting artists of the Ilam Campus Gallery. All proceeds from the editions go directly towards supporting the artists and the print making studio at the Ilam School of Fine Arts.

We currently have unique editions available from artists Mark Braunias, Mitchell Bright, Emma Wallbanks, Barry Cleavin, Kim Lowe, Ciaran Begley, and Catherine Griffiths. Order yours today!

Mark Braunias

Mark Braunias is a New Zealand based artist who lives and works in Kawhia. He has exhibited extensively for over 35 years since graduating with a BFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts in 1988. Braunias was the inaugural winner of the The Arts House Trust Art Award in 1992 and received a Fulbright scholarship to complete an artist residency at Headlands Center For The Arts in San Francisco during 2011. In 2021, Braunias was awarded the national Parkin Drawing Award.

Mark Braunias has appeared in exhibitions including A very peculiar practice (City Gallery, Wellington, 1995), Gruesome (Robert McDougal Art Gallery, Christchurch, 1999), The Cartoon Show (Auckland Art Gallery, 2002), Field of Vision: A survey of Mark Braunias (Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, 2016) and Ena Snuggles (Objectspace, Auckland, 2020).

His work is held in public gallery and private collections including Te Papa, Christchurch Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Tauranga Art Gallery, Invercargill Art Gallery and Museum, Ashburton Art Gallery, Auckland University, Canterbury University, Massey University, Lincoln University, Fletcher Trust Collection, Art House Trust Collection and the State Library Of Queensland.

Mitchell Bright

Mitchell Bright is a Christchurch based artist who graduated from the Ilam School of Fine Arts in 2017 with a Masters degree in Photography. Bright’s practice delves into areas of fine art and documentary photography.

Emma Wallbanks

Emma Wallbanks is an artist currently based in Lyttelton, Christchurch. She studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts between 2012 and 2019 attaining a First Class Honours and a Master of Fine Arts. Emma has received a number of scholarships and awards including the Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship, Bickerton Widdowson Scholarship, Jane Rounick Memorial Award in Sculpture and Rosemary Johnson Muller Scholarship. Emma has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in Christchurch and had a solo exhibition at CoCA, Hetero Glossia, in 2020. Most recently Emma has collaborated with the singer songwriter Marlon Williams on his 2021 national tour, creating the moving image materials and photography for this production.

Barry Cleavin

Internationally recognised as a master of the printmaking craft, Barry Cleavin is regarded by many as New Zealand’s most important and influential printmaker. Born in Dunedin in 1939, Barry Cleavin received an Honours in Painting from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in 1966 and in 1972 won an Arts Council scholarship to study with Gabor Peterdi (Professor of Printmaking at Yale University) and James Koga (Master Printer at the Honolulu Academy of Arts). He was senior lecturer in Printmaking at Ilam School of Fine Arts from 1978 to 1990 and in 1983 won a Fulbright fellowship to work at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico.

Barry Cleavin was awarded the ONZM in 2000 and an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Canterbury in 2005.

Kim Lowe

Kim Lowe is an artist and printmaker based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Her work often uses forms and elements of her hybridised NZ Chinese, Pakeha-European and southern New Zealand cultures and environment. Kim completed a Masters in Fine Arts (Printmaking) with distinction from the Ilam School of Fine Arts in 2009. Since graduating she has been involved in and helped instigate many community projects including: Toi Te Karoro-Art New Brighton; Shared Lines Sendai-Christchurch Art Exchange; International print exchanges Thinking of Place I, II and III; AChA and Aotearoa Asian Artist Hui - AAAHui18.

Conor Clarke

Conor Clarke grew up in rural South Auckland and has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. She has exhibited regularly throughout Aotearoa, using the medium of photography to explore ecology, colonialism, land use and landscape representation.

Based in Berlin since 2009, Clarke relocated to Aotearoa to take up the position of Lecturer in Photography at the Ilam School of Fine Arts.

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Catherine Griffiths

Catherine Griffiths is an Aotearoa New Zealand designer, typographer, artist, writer, activist, feminist. She studied Visual Communication Design at Wellington Polytechnic during the mid-80s, set up a studio space with two other graduates, then worked several years in London. She returned to Wellington as a senior designer, and later set up her own studio practice in 1995 which she has run independently ever since.

Selected works are in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, National Hangeul Museum in Seoul, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Collection Library (books), and the Special Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (books). She has exhibited in New Zealand, Chile, France, USA, China and Korea.

Ciaran Begley

Ciaran Begley graduated from Ilam School of Fine Arts in 2000 and completed his MFA at Sydney University in 2016. Begley’s work investigates multiple material processes through the lens of an amateur physicist, origami designer and sculptor.

Begley has exhibited in Wellington, Dunedin, London and Sydney, and has recently moved to Melbourne. Begley won the Howard Tribe Sculpture award in Sydney 2017.

Ella Sutherland

Ella Sutherland is a Sydney-based artist who holds an MFA from the University of Canterbury (2012). Her work investigates complex systems of reading and navigation within both the built environment and print media. In 2018, Sutherland was invited to participate in the 12th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. Recent exhibitions include Margins & Satellites, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 2018; and Slow Seeing and Attention to Make, The Dowse, Wellington, 2016.

Sutherland was the 2018 Summer Resident at Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, and was selected for the 2018 Evolving Book program at the Banff Centre, Canada. In 2017, she was a finalist in the John Fries Award and the Redlands Art Prize, and in 2016 received a Merit Award at the National Contemporary Art Awards.

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Tyne Gordon

Tyne Gordon graduated from the Ilam School of Fine Arts with a BFA (Hons) in painting in 2015. In 2018, Gordon was the recipient of the Olivia Spencer Bower award. Recent exhibitions include Precarious Nature, CoCA Toi Moroki, Christchurch; Water Park, Next Gallery, Christchurch; and Croon, 30 Upstairs, Wellington.

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