Alex Monteith | |
---|---|
Born | 1977 (age 45–46) Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Auckland |
Thesis | Chapter and verse: methods and applications of documentary theory and alternative practices for video/film in relation to the audiovisual archive precipitated by Northern Ireland's recent troubles (2004) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | New media artist |
Institutions | University of Auckland |
Alex Monteith (born 1977) is a new media artist and academic,born in Northern Ireland and resident in New Zealand. [1] She is also a competitive surfer and has won national titles in the sport. [2]
Monteith was born and grew up in Belfast,Northern Ireland. In the late 1980s she emigrated to New Zealand and settled in Auckland. [1] She completed a bachelor's degree in photography in 2001,followed by a master's degree in intermedia and the time based arts and a doctorate in fine arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts,The University of Auckland. [2] She later became a lecturer at the university. [3]
Monteith's works focus on political issues surrounding land ownership,history and occupation. Many of her projects are located in large-scale geographies,such as the ocean. She has staged solo exhibitions at the Govett‐Brewster Art Gallery and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt,Germany.
Monteith is also a member of the collective Local Time (composed of her,Danny Butt,Jon Bywater and Natalie Robertson). The collective has worked together since 2007 and has installed artworks in locations including Muri Lagoon,Rarotonga (2015),Māngere maunga (2014) and the Waitemata Harbour (2013) in Aotearoa New Zealand;Footscray,Australia (2014);and Delhi,India (2013). [3]
In 2004,Monteith received the Breton Award as overall festival winner at the International Surrealist Film Festival. In 2008,she received a New Generation Award from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. In 2010,she was a finalist in the Walters Prize art competition. [3]
Monteith was the Irish National Women’s champion in 2001 and represented Ireland in both the 2002 International Surfing Association World Surfing Championship in Durban,South Africa,and the European Surfing Championships in 2001. [2]
Tessa Duder is a New Zealand author of novels for young people,short stories,plays and non-fiction,and a former swimmer who won a silver medal for her country at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. As a writer,she is primarily known for her Alex quartet and long-term advocacy for New Zealand children's literature. As an editor,she has also published a number of anthologies.
Dame Gaylene Mary Preston is a New Zealand filmmaker with a particular interest in documentary films.
'The Arts Foundation of New Zealand Te Tumu Toi is a New Zealand arts organisation that supports artistic excellence and facilitates private philanthropy through raising funds for the arts and allocating it to New Zealand artists.
Diggeress Rangituatahi Te Kanawa was a New Zealand Māori tohunga raranga of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Kinohaku descent. At the time of her death she was regarded as New Zealand's most renowned weaver.
Colleen Elizabeth Waata-Urlich was a New Zealand ceramicist. Of Māori descent,she belonged to Te Popoto o Ngāpuhi ki Kaipara and Te Rarawa. Through education,involvement in Māori art collectives and production of exhibited work,Urlich was dedicated to the development of Māori art.
Areta Rachael Wilkinson is a New Zealand jeweller.
Lisa Marie Reihana is a New Zealand artist. Her video work,In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] (2015),which examines early encounters between Polynesians and European explorers,was featured at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Dame Robin Adair White is a New Zealand painter and printmaker,recognised as a key figure in the regionalist movement of 20th-century New Zealand art.
Joanna Margaret Paul was a New Zealand visual artist,poet and film-maker.
Robert Wallace Ellis was a British-New Zealand painter and artist known for paintings that tackle social,cultural,and environmental themes.
Peter Robinson is a New Zealand artist of Māori descent. He is an associate professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.
Janet Lilo is a visual artist from New Zealand.
Stella Brennan is a New Zealand artist,curator,and essayist.
Susannah Israel is an American contemporary artist,writer and composer living in east Oakland,California. She moved to the Bay Area as a young parent in 1976. Her recognizable figures are highly expressive,and serve as visual extensions of her critical and allegorical narratives. Israel has published writing from 2000–present and musical compositions since 2013.
Claire Harris is a photographic and mixed-media artist from New Zealand. In 2016 she was part of the artists' collective Fantasing which held the Artist in Residence position at the Audio Foundation in Auckland,New Zealand.
Luise Fong is a Malaysian-born New Zealand artist.
Bek Coogan is a New Zealand multidisciplinary artist and musician.
Joana Monolagi is a Fijian artist and masi maker,whose work is in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery. She was awarded the Pacific Heritage Art Award in 2015 at the Arts Pasifika Awards,recognising her work in supporting art and culture,her role as Fijian coordinator for the Pasifika Festival,and her own unique artistic practice. She is part of The Veiqia Project arts collective.
Edith Amituanai is a New Zealand photographic artist. In 2007,she was the inaugural recipient of the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award. Examples of her work are held in the collections of Te Papa,Auckland Art Gallery,and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Amanaki Lelei Prescott-Faletau is an actor,writer,dancer,choreographer,producer and director of Tongan descent,living in New Zealand. As a playwright,she became the first fakaleitīto have her work published in New Zealand with Inky Pinky Ponky. This play was awarded Best Teenage Script (2015) by New Zealand Playmarket. As an actor,she was awarded best performance at the 2015 Auckland Fringe Festival for Victor Rodger's Girl on the Corner. Her acting credits include The Breaker Upperers (2018),SIS (2020),The Panthers (2021),The Pact (2021) and Sui Generis (2022),in which she is also a writer for the TV series. Faletau competed as a dancer in the World Hip Hop Dance Championships in 2011 and has been a judge at the National Hip Hop Championships in New Zealand over several years.