Curriculum Vitae
PETER NICHOLLS
Sculptor
Qualifications:
MA Dip FA (Hons) Dip Tchg
Permanent Address
3A Jessie Street
Maia
DUNEDIN
Telephone (03) 471 0068
021 1845638
Email peternicholls@extra.co.nz
Education
1979
Graduated MA in Sculpture
1978 - 79 Graduate Assistant – University of Wisconsin, Superior,
Wisconsin USA
1962 - 63 Elam School of Art, Auckland, New Zealand Graduated with Honours
1962
Epsom Teachers College, Auckland, New Zealand, Teachers Certificate 1963
1959 -
61
Canterbury School of Art, Christchurch, New Zealand
Teaching Positions Held
1979 -
2001
Lecturer in Sculpture, School of Art Otago Polytechnic
1977 - 78 Head Art Department, Takapuna Grammar
1969 - 76 Teacher in Charge of Art, Glenfield College
1966 - 68 Teacher in Charge of Art, Edgecumbe College, Bay of Plenty
1964
Art Teacher, Belmont Intermediate
Awards
1996
James Wallace Art Award Second Prize
1989
QE II Travel grant to Europe
1978
Travel Grant to Toronto, Canada
1975
Queens Elizabeth II Arts Council Award
1974
Hansells Sculpture 1st Prize Section B for Environmental Works
Professional Activities
2004
Milinthorpe Forest Golden Bay, Project mentor
2001
Co-Incidence project Golden Bay
1999
Dunedin Public Art Gallery - Artist Talk
1996
Workshop (Sculpture) ‘Eduvision’ National Education Conference, Dunedin
1996
External Assessor for University of Otago
Masters
Programme Art History – Thesis, Environmental Art in UK, Europe, USA
1996
Organiser, Supervisor 4th year BFA Seminar and Visiting Speakers
Programme
1995
Unitech, Auckland; Lecture
1994
Dunedin Photographic Society, lecture - Photography as a Tool for Sculpture
1994
Wanganui Community Polytechnic - lecture
1994
Sculpture Tour
Designed
and Organised Tour of Dunedin Public Sculptures for
Outreach
Committee Dunedin Public Art Gallery
1992 –
94
Head of Selection Committee selecting prospective incoming students for School
of Art
1992
Curate School of Art site specific sculpture exhibition, Botanic Garden 52
works
Including
Dunedin Botanic Garden Site Specific Sculptures by School of Art Students
1992
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui –Artist talk
1992
Fisher Art Gallery, Pakuranga, Artist talk
1991
Otago Society of Arts, Dunedin - Lecture
1990
Summer School / Wood Symposium
Wanganui
Community Polytechnic
1990
Elam School of Art Auckland - Lecture
1990
Dunedin Rotary Club – Artist talk
1990
Friends of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery – Artist talk
1990
Dunedin Institute of Architects - Lecture
1990
Judge Dunedin Chapter, NZ Craft Council Otago Museum
1989
Participated in Sculpture Symposium, Sculpture in the Landscape, Manchester,
England
1978
Participated in 10th International Sculpture Conference Toronto,
Canada
1976
President of NZ Society of Sculptors and Painters
Participated
in 1976 Biennial of Sydney (Slide Lecture) NSW Australia
1974 –
75
Vice President of NZ Society of Sculptors and Painters
Exhibitions Solo
2004
Ardor Gallery,Parnell Auckland ‘SYNTHESIS’ Tabletop new work
2002
Ward Str Gallery’ SYNTHESIS’ small works
2001
School of Art, Dunedin ‘SYNTHESIS’ Large floor works
1998
Milford Galleries, Dunedin ‘SHIELDS FOR THE PROCESS’
1993
Aero Club Art Gallery, Port Chalmers ‘CROSSINGS’
1992
Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui ‘CROSSINGS’
Manawatu
Art Gallery, Palmerston North ‘CROSSINGS’
Fisher
Gallery, Pakuranga, Auckland ‘CROSSINGS’
Centre
for Contemporary Art Hamilton ‘CROSSINGS’
1988
Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
1986
Southland Art Gallery & Museum (Selected Works 1966-86)
New
Vision Art Gallery, Auckland
1984
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Survey 1972-84)
1983
Red Metro Gallery – Dunedin
1981
Wellington City Art Gallery
1980
CSA Christchurch – Bosshard’s Dunedin
1979
Superior, Wisconsin, USA
1978
Albert Park Survey Show Outdoor Works Auckland
Barrington
Gallery, Auckland
Sarjeant
Art Gallery, Wanganui
1977
Data Gallery, Auckland
1972
Osborne Gallery, Auckland
Exhibitions – Group
2004 Shape Shifter Lower Hutt. New
Zealand Sculpture exhibition. ‘Tulipifera’.
Milinthorpe
Forest, Golden Bay. Environmental sculpture. ‘Pioneer Flame’
2003 ‘Co-incidence’
site-specific sculpture symposium Golden Bay, South Island (‘Equivocal Values’)
‘Cruising
the Pacific’ 2 Dowling Street Gallery, Dunedin (‘Surge’) May
‘Tutor’ Cleverley,
Webb, Scott, Ball, Nicholls, Gibson-Smith, Otley – Dowling Street Gallery
(Synthesis Series) July
104th Jubilee,
Dunedin Botanic Gardens, (Award) (Quercus Robur Insert #1) July
‘Strange things
may work’ Bramwell, Cullen, Nicholls. Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin October
2002
‘Changing Spaces’ Wellington Festival, MŪSA, February
‘Recent
sculpture, Milford galleries, Dunedin
‘Beecroft
Garden Exhibition of NZ Sculpture 2002 Takapuna Auckland
Spiritual
themes in Art ‘Time and Eternity’ St George’s Presbyterian Church, Takapuna
2001
‘southern Wave’ University of Otago, Auckland Campus
2000 NZ Sculpture 2000,
Beecroft Garden, Takapuna Auckland
1999 Te WA (The Space),
Wanganui
Summer
Show, Milford House, Dunedin
‘Sculpture
in the Garden’ governors Bay,
Christchurch1998
‘SENSOR’ Group, Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland
1997
Submission Proposal Centre Piece Sculpture, Formosa Country Club South Auckland
1996 Artis Gallery, Parnell
Auckland – Sculpture ‘96
1994 ‘Back to Back’ Lecturers
Exhibition Carnegie Centre Gallery, Dunedin School of Art
1993 Guest Artist South
Canterbury Art Society, Aigantighe Gallery, Timaru – Invited
1991
Maquette Submission, Auckland Maritime Museum
1990 Wood Symposium, Summer
School, Wanganui
Lecturers’
exhibition, School of Art, Otago Museum
Curated
School of Art Sculpture Exhibition Botanic Garden
1989
Maquette submission, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
Drawings
by sculptors, CSA Gallery Christchurch
‘Out
of the Woods’, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui
1986 Recent NZ Art Sculpture
1, ACAG, March 1986
‘5’
Ball, Hotere, Nicholls, Stevens, Sydney
Carnegie
Centre, Dunedin, October
Maquette
submission, Edminton Trust, Auckland
Maquette
submission, Tutanekai Mall, Rotorua
1985 Tutor Show, Otago
Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, September
1983 BNZ Selected Sculptor
for Maquette submission
1982 NZ Drawing Invitation,
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
CSA
Christchurch ‘Autobiographical’
NZSSPA
–20th Anniversary, RKS and Auckland Public Art
Gallery
Fl.
Balaena Bay, Wellington, ‘Full Stop’
Red
Metro, Dunedin, Fl Drawings, Maquette
1980 Hansells
Dunedin
Drawing Invitational
Dunedin
Artists Christchurch
Aramoana
Exhibition
Wellington
City Art Gallery
Hocken
Library, Dunedin
NZSSP
Projects Conceived or Achieved Barry Lett, Auckland
1979
Sculpture Festival, Dunedin
Finalist
Aotea Square Water Sculpture Competition
1978 NZ Sculptors at Mildura
gallery Tour of NZ
(Sept)
NZSSP CSA Gallery, Christchurch NZ
(April)
Mildura Sculpture Triennial, Victoria, NSW
(March)
Auckland Painters & Sculptors ACAG
(Feb
– March) 5 Sculptors, New Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
Summer
(Jan) Two environmental works with Diane Nicholls – Pakiri Beach North Auckland
1977 NZSSP Hastings Cultural
Centre, Hawkes Bay, NZ
1975 NZSSP Barry Lett,
Auckland
Mildura
Victoria Arts Festival
12
NZ Artists Travelling Show, Australia
Te
Awamutu Festival, NZ
1974 Mask Show, Mildura
Erotic
Show, Barrington Gallery, Auckland
Invited
Artist, Hansells Annual Exhibition
NZ
Drawing, Auckland City Art Gallery
Hansells
Selected Sculpture, National Art Gallery, Wellington
Letter
Show Ewing Gallery, Melbourne University
Hansells
Exhibition
Silent
Auction, Govett Brewster, New Plymouth
1973
Sculpturescape 73 Mildura Triennial
NZSSP
Osborne Gallery Art Award
Hansells
Exhibition NZ Sculpture Masterton
1972 NZSSP 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Osborne Gallery
NZ
Sculpture (invitational) Govett Brewster New Plymouth
1971 QE II Travelling show
with NZSSP
1970 Barry Lett Gallery,
Auckland
Fletcher
Wood Sculpture , Auckland
1967
Whakatane Centennial Exhibition
1966 Eric Scholes Gallery,
Rotorua
1963 Painters and Sculptors
of Promise
Public Collections / Public
Commissions*
2001
University of Otago, Commerce Building, Dunedin. Site Relocation, ‘Elan’
1999 Custom House Quay
Harbour Development, Dunedin. Site Relocation, ‘Toroa’
1992
Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North. ‘Levels’
Steel, Wood
1991 Sarjeant Art Gallery,
Wanganui. ‘Whanganui’ Mixed Woods
1989* Dunedin Public Art Gallery. ‘Toroa’
1988* Aurora, Central Park, Auckland. ‘Mamaku’ Australian Hardwood
1986*
University of Otago. ‘Bridge’
Australian Hardwood
Robert
McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch. ‘Spinal
Motivation’ No 1, Sycamore / Paint
Auckland
City Art Gallery ‘Spine’ Australian
Hardwood
1985
Southland Art Gallery & Museum. ‘New
Land’ No 2 1975, Totara
1984 Dunedin Public Hospital.
‘Wisconsin No 1’ 1978, White Cedar
*
Dunedin Public Hospital ‘Cross’ 1984
NZ Southland Beech
Dowse
Art Gallery. ‘Wisconsin No 4’ 1979,
Oak/Maple
Dunedin
Public Art Gallery
‘Wisconsin No 5’ 1979, Oak/Maple
‘New Land No 6’ 1976, Australian
Hardwood/Metal
‘Maquette’ 1981, Australia
Hardwood
Three Drawings
1982 NZ Consulate, Sydney. 100 Degree Twist
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Wellington, ‘Duality’
Australian Hardwood 1965
1981*
University of Auckland; ‘Measure’
1979 Australian Hardwood
Wellington
City Council Parks & Reserves. ‘Full
Stop’ 1982 Steel/Rock/Wood
National
Art Gallery Wellington, ‘Lissom’
(Three times three) 1981, Steel/Australian Hardwood
1980 Queen Elizabeth II Arts
Council, ‘Constrictions’ 1980
Australian Hardwood/Steel
1979
University of Wisconsin Superior, ‘Wisconsin
No 2’ 1978 Rocks/Maple
University
of Wisconsin Superior, Working Drawings
University
of Wisconsin River Falls, ‘Wisconsin No
6’ Artist-in-Residence
1978* City of Edmonton, Alberta Canada, ‘Counter Poise’ Douglas Fir/Steel
1975
Auckland City Art Gallery, ‘New Land No
3’ Totara/Steel & Drawings
1973 Govett Brewster Art
Gallery New Plymouth, ‘Untitled’
Kanuka/Kauri
1972 Mildura Sculpture
Centre, Victoria, Australia, ‘Probe
Series No 4’ Kanuka
Private Commissions
2003 Navigate – Judy Robinson, Dunedin
2002 Tango Dance - Private Collection, Auckland
1997 Cross - Les Williams, Dunedin
1997 River Guardian – Martyn Evans, Keri Keri North Auckland
1996 Rakaia – Allan Gibbs, North Auckland
1989 Untitled – Chris and Margaret Doudney, Dunedin
1988/9 Luff
– Private Collection, Auckland
1986/7 Strata
– John Gellert, Auckland
1985 Bud Form – Spencer Nicholls (Cement Fondue)
1984 Elan – Les & Marie Williams, Dunedin (Macrocapa)
1963 Three Copper Figures – John Bolton’s Menswear, Queen Street
Auckland
Selected Bibliography
Bingham
Russell
The
Commonwealth Sculpture Symposiums A Critical Assessment,
1978 Art
Magazine, Canada Nov/Dec
Brown Gordon
Aspects
of recent New Zealand Sculpture, 1986-87 Art NZ Summer Vol 41
Brown
Warwick
100
NZ Artists (Sculptors, Printmakers, Photographers) 1996
Campbell
Katy
Changing
Spaces, 2002 Art NZ, Spring Vol 104
Cape
Peter
Please
Touch, 1980 p52
Christensen
Margaret
In
Their Element - NZ Sculptors at Hansells, 1980 NZ
Listener May 24
Curnow
Wystan
Uneven
Miscellany, 1986 NZ Listener May 10
Flying
the Flag #1 Sculpture Project, 1983 NZ Listener April 30
Dunn
Michael
A
History of NZ Sculpture, 2002
Egger
Chris
Photography 1983 Art NZ Vol 29 Summer p13
Eggleton
David
Weight,
Memory, Presence, 2004 Art NZ No 111 Winter
Ellis
Stephen
Art
Modernism Schmodernism, 1980 New Outlook May/June
Johnson
Alexa
Aspects
of Recent Art Sculpture, 1986 Auckland City Art Gallery Catalogue
Hanly Pat &
Gil
Seven
Artists Contribute to the Auckland School of Architecture, 1981
Art
NZ Vol 25
Leach
Peter
Sculpture
and the varieties of illusion, 1984 Art NZ
Art
In Public – Peter Nicholls at the University of Otago, 1986 Art NZ Vol
39
The Politicising of Art, 1981 Art NZ Autumn
Lonie
Bridie
Peter
Nicholls, 1984 Art NZ Vol 32
Milbank
Bill
Roots-routes,
1992, Crossings Catalogue
Pitts
Priscilla
Contemporary
NZ Sculpture, 1992
New Sculpture in Auckland, 1986 Art NZ Winter
Raynor Paul
Out
of the Woods, 1990 Art NZ Winter Vol 55
Rowe
Neil
21
Sculptors in Masterton, 1980 Art NZ Vol 16
Scott
John
Crossings,
The Journey of an Indigenous Man, 1993 Summer Art NZ No 65
Strathdee Barbara
F1
New Zealand Sculpture Project, Sculptors International 1983 Vol 2 No 2
Tarlton John
Recent
Sculpture Auckland, 1978 Art NZ Vol 8
Ward
Raymond
Salute
to Energy, 1984 NZ Listener May 5
Wedde
Ian
Charged
Gaps, Contented Ecologies: the citizenship of Peter Nicholls, 1992
Crossings Catalogue
NZ
Sculptors at Mildura, Art Network 83/9 p69