Sarah Munro (artist)

Sarah Munro
Born1970 (age 53–54)
New Zealand
EducationElam School of Fine Arts
Known forsculpture
WebsiteOfficial website

Sarah Munro is a New Zealand artist born in 1970. She attended Elam School of Fine Arts, where she earned a Doctorate in Fine Arts.[1] In 2006, Munro was appointed a Frances Hodgkins Fellow.[2]

Munro combines digital technology with painting to explore the spatial aspects and manual creation of the work.[3] She has created large scale sculptures, but her more recent series Trade Items uses embroidery to reference a 1769 sketch by Tupaia, a Tahitian navigator on Captain Cook's voyages, exploring themes of environmental impacts and cultural significance of trade.[4]

Munro's work is featured in the James Wallace Trust Collection, University of Auckland Art Collection, Hocken Collection, and the Real Art Road-Show Trust Collection.

References

  1. ^ "Sarah Munro biography". Page Blackie Gallery. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  2. ^ "The Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, Otago Fellows, University of Otago, New Zealand". www.otago.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  3. ^ Thompson, Grant (Winter 2008). "Making Painting: The Art of Sarah Munro". Art New Zealand. 127: 38–41.
  4. ^ Hacking, Lily (Summer 2018). "A good medium for living" (PDF). Art News New Zealand: 70–73. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 16 February 2019.


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