Artist

Elliot Collins

I am a text based artist who works in an interdisciplinary way incorporating painting, language, photography, installation and sculpture to discuss ideas of time, memory and ways we interpret our environment. I am interested in the art that can inform our lives and can be used as a filter or divining tool to see the world we inhabit with greater clarity and purpose. I live and work in Taranaki after moving from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 2021 which has given me an even greater perspective and insight as to the power and purpose of a creative practice.

Artist Details

Waitara, Aotearoa New Zealand

Highlights

Solo Exhibitions

2020

A Monument to Now, NorthArt, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

I Remember Mountains, Te Tuhi Billboards, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

2019

Solastaglia, Tim Melville Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

We May Never Meet Again, Bartley and Company Art, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

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Group Exhibitions

2021

Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards, Finalist, Whakatane Library and Art Gallery, Whakatane

A Very Different World, Te Tuhi, Pakuranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Te Whainga - A Culture Lab on Civility, Smithsonian APAC and Auckland Museum, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

2018

Te Reo Pakeha, with Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Pōneke Wellington

Free Speech, DEMO, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

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