About
Biography
Rosy Harray is 25 years old. Born in Tauranga, she lived in Invercargill for 10 years and Dunedin for 10 years. At age 15 she moved to Dunedin where she attended Otago Girls High School. After completing seondary education Rosy spent four years studying at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA), majoring in sculpture at the end of 2006. And in 2007 completed a Certificate in Web Design from the Aoraki Polytechnic.
She is currently establishing a business in freelance set design and construction and developing her own artistic practice.
Artist Statements
My art practice has been dealing with the abstract concepts of light and dark with relation to their physical and invisible properties. This concern with light and dark has also led me to investigate ideas of transparency and the nature of opposites. I have become interested in the seen and the unseen, issues of the realm of the spirit, and also religious systems and symbolism.
I have explored these concepts in varying ways using various sculptural mediums. From the softness of wax to the rigidity of steel, I use solid materials in a way that speaks of both the abstract concepts of light and transparency, and also of darkness and density. The lightness of my work conveys a sense of space within the object or installation. I am interested in the concepts and the aesthetics of transparency, as a way of describing or giving reference to the nature of the spirit or invisible realm. Transparency does several things; it strips back excessiveness and unmasks deceptions that are concealed. Transparency creates vulnerability, it exposes what otherwise would be hidden. Most inherently it has the capacity to contain light.
I am interested in the duality that has to do with the illogic of two opposed parts classifying each other. Binary oppositions are represented as conflicting, but they only exist by virtue of each one defining itself against the other. There is no light without darkness, no darkness without light. In other words they depend on each other for description.
These theoretical concerns also present themselves in my other artistic mediums, wether it is in paint, or video, or installation, or photography or even in music.
Curriculum Vitae
Rosemary Petterson (nee Harray)
New Zealand European
04/02/85
Qualifications
| 2007 | Certificate in Web Design Aoraki Polytechnic, Dunedin Campus, New Zealand |
| 2006 | Bachelor of Fine Art (sculpture) Otago Polytechnic, School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand |
| 2002 | A Bursary Otago Girls High School, Dunedin, New Zealand |
Professional Experience
| Sept 2009 | World of Wearable Art Selected entrant. ‘Poly-Prop’ – South Pacific Section |
| Aug 2009 | Music Video: Supermodel. Director: Laurie Wright, Wright Productions - Art Director |
| Sept 2008 | World of Wearable Art Selected entrant. ‘Cartesian Rose’ – Inspired by Architecture section |
| May 2008 | 48 Hours Film Festival Dunedin Finalist. Winner of Best Cinematography - Assistant Director, Production Designer, Set and Costume, Producer Relapse 48 hour film |
| Mar/Apr 2008 | MI Films Independent Production www.mifilms.co.nz The first ever Pavlova Western! Director: Mike Wallis - Art Department Assist, Set Construction, Set Dresser, Prop sourcing and construction |
| 2007- | Freelance graphic and web design Practising Artist |
| August 2006 | StudentSoul Productions – ‘Tonight We Learn to Dance’ by Malcolm Gordon. - Production Designer, HOD set and costume |
| Jan – Jun 2006 | Artist Exchange. Utrecht, The Netherlands. - Hogeschool Kunst Utrecht. (HKU) (Utrecht School of Art) |
| Nov 2005 | Creative Youth Exchange Finalist. - Singapore, 2 week workshop and competition |
| Oct 2005 | DCBC Productions – ‘The Magicians Nephew’ CS Lewis - Set Designer |
| Nov 2003 | July 2004 DCBC Productions – ‘The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe’ CS Lewis. - HOD costume design |
Group Exhibitions
| Oct 2009 | Taranaki Art Awards - wall hanging from Wire Rose series |
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Sept 2009
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Garment ‘Poly-Prop’ accepted for the World of Wearable Art Awards. Wellington, New Zealand – South Pacific Section |
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Nov 2008
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Exhibitor in the Sculpture on Shore show, with advanced publicity www.nzsculptureonshore.co.nz ‘Cathedra Domine’ – sculptural installation Devonport, Auckland |
| Oct 2008 | Taranaki Art Awards - sculpture from Rose Window series - painting floral watercolour pencil |
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Sept 2007
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Garment ‘from ashes to glory’, accepted to the World of Wearable Art show. Wellington, NZ |
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Apr 2007
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New Graduates Show, Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton |
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Nov 2006
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SITE Graduation Exhibition, School of Art, Dunedin |
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Sept 2006
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Midnight Gallery, Fringe Festival, Dunedin |
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July 2006
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‘Intermission’ Princess St, Dunedin 3rd and 4th yeah BFA sculpture show |
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Nov 2005
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CYX@GalleryHotel. Gallery Hotel, Singapore http://www.creativeyouthxchange.com/cyx05/xchange.php |
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Aug 2005
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‘Acute’ King Edward Court. Dunedin 3rd and 4th year BFA sculpture show |
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Aug 2005
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Mazda Emerging Art Awards. Hilton Hotel Auckland |
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July 2005
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Original Art Show. Events Centre Auckland |
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July 2005
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Affordable Art Show. Wellington |
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Oct 2004
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‘Defining Hope’ Retort Gallery. Dunedin A show of photographs and paintings |
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Sept 2004
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Cleaveland Art awards. Dunedin |
Solo Exhibitions
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April 2007
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Permanent Murals – Teviot Country Motels, Roxburgh. - swimming pool, climbing wall, games room, roadside shed. |
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April 2005
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Rear window project. Otago Polytechnic School of Art. Dunedin |
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March 2005
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‘Free Parking’ Street window Sculpture Installation, Dunedin |
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March 2005
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‘Glimpses of Reality’ Azucena Gallery. Dunedin - A show of paintings |
Awards and Prizes
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Nov 2005
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Selected as one of 16 finalists from Asia Pacific to compete in Creative Youth Exchange, Singapore. 3rd Place |
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Dec 2002
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Cultural Award, Prizegiving, Otago Girls High School |
Bibliography
| ‘Wearable Art Finalists – Again’ by Sarah Harvey Otago Daily Times, Wednesday August 26, 2009 http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/71387/wearable-art-finalists-again |
| ‘No snags at wire wedding’ by Ellie Constantine Otago Daily Times, Monday 24 November, 2008 http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/33209/no-snags-wire-venue |
| ‘Nice day for a wire wedding’ by Ellie Constantine Otago Daily Times, Saturday 22 November, 2008 http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/32917/nice-day-a-wire-wedding |
| ‘Fashion in her tea cups’ by Sarah Harvey Otago Daily Times, Thursday 25 September 2008 http://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/fashion/23834/fashion-her-tea-cups |
| Art News New Zealand, Winter 2008 Issue Pg 25, article about the Sculpture on Shore exhibition in Nov 2008 |
| SITE 2006 Review, By Catherine Dale http://buro.net.nz/exitdunedin |
| The Gallery Hotel, boutique rooms. Singapore http://www.galleryhotel.com.sg/html/about_bouts405.html Room 405 http://www.galleryhotel.com.sg/html/about_bout10.html Room 635 |
| http://www.ehotelbuild.com/tr/proje.asp?islem=projealtsayfadetay&sayfaid=24 (Indonesian) |
| Creative Youth Exchange, media coverage http://www.mica.gov.sg/pressroom/Jan-Mar06Fusion.pdf |
| Creative Youth Exchange, media coverage http://www.mica.gov.sg/pressroom/Jan-Mar06Fusion.pdf |
| CYX@Gallery Hotel. Documentary of Creative Youth Exchange. Went to air Jan 06 Singapore Arts Channel |
| Xchange program, by Tay Suan Chiang The Straits Times, Saturday 19 November, 2005 |
| ‘Sculptor prepares for unreal experience’, by Katrina Megget Otago Daily Times, Wednesday 2 November, 2005 |
