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Bill Culbert Adam Art Gallery
29 May – 25 July 2004
Curatorial Statement | Artist's Résumé


Born in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, 1935
Lives in London and Provence

School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury (1953-1956); Auckland Teacher Training College (1957); Royal College of Art, London (1957-60)


Selected solo exhibitions


2004 Daylight, Nightlight, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
  Bill Culbert, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
   
2003 Bill Culbert, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
  Wine, Light and Things, Millenium Gallery, Blenheim
 
2002 Bill Culbert, Centre d’Art Plastic, St Fons, Lyons
Spacific Plastics, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland


Selected group exhibitions

2004 Light Art, Richmond, North Yorkshire
   
2003 Reinvention: New Works in the FRAC Collection, Centura, Corsica
  Image and Object – Still Life in New Zealand, Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts & Cultures, Porirua
   
2002 White Shadow, Galerie Catherine Issert, Nice
  La cuite, Galerie Matagon, Malaucone, France
  Pathway to the Sea – Aramoana, (with Ralph Hotere), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery


Public Commissions

2004 Lustre, Palace Theatre, Watford, London
   
2003 Blue, Christchurch Convention Centre
 
2002 Wall wave, Pricewaterhouse Coopers Tower Building, Auckland


Selected bibliography

James Brown and Fergus Barrowman (eds), Lightworks, a special edition of Sport, November 1997

Fault, by Bill Culbert and Ralph Hotere, with text by Bill Manhire, Wellington City Council and City Gallery Wellington, 1994

Wystan Curnow, 'Bill Culbert' in Toi Toi Toi: three generations of artists from New Zealand, (exhibition catalogue), Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 1999

William McAloon, 'An art of delight' in Wine, Light and Things,(exhibition catalogue), Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, 2003

Kyla McFarlane, 'Portrait of the artist with a wine bottle: Bill Culbert's collaborative work' in Wine, Light and Things, (exhibition catalogue), Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, 2003

Cilla McQueen, Priscilla Pitts, Mary Trewby, John Walsh and Ian Wedde, Ralph Hotere - Black Light: major works including collaborations with Bill Culbert, (exhibition catalogue), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2000

Allan Smith (ed) Bright Paradise: The 1st Auckland Triennial, (exhibition catalogue), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2001

Lara Strongman, 'Bill Culbert: Lightlines' in Art & Industry 2000 Biennial, (exhibition catalogue), Art & Industry Festival, Christchurch, 2000

Lara Strongman (ed), Lightworks: Bill Culbert, (exhibition catalogue), City Gallery Wellington, 1997