Selected works for sale Artist's CV
Melissa Macleod (b.1973) lives in New Brighton, Christchurch. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily across sculpture, photography and performance. She has exhibited in numerous New Zealand galleries and artist run spaces such as the High Street Project, Teststrip, Hirschfeld Gallery,The Physics Room, and also in Japan while on a Creative New Zealand Emergent Artist Grant. Her recent work examines issues surrounding the Eastern Christchurch community where she lives, addressing the marginalisation of this area, and responding to environmental impacts.
2016 Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Distinction, University of Canterbury
2008 Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary), Christchurch College of Education
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), University of Canterbury
2021 Olivia Spencer Bower Art Award
2019 Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award, Ashburton Art Gallery
2017 University Masters Prize, University of Canterbury
2015/16 Sir Robertson Stewart Scholarship
2015 Select Drawing Award, University of Canterbury
2014 Masters Study Scholarship, University of Canterbury
2014 Jane Rounick Memorial Award
1997 Ethel Susan Jones, Fine Arts Traveling Scholarship, University of Canterbury
1997 Creative New Zealand Emergent Artist Grant
1995 Jane Rounick Memorial Award
1995 Rosemary Johnson Muller Scholarship
1995 Friends of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery Scholarship
2020-21 on an east wind. Public Art work. SCAPE Public Art Season 2020, Christchurch
2020 The Trappings of Ghosts. Installation. Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton
2018 Overlay. Installation, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2017 Salt of the Earth. Public Sculpture.The Physics Room, Christchurch
2016 Dry Run. Performance. New Brighton Estuary, Christchurch
2015 Raft. Public performance. CBD, Christchurch
2015 Ark. Installation. SOFA, Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury
2002 Reinforcing. Installation in 11 shop windows. CBD, Auckland
1996 Whtt. Installation in 13 rooms. High Street Project, Christchurch
1996 Untitled. Installation. Teststrip, Auckland
1996 Rock your World. Installation.The Physics Room, Christchurch
1995 Goodbye. Performance. Ilam School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Canterbury
1995 Desperately Seeking. Installation. High Street Project, Christchurch
2021 Recent Photographs, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2020-21 Te Wheke, The Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch
2019 The Head and The Heart, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2019 ZAFFA Awards Exhibition, Ashburton Art gallery, Canterbury
2018 Rock and Roll, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2017 Parkin Drawing Exhibition, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
2016/17 Precarious Nature. CoCA, Christchurch
2016 Mass and Pattern, Johnathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
2016 Parkin Drawing Exhibition, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington
2015 Select Award. SOFA, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
2014 Oculus. Magazine/ page work. University of Canterbury Publication
2000 Suu No.2 (to suck air). Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington
1998 Suu (to suck air). Praha Associates, Japan
1995 Re-loading. Installation in an old wool store, Christchurch
Art Zone, Spring 2021, Issue# 88
RNZ, Standing Room Only, interview by Lynn Freeman, 2021
Art New Zealand, Winter 2020, Issue #174, review by Grant Banbury
Te Wheke Pathways Across Oceania, 2020, text by Felicity Milburn
Artbeat, May 2020, Issue #17, text by Warren Feeney
Femisphere, 2018, Issue #2
Art News, 2018, text by Andrew Paul Wood
Physics Room Publication, 2018, essay and interview by Jamie Hanton
Bulletin, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Bulletin Artist Page (2017), essay by Lara Strongman
MFA Publication/ Catalogue, Shifting Water, 2016, essay by Renata Hopkins
Christchurch Press, 2015, review by Warren Feeney
Oculus, 2014, University of Canterbury Publication
Art New Zealand, 1996, review by Justin Paton
Art and Text, 1996, review by Jonathan Bywater
Monica, The Physics Room Journal, 1995/1996, essay by Joyce Campbell