Curriculum Vitae - Kylie Sinkovich
My artistic practice looks both through the eyes of an activist and a poet examining and trying to understand certain aspects of life, therefore it is divided into two main branches.
The first is more outward looking and is very conceptually driven, circulating around socio-political and environmental issues. It is carefully considered, researched, designed and crafted. The forms, materials and construction methods are often dictated by the concept being investigated.
The second is more inward looking and is a materials based investigation informed by a spiritual awareness seeking growth, with sensitivity to the materials I use. It is an experimentation with how I combine the elements of wood, stone & metal and is very intuitively focused.
As I work between the intersection of craft and design, both branches have this influence and both paths inform each other's progression.
Education
| 2012 – 2015 | Hungry Creek Art & Craft School – Advanced Diploma in Jewellery, NZQA Level 7 |
| 2000 | Natcoll Design Technology – Diploma in Computer Graphic Design, NZQA Level 5 |
| 1997 – 1998 | Christchurch Polytechnic – Diploma in Professional Photography, NZQA Level 6 |

Exhibitions
2017 |
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| 10 – 24 October | 'Alumini/Update' – Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
2016 |
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| 17 – 30 August | 'Fingers Graduate Award' Show – Fingers Gallery, Auckland |
| 22 April – 21 May | 'The Way of Matter' Emerging Practice Show – Objectspace Gallery, Auckland |
2015 |
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| 24 – 28 November | 'Made' Hungry Creek Graduation Show – Allpress Gallery, Auckland |
| 28 Sept – 24 Oct | Masterworks Gallery Jewellery Box Award Show, Auckland |
| 18 – 20 July | 'Attentive Encounters' – Wunderweek solo Pop Up Show. Work I Shop, La Gonda Arcade, K-Rd, Auckland |
| 17 Feb – 1 March | 'Repeat Repeat Repeat' Group Show – Matchbox Studio, 166 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington |
2014 |
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| 7 – 11 Dec | 'Sphere' Group Show, Thievery Studios. K-Rd, Auckland |
| 16 – 28 Nov | Hungry Creek Graduate Show, Northart Gallery, Northcote, Auckland |
| 5 Sept | 'Clink' Project (Collaboration with Otago Polytechnic), Auckland CBD |
2013 |
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| November | Hungry Creek end-of-year group show. Albany campus, Auckland |
| December | 'Creekers' exhibition, Matakana Country Park, Matakana |
2012 |
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| November | Hungry Creek Graduation Show, Albany campus, Auckland |
2000 |
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| December | Natcol Graphic Design Graduate Show, Kilmore St, Christchurch Campus |
1998 |
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| November | CPIT Photography Graduate Show. CoCa Gallery, Christchurch |
Experience/Workshops/Residencies/Programmes
| 2017 – 2018 | Handshake 4 exhibition/mentoring programme |
| 2016 | |
| January – December | Artist in residence – Hungry Creek Art & Craft School |
| October | Artslab creative career development programme |
| March 2015 | Sustainability within the Visual Arts workshop – Dunedin School of Art |
| February 2015 | Benjamin Lignel Writer's workshop with Objectspace Gallery – The non-objective, non-neutral relationship that binds texts to the objects they describe |
| July 2014 | Tessa Laird Writers Workshop – Putting objects on the page – Objectspace Gallery |
| 2001 – 2005 | Graphic designer for S.A.F.E & The Design Shop – Christchurch |
| 1994 – 1999 | Worked in parents ceramics studio making objects for sale while a student – Hanmer Springs, Nth Canterbury |
Awards / Competitions
| 2016 | Fingers Graduate Award - Fingers Gallery |
| 2012–2015 | Top Student in Year award – Hungry Creek Art & Craft School |
| 2015 | Jewellery Box Award show - Masterworks Gallery |
| 2014 | 2nd Runner up – Creative Hush Minuit Ring Competition |


