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Curriculum Vitae - Kylie Sinkovich

My practice is informed by sensitivity to the materials I use and to create objects that connect with the body on both physical and intellectual levels. My work focuses on the socio-political landscape, sustainability of life systems and the psycho-spiritual realms. I am drawn to the practice of installation and how an environment can activate both an object and audience’s emotional response to a work.
As I operate between the intersection of craft and design, both paths inform each other's progression.

Kylie

Exhibitions

2023

20 - 29 Oct

Bay Art Awards, Takaka, Golden Bay

7 - 29 Oct

Fingers Annual Group Show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland

13 - 23 Apr

Containment/Uncontained - Bollard Exhibition, Nelson Jewellery Week

Jan - Feb

Present Matter - An Activation - Art Vault, Takaka

2022

8 - 30 Oct

Fingers Annual Group show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland

2021

27 Mar - 17 Apr

CHAINReaction - The Refinery ArtSpace, Nelson

10 - 31 Oct

Fingers Annual Group show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland

2020

10 - 31 Oct Fingers Annual Group show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland
1 - 23 Oct Makers of Traditional Change - Stanley Street Gallery, Sydney
6 Sep - 28 Feb 2021 Creating with Kauri, Maker series part 2 - The Kauri Museum, Matakohe, Northland

2019

12 Dec - 9 Jan 2020 A Jeweller's Game - Studio One Toi Tu, Auckland
21 - 24 Feb Splore Festival installation, Tapapakanga Regional Park

2018

6 - 29 Oct Fingers Annual Group Show - Fingers Gallery, Auckland
14 Sep - 14 Oct JEWELdisplayJEWEL - Pataka Art Museum
7 Sep - 21 Oct 'Polarity' Handshake 4 - Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland
10 Apr 'Passage' No Filter – Nik Hanton's hallway, Hinau Road, Wellington
9 - 29 Mar 'Process' Handshake 4 – Toi Poneke Gallery, Wellington

2017

31 Oct – 10 Dec 'Leanings' Handshake 4 – The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland
10 – 24 Oct 'Alumini/Update' – Fingers Gallery, Auckland 

2016 

 
17 – 30 Aug 'Fingers Graduate Award' Show  – Fingers Gallery, Auckland
22 Apr – 21 May   'The Way of Matter' Emerging Practice Show   – Objectspace Gallery, Auckland

2015

24 – 28 Nov ' Made' Hungry Creek Graduation Show – Allpress Gallery, Auckland
28 Sep – 24 Oct Masterworks Gallery Jewellery Box Award Show , Auckland
18 – 20 Jul 'Attentive Encounters' – Wunderweek solo Pop Up Show . Work I Shop, La Gonda Arcade, K-Rd, Auckland
17 Feb – 1 Mar 'Repeat Repeat Repeat' Group Show – Matchbox Studio, 166 Cuba St, Te Aro, Wellington

2014

7 – 11 Dec 'Sphere' Group Show , Thievery Studios. K-Rd, Auckland
16 – 28  Nov Hungry Creek Graduate Show, Northart Gallery, Northcote, Auckland
5 Sep 'Clink' Project (Collaboration with Otago Polytechnic), Auckland CBD

2013

November Hungry Creek end-of-year group show. Albany campus, Auckland 
December 'Creekers' exhibition, Matakana Country Park, Matakana

2012

November Hungry Creek Graduation Show, Albany campus, Auckland

2000

December Natcol Graphic Design Graduate Show, Kilmore St, Christchurch Campus

1998

November CPIT Photography Graduate Show. CoCa Gallery, Christchurch


Experience/Workshops/Residencies/Programmes

2020 PopUp business School Aotearoa
2019 Beginner's Jewellery night school tutor - Hungry Creek Art & Craft School
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 Hanmer Springs Pottery - Made and sold items for sale while a student  – Hanmer Springs, Nth Canterbury


Awards / Competitions

2023 3D Award - Bay Art Awards, Takaka, Golden Bay
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


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