EDUCATION

Master Fine Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University (2021)

Bachelor Fine Arts Hons. First Class, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Canterbury University (2018)

Certificate IV in Custom Made Footwear, RMIT (2013)

Bachelor of Design Innovation (Industrial maj.), Victoria University of Wellington (2011)

 

SELECTED PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS

2024

Paemanu: Awa Toi, 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland, Australia

STUMPING GROUND, Te Uru Waitakare Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

Kororiwhateao, Utua Pai! Gallery and Workspace, Whanganui 

Thresholds, Aratoi Museum of Art and History, Wairarapa

FELLED, Page Galleries, Pōneke Wellington

SWAMPED, Wellington City Council Courtenay Place Lightboxes, Pōneke Wellington

Swamp Witch, The Jewel and the Jeweller, Ngamotu New Plymouth

2023

STUMPED , Sculpture on the Gulf, Waihehe Island

Kakana (TEAM PLAYER) for Tirama Mai commissioned by Christchurch City Council

Shelter Belt for 'Cook & Co.', commissioned by Octavia Cook/ Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

LOOSE UNITS, Page Galleries, Pōneke Wellington

The Chair: A story of design and making in Aotearoa, Objectspace

Huikaau – where currents meet, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Offering It Up, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Poneke Wellington

Tirama Mai, CCC/ FiFA, Christchurch

Tātou, tātou, nau mai rā, Te Atamira, Queenstown

Ko wai rā te manu, Futuna Chapel, Poneke Wellington 

Massive Props, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga

Tātou, tātou, nau mai rā, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Christchurch

2022

Pahu!, Te Ara Ātea

Several degrees of attention, Govett-Brewster

(Tīkaro) Slowly Dawning, Page Galleries, Pōneke Wellington

Gently Ribbed, CoCA, Christchurch

He pito mata, I'm energetic!, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

Aotearoa Art Fair, Page Galleries, Auckland Tamaki Makaurau 

Tātou tātou nau mai ra, Christchurch Art Gallery 

Paemanu: Tauraka Toi / A Landing Place, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

(TĪKARO) SLOWLY DAWNING, Page Galleries, Pōneke Wellington

2021

Mischief Makers, Pataka Art + Museum

Tauraka Toi, Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Hand-Held: Turumeke Harrington, Ben Pearce, Hannah Valentine, Page Galleries

SPECIAL TIME (Ehara i te tī), Blue Oyster Art Project Space

Crossings, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi

Help Yourself, Enjoy Public Art Gallery

2020

Gentle Ribbing, Toi Pōneke

Te Koretētāmaua SETTLE, PETAL, Corban Estate Arts Centre

Te Āwhiowhio, Suck it up! RM Gallery
Stuck in customs, Presented by RM Gallery at May Fair Art Fair

Mahoranuiatea Looking out in every direction, Objectspace

Home Depot, play_station

2019

Turumeke Harrington, Sumer,

Mōhou tēnei this is for you, play_station

M/Other, curated by Sarah Hudson, Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre

Hey māmā come play with me, The Physics Room

2017

Whai Whakapapa Te Tuatahi, Toi Tū Studio One

Paemanu Nohoaka Toi, curated by Paemanu, CoCA

2016
Still, Life., Studio 380

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

Stoddart Cottage-Purau Artist-in-Residence, Otautahi Christchurch, 2024

Wai-Toi-Moroki Arts Foundation Springboard Programme, 2022

Kā Pūtea Masters Scholarship, 2021

Colin Post Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture, 2021

Blue Oyster/ Caselberg Trust Summer Residency, 2020/21

Ngāi Tahu Research Centre Scholarship, 2018

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship, Emily Carr University, 2017

Winston Churchill/ Hawke's Bay Design Trust Fellowship, 2017

Victoria University of Wellington Dean's List for Academic Excellence, 2011

Maori Education Trust Scholarship, 2011

Tumau Maori Scholarship, 2010