Jana Wood is a part-time Auckland based artist. She studied environmental and interior design
at Whitecliffe , Visual arts at
Artstation, and last year completed Mauri Ora Certificate in Maori culture at Te
Wananga.She is currently studying at AUT
Her practice is process-driven and experimental,
encompassing paint, photography, installation and printmaking. Her current work looks at ideas of transience
and the vanishing past in our urban environment. She is actively involved in a heritage group to save historical buildings in her neighbourhood.
Contact
janawood@xtra.co.nz
Contact
janawood@xtra.co.nz
Education
2000 Whitecliffe College of
Art and Design
Environmental
Design, Interior Design and Drafting
2008 Foundation course in
Visual Arts, Artstation Ponsonby
Introduction to
Drawing and Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography,
Art History and
Critical thinking
2009 Painters Progress –Year
long course in painting and drawing with Matthew
Browne, Artstation Ponsonby
Egg Tempera –
with Kate Hart
2010 Painters Studio –Year
long course in painting and drawing with Matthew Browne,
Artstation, Ponsonby
Watercolour –
with Kathleen Shaw, Te Tuhi
Monoprint – with
Toni Mosley, Nathan Homestead
2011 Mauri Ora Foundation
Certificate in Maori, Te Wananga o’ Aotearoa
Screenprinting –
with Kate McLean, Artstation
Monoprint
Advanced - with Toni Mosley, Nathan Homestead
2012 Collograph
Advanced – with Toni Mosley, Nathan Homestead
2013 Bachelor of Visual Arts - AUT
Exhibitions
2008 360, Artstation Ponsonby
Pauanui Annual
Art Show
2009 Painters Progress,
Artstation Ponsonby
Original Art
Show, Manukau Telstra Events Centre
Mercury Bay Art
Escape, Coromandel
2010 Painters Studio,
Artstation Ponsonby
Belmont Primary
School Art Auction
Mercury Bay Art
Escape, Coromandel
2011 How Diversity Works – Group
exhibition Artstation Gallery, Ponsonby
2012 February; Finalist in
Uxbridge Gallery Estuary Art Awards, judged by Peter
Saines and TJ McNamara
March; Viewpoint;
Group Exhibition – The Depot Artspace Devonport
June; Baradene
School Art Show
August; Finalist
in Korero – fusion of Poetry and Visual Arts exhibition, Uxbridge
Gallery
Media
Aug 2011 The Aucklander
Sept 2011 Te Waha Nui Student Newspaper
Auckland
March 2012 The Big Idea, Arts Diary, Scoop
August 2012 Arts Diary
