History

Exhibitions

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2025 ’Libertas Eligendi’ solo show - Railway Street Gallery + Studios Auckland NZ
2023 ‘Arbornaits Revisited’ solo show - No1 Parnell, Rawene, NZ
2023 ‘LEAF/let’ solo show - Railway Gallery + Studios Auckland NZ
2022 ‘Dreams of Distant Fields’ solo show - IMPACT12 International Printmaking Conference UW Bristol UK
2022 ‘The Arbornaits’, solo show - Railway Street Gallery Auckland NZ
2021 ‘Art in the Park’ mini solo show - Mt Eden Grounds Auckland NZ
2018 ‘Cammaeus’ - solo show of mini prints - Prue MacDougall at IMPACT 10 Santander, Spain, www.impact10.es/ 2018 ‘Distant Notion’ portfolio of work for Mid America Print Conference, Laramie, WY, USA. Theme Go West group project. www.mapc2018.org
2013 ‘Chimera Revisited’ solo show - Pataka Art & Museum Porirua City NZ.

Recent Selected Group Exhibitions in New Zealand

2026      Small Holes in the Silence Eastern Southland Gallery Gore NZ
2026      KHR Galleria, Villa Tuscany 28th March – 24th April
2026      New Zealand Painting & Printmaking awards finalist - WSA Hamilton NZ
2025/26 Small Holes in the Silence – He Waka Tuia Invercargill NZ
2025/26 Contemporary Printmaking Aotearoa – PCANZ Ashburton Art Gallery NZ
2025     Into Summer – Webb’s Gallery Wellington NZ
2025     Rearranged – Reframing the Artful Flower - Estuary Arts Centre NZ
2025     Aotearoa Art Fair represented by Railway Gallery + Studios Auckland NZ
2025     The Studio Wall III – 189 Ponsonby Road Gallery Auckland NZ
2025     Wonderland – Webb’s Gallery Wellington NZ
2024     Paper: Aotearoa Art Fair - Railway Gallery + Studios Auckland NZ
2024     Small Holes in the Silence – Te Atamira Queenstown NZ
2024     Women Beyond the Politics – Franklyn Arts Centre
2024     The Expanded Field of Print - NorthArt Auckland NZ
2024      Dog Days Summer Exhibition - Railway Gallery + Studios Auckland NZ
2024      Spoken-Unspoken Exhibition – Hanger Gallery Whangarei NZ
2024      Painting and Printmaking Awards – WSA ArtsPost Hamilton NZ

2024 Studio to Wall II – 250 Gallery Ponsonby Auckland NZ

Recent Selected International Exhibitions

2026 ‘Thinking of Place IV’ travelling exhibition, Co-ordinator and Artist at Kamloops arts Council Galleries, BC, Canada.
2025 Sydney Contemporary Carriageworks PCA booth B05, AU.

2023-5 ‘Thinking of Place III & IV’ travelling exhibition, Co-ordinator and Artist, IMPACT12 UW Bristol UK. Also exhibited in Australia, Argentina, Ireland, Guam, USA, Denmark, Turkey, Serbia, Canada and New Zealand.
2022 ‘Optical Impermanence’ portfolio exchange, IMPACT12 UW Bristol, UK.
2022 ‘Towards Strangeness’ PG Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, AU.
2022 ‘Vie du Pacifique III’, Co-ordinator and artist in International Print Exchange from the Asia Pacific Region, Printopia festival of original prints. Auckland NZ.
2021   Selected for the 5th Biennial Inkfest. Inkmasters, Cairns, AU
2021 'Vie du Pacifique III', International Print Portfolio from Asia Pacific Regional Art Gallery, Queensland, AU.
2020 'International Mini Print Cantabria II at the Sea and Lighthouses. Santander, Spain.
2019 'Rivers of Gold', La Trobe University, Victoria AU International Print Portfolio and exchange.
2019 'Distant Kinship/Verre Verwanten’ NL/NZ project. An exhibition of printmakers of Grafie Karoep Bergenand and PCANZ celebrating the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reaching New Zealand in the Pacific. @ Museum, Kranenbery, Netherlands.
2019   ‘‘Rivers of Gold’ group exhibition Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, UK.
2018   ‘Douro Printmaking Biennial 2018’, Bienal do Douro, Portugal. www.dourobienal.com/
2018   ‘Distant Notion’ A portfolio of work for Mid America Print Conference, Laramie, WY, USA. Theme Go West group project. www.mapc2018.org/
2018   ‘Rivers of Gold’ A traveling international print exchange involving 4 print groups across Showing at IMPACT 10 Santander, Spain, www.impact10.es/
2018   ‘Thinking of Place II’ international print exchange also at IMPACT 10. North Island Printmakers are one of several international print groups taking part making up 80 participating artists. Showing at IMPACT 10 Santander, Spain, www.impact10.es/ Also exhibiting at the Edinburgh Printmakers and more venues to follow.
2018    ‘Cammaeus’ - solo show of mini prints - Prue MacDougall at IMPACT 10 Santander, Spain, www.impact10.es/ 2018 ‘Distant Notion’ portfolio of work for Mid America Print Conference, Laramie, WY, USA. Theme Go West group project. www.mapc2018.org
2017   “Tracing the Line in Contemporary Printmaking”, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne, Australia
2017    “TRACE”, SGCI ‘International Conference Atlanta USA selected themed portfolio. Atlanta, USA
2017    Burnie Print Prize 2017, selected exhibition. Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
2016    “PROOF”, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne. Australia
2015    “Thinking of Place”, KickArts Contemporary Arts,Cairns, & Post Office Gallery Feberation University, Ballart, Australia
2015 SGC International Conference, ‘Distortion’ portfolio. Tennessee, USA
2015    Australia Print Council Print Commission exhibitions at the Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide SA, QUT Art Museum Brisbane, Megalo Print Studio + Gallery Canberra, Fremantle Arts Centre Fremantle, Handmark Gallery Hobart, Port Jackson Press Print Room Melbourne, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair Sydney
2014    Antipodes CPCANZ with Sydney Printmakers print exchange North Art Auckland/ Pine Street Creative Arts Gallery, Sydney Australia
2014    Inkmasters; selected Biennial Print Exchange Cairns Australia
2014    SGC International Conference, Members Print Exchange, San Francisco, USA
2013    Open Folio exhibition at IMPACT 8 ‘International Printmaking Conference’ in Dundee Scotland
2013 “35 Mini Prints” solo show Taller Galeria Fort Cadaque Spain
2012    “Vie De Pacifique” – Pacific Life group show. Impress Studio Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2012 Winner of Mini Print International of Cadaques, Barcelona Spain. http://www.miniprint.org/in/in.html
2012    Compact Prints, Umbrella Studio, Townsville, QLD, Australia
2012    Print Zero – Print Exchange show. Print Zero Studio, Seattle, USA http://printzerostudios.com/

Achievements & Awards

Selected for the Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Art Gallery Tasmania 2016.
Selected for the Print Council of Australia Print Commission for 2015.
One of the Finalist of the New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award November 2015.This award is our country’s most valuable, acquisitive cash award for New Zealand artists in the fields of painting and printmaking.
August 2012: Winner of the 32rd Mini Print International of Cadaques Spain. Part of the award is that the winner is invited to have a solo show in the Taller Galeria Fort and also be part of the Jury for the following years call.
Winner of the Mini Print International Award Asia Pacific 2011 No Vacancy Gallery Melbourne Australia

Collections & Commissions

Commission large work for private client of ‘Artful Curation’ NZ
The National Art Gallery of Australia Canberra print collection, AU
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Pacific Northwest College of Art Print Collection, Portland, USA
Kennesaw State University Collection Georgia, USA
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, USA
Biblioteca Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Art House Trust Collection, Aotearoa New Zealand
The Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, archived collection
Victoria and Albert Museum collection, London. UK

And in private collections in the UK, Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy, USA, Australia & New Zealand.

Other

2016 Co-ordinator and curator of “Thinking of Place” a collaborative venture between five groups of printmakers from Australia and New Zealand
2015   The Eigth Australian Print Sympoium, Canberra, Australia
2015   Selected 2015 Print Council of Australia Print Commission
2015   Southern Graphics, International Printmaking Conference, San Francisco, USA
2014   ANZAAE Conference, print exchange and paper presentation, AUT, Auckland
2013   Part of the Jury of 1800 prints for the 33rd Mini Print International of Cadaques Spain
2013   IMPACT, International Print Conference, Dundee, Scotland
2012   Two-day Residency. East London Printmakers, London, UK
2012   Auckland representative for Central Print Council, Aotearoa, NZ
2011    IMPACT, International Print Conference, Melbourne, Australia
2006   Co-ordinator of Crossing Barriers exhibition for ASPnet, UNESCO associated schools project, with NZ and Kosovo students, Muka Gallery, Ponsonby, and Odhise Paskali, Kosovo

Education

2020   Presentation at La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. Part of the 'Rivers of Gold' International Print Portfolio - and art science symposium.
2019   Taught a workshop “Solar Stories” an intro to solar plate printmaking. Corbans Estate Art Centre Summer School. Auckland, NZ.
2017   Artist guest speaker. Blikfang Gallery, Northcote Point, Auckland, NZ.
2017   Curator and artist for “INK” group exhibition. Railway Street Gallery, Auckland, NZ.
2017   Guest speaker to the Whanganui Branch of the Print Council Aotearoa NZ members.
2017   Attended the Eighth Australian Print Symposium. Canberra, AU.
2017   Attended and took part in a portfolio exhibition at Southern Graphics International Printmaking Conference. Atlanta GA, USA.
2016   Attended and took part in two portfolio exhibitions at Southern Graphics International Printmaking Conference. Portland OR, USA.
2016   Taught a workshop on solar plate. PCANZ Summer School. Auckland, NZ.
2016   Taught a workshop on solar plate. Pataka Art and Museum, Porirua, NZ.
2016   Curator and co-ordinator of a project involving 50 artists from the Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand.
2016   Taught a workshop on solar plate. PCANZ Summer School. Auckland, NZ.
2015    “Thinking of Place” co-ordinator for artist panel discussions and exhibition. Depot Art Space, Auckland, NZ.
2014   Attended SGCI International Conference and part of the members Print Exchange. San Francisco, USA.
2014   ANZAAE Conference, Guest artist for the Print Exchange and paper presentation. Auckland, NZ.
2013   Attended IMPACT 8 and also presented at the open portfolio section. Dundee, Scotland.
2012   Workshop with Kathy Boyle – aluminium etching. Auckland
2011   Impact 7 – International Multi Disciplinary Printmaking Conference. Melbourne, Australia
2009   Anthea Boesenberg – experimental printmaking workshop. Auckland
2008   Attended Dan Weldon Printmaking Workshop in Solarplate. Auckland
2006   Coordinator of Crossing Barriers exhibition for ASPnet, UNESCO associated schools project, with NZ and Kosovo students, Muka Gallery, Ponsonby, and Odhise Paskali, Kosovo
2000    Chinese ink and brushwork under Che Yuanlong. Tiangin University, China
1998   Studied Life drawing and experimental printmaking. Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
1994   Attended the British School of Rome in Rome, Italy
1994   Attended Central St Martins summer professional course in print making tutored by Tony Martina
1993   Attended the International School of Art, Umbria, Italy. Twelve week studio post graduate program following teachings of Hans Hoffman. Oil Painting the figure and the Umbrian Landscape
1992   Dan Weldon Printmaking workshop; NZ Art Educators Conference, Epson Auckland
1990   Attended Auckland College of Education. Graduated in Secondary School Teaching. One year course in Art and Art History
1985   Graduated Bachelor of Fine Arts – Major in printmaking, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Awarded Auckland University Annual prize for Excellence in Fine Art