Stella Brennan

Stella Brennan
Born1974 (age 51–52)
Auckland, New Zealand
EducationUniversity of Auckland
Known forinstallation art
Websitestella.net.nz

Stella Brennan (born 1974) is a New Zealand artist, curator, and essayist.

Background

Brennan was born in 1974, in Auckland, New Zealand.[1] She gained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in 1999 from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. Brennan lives in Auckland.[2]

Career

Brennan is a mixed media installation artist. She utilises a variety of materials including found objects, video projection, and sculpture. Her work explores concepts of space and time between individuals and address issues such as industrialisation, colonialism, and technology.[2]

Brennan has published as an art critic and appeared in ArtAsiaPacific, the New Zealand Listener and Art New Zealand. She has also worked as an essayist for artists Patricia Piccinini and Ann Veronica Janssens.[2]

In 2001 Brennan was the artist in residence at Artspace Sydney and in 2004 she was the inaugural Digital Artist in Residence at the Department of Screen and Media Studies at University of Waikato.[3] In 2007 she received a fellowship at Apex Arts in New York.[4]

Brennan is a co-founder of Aotearoa Digital Arts[2] and was co-editor, with Su Ballard, for the Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader.[5]

In 2006 she was a finalist for the Walters Prize, with her installation Wet Social Sculpture, first shown at St Paul St Gallery, Auckland.[6]

Work by Brennan is held in the collection of the Chartwell Collection in the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.[7]

Brennan is represented by Trish Clark Gallery.[2]

Exhibitions

Brennan has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe.[2]

  • Another Green World. 2022, Artspace, Sydney.[8]
  • Tommorw Never Knows. 2004, The Physics Room, Christchurch.[3]
  • Memory Hole. 2005, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland.[9]
  • Envoy from Mirror City and No Stairway. 2006, Starkwhite, Auckland.[8]
  • No More Gaps. 2007, Starkwhite, Auckland.[8]
  • South Pacific. 2008, Two Rooms, Auckland.[8]
  • Second Child. 2008, Starkwhite, Auckland.[8]
  • The Middle Landscape. 2009, Starkwhite, Auckland.[8]
  • every room i have ever been in. 2012, Audio Foundation, Auckland.[10]
  • Black Flags. 2016, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland.[11]
  • the song remains the same. 2022, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland.[12]
  • Stella Brennan: Ancestor Technologies, 2023, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Wellington, curated by Kirsty Baker.[13]

Group exhibitions

  • The Walters Prize 2006, 2006, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland.[14]
  • Among the Machines. 2013, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, curated by Su Ballard.[15]
  • Truth + Fiction. 2015, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland.[16]
  • Slow Burn: Women and Photography | Ahi Tāmau: Māreikura Whakaahua. 1 March 2026 - 31 January 2027, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington.[17]

Publications

  • The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, 2008, edited by Stella Brennan and Su Ballard, Auckland: Clouds Publishing.[18]
  • Thread Between Darkness & Light - Stella Brennan, 2024, edited by Stella Brennan, Haru Sameshima and Mary Trewby, essays by Kirsty Baker, Lissa Mitchell, Su Ballard, and Ross Galbreath, Auckland: Rim Books.[19]

Curated exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Brennan, Stella". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Stella Brennan". Trish Clark Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 "The Physics Room - Exhibitions by Stella Brennan and Joanna Langford". The Big Idea. 29 April 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "New York City Fellow - Stella Brennan". Apex Art. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  5. ↑ Brennan, Stella; Ballard, Su (2008). The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. Aotearoa Digital Arts and Clouds. ISBN 9780958278997.
  6. ↑ "The Walters Prize 2006". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Stella Brennan". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Exhibitions". Starkwhite. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Stella Brennan Memory Hole". Trish Clark. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "Stella Brennan – every room i have ever been in / Suzie Gorodi – Finding My Feet (4/10/12 – 27/10/12)". Audio Foundation. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "Stella Brennan Black Flags". Trish Clark. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  12. ↑ "STELLA BRENNAN | the song remains the same". Trish Clark Gallery. Retrieved 6 June 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ↑ "Stella Brennan: Ancestor Technologies". City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. Retrieved 6 June 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ↑ "The Walters Prize 2006 Exhibition Catalogue (PDF)". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 6 June 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. ↑ Ballard, Susan (2013). Among the Machines (1st ed.). Dunedin: Dunedin Public Art Gallery. pp. 64–67. ISBN 0-908910-62-2.
  16. ↑ "Truth + Fiction". Trish Clark Gallery. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  17. ↑ "Slow Burn: Women and Photography | Ahi Tāmau: Māreikura Whakaahua". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 4 June 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ↑ Ballard, Su; Brennan, Stella (2008). The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader. New Zealand: Auckland: Clouds Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9582789-9-7.
  19. ↑ Brennan, Stella (2024). Thread Between Darkness and Light. Rim Books. ISBN 978-1-99-116524-4.

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