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2002 Shelley Hannigan
Thursday, 25 April 2002
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Melbourne based artist, Shelley Hannigan worked in our Art and Design Department as the 2002 Mercedes-Benz Artist in Residence. Shelley worked with students while also developing her own paintings in the studio located within the Department. Shelley grew up in Wellington and she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the University of Canterbury, School of Fine Arts, in the late 1980s. After travelling for several years she settled in Melbourne where she now lives with her artist husband and two small children. She has been a practicing artist for over a decade, exhibiting primarily in New Zealand and Australia. Her paintings have always been about the exploration of colour, self-identity and place. Shelley's paintings on her memories of Wellington, interior scenes of her family home and various scenes of Wellington she recalls from her childhood. These works were exhibited at Bowen Gallery at the end of her residency.  |