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2017 Rebecca Holden
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
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We were delighted to host renowned Wellington painter Rebecca Holden as our 2017 Marsden Artist in Residence. Rebecca has a Masters Degree from Massey College of Creative Arts, and is a superb visual storyteller. Her recent body of work, 'Sand in the Apricot Jam', paid tribute to the NZ Mounted Riflemen who fought in the Middle East Campaign of WWI and was exhibited as a WW1 commemorative show in Rishon LeZion, Israel in November 2017. During her time at Marsden Rebecca brought her narrative expertise to the classroom, as well as a community workshop for local schools. She shared working methods and processes to inspire students to look at different ways of generating ideas to tell visual stories. Marsden held an exhibition at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery at Shed 11 from 23 June to 2 July, to celebrate the works produced by Rebecca and in collaboration with students during the course of her residency. |