Bio
Rupert Travis is a New Zealand-born artist who resides in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Exploring parallels between medium-and-materiality and subject matter, his compositions engage a mix of collected images and staged setups, breaking up everyday scenes and reconstructing them within landscape. By linking applied narrative and place to the application of paint, each work floats between the illusion of the scene it depicts and the reality of its flat surface. This leads to an interpretive and painterly openness, allowing the different layers of brushwork and narrative suggestion of each work to be explored.
Education
2022 Masters of Fine Arts (ongoing)
Department of Painting, University of Canterbury
2019 – 2021 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Department of Painting. University of Canterbury
Awards and Grants
2022 Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship
2021 Harry Van Der Lecq Trust Scholarship for Painting
2020 Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship
2020 Bickerton-Widdowson Trust Memorial Scholarship
Selected Exhibitions
2022
Aotearoa Art Fair (Forthcoming) , Auckland
Caught in the briars, Foenander Galleries, Auckland
The End, The Den, Christchurch
2021
Among Others, The Den, Christchurch
The Collective, The Den, Christchurch
Art and Sculpture Exhibition, St Margaret’s College, Christchurch
Wash Cycle, Pop up exhibition, Christchurch