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Rupert Travis

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