Janet Bayly
Biography
Information provided by Paul McNamara March 2012
JANET LESLEY BAYLY
BIOGRAPHY
June 7,1955 Born Tauranga, New Zealand
1968-72 Hutt Valley High School, Lower Hutt
1973-76 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland B.F.A.
1977-79 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland M.F.A.
1995 Palmerston North College of Education Cert. Adult Teaching
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Dwelling, with Nikolai Kokx, McNamara Photography Gallery
2007 Transmission, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2005 Presence/Absence, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2004 Light, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Janet Bayly, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin
2002 Other/Self, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2001 Polaroid Works 1979-2001, PhotoSpace Gallery, Wellington
2000 Camera Obscura, PhotoSpace Gallery, Wellington
Janet Bayly Photographs, LUSH Gallery, Kapiti Coast
1999 Messages from the interior , Olive Cafe, Wellington
1998 Photographs from a Benedictine Women’s Retreat, Alexander Library, Wanganui & Olive Cafe, Wellington
1997 A Journey into Spain, BAM, Wellington & Archive Room, City Library, Palmerston North
One Woman’s Word Poem (Installation), Palmerston North City Library
1985 Janet Bayly Photographs, Peter McLeavey Gallery
1983 Janet Bayly Photographs, Manawatu Art Gallery
1981 Polaroids - Janet Bayly, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
1980 SX-70 Pictures, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
1979 SX-70 Pictures, Real Pictures, Auckland
Photographs by Janet Bayly, Outreach Auckland City Cultural Centre, Auckland
1978 Janet Bayly Photographs, Elam Fine Arts Library, University of Auckland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Light: Black & Silver, Mahara Gallery
Blue, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2008 Landed, Te Manawa
2007 Moving Still, McNamara Photography Gallery / The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
2006 BitterSweet, Tim Nees Gallery, Wellington
Memory Land, nga mahara, Mahara Gallery
2005 Main Trunk Lines, New Zealand Poetry, National Library
2004 In Flower, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures & Northland Art Centre, Whangarei
The 70s Show, Te Papa
2003 Tracing Polaroid SX-70, McNamara Photography Gallery, Wanganui & Pataka Museum of Art & Cultures
Image and Object, Still Life in New Zealand, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures
The Caravan, McNamara Photography Gallery & tour to Pataka Museum of Arts & Cultures & Bishop Suter Gallery
Laid, Artist’s Tiles, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Beauty and Sadness, Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast
2002 Victory over Death, Peter McLeavey Gallery
Artists in the Garden, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
Par for the Course, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Touchstones: Treasures and Taonga from the Kapiti Coast, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae (commissioned work: ‘House of Cards’)
Installation of A Candle in a Dark Room at Novotel Hotel, Wellington
2001 Group Sex, Erotic Art by Consensual Participants, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Looking Back, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
Hush Hush, Point Zero, Wanganui
Friends of the Family ... the Bieringa Collection, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
Old Gates, New Journeys, Michael Hirschfield Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington
Dolly Mixture, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
Photo 2, Te Wa, The Space, Wanganui
up:date//The Active Eye
Local Yokels, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Art with Heart, Idiom gallery, Wellington
2000 Dressed in Paint, Manawatu Art Gallery
I Mua-I Muri, Before & After, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
Camera Lucida / A Private Collection, Idiom Studio, Wellington
1999 Kaleidoscope, Shed 11, Magdalena Aotearoa Women’s Festival, Wellington
1995 Currency-Contemporary Photographic Art, Auckland Domain Museum, Auckland
1990 Eye to Eye, ARTSPACE, Auckland
1989 United Art Award, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
1987 A Portrait of Law (Commissioned), Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
Visual Diaries, Wellington Fringe Festival
1985 ANZART ‘85 Artist’s Books Show, Auckland City Art Gallery
The Body in Question, National Art Gallery
Women in New Zealand Society 1884-1985, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
1984 Image ‘84, National Art Gallery
1983 Eleven Women Photographers, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
Three Women Artists: Janet Paul, Jill McIntosh, Janet Bayly, City Gallery, Wellington
Images of Women, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
1982 Views/Exposures: 10 Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, National Art Gallery, Wellington & national tour
Works on paper, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
Me By Myself:The Self Portrait, National Art Gallery, Wellington
Polaroids: Janet Bayly, Gary Blackman, Jane Zusters, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1981 Still Life Still Lives, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
Self-Portraits, Snaps Gallery, Auckland
Women and Sexuality, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
Recent Acquisitions, National Art Gallery, Wellington
Self-Image, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
1980 Opening, City Gallery, Wellington
Illusions, Fantasies and Lies, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
Collection ‘80, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington & Wairarapa Arts Centre, Masterton
amily Photos, Snaps Gallery, Wellington
1979 International Self-Portrait Invitational, Northlight Gallery, Arizona & American tour
SX-70, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
PhotoForum ‘79, Auckland Domain Museum & PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
Child in the World, Manawatu Art Gallery
1978 Double Take, (Janet Bayly & Christine Lloyd-Fitt) Snaps Gallery, Auckland
Instant Pictures, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
After Dark, Snaps Gallery, Auckland
PhotoForum ‘78, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland
Family and Friends Part 1, Snaps Gallery, Auckland
PUBLICATIONS, PORTFOLIOS & ARTIST'S BOOKS
2010 Frances Hodgkins, Kapiti Treasures, Mahara Gallery (editor and essayist)
2009 Mirek Smisek, 60 Years 60 Pots, Mahara Gallery (editor and essayist)
2008 After Image, Séraphine Pick, Exhibition catalogue essay, Sarjeant Gallery
2007 ‘A Familiar Practice, Johanna Mechen’ (Article) New Zealand Journal of Photography , No 64, 2007
‘Balancing poems and photographs’ .Book review of Shards of Silver, edited and authored by Paul Thompson, New Zealand Journal of Photography , No 64, 2007, p26
‘Collecting Photographers’ Curator’s introduction to exhibition at New Zealand Centre of Photography, Shed 11, Queen’s Wharf, Wellington,
New Zealand Journal of Photography , No 64, 2007
Collecting Photographers (Catalogue), New Zealand Centre of Photography, July, 2007
2005 'Wayne Barrar's Coober Pedy portfolio' (Article) Contact Sheet:The Light Work Annual 2005, Syracuse, NY: Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center
' 'Ans Westra' in the Realm of Textual Construction(s)' (Review) Landfall, Issue 209, Dunedin: OUP, May 2005
2004 Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe (Editor and essayist), Mahara Gallery and Pacific Press
2002 ‘The Interior, 44 Photographs, 1981-2001, Laurence Aberhart’ (Review)
New Zealand Journal of Photography, No 49, Summer 2002/3
(Portfolio of photographs) New Zealand Journal of Photography, No. 45, Summer 2001/2002
Other/Self, Photographs and video, Janet Bayly (Catalogue and essay) Janet Bayly and Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
Tiger Words, Paekakariki Poets at PukaPuka, Paekakariki: Earl of
Seacliff Art Workshop
2001 Camera Obscura, artist's book
(Photograph of New Zealand writer Dan Davin) The N.Z.Listener, June 2, p60
‘Dream on, Desert Flowering: Aboriginal Art from Private Collections, at the Manawatu Art Gallery’ (exhibition review)The N.Z.Listener, July 28,
2000 Seeing through words, artist's book
‘A View from the Inside, The photographs of Catherine Russ’, Art New Zealand, No 96, Spring 2000, pp86-89
‘Thinking about looking at photographs (again)’, NZ Journal of
Photography, No 39, May 2000, pp 7-10, 15-17
(Photographs of New Zealand musician Johnny Devlin)The N.Z. Listener, October 21,
1999 Ni Hao: Being Chinese in the Manawatu , (3 books), Science Centre
and Manawatu Museum
1998 The nest, the tree, the river; A Benedictine Women's Retreat, Benedictine Events
1997 A Journey into Spain, portfolio of photographs in an edition of 11
1996 An exploratory report into teaching and learning art history to
enhance relevance, context, interaction and critical thinking, Research
Report for Design Centre, CASS Faculty, Manawatu Polytechnic
1995 Honouring Women, Nga Mana Wahine o Manawatu, A1 Colour poster with photographs by Janet Bayly and Catherine Russ, Open Learning Centre, Palmerston North
1994-1999 Manawatu Evening Standard Arts reviewer
1987 The Trained Eye (catalogue), National Art Gallery, Wellington
1986 ‘Whaiora: The Pursuit of Life, by Ans Westra’, Art New Zealand No.39
‘Hockney’s Photographs’, Wellington City Magazine, October
1985 Witness to Change, Life in New Zealand 1940-1965, John Pascoe, Les Cleveland, Ans Westra, PhotoForum Wellington Inc. (co-curator, author of Introductory essay ‘New Zealand Documentary: Roots, Sources and Inspiration’ and essay ‘Ans Westra: ‘Finding a ‘Place’ in New Zealand’)(1st Equal Montana NZ Book Awards for Production including editing, writing, design)
‘Richard Wotton’s Photographs, 1975-1984’, Art New Zealand, No 36
‘Walking the Tightrope: Working Men by Glenn Busch’, National Art Gallery Newsletter No 1
‘Form & Image, Gisborne Artists’, ArtStuff No.1
1984 Twelve Flowers, portfolio of photographs in an edition of 20
The Heretaunga River Mouth as it was in 1839, Pito-One Settler's
Museum, Petone
‘Photography at the Fifth Biennale of Sydney & other venues’, PhotoForum National Newsletter, No. 18, July
‘Laurence Aberhart: About 62 Photographs at Peter McLeavey Gallery’, PhotoForum National Newsletter, No. 18, July
1981 ‘Photographs as Icons - A personal view’, PhotoForum Magazine, No. 48, Spring 1981
1980 ‘PhotoForum Gallery - An Interview with the Directors’, PhotoForum Supplement, No.5, Spring
‘Women in Communication. A Multi- Media Exhibition’ (review of National Art Gallery exhibition of same title), PhotoForum Supplement, No.5, Spring
PhotoForum Magazine, No. 47, December (portfolio of photographs)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 'Collecting Photographs', Dr Sandy Callister interviewed by David Langman, New Zealand Journal of Photography No. 64, 2007. pp13-18
Moving Still (Catalogue with essay by Jan Bryant), The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland and McNamara Photography Gallery
2006 David Eggleton, Into the Light, A History of New Zealand Photography, Craig Potton Publishing
2005 Chris Hunter,Vantastic, A Pictorial History of Caravans in New Zealand, Harper Collins Publishers
Fran Dibble, 'Towards abstraction', Manawatu Evening Standard, November 27, Paul Thompson, New Zealand Books, review of Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood edited by Janet Bayly
2004 Helen Kedgley, In Flower, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures
2003 The Caravan (Catalogue) McNamara Photography Gallery
Tracing Polaroid SX-70 (Catalogue) McNamara Photography Gallery,
2001 Barnett, G. ‘ Recognising Ourselves Looking Back: New Zealand Photography 1950-2000’, Art New Zealand, No. 99, Winter 2001, pp59- 61
www.up:date//The Active Eye (PhotoForum, Issue 68)
1998 Thompson, P. A Century of Images, Wellington:Te Papa Press.
Kirker, Anne. New Zealand Women Artists, (2nd ed). Auckland: Reed Methuen. (1st ed. 1985, 2nd ed. 1998)
1995 Bieringa, L. ‘Currency, let’s do something’
1987 Tweedie, M. (ed.) Six Women Photographers, Auckland: PhotoForum New Zealand
1986 Art Diary, in situ figures, faces and places , Wellington: National Art Gallery
1985 Art Diary, City/Country, Wellington: National Art Gallery
1982 Ireland, P. (ed.) Views/Exposures: 10 Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Wellington: National Art Gallery
1980 Quin, D. ‘Self Portraits, Snaps Gallery’, PhotoForum Supplement, Spring 1980, Issue 5, p 9
1979 Bosworth, R. ‘Photographs by Janet Bayly’, Art New Zealand, No.13, Spring 1979, p35
Boyd, M. ‘Janet Bayly at Outreach’, PhotoForum Supplement, Spring 1979, p14
1978 Hutchins, T. ‘Family and Friends - review’ Art New Zealand, No.9, Feb/April
VIDEO
2002 Questions of Silence, 3 minute digital video
2001-2005 Cross Over (film with Lindsay Rabbitt)
1993 Interview with Christina Kubisch, (German sculptor) for City Gallery Wellington
1986 Centenary of Sunlight Soap, Pito-one Settlers Museum
AWARDS & GRANTS
2001 Visiting Artist in Residence, Quay School of Art, Wanganui
Screen Innovation Fund Grant towards work on Cross Over (assisting Lindsay Rabbitt)
1997 Creative NZ Communities Grant for A Journey into Spain exhibition expenses
1996 Creative NZ Communities grant for Honouring Women poster
1984 QE11 Arts Council NZ assistance to attend 5th Biennale of Sydney
1982 Anne C. Martindell Young Artist’s Award for travel to U.S.
QE11 Arts Council NZ Study Grant for travel to U.S.
1981 QE11 Arts Council NZ Individual Project Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand), National Library Gallery, Sarjeant
Gallery, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Manawatu Art Gallery/Te Manawa, City Library: Palmerston North, Dowse Art Museum, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Buddle Findlay Law Firm, Novotel Capital Hotel, Wellington
ARTMUSEUM EMPLOYMENT
2006-current Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast, Director/Curator
2003-4 Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast
Contracted curator for 'Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe'.
1991-93 City Gallery, Wellington
Education Curator
1987 National Art Gallery, Wellington
Honorary Curator, Photography
1984-86 Pito-One Settlers Museum
Curatorial, education, exhibitions assistant
1982 Maine Photography Gallery, Rockport, U.S.A.
Exhibitions assistant
1981 Women's Gallery, Wellington
Exhibitions assistant
1980-81 PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
Director (Artist-run space)
1980-81 National Art Gallery, Wellington
Exhibitions assistant
1978-79 Manawatu Art Gallery
Exhibitions & curatorial assistant (summers)
1979 Auckland City Art Gallery
Photography assistant
CURATORIAL & RESEARCH PROJECTS
2010 Frances Hodgkins, Kapiti Treasures, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2009 Light, Black & Silver, Mahara Gallery,Waikanae
The Colour of Water, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2007 Collecting Photographs, New Zealand Centre of Photography, Shed 11, Wellington
2006 Memory Land, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2005 Another View: International Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection.
Advisory and writing role for national tour of exhibition developed by Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, and Exhibition Services
2004 Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe, Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast, and national tour
2002-2003 Development of an Arts, Culture & Heritage Strategy for Horowhenua District Council (Contract)
2001 Selections from Over the Line, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
(Massey University Diploma in Photography students)
1999 Ni Hao! Being Chinese in the Manawatu, Science Centre & Manawatu Museum
1996 Artist’s Books & Beyond, Square Edge, Palmerston North
1990 Inheritance, Art, Heritage and the Past, City Gallery, Wellington
(Co-curator with Athol McCredie)
1987 The Trained Eye, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1986-89 T.V.N.Z., Researcher, Entertainment
1985 Witness to Change, Life in New Zealand 1940-1965, Photographs: John Pascoe, Les Cleveland, Ans Westra. City Gallery, Wellington and national tour (Co-curator with Athol McCredie)
1985 Te whenua te iwi o Pito-one, The land and the people of Petone, Petone Settlers’ Museum
1984 The Centenary of Sunlight Soap, Pito-one Settler’s Museum
1981 Points of View, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
1981 19th and 20th Century Albumen Prints, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
TEACHING/ PUBLIC LECTURES
2006-2009
Curator's Talks, Mahara Gallery
Prakash Patel, Seraphine Pick, Christina Conrad, Susan Skerman,
Parallel Praxis: Paul Thompson, Andrew Ross, Johanna Mechen,
The Real Art Roadshow - Black
The Real Art Roadshow - Silver
The Colour of Water
2007 Pataka Museum of Art & Cultures.
'Another View: The Seresin Family Collection
2006 National Library, 'Memory Talking', for the exhibition
'Within memory: aspects of New Zealand documentary photography
1960-2000'
2005 Victoria University, Media Studies Department (Tutor: Media 101,
Media 102 - Media, Politics and Society)
Seminar: 'Public/Private: John Pascoe's photographs of children'
2004 Curator's talks for exhibition ‘Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a
New Zealand Childhood’ by John Pascoe, Museum of Wellington City
& Sea; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui.
Victoria University, Media Studies Department (Tutor: Media 101 - Semiotics; Tutor Media 202 - Media in Aotearoa/New Zealand)
2003 ‘Mexican Moments Extended’, Te Aratoi, Wairarapa (Invited floor talk)
Massey University School of Fine Arts, Visiting Lecturer,Critical Studies
2000-2002 Massey University School of Design
Lecturer: Photographic Histories, Theory and Criticism (Fixed Term Contract)
1994-1999 Ucol (formerly Manawatu Polytechnic)
Lecturer: Art History, Museum Studies, Photography and History of Photography
1997 Palmerston North College of Education
Visiting Lecturer, on the teaching of art history
1997-98 Te Whare Akonga, Open Learning Centre (Palmerston North)
Co-Tutor, Women's Art and Women's Writing programmes
1996 Victoria University, Wellington
Visiting Lecturer on NZ History of Photography
Palmerston North College of Education, Visiting Photography Tutor
1995 Massey University, Palmerston North Campus
Visiting Lecturer, Photography for product technology students
1994 Wanganui Community Polytechnic
Visiting Lecturer, Art History
1986 Contributor to ‘Nationalism / Internationalism’ Critics Symposium, National Art Gallery
1980-81 Chilton St James School, Lower Hutt
Bursary Art History
1980 Newlands Community College, Photography tutor
1976 Pakuranga Arts Centre, Art tutor
JANET LESLEY BAYLY
BIOGRAPHY
June 7,1955 Born Tauranga, New Zealand
1968-72 Hutt Valley High School, Lower Hutt
1973-76 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland B.F.A.
1977-79 Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland M.F.A.
1995 Palmerston North College of Education Cert. Adult Teaching
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Dwelling, with Nikolai Kokx, McNamara Photography Gallery
2007 Transmission, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2005 Presence/Absence, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2004 Light, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Janet Bayly, Marshall Seifert Gallery, Dunedin
2002 Other/Self, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2001 Polaroid Works 1979-2001, PhotoSpace Gallery, Wellington
2000 Camera Obscura, PhotoSpace Gallery, Wellington
Janet Bayly Photographs, LUSH Gallery, Kapiti Coast
1999 Messages from the interior , Olive Cafe, Wellington
1998 Photographs from a Benedictine Women’s Retreat, Alexander Library, Wanganui & Olive Cafe, Wellington
1997 A Journey into Spain, BAM, Wellington & Archive Room, City Library, Palmerston North
One Woman’s Word Poem (Installation), Palmerston North City Library
1985 Janet Bayly Photographs, Peter McLeavey Gallery
1983 Janet Bayly Photographs, Manawatu Art Gallery
1981 Polaroids - Janet Bayly, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
1980 SX-70 Pictures, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
1979 SX-70 Pictures, Real Pictures, Auckland
Photographs by Janet Bayly, Outreach Auckland City Cultural Centre, Auckland
1978 Janet Bayly Photographs, Elam Fine Arts Library, University of Auckland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Light: Black & Silver, Mahara Gallery
Blue, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
2008 Landed, Te Manawa
2007 Moving Still, McNamara Photography Gallery / The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland
2006 BitterSweet, Tim Nees Gallery, Wellington
Memory Land, nga mahara, Mahara Gallery
2005 Main Trunk Lines, New Zealand Poetry, National Library
2004 In Flower, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures & Northland Art Centre, Whangarei
The 70s Show, Te Papa
2003 Tracing Polaroid SX-70, McNamara Photography Gallery, Wanganui & Pataka Museum of Art & Cultures
Image and Object, Still Life in New Zealand, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures
The Caravan, McNamara Photography Gallery & tour to Pataka Museum of Arts & Cultures & Bishop Suter Gallery
Laid, Artist’s Tiles, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Beauty and Sadness, Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast
2002 Victory over Death, Peter McLeavey Gallery
Artists in the Garden, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
Par for the Course, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Touchstones: Treasures and Taonga from the Kapiti Coast, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae (commissioned work: ‘House of Cards’)
Installation of A Candle in a Dark Room at Novotel Hotel, Wellington
2001 Group Sex, Erotic Art by Consensual Participants, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Looking Back, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
Hush Hush, Point Zero, Wanganui
Friends of the Family ... the Bieringa Collection, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
Old Gates, New Journeys, Michael Hirschfield Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington
Dolly Mixture, Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
Photo 2, Te Wa, The Space, Wanganui
up:date//The Active Eye
Local Yokels, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
Art with Heart, Idiom gallery, Wellington
2000 Dressed in Paint, Manawatu Art Gallery
I Mua-I Muri, Before & After, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
Camera Lucida / A Private Collection, Idiom Studio, Wellington
1999 Kaleidoscope, Shed 11, Magdalena Aotearoa Women’s Festival, Wellington
1995 Currency-Contemporary Photographic Art, Auckland Domain Museum, Auckland
1990 Eye to Eye, ARTSPACE, Auckland
1989 United Art Award, Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
1987 A Portrait of Law (Commissioned), Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
Visual Diaries, Wellington Fringe Festival
1985 ANZART ‘85 Artist’s Books Show, Auckland City Art Gallery
The Body in Question, National Art Gallery
Women in New Zealand Society 1884-1985, Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
1984 Image ‘84, National Art Gallery
1983 Eleven Women Photographers, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
Three Women Artists: Janet Paul, Jill McIntosh, Janet Bayly, City Gallery, Wellington
Images of Women, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
1982 Views/Exposures: 10 Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, National Art Gallery, Wellington & national tour
Works on paper, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington
Me By Myself:The Self Portrait, National Art Gallery, Wellington
Polaroids: Janet Bayly, Gary Blackman, Jane Zusters, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1981 Still Life Still Lives, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
Self-Portraits, Snaps Gallery, Auckland
Women and Sexuality, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
Recent Acquisitions, National Art Gallery, Wellington
Self-Image, The Women’s Gallery, Wellington
1980 Opening, City Gallery, Wellington
Illusions, Fantasies and Lies, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
Collection ‘80, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington & Wairarapa Arts Centre, Masterton
amily Photos, Snaps Gallery, Wellington
1979 International Self-Portrait Invitational, Northlight Gallery, Arizona & American tour
SX-70, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
PhotoForum ‘79, Auckland Domain Museum & PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
Child in the World, Manawatu Art Gallery
1978 Double Take, (Janet Bayly & Christine Lloyd-Fitt) Snaps Gallery, Auckland
Instant Pictures, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
After Dark, Snaps Gallery, Auckland
PhotoForum ‘78, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland
Family and Friends Part 1, Snaps Gallery, Auckland
PUBLICATIONS, PORTFOLIOS & ARTIST'S BOOKS
2010 Frances Hodgkins, Kapiti Treasures, Mahara Gallery (editor and essayist)
2009 Mirek Smisek, 60 Years 60 Pots, Mahara Gallery (editor and essayist)
2008 After Image, Séraphine Pick, Exhibition catalogue essay, Sarjeant Gallery
2007 ‘A Familiar Practice, Johanna Mechen’ (Article) New Zealand Journal of Photography , No 64, 2007
‘Balancing poems and photographs’ .Book review of Shards of Silver, edited and authored by Paul Thompson, New Zealand Journal of Photography , No 64, 2007, p26
‘Collecting Photographers’ Curator’s introduction to exhibition at New Zealand Centre of Photography, Shed 11, Queen’s Wharf, Wellington,
New Zealand Journal of Photography , No 64, 2007
Collecting Photographers (Catalogue), New Zealand Centre of Photography, July, 2007
2005 'Wayne Barrar's Coober Pedy portfolio' (Article) Contact Sheet:The Light Work Annual 2005, Syracuse, NY: Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center
' 'Ans Westra' in the Realm of Textual Construction(s)' (Review) Landfall, Issue 209, Dunedin: OUP, May 2005
2004 Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe (Editor and essayist), Mahara Gallery and Pacific Press
2002 ‘The Interior, 44 Photographs, 1981-2001, Laurence Aberhart’ (Review)
New Zealand Journal of Photography, No 49, Summer 2002/3
(Portfolio of photographs) New Zealand Journal of Photography, No. 45, Summer 2001/2002
Other/Self, Photographs and video, Janet Bayly (Catalogue and essay) Janet Bayly and Thermostat Gallery, Palmerston North
Tiger Words, Paekakariki Poets at PukaPuka, Paekakariki: Earl of
Seacliff Art Workshop
2001 Camera Obscura, artist's book
(Photograph of New Zealand writer Dan Davin) The N.Z.Listener, June 2, p60
‘Dream on, Desert Flowering: Aboriginal Art from Private Collections, at the Manawatu Art Gallery’ (exhibition review)The N.Z.Listener, July 28,
2000 Seeing through words, artist's book
‘A View from the Inside, The photographs of Catherine Russ’, Art New Zealand, No 96, Spring 2000, pp86-89
‘Thinking about looking at photographs (again)’, NZ Journal of
Photography, No 39, May 2000, pp 7-10, 15-17
(Photographs of New Zealand musician Johnny Devlin)The N.Z. Listener, October 21,
1999 Ni Hao: Being Chinese in the Manawatu , (3 books), Science Centre
and Manawatu Museum
1998 The nest, the tree, the river; A Benedictine Women's Retreat, Benedictine Events
1997 A Journey into Spain, portfolio of photographs in an edition of 11
1996 An exploratory report into teaching and learning art history to
enhance relevance, context, interaction and critical thinking, Research
Report for Design Centre, CASS Faculty, Manawatu Polytechnic
1995 Honouring Women, Nga Mana Wahine o Manawatu, A1 Colour poster with photographs by Janet Bayly and Catherine Russ, Open Learning Centre, Palmerston North
1994-1999 Manawatu Evening Standard Arts reviewer
1987 The Trained Eye (catalogue), National Art Gallery, Wellington
1986 ‘Whaiora: The Pursuit of Life, by Ans Westra’, Art New Zealand No.39
‘Hockney’s Photographs’, Wellington City Magazine, October
1985 Witness to Change, Life in New Zealand 1940-1965, John Pascoe, Les Cleveland, Ans Westra, PhotoForum Wellington Inc. (co-curator, author of Introductory essay ‘New Zealand Documentary: Roots, Sources and Inspiration’ and essay ‘Ans Westra: ‘Finding a ‘Place’ in New Zealand’)(1st Equal Montana NZ Book Awards for Production including editing, writing, design)
‘Richard Wotton’s Photographs, 1975-1984’, Art New Zealand, No 36
‘Walking the Tightrope: Working Men by Glenn Busch’, National Art Gallery Newsletter No 1
‘Form & Image, Gisborne Artists’, ArtStuff No.1
1984 Twelve Flowers, portfolio of photographs in an edition of 20
The Heretaunga River Mouth as it was in 1839, Pito-One Settler's
Museum, Petone
‘Photography at the Fifth Biennale of Sydney & other venues’, PhotoForum National Newsletter, No. 18, July
‘Laurence Aberhart: About 62 Photographs at Peter McLeavey Gallery’, PhotoForum National Newsletter, No. 18, July
1981 ‘Photographs as Icons - A personal view’, PhotoForum Magazine, No. 48, Spring 1981
1980 ‘PhotoForum Gallery - An Interview with the Directors’, PhotoForum Supplement, No.5, Spring
‘Women in Communication. A Multi- Media Exhibition’ (review of National Art Gallery exhibition of same title), PhotoForum Supplement, No.5, Spring
PhotoForum Magazine, No. 47, December (portfolio of photographs)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 'Collecting Photographs', Dr Sandy Callister interviewed by David Langman, New Zealand Journal of Photography No. 64, 2007. pp13-18
Moving Still (Catalogue with essay by Jan Bryant), The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland and McNamara Photography Gallery
2006 David Eggleton, Into the Light, A History of New Zealand Photography, Craig Potton Publishing
2005 Chris Hunter,Vantastic, A Pictorial History of Caravans in New Zealand, Harper Collins Publishers
Fran Dibble, 'Towards abstraction', Manawatu Evening Standard, November 27, Paul Thompson, New Zealand Books, review of Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood edited by Janet Bayly
2004 Helen Kedgley, In Flower, Pataka Museum of Art and Cultures
2003 The Caravan (Catalogue) McNamara Photography Gallery
Tracing Polaroid SX-70 (Catalogue) McNamara Photography Gallery,
2001 Barnett, G. ‘ Recognising Ourselves Looking Back: New Zealand Photography 1950-2000’, Art New Zealand, No. 99, Winter 2001, pp59- 61
www.up:date//The Active Eye (PhotoForum, Issue 68)
1998 Thompson, P. A Century of Images, Wellington:Te Papa Press.
Kirker, Anne. New Zealand Women Artists, (2nd ed). Auckland: Reed Methuen. (1st ed. 1985, 2nd ed. 1998)
1995 Bieringa, L. ‘Currency, let’s do something’
1987 Tweedie, M. (ed.) Six Women Photographers, Auckland: PhotoForum New Zealand
1986 Art Diary, in situ figures, faces and places , Wellington: National Art Gallery
1985 Art Diary, City/Country, Wellington: National Art Gallery
1982 Ireland, P. (ed.) Views/Exposures: 10 Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Wellington: National Art Gallery
1980 Quin, D. ‘Self Portraits, Snaps Gallery’, PhotoForum Supplement, Spring 1980, Issue 5, p 9
1979 Bosworth, R. ‘Photographs by Janet Bayly’, Art New Zealand, No.13, Spring 1979, p35
Boyd, M. ‘Janet Bayly at Outreach’, PhotoForum Supplement, Spring 1979, p14
1978 Hutchins, T. ‘Family and Friends - review’ Art New Zealand, No.9, Feb/April
VIDEO
2002 Questions of Silence, 3 minute digital video
2001-2005 Cross Over (film with Lindsay Rabbitt)
1993 Interview with Christina Kubisch, (German sculptor) for City Gallery Wellington
1986 Centenary of Sunlight Soap, Pito-one Settlers Museum
AWARDS & GRANTS
2001 Visiting Artist in Residence, Quay School of Art, Wanganui
Screen Innovation Fund Grant towards work on Cross Over (assisting Lindsay Rabbitt)
1997 Creative NZ Communities Grant for A Journey into Spain exhibition expenses
1996 Creative NZ Communities grant for Honouring Women poster
1984 QE11 Arts Council NZ assistance to attend 5th Biennale of Sydney
1982 Anne C. Martindell Young Artist’s Award for travel to U.S.
QE11 Arts Council NZ Study Grant for travel to U.S.
1981 QE11 Arts Council NZ Individual Project Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Te Papa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand), National Library Gallery, Sarjeant
Gallery, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Manawatu Art Gallery/Te Manawa, City Library: Palmerston North, Dowse Art Museum, Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Buddle Findlay Law Firm, Novotel Capital Hotel, Wellington
ARTMUSEUM EMPLOYMENT
2006-current Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast, Director/Curator
2003-4 Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast
Contracted curator for 'Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe'.
1991-93 City Gallery, Wellington
Education Curator
1987 National Art Gallery, Wellington
Honorary Curator, Photography
1984-86 Pito-One Settlers Museum
Curatorial, education, exhibitions assistant
1982 Maine Photography Gallery, Rockport, U.S.A.
Exhibitions assistant
1981 Women's Gallery, Wellington
Exhibitions assistant
1980-81 PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
Director (Artist-run space)
1980-81 National Art Gallery, Wellington
Exhibitions assistant
1978-79 Manawatu Art Gallery
Exhibitions & curatorial assistant (summers)
1979 Auckland City Art Gallery
Photography assistant
CURATORIAL & RESEARCH PROJECTS
2010 Frances Hodgkins, Kapiti Treasures, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2009 Light, Black & Silver, Mahara Gallery,Waikanae
The Colour of Water, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2007 Collecting Photographs, New Zealand Centre of Photography, Shed 11, Wellington
2006 Memory Land, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae
2005 Another View: International Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection.
Advisory and writing role for national tour of exhibition developed by Millenium Gallery, Blenheim, and Exhibition Services
2004 Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a New Zealand Childhood by John Pascoe, Mahara Gallery, Kapiti Coast, and national tour
2002-2003 Development of an Arts, Culture & Heritage Strategy for Horowhenua District Council (Contract)
2001 Selections from Over the Line, One Eye Gallery, Paekakariki
(Massey University Diploma in Photography students)
1999 Ni Hao! Being Chinese in the Manawatu, Science Centre & Manawatu Museum
1996 Artist’s Books & Beyond, Square Edge, Palmerston North
1990 Inheritance, Art, Heritage and the Past, City Gallery, Wellington
(Co-curator with Athol McCredie)
1987 The Trained Eye, National Art Gallery, Wellington
1986-89 T.V.N.Z., Researcher, Entertainment
1985 Witness to Change, Life in New Zealand 1940-1965, Photographs: John Pascoe, Les Cleveland, Ans Westra. City Gallery, Wellington and national tour (Co-curator with Athol McCredie)
1985 Te whenua te iwi o Pito-one, The land and the people of Petone, Petone Settlers’ Museum
1984 The Centenary of Sunlight Soap, Pito-one Settler’s Museum
1981 Points of View, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
1981 19th and 20th Century Albumen Prints, PhotoForum Gallery, Wellington
TEACHING/ PUBLIC LECTURES
2006-2009
Curator's Talks, Mahara Gallery
Prakash Patel, Seraphine Pick, Christina Conrad, Susan Skerman,
Parallel Praxis: Paul Thompson, Andrew Ross, Johanna Mechen,
The Real Art Roadshow - Black
The Real Art Roadshow - Silver
The Colour of Water
2007 Pataka Museum of Art & Cultures.
'Another View: The Seresin Family Collection
2006 National Library, 'Memory Talking', for the exhibition
'Within memory: aspects of New Zealand documentary photography
1960-2000'
2005 Victoria University, Media Studies Department (Tutor: Media 101,
Media 102 - Media, Politics and Society)
Seminar: 'Public/Private: John Pascoe's photographs of children'
2004 Curator's talks for exhibition ‘Songs of Innocence, Photographs of a
New Zealand Childhood’ by John Pascoe, Museum of Wellington City
& Sea; Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui.
Victoria University, Media Studies Department (Tutor: Media 101 - Semiotics; Tutor Media 202 - Media in Aotearoa/New Zealand)
2003 ‘Mexican Moments Extended’, Te Aratoi, Wairarapa (Invited floor talk)
Massey University School of Fine Arts, Visiting Lecturer,Critical Studies
2000-2002 Massey University School of Design
Lecturer: Photographic Histories, Theory and Criticism (Fixed Term Contract)
1994-1999 Ucol (formerly Manawatu Polytechnic)
Lecturer: Art History, Museum Studies, Photography and History of Photography
1997 Palmerston North College of Education
Visiting Lecturer, on the teaching of art history
1997-98 Te Whare Akonga, Open Learning Centre (Palmerston North)
Co-Tutor, Women's Art and Women's Writing programmes
1996 Victoria University, Wellington
Visiting Lecturer on NZ History of Photography
Palmerston North College of Education, Visiting Photography Tutor
1995 Massey University, Palmerston North Campus
Visiting Lecturer, Photography for product technology students
1994 Wanganui Community Polytechnic
Visiting Lecturer, Art History
1986 Contributor to ‘Nationalism / Internationalism’ Critics Symposium, National Art Gallery
1980-81 Chilton St James School, Lower Hutt
Bursary Art History
1980 Newlands Community College, Photography tutor
1976 Pakuranga Arts Centre, Art tutor
b.1955
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