Ann Shelton
Biography
Bio / CV
Ann Shelton (MFA, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) was born in Timaru, New Zealand. Shelton’s internationally recognised large‑scale, hyper real photographic works operate at the nexus of conceptual and documentary modes, investigating the social, political and historical contexts that inform readings of the landscape and its contents. Shelton is recognised as one of New Zealand's leading photographic artists and in 2010 was the overall winner of the CoCA Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award.
In 2011, Shelton’s recent and ongoing body of work in a forest, was shown in London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Auckland. In 2010 she co-edited the publication Sightseeing: an exhibition and a publication of postcards that explore the representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography – this group show includes Shelton’s work among the 8 German and 8 New Zealand artists featured. In 2009 she exhibited the series Public Places in Images Recalled (Bilder auf Abruf), Germany's largest photographic biennale curated by Tobias Berger and Esther Ruelfs. Shelton’s work is regularly seen in New Zealand and internationally in countries as diverse as China, Lithuania, Italy, England, Poland, Germany, Australia and Canada.
Recent group shows include Dark Sky at The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington curated by Geoffery Batchen and Tina Barton, a way of calling at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne curated by Melissa Keys. In 2006 Shelton's major project a library to scale was awarded the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award, and in 2007 the project toured New Zealand and Australia.
Shelton lectures in Fine Art and Photography at Massey University in Wellington and is currently Chairperson of Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington's artist-run space. She is represented by Starkwhite and Paul McNamara Gallery.
CV July 2012
Ann Shelton
Curriculum Vitae
www.annshelton.com
Education
Masters in Fine Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2002.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1995.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo
the index case, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, August 2012.
Group
Now and Then: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand
Photography. Touring, 2012.
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower
Hutt, New Zealand, August 2012.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
in a forest (excerpts), The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, curated by
Emma Bugden, May – August 2012.
2011
in a forest (excerpts), Temporary Show Space, London Lane, London, May.
in a forest (excerpts), Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, November.
2010
a ride in the darkness, Starkwhite Gallery Auckland, July.
a ride in the darkness, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, March.
2009
Room Room, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, Auckland Festival of
Photography, May.
once more with feeling, Hocken Gallery, University of Otago, December-January.
2008
once more with feeling, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, December - January 2009.
Room Room, City Gallery Wellington, Hirschfeld Gallery, September - October.
from the island, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, August - September.
Hall of Mirrors, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, June - July.
2007
a library to scale, Part I, II, III, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.
a library to scale, Part I, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
a library to scale, Part I, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington.
26 photos of a house, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, February.
26 photos of a house, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, October - November.
2006
a library to scale, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, July.
2005
Ann Shelton: Bifocal, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru, December - February 2006.
Excerpts from A Kind of Sleep, Starkwhite, Auckland, August.
2004
a ride in the darkness, Starkwhite gallery, July-August.
a kind of sleep, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, December - February 05.
The Parsons Project, Parsons Bookshop, Auckland, September.
Once More from the Street, Starkwhite, Auckland, September.
Vacant Possesion, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, June.
2003
Nine Lives, 1.6 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, September.
Works by Ann Shelton, Starkwhite, Auckland, June.
Erewhon, Starkwhite, Auckland, May.
K Hole, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, May.
2002
Erewhon, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, November.
2000
A Girl in Every Port, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, July.
The Strip, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, May.
Abigail’s Party, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, May.
1998
Cabin Fever, an installation for Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, October.
Big Head, Art on the Move, Bus Art Project for the Physics Room, Christchurch, July.
Selected images from REDEYE, The Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt, January.
1997
REDEYE, Touring to The Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, February. Artspace,
Auckland, June. The Art Annex, Christchurch, June. Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
September.
1996
REDEYE, Selected images, Teststrip, Auckland, May.
1995
From the Waist Down, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, July.
The Intrigue of My Evening, Teststrip, Auckland, March.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Dark Sky, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, curated by Geoffery Batchen and Tina
Barton, May – July 2012.
Now and Then: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand
Photography, Te Manawa: Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North,
March – June 2012.
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, Auckland University of
Technology Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, May 2012.
2011
Documentaries, ST PAUL St Gallery Three, Auckland, December.
A way of calling, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, May – June.
Mildura palimpsest #8 collaborators and saboteurs, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura,
Australia, September.
before today is tomorrow/vor gestern ist morgen, Berlin, A GlogauAIR project, April – May
are we not drawn onward to a new era, Ann Shelton and Murray Hewitt, Suite Gallery,
Wellington, March.
Campus a low hum, Billboards, from the series Lost Girls, Bulls. Curated by Sarah
Jane Parton. February.
Capitol, Billboard for the Ghuznee Street Billboard project. December 2010 – January.
Sightseeing: an exhibition and publication of postcards that explores the
representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography.
Auckland University of Technology Gallery, AUT Auckland and McNamara Gallery
Wanganui. Editor and participating artist.
2010
Enjoy Recipes Illustrated, Wellington, New Zealand, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 29
September – October.
Double Take/Time Frame, Project Space, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Austrailia.
Curated by Martin Partrick.
Campus O Low Hum, Bulls, New Zealand. Curated by Sarah Jane Parton. February.
Double Take/Time Frame, The Engine room Gallery, Massey University, Wellington.
February. Curated by Martin Partrick.
Capital Times, Suite Gallery, Wellington, May.
a serious kind of beauty: the heroic landscape, McNamara Gallery December 5 – January
29. Touring to Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, February 12 – March 28.
Unpacking my Library, Te Tuhi Center for the Arts, Auckland, February 13 – April 11.
Curated by Stephen Cleland.
Sightseeing: an exhibition and publication of postcards that explores the
representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography.
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, September and the Dowse Art Gallery, October
2010. Editor and participating artist.
2009
Images Recalled, Public Places, 3 fotofestival_Mannheim_Ludwigshaffen, Heidleberg,
Germany. Curated by Tobias Berger and Esther Ruelfs.
Photography Sell Out, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, Auckland Festival of
Photography, June.
Am I Scared, Boy (Eh): Collection Works From Then And Now, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, April - May.
2008
Collect/project, Adam Art Gallery, Curated by Tina Barton, June.
Earth Matters, Auckland City art Gallery, Curated by Natasha Conland, May -
September.
Taranaki Whenua: Life Blood Legacy, Puke Ariki, Curated by Bill Millbank. February -
June.
2007
Movingstill, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, June - July.
Wonderland, Auckland Festival Ak07, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, March.
the ghost of an idea: bridges, waterfalls and hexagons, Starkwhite Gallery
Auckland, June - July.
Askew: Photographs from the Sargeant Gallery’s permanent collection, September -
November.
Kiosk, Artist Space New York. curated by Christoph Keller, May.
2006
Recovered Memory, The Fourth Goodman-Suter Contemporary Art Project. The Suter
Art Gallery, Nelson, curated By Lara Strongman, October - November.
Gothic New Zealand, exhibition and book launch, Roger Williams Gallery, Auckland.
November - December.
An-other Childhood, The Millennium Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. curated By Janita
Craw. November - December.
The Waikato Art Award 2006, Winner, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, August.
Archive Fever, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, curated by Emily Cormack, August -
October.
SATELLITE, Shanghai, China, curated by Richard Thomas, John Di Stefano,
September - October.
Wonder-Land, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China,
September.
Wonder-Land, New Zealand Photography at the Fotografia Festival Internazionale di
Roma
the Project Room, Villa Glori, Via Argentina, Rome, April.
Viewfinder: Four Decades of The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Collection, Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Mercedes Vicente, March.
Verbatim… revelation to oblivion, National Library, Wellington, curated by Paul
McNamara, April.
Contemporary NZ Photographers, Pataka, Wellington, Feb - Apr.
HIGH TIDE, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Magda
Kardasz for Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and Simon Rees for the
Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, February - April. Touring to The Contemporary Art
Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, June.
Kiosk, Artspace, Auckland, curated by Christoph Keller, April.
2005
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Starkwhite, Auckland, December.
The Iris Fisher Art Awards, Te Tuhi - The Mark, Auckland, November - December.
Home, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, November.
Starving Artists Fund Art Auction, Artspace, Auckland, August.
The Waikato Art Award 2005, Finalist, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, August.
Verbatim… revelation to oblivion, Lopdell House, Auckland, curated by Paul
McNamara, August.
Great Green Art Auction, Union Fish Company Building, Auckland, July.
Solstice: Inaugural Exhibition, Matakana Pictures, Warkworth, curated by Mark
Adams, Haruhiko Sameshima and Ian Macdonald, June - August.
Sharp Shooting, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, curated by Heather Galbraith, April.
2004
Coming Home in the Dark, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, curated by Felicity
Milburn, October.
Lights>camera>action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Simon
Rees, June.
Hollyweird: Art from Los Angeles, curated by Ann Shelton, Starkwhite, Auckland,
January.
2003
Deep-Vein Psychosis, rm 103, Auckland, curated by Anthony Byrt, October.
Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, curated by
Robert Leonard, December - January.
Put Out More Flags, a Cuckoo project, Moving Image Centre Gallery, Auckland, May.
Dead Ringer, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, curated by Robin Stoney, March.
Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington,
curated by Zara Stanhope, February.
No Direct Line from My Heart to My Brain, The Physics Room, Christchurch, curated
by Violet Faigan, February.
2002
Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Simon Rees, December
2001 – January 2002.
Dogwood, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, September.
Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand, Heide Museum of Modern
Art, Melbourne, Australia, August, touring to Sale Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia,
curated by Zara Stanhope, November.
Suite, The Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, March.
2001
Feature: art, life & cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by
Gregory Burke, December – January.
Interior Horizons: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, Te Tuhi/The Mark,
Auckland, curated by Elizabeth Leyton, October.
Three Artists, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, October.
Bright Paradise, The Inaugural New Zealand Triennial, Auckland City Art Gallery,
Auckland, curated by Allan Smith, March.
Looking Back, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, January.
2000
In Glorious Dreams, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Gregory
Burke, December.
Multiples, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, May.
The Waikato Art Award 2000, Merit Award, Hamilton, February.
The New Acquisitions, The Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington,
February.
Mobile, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, curated by Francisco
Fisher, January.
Drive: power>progress>desire, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated
by Gregory Burke and Hanna Scott, January.
1999
Wonderlands, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Gregory Burke
and Hanna Scott, December – January.
The Collected Works, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Jim and
Mary Barr, November.
We Really Care, rm 3, Auckland, July.
In Art We Trust, Fiat Lux fundraiser, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland.
1998
Necessary Protection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, December.
Folklore: The New Zealander’s, Artspace, Auckland, July, touring to Sargeant Art
Gallery, curated by Gavin Hipkins, October.
1997
fotofeis, REDEYE, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, August.
New Work, The Physics Room, Christchurch.
Sharp and Shiny, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, curated by John Hurrell, June.
Kisser, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, May.
1996
100 Bucks, Teststrip, Auckland, December.
Laying it on Thick, Artspace, Auckland, curated by Delia Brown, Judy Millar and Peter
Shand, Jan – Feb.
1995
Please Give Generously, Teststrip, Auckland.
Terminal, Ambassador Theatre, Auckland.
Stamina, Ambassador Theatre, Auckland, December.
Selected Collaborative Exhibitions
1998
Lisa, The New Gallery Window, Auckland City Art Gallery, with Steven Ball, August.
1996
Golden Breed, 23A Gallery, Auckland, with David Scott, September.
Pink Bits, The High Street Project, Christchurch, with Joyce Campbell, August.
Selected Bibliography
Books and monographs
Shelton, Ann. Metadata. New Zealand: Ann Shelton (Artist Book) 2011.
Shelton, Ann. REDEYE. New Zealand: Rim Books, 1997. ISBN 0473044129.
Shelton, Ann. REDEYE. England: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1997. ISBN 9781899235957.
Shelton, Ann. Public Places. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-476-00113-7.
Shelton, Ann. a library to scale. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2006.ISBN 0-473-
11254-X.
Shelton, Ann. a new skin, Artists Book, New Zealand: The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery,
2007.
Shelton, Ann. once more with feeling. New Zealand: Hocken Library, University of
Otago, 2008. ISBN 978-1-877486-06-7.
Shelton, Ann. Room Room. New Zealand: City Gallery Wellington, 2009. ISBN 0-
9582704-6-5.
Shelton, Ann and Turner Stephen. Wastelands, New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-473-16636-6.
Burke, Gregory, a kind of sleep. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
ISBN 0908848-01-3.
Selected catalogues and pageworks (by publication name)
a way of calling Keys, Melissa. Catalogue. Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts,
Melbourne, 2011.
Abigail’s Party. Nielson, Ingrid. Catalogue. Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2000.
A Birds Eye View. Malone, Daniel. Teststrip Micrograph Series, Auckland, July 2000.
a kind of sleep. Burke, Gregory. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
An-other Childhood. Craw, Janita & Duhn, Iris. Auckland: Unitec New Zealand, 2006.
Art At Te Papa. McAloon, William. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2009.
Bright Paradise. Smith, Allan. The Inaugural Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery,
2001.
Dead Ringer: The Duplicitous Image. Stoney, Robin. Dead Ringer, Gus Fisher Gallery
and Auckland University, Auckland, March 2003.
Deep-Vein Psychosis. Byrt, Anthony. rm 103, Auckland, October 2003.
Dogwood. Szewczyk, Monika. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada, 2002.
Drive: power>progress>desire. Burke, Gregory and Scott, Hanna. Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2000.
Enjoy Recipes Illustrated. Enjoy Publishing, Edited by the Enjoy Trust: Amit Charan,
Ann Shelton, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Kate Woods and Molly Samsell. 2010.
Feature: art, life & cinema. Burke, Gregory. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, 2001.
Folklore: The New Zealander’s. Hipkins, Gavin. Artspace, Auckland, 1998.
Fotofeis Basic. Morgan, Chris. fotofeis 97, Scotland, 1997.
IDentikit. Catalogue. The High Street Project. Caxton Press. 1997.
In Glorious Dreams. Burke, Gregory. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth,
2000.
Interior Horizons: art on the verge of architecture and design. Catalogue , Te Tuhi
The Mark Art Gallery, Auckland, 2002.
Log Illustrated. Page-work, Big Head, Spring 1998: 31.
Log Illustrated. Page-work, Doublet, Parker/Hulme crime scene, Port Hills,
Christchurch, 2001, Summer, no.10, 2001: 18.
Log Illustrated. Page-work, K Hole, Summer, no. 10, (2000): 18.
Movingstill, Bryant Jan, Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland, 2007.
Nostalgia for the Future. Brennan, Stella. Artspace, Auckland, November 1999.
One Hundred and Fifty Ways of Loving. Artspace, Auckland, 1994.
once more with feeling. Shelton, Ann. the Hocken Collections, University of Otago,
Dunedin, 2008-2009
Probe, cover page-works, Issue 1, Art School Press, Manukau Institute of Technology,
1999.
Probe, page-works, Issue 2, Art School Press, Manukau Institute of Technology, 2000.
Probe, page-works, Issue 4, Art School Press, Manukau Institute of Technology, 2002.
(Re)visions of sex. catalogue, fotofeis 97, Scotland, 1997.
ROOM ROOM. Shelton, Ann. New Zealand: City Gallery Wellington, 2008.
Teststrip: A history of an artist run space. The Teststrip Board (ed). New Zealand:
Clouds, 2008
SATELLITE, Van Guard Gallery, Shanghai. 2006.
Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand. Stanhope, Zara. Heide
Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2002: 03-24.
The Collected Works. Catalogue, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, November, 1999.
The Strip. Chapman, Chris. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, May
2000.
Wastelands, Shelton, Ann and Turner, Stephen. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-473-16636-6.
Selected articles, Interviews and illustrations (by author)
Amery, Mark. “Presenting the Archive”. The Dominion Post, (28 May 2008): Arts 2.
Amery, Mark. “How to read a book from Waitara to War: The extraordinary pairing of
Ann Shelton and Frederick B. Butler”. The Dominion Post, 15 August 2007.
Barton, Christina. “Ann Shelton: 26 photographs of a house”. Architecture NZ,
(May/June 2007): 112-114.
Bowlan, Heather. “Slow Release: Recent Photography from New Zealand”. Salient,
Issue 4 (March 24): 2003.
Brennan, Stella. “No Place Like Home”. Pavement, (August/September 2000): 54.
Brownson, Ron. “Talking Photographs”. Art New Zealand, no. 77, Summer 1995-96:
50-53.
Bryant, Jan. “The sound of the past being sliced apart”. a new skin, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, 2007.
Burke, Gregory. Feature: art, life & cinema. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, 2001:7.
Byrt, Anthony. Erewhon [online]. New Zealand: 2002. Available from World Wide Web:
http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/archive/ann_s/ann.html
Byrt, Anthony. Deep-Vein Psychosis. Auckland: rm 103, October 2003.
Carver, Antonia. “fotofeis ‘97”. Flash Art, Vol. XXXI, no.199, March/April 1998: 79.
Bywater, John. Auckland Exhibitions, Art New Zealand, no.107, Winter 2003: 42-43.
Bywater, Jonathan. “9 1/2 weeks Auckland”. Log Illustrated, Summer 1998/99: 39.
Bywater, Jonathan. “Folk talk”. Log Illustrated, Spring 1998: 28.
Bywater, Jonathan. “Pinkbits”. Monica, October/November 1996: 37.
Carver, Antonia. “fotofeis ‘97”. Flash Art, Vol. XXX1, no.199, March-April 1998.
Carver, Antonia. “Sex, Lies and Photography: fotofeis, ‘97’”. Art Monthly (Australia), no.
170, (March 1998): 24.
Chapman, Chris. The Strip. Catalogue. Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide.
Australia, May 2000.
Cooper, Jeremy. “Passion and Compassion”. a new skin, New Zealand: The Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery, 2007.
Conrich, Ian and Murray, Stuart, New Zealand Film Makers, (cover image), Wayne
State University Press. Sept 2007.
Craw, Charlotte, New Zealand Journal of Photography, Number 55, Winter 2004: 12.
Cunnane, Abby. ROOM ROOM brochure. New Zealand: City Gallery Wellington, in
association with the exhibition ROOM ROOM held at the Michael Hirshfeld Gallery, City
Gallery Wellington Sep – Oct 2008.
Eggleton, David. “Seductive puzzles: The age of ambiguity”. Into the Light: A History
of New Zealand Photography. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2006, p.168-70.
French, Jennifer. “a kind of sleep”. Natural Selection, Issue 4, 2005: 16.
Gartenfeld, Alex. "VVORK" Fantom issue #3 (spring 2010) p64-65.
Gardiner, Sue. “Mad, bad and… often anxious”. Art News New Zealand, (Spring 2008):
90-95.
Gibson, Sarah. “Nostalgia as Cure”. Art New Zealand, Winter 2001: 48-50.
Huddleston, Charlotte. “Word reaches us from the distance”. a kind of sleep. New
Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
Intra, Giovanni. “drive-by shootings”. Pavement, Issue 10, (1996): 10.
Kraus, Chris. “True Crime: A Conversation between Ann Shelton and Chris Kraus”.
Public Places. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2003.
Laird, Tessa. “Museum and Gallery Reviews: A Girl in Every Port and LACE 2”. Art on
Paper, (December 2000): 84-85.
Laird, Tessa. “Details of Intrigue”. Craccum, Issue 4, 20 March 1995: 37.
Laird, Tessa. “From the Waist Down”. Craccum, Issue 18, August 2, 1995: 40.
Langman, David. Editorial, New Zealand Journal of Photography. no. 50, Autumn
2003.
Lister, Aaron, “Wellington Report”. Art New Zealand, no. 96 Spring 2000: 54-55.
Log Illustrated, Pagework, K Hole. The Physics room, Christchurch, Issue 10: 18.
Malone, Daniel. A Birds Eye View. Auckland: Teststrip Micrograph Series, July 2000.
McAloon, William. “Seven Go Wild in Wellington”. The Listener, 5 April 2000: 54.
McAloon, William. Art at Te Papa. Ed. William McAloon. Te Papa Press, 2009.
McAloon, William. “Review: Abigail’s Party”. Sunday Star Times, 4 June 2000: F6.
McFarlane, Kyla. “Slow Release: Recent New Zealand Photography”. Art New Zealand,
no.107, Winter 2003: 48-51.
McKenzie, Stuart. “Warrior Cast”. Artforum, (illustration only) February 1994: 64- 67,
McNamara T.J. “Paintings with Personality”. New Zealand Herald, 30 April 1996: b 6.
McNamara T.J. “Yesterday’s Mischief Today’s Art”. New Zealand Herald, 7 February
1996.
Mailing, Camilla. “Whats Going On?”, interview, National Radio, 8th May, 2003.
Main, Bill “Using a camera expressively”. Photographer’s Mail, vol.6, no.7, July 1997.
Main, Bill. “Books Under Review; Are ‘Warts and All’ Scars of Society?” The New
Zealand Journal Of Photography: 20.
Magner B.L. “Slow Release”. Photofile, no.67, (December 2002): 55
Mahoney, Elizabeth. “It’s all and something”. Make, no.78, December 97 – February 98:
22.
Malone, Daniel. A Birds Eye View. Catalogue. Teststrip Micrograph Series, Auckland,
July, 2000.
Millbank Bill. Taranaki Whenua: Life, Blood, Legacy, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
2008.
Mudie Cunningham, Daniel. “Sweet Dreams”. Sydney Star Observer, 24 February
2000: 20.
Nemec, Susan. “Law prompts loo scribble”. New Zealand Herald, 12 December 1994.
Neylon, John. “Strip Search” The Adelaide Review, June 2000.
Palmer, Louise. “For a Large and Changing Room on IDentikit”. IDentikit catalogue,
Caxton Press: 1997.
Parkinson, Jaenine and Bell Andrea, Eyeline, Australia 2009.
Patrick, Martin. “Vantage Points and Vanishing Spaces”. ROOM ROOM, New Zealand:
City Gallery Wellington, 2008.
Patrick, Martin, Reconfigured Realities: on the recent work of John Di Stefano and Ann
Shelton, Catalogue RMIT Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT Melbourne 2010.
Peck, Aaron. “Auto Instruction”. Front Magazine, Volume XIII, Number 3, (May/June
2002): 12-15.
Porter, Gwynneth, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Mountain View
Publishing, 2006, ed. Lara Strongman, p.120-127.
Porter, Gwynneth. “Miasma”. Public Places. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2003.
Porter, Gwynneth. “Bare Bones”. Dead Ringer. Auckland: Gus Fisher Gallery:
University of Auckland, March 2003.
Porter, Gwynneth. “A Girl in Every Port, Ann Shelton and LACE 2, Yvonne Todd.” Like,
no. 13, (2000): 55-56.
Paton, Justin. “Postcards from the edge”. The New Zealand Listener, Volume 159, no.
2986, 26 July – 1 August 1997: 40-41.
Paton, Justin. “Straight to the heart of it”. New Zealand Herald, 3 October 1996: B8
Paton, Justin. “Ross T Smith”. Art Asia Pacific, Issue 23, 1999: 108.
Pound, Francis. “The reflecting archive”. a library to scale, Rim Books, Auckland. 2006.
Rice, Rebecca. “Exhibitions Wellington”, Art New Zealand, 2009.
Reulfs, Esther, Abzenzen/Absences, Images Recalled, 3 Fotofestival,
Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, 2009 p.164.
Reulfs, Esther, “Postcard scenes: Observations on the relationship between picture
postcards and contemporary landscape photography”, Sightseeing, eds. Shelton, Ann
and Scot, Hanna, Rim books, 2010
Rojas, Alejandra. “Memories in Mirrors”, The Taranaki Daily News, 2008.
Sanderson, Anna. “In the Valley of the Shadow”. a kind of sleep, New Zealand: Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
Samson, Alan. “Wellington Street Life in Focus”. The Dominion, 20 May 1993: What’s
On Section.
Schroeder Mariana, The Wall Street Journal, German Photography Festival Goes
Beyond Mere Imagery, Sep 25, 2009.
Scott, Hanna. New Zealand Journal of Photography, Number 55, Winter 2004: 23.
Scott,
Hanna. “Dead Cert, the After-Effects of Dead Ringer”. New Zealand Journal of
Photography, Number 51 (Winter 2003): 23-24.
Sharp, Ian. “Get an Eye Full of in-yer-face photography”. Sunday Star Times, July
1997.
Shelton, Ann. “Mystical Nesian Photographs”. Public/Private, The Second Auckland
Triennial. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2004.
Ann Shelton. Interviews Larry Clark “Teenage Lust”. Pavement, February/March 1996:
66-70.
Simpson, Peter, “Review”, Sunday Star Times, 6 August, 2000.
Smith, Allan. Bright Paradise, The Inaugural Auckland Triennial. Auckland: Auckland Art
Gallery, (2001): 20.
Stanhope, Zara. Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand. Australia:
Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2002): 03-24.
Stead, Oliver. “REDEYE, by Ann Shelton”. Art New Zealand, no.84 Spring 1997: 84.
Stoney, Robin. Dead Ringer: The Duplicitous Image. Catalogue. Gus Fisher Gallery
and Auckland University, Auckland. March 2003.
Sylvester, Darren. “Interview with Slow Release Artists”, Flash, October 2002: 5-6.
Szewczyk, Monika. “Location Notes”. Dogwood. Canada: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
(2002): 10-17.
Turner, Peter. “Is documentary a Dinosaur?”. New Zealand Journal of Photography,
November 1993: 3.
Wethey, David. “Firing Squad Style Photography”. Christchurch Press, 25 June 1997:
16.
Wood, Andrew Paul. “A City Repossessed”, The New Zealand Listener, Volume 196,
no. 3365, 6-12 November 2004: 46.
Grants and Awards
The COCA Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award. Winner 2010.
The Waikato Art Award, Winner, 2006
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2004.
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2003.
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2002.
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2001.
The Waikato Art Award, Merit Award Winner, 2000.
University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2000.
Creative New Zealand, Under the New Work Initiative, 1999.
Creative New Zealand, Emerging Artists Grant, 1996.
Senior Prize, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1994.
Ilford Photographic Award, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1994.
Agfa Photographic Award, Elam School of Fine Arts.
Highly Commended, Junior Press Photographer Award, Qantas New Zealand Press
Awards, 1990
Selected Conferences Presentations and Artists Talks
Artist talk, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, 30 July 2011.
Artist talk, RMIT Project space, Melbourne, 30 July 2010.
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, anniversary forum, Panellist 2010.
Artist talk, Auckland Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Earth Matters. 2008.
Artist talk, University of Auckland, Gus Fisher Gallery on the occasion of Room
Room. 2009.
In conversation with Charlotte Huddleston, Auckland festival of Photography, Auckland
Art Gallery.
In conversation with Charlotte Huddleston, Wellington City Gallery on the occasion of
the exhibition Room Room.
Artist talk, Monash University, Melbourne, 2007 on the occasion of a library to scale at
Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne.
Pecha Kucha speaker, Wellington City Gallery, 2008.
Artist talk, London, at the Center for New Zealand Studies, 2009.
In conversation with Ron Brownson on the life and works of Giovanni Intra. On the
occasion of the exhibition Beginning in the archive, at Artspace Auckland, 2008.
Peer reviewed International conference paper, Plymouth University, UK. 2009.
Conference Organizer, Cultural Provocation, Art, Activism and Social Change.
Auckland. September. 2003.
Artist talk. Govett Brewster Art Gallery. New Plymouth. 2004.
Panelist. Un(real): the terrain of the documentary in contemporary photography,
April. 2003.
Panelist. A Picture for Woman-fictions in the Landscape, In conjunction with the
exhibition
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Justine Kurland, Artspace, October. 2003.
Artist talk. University of Victoria. Vancouver Island, Canada. 2002.
Artist talk. The Contemporary Arts Society. Vancouver, Canada. 2002.
Paper delivered. Charles H Scott Lecture Theatre, Vancouver, Canada. 2002
Ann Shelton (MFA, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) was born in Timaru, New Zealand. Shelton’s internationally recognised large‑scale, hyper real photographic works operate at the nexus of conceptual and documentary modes, investigating the social, political and historical contexts that inform readings of the landscape and its contents. Shelton is recognised as one of New Zealand's leading photographic artists and in 2010 was the overall winner of the CoCA Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award.
In 2011, Shelton’s recent and ongoing body of work in a forest, was shown in London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Auckland. In 2010 she co-edited the publication Sightseeing: an exhibition and a publication of postcards that explore the representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography – this group show includes Shelton’s work among the 8 German and 8 New Zealand artists featured. In 2009 she exhibited the series Public Places in Images Recalled (Bilder auf Abruf), Germany's largest photographic biennale curated by Tobias Berger and Esther Ruelfs. Shelton’s work is regularly seen in New Zealand and internationally in countries as diverse as China, Lithuania, Italy, England, Poland, Germany, Australia and Canada.
Recent group shows include Dark Sky at The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington curated by Geoffery Batchen and Tina Barton, a way of calling at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne curated by Melissa Keys. In 2006 Shelton's major project a library to scale was awarded the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award, and in 2007 the project toured New Zealand and Australia.
Shelton lectures in Fine Art and Photography at Massey University in Wellington and is currently Chairperson of Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington's artist-run space. She is represented by Starkwhite and Paul McNamara Gallery.
CV July 2012
Ann Shelton
Curriculum Vitae
www.annshelton.com
Education
Masters in Fine Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2002.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1995.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Solo
the index case, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, August 2012.
Group
Now and Then: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand
Photography. Touring, 2012.
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower
Hutt, New Zealand, August 2012.
Solo Exhibitions
2012
in a forest (excerpts), The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, curated by
Emma Bugden, May – August 2012.
2011
in a forest (excerpts), Temporary Show Space, London Lane, London, May.
in a forest (excerpts), Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, November.
2010
a ride in the darkness, Starkwhite Gallery Auckland, July.
a ride in the darkness, McNamara Gallery, Whanganui, March.
2009
Room Room, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, Auckland Festival of
Photography, May.
once more with feeling, Hocken Gallery, University of Otago, December-January.
2008
once more with feeling, Hocken Gallery, Dunedin, December - January 2009.
Room Room, City Gallery Wellington, Hirschfeld Gallery, September - October.
from the island, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, August - September.
Hall of Mirrors, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, June - July.
2007
a library to scale, Part I, II, III, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.
a library to scale, Part I, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.
a library to scale, Part I, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington.
26 photos of a house, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, February.
26 photos of a house, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, October - November.
2006
a library to scale, Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, July.
2005
Ann Shelton: Bifocal, Forrester Gallery, Oamaru, December - February 2006.
Excerpts from A Kind of Sleep, Starkwhite, Auckland, August.
2004
a ride in the darkness, Starkwhite gallery, July-August.
a kind of sleep, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, December - February 05.
The Parsons Project, Parsons Bookshop, Auckland, September.
Once More from the Street, Starkwhite, Auckland, September.
Vacant Possesion, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, June.
2003
Nine Lives, 1.6 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, September.
Works by Ann Shelton, Starkwhite, Auckland, June.
Erewhon, Starkwhite, Auckland, May.
K Hole, Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, May.
2002
Erewhon, Ramp Gallery, Hamilton, November.
2000
A Girl in Every Port, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, July.
The Strip, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, May.
Abigail’s Party, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, May.
1998
Cabin Fever, an installation for Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, October.
Big Head, Art on the Move, Bus Art Project for the Physics Room, Christchurch, July.
Selected images from REDEYE, The Dowse Art Gallery, Lower Hutt, January.
1997
REDEYE, Touring to The Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, February. Artspace,
Auckland, June. The Art Annex, Christchurch, June. Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
September.
1996
REDEYE, Selected images, Teststrip, Auckland, May.
1995
From the Waist Down, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, July.
The Intrigue of My Evening, Teststrip, Auckland, March.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Dark Sky, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, curated by Geoffery Batchen and Tina
Barton, May – July 2012.
Now and Then: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand
Photography, Te Manawa: Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North,
March – June 2012.
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary, Auckland University of
Technology Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, May 2012.
2011
Documentaries, ST PAUL St Gallery Three, Auckland, December.
A way of calling, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, May – June.
Mildura palimpsest #8 collaborators and saboteurs, Mildura Arts Centre, Mildura,
Australia, September.
before today is tomorrow/vor gestern ist morgen, Berlin, A GlogauAIR project, April – May
are we not drawn onward to a new era, Ann Shelton and Murray Hewitt, Suite Gallery,
Wellington, March.
Campus a low hum, Billboards, from the series Lost Girls, Bulls. Curated by Sarah
Jane Parton. February.
Capitol, Billboard for the Ghuznee Street Billboard project. December 2010 – January.
Sightseeing: an exhibition and publication of postcards that explores the
representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography.
Auckland University of Technology Gallery, AUT Auckland and McNamara Gallery
Wanganui. Editor and participating artist.
2010
Enjoy Recipes Illustrated, Wellington, New Zealand, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 29
September – October.
Double Take/Time Frame, Project Space, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Austrailia.
Curated by Martin Partrick.
Campus O Low Hum, Bulls, New Zealand. Curated by Sarah Jane Parton. February.
Double Take/Time Frame, The Engine room Gallery, Massey University, Wellington.
February. Curated by Martin Partrick.
Capital Times, Suite Gallery, Wellington, May.
a serious kind of beauty: the heroic landscape, McNamara Gallery December 5 – January
29. Touring to Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, February 12 – March 28.
Unpacking my Library, Te Tuhi Center for the Arts, Auckland, February 13 – April 11.
Curated by Stephen Cleland.
Sightseeing: an exhibition and publication of postcards that explores the
representation of place in contemporary German and New Zealand photography.
Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, September and the Dowse Art Gallery, October
2010. Editor and participating artist.
2009
Images Recalled, Public Places, 3 fotofestival_Mannheim_Ludwigshaffen, Heidleberg,
Germany. Curated by Tobias Berger and Esther Ruelfs.
Photography Sell Out, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland University, Auckland Festival of
Photography, June.
Am I Scared, Boy (Eh): Collection Works From Then And Now, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, April - May.
2008
Collect/project, Adam Art Gallery, Curated by Tina Barton, June.
Earth Matters, Auckland City art Gallery, Curated by Natasha Conland, May -
September.
Taranaki Whenua: Life Blood Legacy, Puke Ariki, Curated by Bill Millbank. February -
June.
2007
Movingstill, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, June - July.
Wonderland, Auckland Festival Ak07, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, March.
the ghost of an idea: bridges, waterfalls and hexagons, Starkwhite Gallery
Auckland, June - July.
Askew: Photographs from the Sargeant Gallery’s permanent collection, September -
November.
Kiosk, Artist Space New York. curated by Christoph Keller, May.
2006
Recovered Memory, The Fourth Goodman-Suter Contemporary Art Project. The Suter
Art Gallery, Nelson, curated By Lara Strongman, October - November.
Gothic New Zealand, exhibition and book launch, Roger Williams Gallery, Auckland.
November - December.
An-other Childhood, The Millennium Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. curated By Janita
Craw. November - December.
The Waikato Art Award 2006, Winner, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, August.
Archive Fever, The Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, curated by Emily Cormack, August -
October.
SATELLITE, Shanghai, China, curated by Richard Thomas, John Di Stefano,
September - October.
Wonder-Land, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China,
September.
Wonder-Land, New Zealand Photography at the Fotografia Festival Internazionale di
Roma
the Project Room, Villa Glori, Via Argentina, Rome, April.
Viewfinder: Four Decades of The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Collection, Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Mercedes Vicente, March.
Verbatim… revelation to oblivion, National Library, Wellington, curated by Paul
McNamara, April.
Contemporary NZ Photographers, Pataka, Wellington, Feb - Apr.
HIGH TIDE, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Magda
Kardasz for Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and Simon Rees for the
Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, February - April. Touring to The Contemporary Art
Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, June.
Kiosk, Artspace, Auckland, curated by Christoph Keller, April.
2005
Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Starkwhite, Auckland, December.
The Iris Fisher Art Awards, Te Tuhi - The Mark, Auckland, November - December.
Home, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Wanganui, November.
Starving Artists Fund Art Auction, Artspace, Auckland, August.
The Waikato Art Award 2005, Finalist, Waikato Museum, Hamilton, August.
Verbatim… revelation to oblivion, Lopdell House, Auckland, curated by Paul
McNamara, August.
Great Green Art Auction, Union Fish Company Building, Auckland, July.
Solstice: Inaugural Exhibition, Matakana Pictures, Warkworth, curated by Mark
Adams, Haruhiko Sameshima and Ian Macdonald, June - August.
Sharp Shooting, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, curated by Heather Galbraith, April.
2004
Coming Home in the Dark, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, curated by Felicity
Milburn, October.
Lights>camera>action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Simon
Rees, June.
Hollyweird: Art from Los Angeles, curated by Ann Shelton, Starkwhite, Auckland,
January.
2003
Deep-Vein Psychosis, rm 103, Auckland, curated by Anthony Byrt, October.
Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, curated by
Robert Leonard, December - January.
Put Out More Flags, a Cuckoo project, Moving Image Centre Gallery, Auckland, May.
Dead Ringer, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, curated by Robin Stoney, March.
Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington,
curated by Zara Stanhope, February.
No Direct Line from My Heart to My Brain, The Physics Room, Christchurch, curated
by Violet Faigan, February.
2002
Break, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Simon Rees, December
2001 – January 2002.
Dogwood, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, September.
Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand, Heide Museum of Modern
Art, Melbourne, Australia, August, touring to Sale Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia,
curated by Zara Stanhope, November.
Suite, The Belkin Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, March.
2001
Feature: art, life & cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by
Gregory Burke, December – January.
Interior Horizons: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, Te Tuhi/The Mark,
Auckland, curated by Elizabeth Leyton, October.
Three Artists, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, October.
Bright Paradise, The Inaugural New Zealand Triennial, Auckland City Art Gallery,
Auckland, curated by Allan Smith, March.
Looking Back, Peter McLeavey Gallery, Wellington, January.
2000
In Glorious Dreams, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Gregory
Burke, December.
Multiples, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, May.
The Waikato Art Award 2000, Merit Award, Hamilton, February.
The New Acquisitions, The Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington,
February.
Mobile, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia, curated by Francisco
Fisher, January.
Drive: power>progress>desire, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated
by Gregory Burke and Hanna Scott, January.
1999
Wonderlands, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Gregory Burke
and Hanna Scott, December – January.
The Collected Works, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, curated by Jim and
Mary Barr, November.
We Really Care, rm 3, Auckland, July.
In Art We Trust, Fiat Lux fundraiser, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland.
1998
Necessary Protection, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, December.
Folklore: The New Zealander’s, Artspace, Auckland, July, touring to Sargeant Art
Gallery, curated by Gavin Hipkins, October.
1997
fotofeis, REDEYE, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, August.
New Work, The Physics Room, Christchurch.
Sharp and Shiny, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, curated by John Hurrell, June.
Kisser, Fiat Lux Gallery, Auckland, May.
1996
100 Bucks, Teststrip, Auckland, December.
Laying it on Thick, Artspace, Auckland, curated by Delia Brown, Judy Millar and Peter
Shand, Jan – Feb.
1995
Please Give Generously, Teststrip, Auckland.
Terminal, Ambassador Theatre, Auckland.
Stamina, Ambassador Theatre, Auckland, December.
Selected Collaborative Exhibitions
1998
Lisa, The New Gallery Window, Auckland City Art Gallery, with Steven Ball, August.
1996
Golden Breed, 23A Gallery, Auckland, with David Scott, September.
Pink Bits, The High Street Project, Christchurch, with Joyce Campbell, August.
Selected Bibliography
Books and monographs
Shelton, Ann. Metadata. New Zealand: Ann Shelton (Artist Book) 2011.
Shelton, Ann. REDEYE. New Zealand: Rim Books, 1997. ISBN 0473044129.
Shelton, Ann. REDEYE. England: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1997. ISBN 9781899235957.
Shelton, Ann. Public Places. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-476-00113-7.
Shelton, Ann. a library to scale. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2006.ISBN 0-473-
11254-X.
Shelton, Ann. a new skin, Artists Book, New Zealand: The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery,
2007.
Shelton, Ann. once more with feeling. New Zealand: Hocken Library, University of
Otago, 2008. ISBN 978-1-877486-06-7.
Shelton, Ann. Room Room. New Zealand: City Gallery Wellington, 2009. ISBN 0-
9582704-6-5.
Shelton, Ann and Turner Stephen. Wastelands, New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-473-16636-6.
Burke, Gregory, a kind of sleep. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
ISBN 0908848-01-3.
Selected catalogues and pageworks (by publication name)
a way of calling Keys, Melissa. Catalogue. Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts,
Melbourne, 2011.
Abigail’s Party. Nielson, Ingrid. Catalogue. Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2000.
A Birds Eye View. Malone, Daniel. Teststrip Micrograph Series, Auckland, July 2000.
a kind of sleep. Burke, Gregory. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
An-other Childhood. Craw, Janita & Duhn, Iris. Auckland: Unitec New Zealand, 2006.
Art At Te Papa. McAloon, William. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2009.
Bright Paradise. Smith, Allan. The Inaugural Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery,
2001.
Dead Ringer: The Duplicitous Image. Stoney, Robin. Dead Ringer, Gus Fisher Gallery
and Auckland University, Auckland, March 2003.
Deep-Vein Psychosis. Byrt, Anthony. rm 103, Auckland, October 2003.
Dogwood. Szewczyk, Monika. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada, 2002.
Drive: power>progress>desire. Burke, Gregory and Scott, Hanna. Govett-Brewster
Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2000.
Enjoy Recipes Illustrated. Enjoy Publishing, Edited by the Enjoy Trust: Amit Charan,
Ann Shelton, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Kate Woods and Molly Samsell. 2010.
Feature: art, life & cinema. Burke, Gregory. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, 2001.
Folklore: The New Zealander’s. Hipkins, Gavin. Artspace, Auckland, 1998.
Fotofeis Basic. Morgan, Chris. fotofeis 97, Scotland, 1997.
IDentikit. Catalogue. The High Street Project. Caxton Press. 1997.
In Glorious Dreams. Burke, Gregory. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth,
2000.
Interior Horizons: art on the verge of architecture and design. Catalogue , Te Tuhi
The Mark Art Gallery, Auckland, 2002.
Log Illustrated. Page-work, Big Head, Spring 1998: 31.
Log Illustrated. Page-work, Doublet, Parker/Hulme crime scene, Port Hills,
Christchurch, 2001, Summer, no.10, 2001: 18.
Log Illustrated. Page-work, K Hole, Summer, no. 10, (2000): 18.
Movingstill, Bryant Jan, Gus Fisher Gallery Auckland, 2007.
Nostalgia for the Future. Brennan, Stella. Artspace, Auckland, November 1999.
One Hundred and Fifty Ways of Loving. Artspace, Auckland, 1994.
once more with feeling. Shelton, Ann. the Hocken Collections, University of Otago,
Dunedin, 2008-2009
Probe, cover page-works, Issue 1, Art School Press, Manukau Institute of Technology,
1999.
Probe, page-works, Issue 2, Art School Press, Manukau Institute of Technology, 2000.
Probe, page-works, Issue 4, Art School Press, Manukau Institute of Technology, 2002.
(Re)visions of sex. catalogue, fotofeis 97, Scotland, 1997.
ROOM ROOM. Shelton, Ann. New Zealand: City Gallery Wellington, 2008.
Teststrip: A history of an artist run space. The Teststrip Board (ed). New Zealand:
Clouds, 2008
SATELLITE, Van Guard Gallery, Shanghai. 2006.
Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand. Stanhope, Zara. Heide
Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, 2002: 03-24.
The Collected Works. Catalogue, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, November, 1999.
The Strip. Chapman, Chris. Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, May
2000.
Wastelands, Shelton, Ann and Turner, Stephen. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-473-16636-6.
Selected articles, Interviews and illustrations (by author)
Amery, Mark. “Presenting the Archive”. The Dominion Post, (28 May 2008): Arts 2.
Amery, Mark. “How to read a book from Waitara to War: The extraordinary pairing of
Ann Shelton and Frederick B. Butler”. The Dominion Post, 15 August 2007.
Barton, Christina. “Ann Shelton: 26 photographs of a house”. Architecture NZ,
(May/June 2007): 112-114.
Bowlan, Heather. “Slow Release: Recent Photography from New Zealand”. Salient,
Issue 4 (March 24): 2003.
Brennan, Stella. “No Place Like Home”. Pavement, (August/September 2000): 54.
Brownson, Ron. “Talking Photographs”. Art New Zealand, no. 77, Summer 1995-96:
50-53.
Bryant, Jan. “The sound of the past being sliced apart”. a new skin, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, 2007.
Burke, Gregory. Feature: art, life & cinema. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, 2001:7.
Byrt, Anthony. Erewhon [online]. New Zealand: 2002. Available from World Wide Web:
http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/archive/ann_s/ann.html
Byrt, Anthony. Deep-Vein Psychosis. Auckland: rm 103, October 2003.
Carver, Antonia. “fotofeis ‘97”. Flash Art, Vol. XXXI, no.199, March/April 1998: 79.
Bywater, John. Auckland Exhibitions, Art New Zealand, no.107, Winter 2003: 42-43.
Bywater, Jonathan. “9 1/2 weeks Auckland”. Log Illustrated, Summer 1998/99: 39.
Bywater, Jonathan. “Folk talk”. Log Illustrated, Spring 1998: 28.
Bywater, Jonathan. “Pinkbits”. Monica, October/November 1996: 37.
Carver, Antonia. “fotofeis ‘97”. Flash Art, Vol. XXX1, no.199, March-April 1998.
Carver, Antonia. “Sex, Lies and Photography: fotofeis, ‘97’”. Art Monthly (Australia), no.
170, (March 1998): 24.
Chapman, Chris. The Strip. Catalogue. Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide.
Australia, May 2000.
Cooper, Jeremy. “Passion and Compassion”. a new skin, New Zealand: The Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery, 2007.
Conrich, Ian and Murray, Stuart, New Zealand Film Makers, (cover image), Wayne
State University Press. Sept 2007.
Craw, Charlotte, New Zealand Journal of Photography, Number 55, Winter 2004: 12.
Cunnane, Abby. ROOM ROOM brochure. New Zealand: City Gallery Wellington, in
association with the exhibition ROOM ROOM held at the Michael Hirshfeld Gallery, City
Gallery Wellington Sep – Oct 2008.
Eggleton, David. “Seductive puzzles: The age of ambiguity”. Into the Light: A History
of New Zealand Photography. Nelson: Craig Potton Publishing, 2006, p.168-70.
French, Jennifer. “a kind of sleep”. Natural Selection, Issue 4, 2005: 16.
Gartenfeld, Alex. "VVORK" Fantom issue #3 (spring 2010) p64-65.
Gardiner, Sue. “Mad, bad and… often anxious”. Art News New Zealand, (Spring 2008):
90-95.
Gibson, Sarah. “Nostalgia as Cure”. Art New Zealand, Winter 2001: 48-50.
Huddleston, Charlotte. “Word reaches us from the distance”. a kind of sleep. New
Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
Intra, Giovanni. “drive-by shootings”. Pavement, Issue 10, (1996): 10.
Kraus, Chris. “True Crime: A Conversation between Ann Shelton and Chris Kraus”.
Public Places. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2003.
Laird, Tessa. “Museum and Gallery Reviews: A Girl in Every Port and LACE 2”. Art on
Paper, (December 2000): 84-85.
Laird, Tessa. “Details of Intrigue”. Craccum, Issue 4, 20 March 1995: 37.
Laird, Tessa. “From the Waist Down”. Craccum, Issue 18, August 2, 1995: 40.
Langman, David. Editorial, New Zealand Journal of Photography. no. 50, Autumn
2003.
Lister, Aaron, “Wellington Report”. Art New Zealand, no. 96 Spring 2000: 54-55.
Log Illustrated, Pagework, K Hole. The Physics room, Christchurch, Issue 10: 18.
Malone, Daniel. A Birds Eye View. Auckland: Teststrip Micrograph Series, July 2000.
McAloon, William. “Seven Go Wild in Wellington”. The Listener, 5 April 2000: 54.
McAloon, William. Art at Te Papa. Ed. William McAloon. Te Papa Press, 2009.
McAloon, William. “Review: Abigail’s Party”. Sunday Star Times, 4 June 2000: F6.
McFarlane, Kyla. “Slow Release: Recent New Zealand Photography”. Art New Zealand,
no.107, Winter 2003: 48-51.
McKenzie, Stuart. “Warrior Cast”. Artforum, (illustration only) February 1994: 64- 67,
McNamara T.J. “Paintings with Personality”. New Zealand Herald, 30 April 1996: b 6.
McNamara T.J. “Yesterday’s Mischief Today’s Art”. New Zealand Herald, 7 February
1996.
Mailing, Camilla. “Whats Going On?”, interview, National Radio, 8th May, 2003.
Main, Bill “Using a camera expressively”. Photographer’s Mail, vol.6, no.7, July 1997.
Main, Bill. “Books Under Review; Are ‘Warts and All’ Scars of Society?” The New
Zealand Journal Of Photography: 20.
Magner B.L. “Slow Release”. Photofile, no.67, (December 2002): 55
Mahoney, Elizabeth. “It’s all and something”. Make, no.78, December 97 – February 98:
22.
Malone, Daniel. A Birds Eye View. Catalogue. Teststrip Micrograph Series, Auckland,
July, 2000.
Millbank Bill. Taranaki Whenua: Life, Blood, Legacy, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
2008.
Mudie Cunningham, Daniel. “Sweet Dreams”. Sydney Star Observer, 24 February
2000: 20.
Nemec, Susan. “Law prompts loo scribble”. New Zealand Herald, 12 December 1994.
Neylon, John. “Strip Search” The Adelaide Review, June 2000.
Palmer, Louise. “For a Large and Changing Room on IDentikit”. IDentikit catalogue,
Caxton Press: 1997.
Parkinson, Jaenine and Bell Andrea, Eyeline, Australia 2009.
Patrick, Martin. “Vantage Points and Vanishing Spaces”. ROOM ROOM, New Zealand:
City Gallery Wellington, 2008.
Patrick, Martin, Reconfigured Realities: on the recent work of John Di Stefano and Ann
Shelton, Catalogue RMIT Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT Melbourne 2010.
Peck, Aaron. “Auto Instruction”. Front Magazine, Volume XIII, Number 3, (May/June
2002): 12-15.
Porter, Gwynneth, Contemporary New Zealand Photographers, Mountain View
Publishing, 2006, ed. Lara Strongman, p.120-127.
Porter, Gwynneth. “Miasma”. Public Places. New Zealand: Rim Publishing, 2003.
Porter, Gwynneth. “Bare Bones”. Dead Ringer. Auckland: Gus Fisher Gallery:
University of Auckland, March 2003.
Porter, Gwynneth. “A Girl in Every Port, Ann Shelton and LACE 2, Yvonne Todd.” Like,
no. 13, (2000): 55-56.
Paton, Justin. “Postcards from the edge”. The New Zealand Listener, Volume 159, no.
2986, 26 July – 1 August 1997: 40-41.
Paton, Justin. “Straight to the heart of it”. New Zealand Herald, 3 October 1996: B8
Paton, Justin. “Ross T Smith”. Art Asia Pacific, Issue 23, 1999: 108.
Pound, Francis. “The reflecting archive”. a library to scale, Rim Books, Auckland. 2006.
Rice, Rebecca. “Exhibitions Wellington”, Art New Zealand, 2009.
Reulfs, Esther, Abzenzen/Absences, Images Recalled, 3 Fotofestival,
Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg, 2009 p.164.
Reulfs, Esther, “Postcard scenes: Observations on the relationship between picture
postcards and contemporary landscape photography”, Sightseeing, eds. Shelton, Ann
and Scot, Hanna, Rim books, 2010
Rojas, Alejandra. “Memories in Mirrors”, The Taranaki Daily News, 2008.
Sanderson, Anna. “In the Valley of the Shadow”. a kind of sleep, New Zealand: Govett-
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2005.
Samson, Alan. “Wellington Street Life in Focus”. The Dominion, 20 May 1993: What’s
On Section.
Schroeder Mariana, The Wall Street Journal, German Photography Festival Goes
Beyond Mere Imagery, Sep 25, 2009.
Scott, Hanna. New Zealand Journal of Photography, Number 55, Winter 2004: 23.
Scott,
Hanna. “Dead Cert, the After-Effects of Dead Ringer”. New Zealand Journal of
Photography, Number 51 (Winter 2003): 23-24.
Sharp, Ian. “Get an Eye Full of in-yer-face photography”. Sunday Star Times, July
1997.
Shelton, Ann. “Mystical Nesian Photographs”. Public/Private, The Second Auckland
Triennial. Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2004.
Ann Shelton. Interviews Larry Clark “Teenage Lust”. Pavement, February/March 1996:
66-70.
Simpson, Peter, “Review”, Sunday Star Times, 6 August, 2000.
Smith, Allan. Bright Paradise, The Inaugural Auckland Triennial. Auckland: Auckland Art
Gallery, (2001): 20.
Stanhope, Zara. Slow Release: recent photography from New Zealand. Australia:
Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2002): 03-24.
Stead, Oliver. “REDEYE, by Ann Shelton”. Art New Zealand, no.84 Spring 1997: 84.
Stoney, Robin. Dead Ringer: The Duplicitous Image. Catalogue. Gus Fisher Gallery
and Auckland University, Auckland. March 2003.
Sylvester, Darren. “Interview with Slow Release Artists”, Flash, October 2002: 5-6.
Szewczyk, Monika. “Location Notes”. Dogwood. Canada: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
(2002): 10-17.
Turner, Peter. “Is documentary a Dinosaur?”. New Zealand Journal of Photography,
November 1993: 3.
Wethey, David. “Firing Squad Style Photography”. Christchurch Press, 25 June 1997:
16.
Wood, Andrew Paul. “A City Repossessed”, The New Zealand Listener, Volume 196,
no. 3365, 6-12 November 2004: 46.
Grants and Awards
The COCA Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award. Winner 2010.
The Waikato Art Award, Winner, 2006
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2004.
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2003.
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2002.
The Waikato Art Award, Finalist, 2001.
The Waikato Art Award, Merit Award Winner, 2000.
University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2000.
Creative New Zealand, Under the New Work Initiative, 1999.
Creative New Zealand, Emerging Artists Grant, 1996.
Senior Prize, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1994.
Ilford Photographic Award, Elam School of Fine Arts, 1994.
Agfa Photographic Award, Elam School of Fine Arts.
Highly Commended, Junior Press Photographer Award, Qantas New Zealand Press
Awards, 1990
Selected Conferences Presentations and Artists Talks
Artist talk, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, 30 July 2011.
Artist talk, RMIT Project space, Melbourne, 30 July 2010.
Enjoy Public Art Gallery, anniversary forum, Panellist 2010.
Artist talk, Auckland Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Earth Matters. 2008.
Artist talk, University of Auckland, Gus Fisher Gallery on the occasion of Room
Room. 2009.
In conversation with Charlotte Huddleston, Auckland festival of Photography, Auckland
Art Gallery.
In conversation with Charlotte Huddleston, Wellington City Gallery on the occasion of
the exhibition Room Room.
Artist talk, Monash University, Melbourne, 2007 on the occasion of a library to scale at
Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne.
Pecha Kucha speaker, Wellington City Gallery, 2008.
Artist talk, London, at the Center for New Zealand Studies, 2009.
In conversation with Ron Brownson on the life and works of Giovanni Intra. On the
occasion of the exhibition Beginning in the archive, at Artspace Auckland, 2008.
Peer reviewed International conference paper, Plymouth University, UK. 2009.
Conference Organizer, Cultural Provocation, Art, Activism and Social Change.
Auckland. September. 2003.
Artist talk. Govett Brewster Art Gallery. New Plymouth. 2004.
Panelist. Un(real): the terrain of the documentary in contemporary photography,
April. 2003.
Panelist. A Picture for Woman-fictions in the Landscape, In conjunction with the
exhibition
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Justine Kurland, Artspace, October. 2003.
Artist talk. University of Victoria. Vancouver Island, Canada. 2002.
Artist talk. The Contemporary Arts Society. Vancouver, Canada. 2002.
Paper delivered. Charles H Scott Lecture Theatre, Vancouver, Canada. 2002
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