[Pukekohe]

New Collaborative work by Renee Bevan, Caryline Boreham, and Craig Foltz
May 17, 2014, 11:00 am
at Franklin Art Centre/NZ Steel Gallery

If you close your eyes you might hear me anyway. New collaborative work by Renee Bevan and Caryline Boreham, featuring work by UDP author, Craig Foltz. OPENING (11am) AND TELEPATHY ART WORKSHOP(12:30-1:30pm). Show runs from :10 May -14 June.Renee Bevan was born and raised in South Auckland where she successfully completed the University of Auckland, Manukau School of Visual Arts Bachelor of Visual Arts programme in 2002. Her solo exhibition New Work, Renee Bevan, developed by The National, Christchurch in 2012, toured to The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland and The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington. Caryline Boreham was born in New Zealand in 1974 where she grew up and was educated in Auckland. She has a degree in Business Studies from Massey University, Albany, a Bachelor of Design from Unitec, Carrington, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, where she is currently completing an MFA. She has been taking photos since she was ten years old, and has been exhibited in group shows both nationally and internationally. She was a finalist in the City Art Rooms’ ‘Young Blood Salon’ in 2008. She exhibited at the 2006 Ping Yao International Photography Exhibition, in China, and at the Sanderson Gallery and City Art Rooms, Auckland, in 2008. She also contributed to ‘Knowyounevermetyou’, a group show and collaborative photography exhibition with staff and students from South Georgia University, USA, in 2008.Craig Foltz is a writer and multi-media artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals, galleries, and performance spaces in both hemispheres. His collection of poetry postcards, The States, was released by UDP in 2007, and a collection of his fiction, We Used to Be Everywhere, was published by UDP in Fall 2013. He also published two chapbooks (“The BBQ Killers” and “Coming Up For Air”) on the now famously hard-to-spot Loudmouth Collective. He lives on the slopes of a dormant volcano in New Zealand where the progeny from Kahikatea will always be king. For more information go here.