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FIONA GARLICK
Bio
B. 1968. Coventry, England
Lives and works in Arrowtown.
EDUCATION:
BFA (First Class Honours), Elam School of Fine Arts, 2008 (NZ)
Sculpture at Falmouth College of Arts, 2005 (UK)
Foundation Diploma at Camberwell College of Arts, 2004 (UK)
AWARDS & MAJOR EXHIBITIONS:
Garlick has exhibited in numerous outdoor sculpture shows including Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens (Auckland Botanic Gardens), NZ Sculpture on Shore, Sculpture on the Peninsula, and has had work installed at Tai Tapu Sculpture Gardens and Brick Bay Sculpture Trail.
The Wave (Bronze) won first prize in the British Art Medal Society Student Award (2005)
COLLECTIONS:
Garlick's work is held in private collections across New Zealand and Australia.
Working predominantly in bronze, Fiona Garlick’s sculptural practice explores the tension between native and introduced species, colonial history, and the layered relationship between humans and the environment.
Her captivating works balance humour with poignancy, using allegory to explore migration, adaptation, fragility, and coexistence. Birds perch on oversized acorns and pinecones; feathers become relics; familiar forms take on the weight of story and symbolism.
Much of her work deals with concepts of place, identity, and colonialism — asking what it means to belong to a landscape, and what is lost when that relationship is severed or misunderstood.
