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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 widely throughout New Zealand, with work selected for many of the country's leading outdoor sculpture exhibitions, including Brick Bay Sculpture Trail, Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens (Auckland Botanic Gardens), NZ Sculpture OnShore, Sculpture on the Peninsula, Christchurch Sculpture Festival, and Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden.
In 2005, her bronze sculpture The Wave received First Prize in the British Art Medal Society Student Award.
Fiona exhibits regularly with MANZ (Medal Art New Zealand) and is represented by Artis Gallery in Auckland.
COLLECTIONS:
Garlick's work is held in The Lincoln University Art Collection, Geraldine Sculpture Trail and in private collections throughout New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the USA.
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.
