Veronica Herber Explained

Veronica Herber
Field:Use of Japanese Washi tape, Installation Art
Training:Auckland University of Technology
Awards:
  • 2015 Winner, Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
  • 2012 Winner Titirangi Community Arts Council Emerging Artist award. Titirangi, Auckland
  • 2012 Winner Ebbett Prestige Environmental Award, Hamilton

Veronica Herber is a New Zealand artist who lives and works in Auckland. She is best known for working with Japanese Washi tape.

Education

Veronica Herber holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Distinction from Auckland University of Technology. At present Herber is completing a Post Graduate Diploma at Elam School of Fine Arts. The artist initially practiced painting before discovering tape as a medium.[1]

Career

Veronica Herber has exhibited in several large-scale sculpture projects both in New Zealand and abroad. Since 2013, she has participated in the biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition, Headland: Sculpture on the Gulf, (2013, 2015, 2017), on Waiheke Island, Auckland, as well as the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition Sculpture by the Sea, (2013, 2014, 2015) in Sydney, Australia.[2] [3]

She has held solo exhibitions at public institutions such as Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Tauranga Art Gallery, and the Pah Homestead, Auckland.[4] [5] [6] In 2014, Herber's public installation, Conversando Con Puebla, Pueblo, Mexico, covered a 600 year old courtyard with the artist's distinctive use of Washi tape, and in 2016, she was invited to create an installation at the Rene Portocarrero Serigrafia Studio, in Havana, Cuba.[7]

Veronica Herber's work is included in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and The James Wallace Arts Trust Collection.[8] She is the 2015 recipient of The Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award, awarded each year to one participating artist in the Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Australia.[9]

Work

Notable exhibitions

Public collections

Awards and nominations

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Black. Eleanor. Tape artist Veronica Herber uses masking tape to turn rubble into art. 19 March 2017. Stuff. 4 October 2015.
  2. News: Johnston. Martin. Photos: Sculpture on the Gulf. 19 March 2017. New Zealand Herald. 23 January 2015.
  3. News: Weeks. Jonny. Sculpture by the Sea: Sydney's coastline transformed – in pictures. 19 March 2017. The Guardian. 23 October 2015.
  4. Book: Rundle. Deborah. Site Unseen. 2013. Lopdell House Gallery. Auckland. 978-0-9922458-1-8. 2.
  5. News: Visiting artist needs residents' help. 19 March 2017. Bay of Plenty Times. 29 September 2016.
  6. Web site: Veronica Herber: Swathe. Wallace Arts Trust. 19 March 2017.
  7. News: Black. Eleanor. Tape artist Veronica Herber uses masking tape to turn rubble into art. 19 March 2017. Stuff. 4 October 2015.
  8. News: Black. Eleanor. Tape artist Veronica Herber uses masking tape to turn rubble into art. 19 March 2017. Fairfax Media. 4 October 2015.
  9. Web site: Artist Award & Subsidies Announced. Sculpture by the Sea. 19 March 2017.

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