about colleen
curriculum vitae
2009 2nd Stoneleigh Sculpture in the Gardens Exhibition. Friends of the gardens select and purchase my sculpture installation for their permanent collection.
2008 Ranamok Finalist and Australian Glass Tour.
2008 Melbourne Cast GlassWorkshop - Donald Robertson
2007 Co-Judge Sculpture Competition. Waikato Home Show
2006 Awarded Fellow of New Zealand Landscape Architecture Institute
2006 Co-Judge Student Glass Award. Waitakaruru Sculpture Park, Hamilton
2006 Co-Judge Sculpture Competition. Waikato Home Show
2006 New Zealand Society of Glass Artists - Conference Committee.
2005/07 Tutor Landscape Art Expression Wintec, Hamilton
2004 New Zealand Society of Glass Artists - Committee (Members Officer).
2004 Warren Langley Master Class ‘Scaling Up’, Northlands Creative Glass Lybster Scotland.
2004 Northlands ‘Architecture and Light Conference’, Lybster Scotland.
2003 David Reekie Cast Glass Workshop, Auckland.
2003 One year Advance Glass Course Artstation Auckland NZ
1999 Three years of Artstation Workshops Auckland NZ
1989 Antarctic Winter visit Scott Base, Erebus Ice Tongue, Scott & Shackleton’s Huts.
1988 Antarctic Division, NZ Govt. Commission. Design project at Scott Base Antarctic, including summer site visit to Scott Base for briefing and information gathering.
1985 International Federation of Landscape Architects. Design Award Finalist. Japan
1985/04 6 x NZILA Awards including prestigious Charlie Challenger Premier Award in recognition for outstanding planning and design 1991,
1985 Post Graduate Diploma of Landscape Architecture Lincoln University.
1973 Diploma in Fine Arts Canterbury University
Public Commissions;
2007 Friends of Waikato Museum commission two Ice Blocks for gifting to Museum.
Public Collections:
2009 Auckland Botanic Gardens.
2008 Waikato Museum of Art and History. Matching works from the Ice Block Series.
2006 Waikato Museum of Art and History. Narratives of the River. Cast Glass.