Auckland artist to take up residency in California

Auckland artist to take up residency in California

Auckland photographer, sculptor and video artist Richard Maloy was announced last week as the inaugural recipient of the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award, which offers as its prize a three month residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in the Marin Headlands near San Francisco. Richard’s award-winning artwork was a montage of nine self-portrait photographs of the artist wrapped in silver foil, with the title ‘All I Want to Be is a Sculpture’.

Richard intends using his three month residency to develop new sculptural and photographic works exposing the act of art making and the private space of the artist’s studio. He will create large sculptural forms within his studio space from basic materials such as card, tape and paint, and document them as a series of large scale photographs.

A graduate of the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts, Richard Maloy has exhibited widely in New Zealand museums, public art galleries, artist run spaces and dealer galleries, and abroad at several Australian galleries and the Bienal de São Paulo. He has worked as an assistant to numerous artists and galleries, including as a studio assistant to Billy Apple, and recently began teaching sculpture part time back at Elam.

Richard looks forward to the experience of sharing residence at Headlands Center for the Arts with a community of artists from around the US and the world. “This is a very significant event for my art practice, not only in the production of ideas and art, but also engaging with a new and exciting arts community,” he says. “The exchange of ideas is extremely vital to the growth of contemporary art in all countries.”

‘All I Want to Be is a Sculpture’ is on display alongside other winning Wallace Art Award entries and selected finalists at the Aotea Centre in Auckland until 2 October, and then at TheNewDowse in Lower Hutt from 17 October – 24 January 2010.

Auckland artist to take up residency – with pics (pdf)

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