Veronica Herber

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

Veronica Herber
Veronica Herber installing at Rene Portocarrero Serigrafia Studio, Havana, February 2016
EducationAuckland University of Technology
Known forUse of Japanese Washi tape, Installation Art
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
WebsiteOfficial website

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
  • Swathe, James Wallace Trust, Auckland, 2017
  • Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, 2017, 2015, 2013
  • Continuum, Tauranga Art Gallery, 2017
  • Fold, group show, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Sydney, 2017
  • Resonance, NZ Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland, 2016
  • Installation at Rene Portocarrero Serigrafia Studio, Havana, Cuba, 2016
  • Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, 2015, 2014, 2013
  • Conversando Con Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 2014
  • Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland 2014
  • Site Unseen, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2013–2014
  • In Line With, group show, Antionette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, 2013
  • Sculpture on the Shore, Devonport, Auckland, 2012
  • The Sculpture Park, Waitakaruru Arboretum, Hamilton, 2012

Public collections

Awards and nominations
  • 2017 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
  • 2017 Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington
  • 2016 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
  • 2015 Winner Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
  • 2014 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland
  • 2013 Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington
  • 2012 Winner Titirangi Community Arts Council Emerging Artist Award, Titirangi, Auckland
  • 2012 Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award, Waiheke Island
  • 2012 Winner Ebbett Prestige Environmental Award, Hamilton

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


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