Marie Shannon (born 1960) is a
New Zealand
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artist and educator who makes photography, video and drawing. Her artwork is in the collections of
Te Papa
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, New Zealand's national museum, and
Dunedin
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,
Christchurch
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and
Auckland
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city galleries.
Background and education
Shannon was born in
Nelson in 1960. She went to the University of Auckland
Elam School of Fine Arts and graduated in 1982 with a major in photography.
Shannon is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Career
Shannon's art is often centred around her domestic interiors and the creative process between her and other artists. Shannon represented New Zealand at Australia's Asia-Pacific Triennale in 1996, and was exhibited in the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney. Then in 1998 her work was at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster and Melbourne's ACCA.
Shannon's partner was artist
Julian Dashper
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In 2001 he was awarded a senior Fulbright fellowship to be based as an artist in residence at ...
who died in 2009. She has made cataloguing his art works into art which are text-based videos.
An example is ''The Aachen Faxes, Christchurch remix'' at the Christchurch Art Gallery. In a review of a retrospective of Shannon's work the comment is made that she was overshadowed by her partner Dashper.
As an educator she works at
Unitec, Auckland.
Selected exhibitions
*1992 - ''
Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art'', MCA,
Sydney
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, Australia
*2000 - ''Fissure, Five Shows, Five Curators'', ACProjects,
New York
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*2009 - ''Large Still Life'',
Sue Crockford Gallery
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History
Sue Crockford's career in the visual arts began with her role as an Arts Advisory Officer in the Department of Education. When she and her husband, ...
, Auckland
*2009 - ''Love Notes (solo)'',
Courtenay Place light boxes, Off-site project of
City Gallery, Wellington
*2009 - ''Marie Shannon'', Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
*2011 - ''What I Am Looking At'', Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
*2012 - ''The Aachen Faxes'', Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington
*2015 - ''Julian Dashper and Friends'', City Gallery Wellington
*2015 - ''The things we talked about'', ST PAUL St Gallery,
Auckland University of Technology
*2015 - ''TRUTH + FICTION'', Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland
*2016 - ''Notes and Letters (solo)'', PS Project Space,
Amsterdam
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, Netherlands
*2016 - ''THE XX FACTOR'', Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland
*2016 - ''this is the cup of your heart'',
The Dowse, Lower Hutt
*2017 - ''An Architecture of Things'', Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland
*2017 - ''Rooms found only in the home'',
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
*2018 - ''Rooms found only in the home (solo)'',
Adam Art Gallery
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, Wellington
*2018 - ''Rooms found only in the home (solo)'',
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
*2018 - ''Short Stories (solo)'', Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland
*2019 - ''Here we are'',
Art Gallery of New South Wales
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, Sydney, Australia
*2019 - ''Rooms found only in the home (solo)'', Te Uru, Auckland
*2020 - ''Rooms found only in the home (solo)'',
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Africa
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, Sydney, Australia (cancelled due to
Covid-19
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)
Selected works
* ''Sunday Afternoon'' 198
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* ''Born to be Tame No. 1'' 198
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* ''Untitled (American Gothic)'' 198
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* ''Dust Rat'' 199
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* ''The House at Night'' 199
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* Portrait of Julian Dashper 199
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* ''The House of Parmesan'' 199
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* ''Travel'' 199
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* ''I Love You Too'' 200
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* ''Bedroom Window Still'' Life 202
view
Collections
Shannon's work is held in the following permanent collections:
*
Te Papa Tongarewa
*
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmiki
References
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Living people
New Zealand artists
1961 births
Artists from Nelson, New Zealand
Academic staff of Unitec Institute of Technology
New Zealand women artists