Biography: New Zealand artist Anita DeSoto lives in Waitati, Dunedin and has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for the last 20 years. She has a Master of Fine Arts and has been lecturing in Drawing and Painting at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic since 2004.
In recognition of her contribution to the New Zealand visual arts she was awarded an arts residency in the prestigious Leipzig International Art Program for three months in Leipzig, Germany (2010). Aratoi Fellow in 2012. Artist in residence at the New Pacific Studios in Vallejo, San Francisco 2014. Recipient of the William Hodges fellowship in Southland for 2018.
“For me paint has always been my primary language. From my earliest memory’s I have been absorbed by the love of paint and colour and its endless possibilities to create analogy’s of the world around us and our memory of it. I paint intuitively and gesturally, revisiting history with brilliant colour, humour and moodiness. I make reference to the disintegration of old photographs with my paint technique. Haunting figures appear through smeared paint as if from behind a veil as though time has swept by where my female figures vividly look out at us from the past. A second chance to be acknowledged, a second life.”
Represented by Gallery De Novo. Stuart St, Dunedin https://www.gallerydenovo.co.nz
In recognition of her contribution to the New Zealand visual arts she was awarded an arts residency in the prestigious Leipzig International Art Program for three months in Leipzig, Germany (2010). Aratoi Fellow in 2012. Artist in residence at the New Pacific Studios in Vallejo, San Francisco 2014. Recipient of the William Hodges fellowship in Southland for 2018.
“For me paint has always been my primary language. From my earliest memory’s I have been absorbed by the love of paint and colour and its endless possibilities to create analogy’s of the world around us and our memory of it. I paint intuitively and gesturally, revisiting history with brilliant colour, humour and moodiness. I make reference to the disintegration of old photographs with my paint technique. Haunting figures appear through smeared paint as if from behind a veil as though time has swept by where my female figures vividly look out at us from the past. A second chance to be acknowledged, a second life.”
Represented by Gallery De Novo. Stuart St, Dunedin https://www.gallerydenovo.co.nz
