"The Back Boot" Project

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Anna Muirhead
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Susan Ballard
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Michele Beevors
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Victoria Bell
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Bekah Carran
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Scott Eady
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Michael Morley
Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin
Emily Pauling
Benjamin & Sidney Smith

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No. 10 (2008): group
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Author Biographies

Anna Muirhead, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Anna Muirhead curated the The Back Boot Project. She is a sculptor on whom an MFA Degree will be conferred by Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic in December 2008. Muirhead is currently the William Hodges Fellow at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery in Invercargill, New Zealand. Her continuing project Evergreen focuses on constructed environments, the garden and the landscape.

Susan Ballard, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Susan Ballard is a writer, curator and the editor of Junctures. Su is section manager of electronic arts and photography at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Recent publications examine utopia, noise, and media cultures in gallery environments. She co-edited The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader in 2008.

Michele Beevors, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Michele Beevors contributed Carnage to the BBP. She is a senior lecturer and Head of Sculpture at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin. Michele holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MArt (Visual Arts) from The Australian National University School of Art. She has exhibited in the US, Australia and New Zealand.

Victoria Bell, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Victoria Bell contributed Horseplay to BBP. She is a practicing artist and an MFA candidate. Currently a lecturer in Textiles at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art, she relocated to Ōtepoti Dunedin from Ōtautahi Christchurch after receiving the Olivia Spencer Bower Award in 2005.

Bekah Carran, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Bekah Carran contributed Cosy Dell: A Portable Garden to the BBP. She is a sculptor who exhibits regularly in New Zealand. Carran received a BFA from the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Art in 1998; was the Olivia Spencer Bower Artist-in-Residence in Christchurch in 2003 and was a Physics Room Artist-in-Residence in 2007. Carran is a selected artist for the pending One Day Sculpture; a New Zealand-Wide Series of Temporary Artwork for late 2008. She is the mother of Ava and Sadie. Carran lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Scott Eady, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Scott Eady’s work for the BBP is entitled Small Change (In God We Trust). He is a sculptor who exhibits regularly in New Zealand. He holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and was the winner of the Wallace Award in 2003. He is currently a lecturer in Sculpture at Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin.

Michael Morley, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Dunedin

Michael Morley holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Otago and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Morley has a national and international profile as a musician and painter. He lives and works in Dunedin. His contribution to the BBP is called Petraeus.

Emily Pauling

Emily Pauling is a sculptor who exhibits regularly in New Zealand. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts from the School of Art at Massey University, Wellington. She is currently working in Melbourne, Australia and her contribution to the BBP is called Untitled (The End).

Benjamin & Sidney Smith

Benjamin Smith is an artist who completed a BFA, majoring in Sculpture in 2006 at the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic. He currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland, where he is developing a research-based practice that explores processes of othering by dominant cultures. He also likes to climb mountains.

His daughter, Sidney Smith, contributed the drawing for their contribution to the BBP called When I Grow Up I Wanna Be An Artist With a Red Car. Sidney is an aspiring artist who was born in Dunedin in 2003. When she grows up she wants to be an artist with a red car.