Greta Menzies is an artist & designer based Wellington, NZ.
Her multidisciplinary work reflects her interest in ideas of consciousness, belief and
meaning-making. Greta is drawn to the grotesque as an aesthetic category with it’s tropes of doubleness, hybridity and metamorphosis, and as a mode of existential exploration. This comes with a sense of irreverence and subversive, absurd elements, often playing with opposites: beauty/ugly, male/female, reality/fantasy. Figuration is significant in her work.
"I make work as a means to explore the strangeness and wonder of the embodied human experience. It is a visualisation and actualisation of existential thoughts through making."
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Interview: Design Assembly - 5 minutes with Greta Menzies
Profile: Te Papa Blog - The Work of Greta Menzies
Qualifications
2016 Master of Design
2011 Bachelor of Design, Textile Design
Awards / Scholarships / Residencies
2019 EAT Emerging Artist Trust Grant for solo show
2017 ECC NZ Design/Craft Awards: Rembrandt Fashion and Textile Award
2016 Open Source award: Open Source in the Arts category winner (for Make/Use project)
2016 BEST award: Bronze (for Make/Use project)
2015 Objectspace Gallery Designer in Residence
2015 Massey Masterate Scholarship
2014 Occupation: Artist Studio Residency
2012 Design Institute of Australasia (DIA) AGOTYA Award for Textile Design 2012
2011 Athfield Architects Award: Outstanding Achievement in Textile Design 2011
2011 Massey Scholar -Academic Excellence Scholarship
2011 Summer Scholarship: research assistant to Dr Jessica Payne 2011
Exhibitions
2020 Ascention - Twofiftyseven group show
2020 Blue Banners - The See Here Gallery
2019 See it Like This - Toi Pōneke Gallery
2019 Alreadyinsideyou - The See Here Gallery
2018 NATUR - The See Here Gallery
2017 Alter(ed) Egos excerpts - Dirt Gallery
2017 Conversational Skins - Masters work, Massey University
2017 EPISODE - Collaboration with Russell Kleyn - 'Hyperreal' group show, Silo 6, Auckland
2015 Make/Use (group) - Objectspace Gallery
2014 YESYES - Occupation: Artist Studio Residency show
2014 Alter(ed) Egos - ShapeShifting, Transformative Paradigms in Fashion & Textile Design, AUT
2013 Self Portrait - LightBox, Thistle Hall