Terry Stringer b. 1946
Terry Stringer is a leading New Zealand sculptor and a key figure in the history of art in New Zealand.
Born in Cornwall, England in 1946, Stringer trained at Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. He graduated with Honours in 1967 and in the following years received virtually every significant scholarship and award available to New Zealand artists.
Working predominately in bronze, the majority of Stringer's sculptures depict figures and still-life subjects. Allusions to his interest in classical antique art and literature can be seen and influences of cubism are also displayed in the faceting and juxtaposition of form.
His signature works have become synonymous with high profile public sites throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. These include The Risen Christ in Christchurch's Cathedral Square (now in storage), his Grand Head in Wellington, and Mountain Fountain, in the forecourt of Auckland's Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, The World Grasped to showcase the renewal of Newmarket, New Zealand's most affluent retail precinct. He has just completed (2012) Dance to the Music of Time, a gateway sculpture for the City of Nelson.
Throughout his career Terry Stringer has exhibited extensively, with solo shows in Auckland, Sydney, Los Angeles and London. He is represented in major public collections, including the Auckland and Christchurch Art Galleries, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Stringer was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Scholarship four times - 1977, 1981, 1982 and 1986. His contribution to New Zealand art was acknowledged in 2003, when he was the recipient of the country's national honour, the ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit).
Stringer has held three solo exhibitions with ARTIS - Model with the Sculptor's Hands in 2016, Some New Sculpture in October 2018 and ASPECTS in 2020. Each being sell-out exhibitions. This makes SUCH STUFF Stringer's upcoming solo exhibition, his fourth with the Gallery.
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Aotearoa Art Fair 2024
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Aotearoa Art Fair 2023
STAND A5 2 - 5 March 2023ARTIS Gallery returned Aotearoa Art Fair on Thursday 2 - Sunday 5 March at The Cloud on Tāmaki Makaurau Queens Wharf. Located at Booth A5 the Gallery featured two distinct instalments over the course of the Fair. During the opening two days, we exhibited new works from Liam Barr, Nigel Brown, John Edgar, Fatu Feu'u, Hamish Foote, Andy Leleisi'uao, Peter Panyoczki, Ann Robinson, and Terry Stringer.Read more -
Ann Robinson + Terry Stringer
Lightwell / Aspects 10 - 29 November 2020“Selecting works for an exhibition is a matter of finding the common thread – form perhaps, or colour, a theme or surface decoration or maybe size. Each selection – a...Read more -
Terry Stringer
Some New Sculpture 16 October - 4 November 2018Terry Stringer is a leading New Zealand sculptor and a key figure in the history of New Zealand art. Working predominantly in bronze, the majority of Stringer’s sculptures depict figures...Read more
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MANZ 'Our Nature' Exhibition
Art New Zealand article by Don Abbott 27 June 2023Medal Art New Zealand (MANZ) is an informal collective of more than 30 artists who put on a show every two years. The first was...Read more -
Ann Robinson and Terry Stringer exhibit new work
New Zealand Arts Review article by John Daly-Peoples 16 November 2020Both Ann Robinson and Terry Stringer have art practices that stretch back 50 years to their time at art school. Over that time they have...Read more
