EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
See to Centre
Corcoran French Law Firm , Exhibition in meeting rooms, 2024
Underpin
MFA Exhibition, Pūmanawa Gallery, The Arts Centre, Christchurch, 16–26 May 2023
All Powerful Beings: Darholm vs Shivlack (Continues)
9 works from the original 13 embroidered assemblages, inspired by my eight-year-old son’s drawings.
Oxford Gallery Toi o Waimakariri, Oxford, North Canterbury, 5 May – 21 July 2023
Darholm vs Shivlack
13 embroidered assemblages inspired by my eight-year-old son’s drawings.
Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch, NZ, 12 February – 6 March 2021
DUO
Acts of Love, PG Gallery, Christchurch, along side Cycles of the Southern Sea, Tom Field, 21 April -15 May, 2026
Nocturne, Ashburton Art Gallery, exhibition with Kara Burrowes, 1 May- 21 June 2026
GROUP
Fifty Squared Art Prize — Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia, 21 /6 – 4/7/ 26
Fali-Laa — Chambers Gallery, Christchurch, 18/6 – 14/7/25
Small Works — Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2025
Art.Co — Christchurch, 19/9– 21/10/ 24
Living in Colour — Solander Gallery, Wellington, 2/8 – 14/9/24
New Contemporaries: Group Show, Mirage — Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 5–23/10/ 23
Liminal Materials — Tracy Hayes, Jillian Wordsworth, Charrette van Eekelen, Chambers Gallery, Christchurch, 26/7– 12/8 23
Return to Eden — Andrew Bond, Kara Burrowes, Charrette van Eekelen (part of MFA project), Ilam Campus Gallery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 22/2 – 10/5/ 23
St George’s Cancer Care Centre — ‘Gnome Boy’, ‘Fairy Girl,’ ‘Hero,’ Christchurch, 30/7 – 31/10/22
Distinctly Peninsula (fundraiser for Governor’s Bay Jetty) ,’Lambing Season’, 29/102022
Summer Show #7: A Sense of Wellbeing — ‘Bunny Love’, ‘Rainy Day’, ‘Home Fire,’ Oxford Gallery, Oxford, NZ, 30/11/21 – 3/2/22
Juried Group Show — Arts Canterbury:’ Late Afternoon’, ‘Night Deck’, ‘On This Day, ‘The Mill, Waiuku, 3–12 December 2021
The Journey Show — ‘Middle of the Night’, Te Huanui Gallery, Darfield, 2910 – 25/11/21
AWARDS — FINALIST
2026
Changing Threads Contemporary Fibre Art Awards, ‘After the Wedding’ 5/6- 18/7/26
2025
ZAFAA25, Ashburton Art Gallery, Ashburton: ‘What Was Here.’
Aspiring Art Prize Finalist ‘Reflecting Rembrandt.’
2024
Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Finalist 2024 for 2 pieces: ‘Big Magic and Leap of Spring.’
Aspiring Art Prize Finalist: ‘ That Last Sip.’
2023
Craigs Aspiring Art Prize, Finalist, Wānaka, 10–13 January 2023
Hot Days, ZAFAA23, Premier Award Finalist, Ashburton Art Gallery, 11 March – 5 May 2023
Coming and Going, ZAFAA22, Premier Award Finalist, Ashburton Art Gallery, 18 March – 24 April 2022
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
October 2026 — Solo exhibition, Stoddart Cottage
March- Orion Powerhouse, duo exhibit
April - CoCA installation with Kara Burrowes, Anabell Cropper and Ina Johanns ,
EXPERIENCE
Creative NZ Workshop Facilitator — All Powerful Beings
Day workshop for children and adults exploring drawing and assemblage, Oxford Gallery Toi o Waimakariri, 5 May 2023
Professional Mural Painter
Residential and commercial murals, Connecticut, New Jersey, and NYC, 1988–1996
Ceramics Teacher
Taught grade school children ceramics in a holistic programme, Greenwich House, NYC, 1992–1993
Art Foundry Sculptor
New York Art Foundry, NYC, 1990–1992
Worked alongside Paige Tooker casting large and small bronze sculptures
Trainee in Marble Carving with Selma Burke
New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1988
Burke was an American sculptor and Harlem Renaissance member, best known for her bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the U.S. dime
Sculptor Team Member with Brower Hatcher
Lake George, New York, 1984; Battery Park, NYC, 1985
Assisted in welding, carving, and constructing two forty-foot outdoor heads, based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome design
EDUCATION
University of Canterbury — Master of Fine Arts (with Distinction), 2023, Christchurch, NZ
Bennington College — BFA, 1985, Bennington, Vermont, USA
Pine Manor College — AA, 1982, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts — Artist Residency, 1988 (Accredited by Massachusetts College of Art and Design)