Once Upon A Time…
Cerid had a Curiosities Cabinet
Cerid's artistic career is a cabinet of curiosities.
Each piece she creates tells a story and she constantly explores styles and materials to discover what feels right for the tale art wants to tell.
Primarily working in paint and textiles, her more recent works are large scale mixed-media paintings or small glimpses into folk-tale feeling worlds captured in felt.
Curiousier an curiousier:
Life as an Artist
Exhibitions:
2008: Painting series “Behind Your Eyes” (faeries, vampires, dragons and bold colours) held at Mystical Creatures Paraparaumu Beach
2008: Online exhibition Wotzon.com - November 2008
2010: Painting series “Behind Your Eyes” and “The Deep” exhibited at 6 Coffins Tattoo studio, Newtown, Wellington.
2011 - Market Stalls, paraparaumu beach
2012 - Design posters Man Cave Taupo
2012 - March online exhibition Border Bridge Antiquities
2013 - November Border Bridage Antiquities Transform exhibition at The Learning Connexion, Taita. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thelearningconnexion/albums/72157637890577965
2013 - November Collective Consciousness, Poggles, Transfers at TLC Design Market, Taita.
2013 - November Arts Trail “Whimsical World of Wonder” Immersive outdoor exhibition
2013 - December Photography transfers at The Learning Connexion end of year exhibition, Taita
2014 - April Trinity Rose Farm Hertiage Arts and Craft exhibition (Otaki)- Border Bridge Antiquities, Meet the Poggles
2014 - May Border Bridge Antiquities in Artel Gallery (Waikane)
2014 - June Border Bridge Antiquities Planet Retro (otaki)
2014 - November Arts Trail “Magic in the Garden” studio open exhibition
2015 - Border Bridge Antiquites in Artel Gallery (Waikane)
2015 - December Fareham House Art Market (Featherston)
2015 - Online Exhibition on View Bug Photography series
2017 -February Otaki Spiritual expo - Meet the Poggles, felted Dolls, Border Bridge Antiquities, Collective Conciousness
2018 - November - February, Basement Artworks collective, Pagan Song and Fable Glade exhibited
2019 - March Artel Gallery - Fable Glade felted creations
2019 - November Arts trail studio open at Lindale Hub - Pagan Song, Moonlight, Extinction and other works
2019 - December Mahara Art Market as part of the Mahara Review
2019 - December ‘come all ye’ Krampus themed exhibition with Lindale Artists Guild
2020 - September - November an online exhibition: 2i2c: 2 innovate is 2 create ‘art under the spotlight’
2020 - November Arts Trail with 2i2c “curtains up” featuring series: Reclaimed stories and Moonlight
2021 - Reclaimed Stories Artel Gallery (Otaki)
2022 – November Arts Trail with 2i2c at Big Mac Slabs featuring series: Discarded, Moonlight and Oh-She-An-Ah.
2023 - Covenant Gallery - Newtown “Fable Glade 2.0”
Advocating Opportunities for Arts
Cerid spent a number of years dedicated to a being an advocate of the arts in her local community.
She co-ran Basement Art-Works over the summer of 2018 and from here founded a collective of diverse local artists who struggled to find a pocket with in the community to belong to.
With a shortages of accessible spaces for emerging artists in her community, Cerid worked tireless to find creative solutions to provide opportunities for artists who faced a variety of limitations in gaining exposure.
Eventually, she was offered the use of a run down barn in a location that had once been a tourist attraction, once housing a petting-zoom and farm walk. Once she had removed all traces of animals and their old cages, patched the leaking tin roof and repurposed old pallets into walls - all on a zero dollar budget with no pay or previous building experience, almost single handedly over just four months - the collective of artists spent just one summer with access to the rustic gallery before the owner rented it out as storage from under their feet.
The collective had grown and with a diverse range of ages, styles and lifestyles, the 18 artists evolved into "2i2c” with hopes to establish themselves as a not-for-profit community entity. After 2 years chasing legal dead ends while still searching for spaces to occupy (sheds, online exhibits, garages and even a Theatre house), 2i2c were forced into hiatus.
In addition to founding a collective and providing mentoring for emerging artists, Cerid also managed a Hub for Kapiti Arts Trail in 2019 which involved managing over 20 individual artists (all in different mediums including tattoo and muralist) over multiple locations on the site, scheduling musicians, managing marketing and promotion for the Hub including navigating interviews in video, radio and print, and working with council to adhere to health and safety regulations for her venues event. Over 20,000 people visited the Hub and it was well covered by local media.
From here she began to curate for others and secured a position as a Gallery Assistant at the regions leading gallery where she remained until her transition into publishing.