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'''Kim Pieters''' (born 1959) is a painter, musician and video artist from [[New Zealand]].
'''Kim Pieters''' (born 1959) is a painter, musician and video artist from [[New Zealand]].


Pieters was born in [[Rotorua]], New Zealand, and grew up on the [[Bombay Hills]]. She began her career as a visual artist in the early 1980s, holding her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in Wellington in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the [[Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Christina|title=What is a life?: Kim Pieters|date=2015|publisher=[[Adam Art Gallery]], [[Victoria University of Wellington]]|isbn=9781877309311|page=71|edition=First}}</ref> After meeting musician [[Peter Stapleton]] in Christchurch, the two entered a productive creative partnership which, after a move southward to Dunedin, included the bands [[Flies Inside The Sun]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Flies Inside the Sun|url=http://www.kranky.net/artists/fliesinsidethesun.html|publisher=Kranky|accessdate=21 September 2011}}</ref> [[Dadamah]], [[Doramaar]], Rain and Sleep, as well as running the underground music label Metonymic, and the experimental music and film festival Lines of Flight. Pieters currently works as a painter and video artist from her studio on Dunedin's waterfront.
Pieters was born in [[Rotorua]], New Zealand, and grew up on the [[Bombay Hills]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/art-life-music/audio/2018632909/art-life-music-kim-pieters|title=Art, Life, Music - Kim Pieters|date=2018-02-20|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=2018-10-14|language=en-nz}}</ref>. She began her career as a visual artist in the early 1980s, holding her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in Wellington in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the [[Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barton|first1=Christina|title=What is a life?: Kim Pieters|date=2015|publisher=[[Adam Art Gallery]], [[Victoria University of Wellington]]|isbn=9781877309311|page=71|edition=First}}</ref> After meeting musician [[Peter Stapleton]] in Christchurch, the two entered a productive creative partnership which, after a move southward to Dunedin, included the bands [[Flies Inside The Sun]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Flies Inside the Sun|url=http://www.kranky.net/artists/fliesinsidethesun.html|publisher=Kranky|accessdate=21 September 2011}}</ref> [[Dadamah]], [[Doramaar]], Rain and Sleep, as well as running the underground music label [[Metonymic (Record Label)|Metonymic]], and the experimental music and film festival Lines of Flight. Pieters currently works as a painter and video artist from her studio on Dunedin's waterfront.

== Critical Reception ==
Pieters won Waikato Museum’s National Contemporary Art Award in 2017 for her work, ''The Meaning of Ethics''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1707/S00383/the-meaning-of-ethics-wins-national-contemporary-art-award.htm|title=The Meaning of Ethics wins National Contemporary Art Award {{!}} Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=2018-10-14}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 01:21, 14 October 2018

Kim Pieters (born 1959) is a painter, musician and video artist from New Zealand.

Pieters was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, and grew up on the Bombay Hills[1]. She began her career as a visual artist in the early 1980s, holding her first exhibition of photographs and drawings in Wellington in 1981, and her first painting exhibition at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery in 1989.[2] After meeting musician Peter Stapleton in Christchurch, the two entered a productive creative partnership which, after a move southward to Dunedin, included the bands Flies Inside The Sun,[3] Dadamah, Doramaar, Rain and Sleep, as well as running the underground music label Metonymic, and the experimental music and film festival Lines of Flight. Pieters currently works as a painter and video artist from her studio on Dunedin's waterfront.

Critical Reception

Pieters won Waikato Museum’s National Contemporary Art Award in 2017 for her work, The Meaning of Ethics[4]

References

  1. ^ "Art, Life, Music - Kim Pieters". Radio New Zealand. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. ^ Barton, Christina (2015). What is a life?: Kim Pieters (First ed.). Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington. p. 71. ISBN 9781877309311.
  3. ^ "Flies Inside the Sun". Kranky. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  4. ^ "The Meaning of Ethics wins National Contemporary Art Award | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.