Rob Garrett's Page
Rob Garrett's Page
Profile Information
- Website
- http://robgarrettcfa.com
- Relationship status
- single
- College / University
- University of Auckland & University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
- Program
- BFA and MA
- Member type
- Other
- I am...
- ... a curious traveller (most recently Moscow, Istanbul, Venice and Berlin), cocktails connoisseur (I hosted New Zealand’s 42 Below Vodka party at the Venice Biennale in 2005), art collector, curator and writer, I am now doing everything I love as director of my arts management company Rob Garrett Contemporary Fine Art.
I was previously a senior manager with Creative New Zealand, New Zealand’s Arts Council, where I led New Zealand’s 2005 Venice Biennale project (et al’s the fundamental practice), and prior to that a member of the Arts Council’s governing body. I was Head of the Dunedin School of Art where I founded the school’s contemporary art theory programme and its international Artist Residency programme Artists at Work; and co-founded, with Ngai Tahu (Maori first peoples tribe), the school’s residency programme aimed at developing Ngai Tahu’s young visual artists. I also initiated and founded Dunedin’s Otago Festival of the Arts, a boutique arts festival for a boutique city. I trained as an artist and have a fine arts degree from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University, and a post-graduate degree in Art History from Otago University.
I am currently a member of Wellington City Council’s Public Art Panel, and am a founding member of the (NZ) Venice Foundation Working Party which is working to establish a New Zealand Venice Foundation to ensure the country’s continued presence at this most prestigious of international art events. My passion for the arts includes frequent international travel to keep up-to-date and maintain the company’s networks; regular articles and reviews on contemporary art; and collecting the works of emerging artists.
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Best, Sabine
Please add me to your list of friends and enjoy a view on my latest works
Best regards, Eric
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big greeting for the curious traveler who is hungry Contemporary Arts!!
Ratka
thank you, I thank you so much for your friendship here on artreview! I wish you the very best for all of your future advancement.
Have wonderful days
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Christian
thank you for inviting for ArtReview. I would love to hear about your projects. I just came back from Moscow, and have a lot to tell you. will write soon Are you in NYC by any chance soon?
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yt
kind regards from brazil,
kika
thank you so much for your comment and your friend request!
If you like, let me know, when youre in Berlin.
I could show you some work in "real life", in my studio or in my gallery.
All the best
Kerstin
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