Veronica Herber

Veronica Herber is a New Zealand artist who lives and works in Auckland. She is best known for working with Japanese Washi tape.

Education Veronica Herber holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Distinction from Auckland University of Technology. At present Herber is completing a Post Graduate Diploma at Elam School of Fine Arts. The artist initially practiced painting before discovering tape as a medium.

Career

Veronica Herber has exhibited in several large-scale sculpture projects both in New Zealand and abroad. Since 2013, she has participated in the biennial outdoor sculpture exhibition, Headland: Sculpture on the Gulf, (2013, 2015, 2017), on Waiheke Island, Auckland, as well as the annual outdoor sculpture exhibition Sculpture by the Sea, (2013, 2014, 2015) in Sydney, Australia.

She has held solo exhibitions at public institutions such as Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Tauranga Art Gallery, and the Pah Homestead, Auckland. In 2014, Herber's public installation, Conversando Con Puebla, Pueblo, Mexico, covered a 600 year old courtyard with the artist's distinctive use of Washi tape, and in 2016, she was invited to create an installation at the Rene Portocarrero Serigrafia Studio, in Havana, Cuba.

Veronica Herber's work is included in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, and The James Wallace Arts Trust Collection. She is the 2015 recipient of The Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award, awarded each year to one participating artist in the Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Australia.

Work

Notable exhibitions Swathe, James Wallace Trust, Auckland, 2017 Headland Sculpture on the Gulf, Waiheke Island, 2017, 2015, 2013 Continuum, Tauranga Art Gallery, 2017 Fold, group show, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Sydney, 2017 Resonance, NZ Steel Gallery, Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland, 2016 Installation at Rene Portocarrero Serigrafia Studio, Havana, Cuba, 2016 Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, 2015, 2014, 2013 Conversando Con Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 2014 Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland 2014 Site Unseen, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 2013–2014 In Line With, group show, Antionette Godkin Gallery, Auckland, 2013 Sculpture on the Shore, Devonport, Auckland, 2012 The Sculpture Park, Waitakaruru Arboretum, Hamilton, 2012

Public collections Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki The James Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland, New Zealand

Awards and nominations 2017 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland 2017 Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington 2016 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland 2015 Winner Wallace Arts Trust New Zealand Sculptor Award, Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney 2014 Finalist Wallace Art Awards, Auckland 2013 Finalist Parkin Prize, Wellington 2012 Winner Titirangi Community Arts Council Emerging Artist Award, Titirangi, Auckland 2012 Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award, Waiheke Island 2012 Winner Ebbett Prestige Environmental Award, Hamilton