![]() ![]() Even then, the glowing diptych was a symbol of at least two millennial anxieties. In the year 2000 I included this work in an exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery called In Glorious Dreams: New Art by Women. Studio Monitor is a subtle and sophisticated junk-relic. Installation view: When The Dust Settles at Artspace Aotearoa, October 2021, Photograph by Sam Hartnett. Installation view: When, the first instalment of When The Dust Settles at Artspace Aotearoa, August 2021. Installation view of Stella Brennan's Work for stairwell installed during Guy Ngan: Either Possible or Necessary, 07 June - 17 August 2019 Stella Brennan curated Dirty Pixels (group), 12 August - 14 September 2002, subsequently toured to Adam Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Waikato Museum of Art and History. ![]() Stella Brennan curated Nostalgia for the Future (group), 5 November – 27 November 1999 Stella Brennan, Studio Monitor, pictured in In Glorious Dreams: New Art by Women, 2000, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. In 2008, she and Su Ballard edited the Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, the first comprehensive text on digital arts practice in New Zealand. Brennan co-founded the Aotearoa Digital Arts discussion list. Brennan has written essays for artists including Ann Veronica Janssens and Patricia Piccinini, as well as art criticism for magazines including Art Asia Pacific, Eyeline Magazine, The New Zealand Listener and Art New Zealand. She has attended residencies in New York, Sydney, Kirikiriroa Hamilton and Ngāmotu New Plymouth. Her videos have been exhibited in the Sydney and Liverpool Biennials and her installation Wet Social Sculpture, featuring whale song, psychedelic film and a fully operational spa pool, was a nominated finalist in the 2006 Walters Prize.īrennan curated the exhibitions Nostalgia for the Future (Artspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 1999), Dirty Pixels (Artspace, The Adam Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Waikato Museum of Art and History, 2002-3), and co-curated Cloudland: Digital Art from Aotearoa New Zealand (The Substation Singapore, 2008). ![]() Her work has been shown in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Asia, North America and Europe. Stella Brennan is an artist, writer and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Artspace also published the catalogue Nostalgia For The Future, which accompanied Brennan’s 1999 exhibition. It was designed by Jo Clements, and includes texts by Stella Brennan and Chris Barker. The publication Dirty Pixels was published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, curated by Stella Brennan and exhibited at Artspace from August 12 to September 14 2002. ![]()
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