Anita Levering

Born and raised in the Netherlands, but for the last 25 years residing and painting in New Zealand.

I am Interested in letting go of control in the painting process, embracing chance encounters and experiment with deepening these phenomenon.

My painting-based research explores issues connected to chance and intentionality. Examining the unpredictability of external inputs in the creation of abstract paintings. This methodology allows freedom but also creates vulnerability, as I try to broach issues of chance and intentionality, and disperse and disrupt predictable patterns, behaviours, and knowledge. This is achieved through semi-controlled experiments utilising variables other than the artist’s brush and gesture.

My process of creation comes from a desire for detachment: a distancing of self that allows focus on natural transitional processes rather than the artist’s own propulsive force to generate form. The limitation of my own control is exercised to foster play and curiosity and to avoid formal intentions, subjective will, or desire for expression. This acceptance of transience references organic processes and accepts the natural cycle of growth and decay.

I employ painting as a self-referential medium, with paint...

2010 - MFA, Elam School of Fine Art (Hons), Auckland University, New Zealand
1995 - MA IMM, Interactive Multi Media, Royal College of Art London co-joint with Utrecht School of Art
1989 - BA, Image & Media Technology, Utrecht School of Art, The Netherlands
1987 - BA, Fine Art, Amsterdam School of Art, The Netherlands

2021
Kunst10daagse, 22-31 October, location Tha Banque, Bergen N-H,, The Netherlands

2020
Exhibition at Oudtburgh, Bergen N-H,, The Netherlands

2019
Kunst10daagse, 18-27 October, location Oudtburgh, Bergen N-H,, The Netherlands

2018
The Dérive, Sanderson Contemporary (Room 2) 5-18 March, Newmarket, Auckland

2017
Open Ateliers Centrum Oost, 28&29 October, location Hyatt Regency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - {link}
Open Ateliers Centrum Oost, 16&29 October, location CBK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - {link}
Noord West Ziekenhuisgroep, kunst als medicijn, August and September, location Alkmaar, The Netherlands - {link}
Summer Showcase, group show 9-1-2017, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Newmarket, Auckland - {link}

2016
Summer Showcase, group show 6-12-2016, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Newmarket, Auckland - {link}
Writhe, Sanderson Contemporary (Room 2) 26 July-14 Aug, Newmarket, Auckland - {link} - {Artsdiary} - {install}
Neighbourhood, group show, Corban Estate, 1-2 April, 2016

2015
Advent, group show, 1-12-2015, Sanderson Contemporary Art, Newmarket, Auckland - {link}
Choice Chance Change, solo exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary (Room 1), 3-15 November 2015 - {link} - {opening night} - {Artsdiary} - {in...