Miranda Woollett

Miranda is a graduate of the Wellington Polytechnic Visual Communication Course in New Zealand. After graduating Miranda was a freelance illustrator for many Wellington based Advertising Agencies. She also Illustrated childrens books by well known New Zealand authors Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy.
Miranda now paints in oils. Her theme is New Zealand birds and Landscape. She endeavours to include messages as well as aesthetics in her paintings. She believes that the surface of a painting is also important in an aesthetic sense.

So here I am painting what is around me and what I love most ...birds landscape and foliage. I am in my paradise but am very aware of our changing climate and our global destruction not only of our environment but also of our thinking and values. Because I live with nature and by the seasons I notice the changes. In my painting I want to first strike the viewer with the overwhelming beauty of what is around us and then to look beyond what we see visually and realise that the most important thing is how we think and our intentions.

Diploma in Visual Communication Design

Miranda is a regular exhibitor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington, NZ.
EXHIBITIONS:
2002 Archibalds Artplace.Finding my way. Upper Hutt.
2002 Taylor Jensen Fine Arts. Relationships.
2002 Expressions. Upper Hutt Artists. Upper Hutt.
2004 Taylor Jensen Fine Arts. A Family Affair.
2004 Affordable Arts.Wellington.
2005 Academy Galleries. NZAFA Heritage Award (FInalist).Wellington.
2006 Academy Galleries. Solo 23. Wellington.
2008 Academy Galleries. Mental States. Wellington.
2008 Academy Galleries. Solo 27. Wellington.
2009 Expressions. Vector Gallery. Upper Hutt.
2009 Expressions. Upper Hutt Salon. Upper Hutt.
2009 Exhibitions Gallery. Lost in Paradise. Wellington.
2010 Little River Gallery. Banks Peninsula.
2010 Taylor Jensen Fine Arts. Palmerston North.
2011 Efil Doog Gallery of Fine Art. Solo Time Markers.
2011 Staglands Wildlife reserve. Akatarawa
2011 NZ Academy of Fine Arts. Occassion.
2012 Kiwi Art House. NZ Art partnership. Wellington
2013 Exhibitor at NZ Academy of Fine Arts.Matariki
2014 Exhibitor at NZ Academy of Fine Arts.Matariki
2014 NZ Academy of Fine Arts "Spring"
2014 "Birds" @ Alfred Memelinks Artspace Petone
2015 "Colours of Wellington" @ Artspace Petone
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